New Jersey Statutes 15A:13-11. Conducting activities without certificate of authority
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 15A:13-11
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(1) Any successor in interest of the foreign corporation, except any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy or other representative of creditors of the corporation; and
(2) Any assignee of the foreign corporation, except an assignee for value who accepts an assignment without knowledge that the foreign corporation should have but has not obtained a certificate of authority in this State.
b. The failure of a foreign corporation to obtain a certificate of authority to conduct activities in this State shall not impair the validity of any contract or act of the corporation, and shall not prevent the corporation from defending any action or proceeding in any court of this State.
c. In addition to any other liabilities imposed by law, a foreign corporation which conducts activities in this State without a certificate of authority shall forfeit to the State a penalty of not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year from and after the effective date of this act in which it shall have conducted activities in this State without a certificate of authority, provided that the number of years for which a penalty may be forfeited shall not exceed five. The penalty shall be recovered with costs in an action prosecuted by the Attorney General. The court may proceed in the action in a summary manner or otherwise.
d. The prohibitions of this section shall not be operative until 90 days after the effective date of this act.
L.1983, c. 127, s. 15A:13-11, eff. Oct. 1, 1983.