State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Minnesota > 46-59 > 47 > 47_1647.16 CERTIFICATION BY COMMISSIONER.
Subdivision 1.Filing.
The certificate of a corporation must be filed for record with the secretary of state. If the secretary of state finds that it conforms to law and that the required fee has been paid, the secretary of state must record it and certify that fact on it. The secretary of state may not accept a certificate for filing unless the certificate also contains the endorsement of the commissioner of commerce.
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 1982 c 473 s 30]
Subd. 2.Certificate of authority.
If the commissioner of commerce is satisfied that the corporation has been organized for legitimate purposes, and under such conditions as to merit and have public confidence, and that all provisions of law applicable to every branch of business in which, by the terms of its certificate, it is authorized to engage, have been complied with, the commissioner shall so certify. When the original certificate and the certificate of incorporation from the secretary of state is filed with the commissioner of commerce, the commissioner shall, within 60 days thereafter, execute and deliver to it a certificate of authority.
History:
(7646) RL s 2974; 1955 c 820 s 11; 1980 c 541 s 1; 1983 c 289 s 114 subd 1; 1984 c 655 art 1 s 92; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 166 s 4; 2005 c 69 art 1 s 4
