43:17-2. The president and secretary of the corporation, when elected as hereinafter provided, shall forthwith sign a certificate and cause it to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which the corporation is located and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. The certificate, or a copy thereof, duly certified by the county clerk or the Secretary of State, shall be evidence in all courts and places. The certificate shall state the election of the representatives authorized to organize the corporation, the election by such representatives of a board of officers and a board of trustees, giving their names and official designations, the corporate name assumed, the location of the corporation and a reference to this article. In case of a reincorporation under this article, the certificate shall, instead thereof, state the former incorporation, the date thereof, the names and official designations of the officers of the corporation and a reference to this article.

Upon the recording and filing of the certificate the persons so associating shall be a corporation, under and by the name aforesaid and shall have perpetual succession and continuance, except as hereinafter provided, and be capable of suing and being sued, and may make and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may receive, take, hold and convey, and invest and reinvest in personal property and may enter into, execute and enforce any contracts or agreements relating to, touching or concerning the objects of such corporation, and they and their successors, and all who shall associate themselves together with them, shall, as such corporation, be entitled to all the rights, powers, privileges, benefits, advantages and immunities which now are or hereafter may be conferred upon corporations generally, under any law of this State.

Amended 1996, c.151, s.2; 2005, c.39, s.1.