Business Corporations Under the Laws of Maine ...

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Corporation trust Company of Maine, 1903 - Corporation law - 16 pages
 

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Page 13 - Any corporation may purchase mines, manufactories and other property necessary for its business, and the stock of any company or companies owning, mining, manufacturing or producing materials or other property necessary for its business, and issue stock to the amount of the value thereof in payment therefor, and may likewise issue stock for services rendered to such corporation and the stock so issued shall be full paid stock and not liable to any further call or payment thereon; and in the absence...
Page 4 - Within thirty days after any meeting at which amendment of this charter has been adopted, articles of amendment signed and sworn to by the president, treasurer and a majority of the directors, setting forth such amendment...
Page 11 - Such report shall contain: 1. The name of the corporation. 2. The location of its principal office. 3. The names of the president, secretary, treasurer and members of the board of directors, with post office address of each.
Page 5 - ... and shall sign and make oath to it; and after it has been examined by the attorney general, and been by him certified to be properly drawn and signed and to be conformable to the constitution and laws, it shall be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county where...
Page 5 - An attested copy of every will devising lands or any interest in lands, and of the probate thereof, shall be recorded in the registry of deeds...
Page 2 - ... therefor. At such meeting they may organize into a corporation, adopt a corporate name, define the purposes of the corporation, fix the amount of the capital stock, which shall not be less than one thousand dollars, divide in into shares, and elect a president, not less than three directors, a clerk, treasurer, and any other necessary officers, and may adopt a code of by-laws.
Page 12 - The by-laws of a corporation, made in pursuance of its charter, are equally as binding on all its members and others acquainted with its methods of business, as any public law of the state.37 The powers of a corporation are derived from the law and its charter.
Page 9 - ... opinion that there is probable cause for the application, shall cause the road to be inspected, and, if satisfied that it ought -to be a main road, shall make an order accordingly. A copy of the order so made shall be forthwith deposited at the office of the clerk of the peace of the county, and shall be open to the inspection of persons interested...
Page 9 - Commissioner on call by him a list of its stockholders, their residences and the amount of stock held by each, which report shall be signed and verified by the oath and affirmation of one of the officers of said bank or trust company.

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