Act No. 3425 Section 11

Time for filing by-laws; certificate of incorporation.

Section 11

SEC. 11. Time for filing by-laws; certificate of incorporation.—The by-laws may be filed with the Director of the in Bureau of Commerce and Industry at the time of filing the articles of incorporation, or thereafter. The Director of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, on the filing of the by-laws, and upon attaching the same to the articles of incorporation provided by this Act to be filed, shall issue to the incorporators a certificate, under the seal of his office setting forth that such articles of incorporation and by-laws have been duly filed in his office in accordance with law; and thereupon the persons signing the articles of incorporation and their associates and successors shall constitute a body politic and corporate, under the name stated in the certificate, for the term specified in the articles of incorporation, not exceeding fifty years, unless sooner legally dissolved.

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