As soon as practical and within thirty days after the district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of the court shall transmit to the secretary of state and to the county clerk of each of the counties having lands in the district certified copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating the district. The copies shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and copies shall also be filed in the office of the county clerk of each county in which a part of the district may be, where they shall become permanent records. The clerk in each county shall receive a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for filing and preserving the copies. The secretary of state shall receive a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for filing and preserving the copies.
History: Laws 1931, ch. 97, § 12; 1941 Comp., § 77-1312; 1953 Comp., § 75-13-12; 2013, ch. 75, § 44.
ANNOTATIONS
The 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, required the clerk of the court to transmit to the secretary of state the findings and decree of the court incorporating the district; added the title of the section; in the first sentence, after “transmit to the”, deleted “state corporation commission” and added “secretary of state”‘; in the second sentence, after “filed in the office of the”, deleted “state corporation commission” and added “secretary of state”; and in the fourth sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, deleted “state corporation commission” and added “secretary of state”.