Terms Used In Alabama Code 10A-20-14.01

  • 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.

Whenever 10 or more wholesale merchants wish to form an association, cooperative society, or corporation for nonprofit purposes in the sense of not paying interest or dividends on stock, but for mutual benefit through the application of cooperation or other economic principles, they may become a body corporate in the manner provided in Chapter 4.