Effective – 28 Aug 1975 351.020. What corporations may organize under this law. — Corporations for profit, except those which are required to be organized exclusively under other provisions of law, may be organized under this chapter for any lawful purposes. ——– (L. 1943 p. 410 § 3, A.L. 1975 S.B. 14) CROSS REFERENCES: Incorporation […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2007 351.025. Corporation organized under special law may file certification of acceptance of this law. — Any existing corporation heretofore organized for profit under any special law of this state may accept the provisions of this chapter and be entitled to all of the rights, privileges and benefits provided by this […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 351.030. Organization of street railroad, telegraph and telephone corporations, booming and rafting corporations. — 1. Any street railroad corporation, telegraph and telephone corporation, and booming and rafting corporation may be organized under the provisions of this chapter; provided, that any such corporation complies with all of the requirements of the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 351.035. Bridge corporations — organization — powers. — Any corporation may be formed under this chapter for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a bridge over any of the streams of water, or any part of such streams, which may be within this state, or bordering on this state, or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 351.040. Use of streets by bridge corporations — damages to abutting property. — Any corporation formed for the purpose of constructing or maintaining a bridge over any river in this state or bordering on this state, or within any adjoining state, or constructing, owning, leasing, controlling, maintaining or operating a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 351.045. Condemnation of lands and easements of light and air — procedure. — In case it may become necessary for any corporation formed for the purposes stated in section 351.040 hereof to take or appropriate any lands or easements, including easements of light and air of persons or corporations for […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2004 351.046. Filing requirements — filing signifies document is correct. — 1. A document shall satisfy the requirements of this section, and of any other section that adds to or varies from these requirements, to be entitled to filing by the secretary of state. 2. This chapter shall require or permit […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2009 351.047. Forms. — The secretary of state may prescribe and furnish on request forms for all documents required or permitted to be filed by this chapter. The use of the following forms is mandatory: (1) A foreign corporation’s application for a certificate of authority to do business in this state; […]
Effective – 29 May 1991 351.048. Effective dates of filing of documents — delayed effective date. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section and subsection 3 of section 351.049, a document accepted for filing is effective: (1) On the date it is filed, as evidenced by the secretary of state’s date […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 351.049. Correcting filed documents — fee. — 1. A domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed by the secretary of state if the document contains an incorrect statement, or was defectively executed, attested, sealed, verified or acknowledged. 2. A document is corrected: (1) By preparing articles of correction […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2004 351.050. Incorporators, duties — ownership and acquisition of shares, how construed. — One or more natural persons of the age of eighteen years, or more, may act as an incorporator of such corporation by signing and delivering in the office of the secretary of state the articles of incorporation of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2004 351.051. Documents filed, when — refusal to file — duty to file. — 1. If a document delivered to the office of the secretary of state satisfies the requirements of this chapter and is in a medium and format prescribed by the secretary of state the document shall be filed. […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 351.053. Liability for preincorporation transactions. — All persons purporting to act as or on behalf of a corporation, knowing there was no incorporation under this chapter, are jointly and severally liable for all liabilities created while so acting. ——– (L. 1990 H.B. 1432)
Effective – 28 Aug 2004 351.055. Articles of incorporation, required contents — optional contents. — 1. The articles of incorporation shall set forth: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) The address, including street and number, if any, of its initial registered office in this state, and the name of its initial registered agent at […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2004 351.060. Filing of articles of incorporation — certificate of incorporation. — 1. An original copy of the articles of incorporation signed by the incorporators as required in section 351.050 shall be delivered to the office of the secretary of state. If the secretary of state finds that the articles of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2014 351.065. Incorporation tax or fee. — 1. No corporation shall be organized under the general and business corporation law of Missouri unless the persons named as incorporators shall at or before the filing of the articles of incorporation pay to the director of revenue three dollars for the issuance of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1975 351.075. Certificate of incorporation is evidence of corporate existence. — The corporate existence of a corporation shall date from the time of filing its articles of incorporation by the secretary of state. The certificate given by the secretary of state shall be taken by all courts of this state as […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 351.076. Certificate of good standing. — 1. Anyone may apply to the secretary of state to furnish a certificate of good standing for a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation. 2. A certificate of good standing for a domestic corporation sets forth: (1) The domestic corporation’s corporate name; (2) When […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1979 351.080. First meeting and organization of board. — 1. If the persons to constitute the first board of directors of the corporation are not named in the articles of incorporation of the corporation, the incorporators, by unanimous vote at a meeting or by unanimous written consent, shall have the power […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2009 351.085. Amendment of articles of incorporation permitted. — A corporation may amend its articles of incorporation at any time to add or change a provision that is required or permitted in the articles of incorporation or to delete a provision not required in the articles of incorporation. Whether a provision […]
