Filing; effect

Articles of incorporation, with the powers of attorney mentioned in Section 63-1-3 NMSA 1978, if any such there be, and the affidavit mentioned in Section 63-1-5 NMSA 1978 shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and thereupon, the persons who have signed the articles, and their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name stated in the articles, for the term of years therein specified. History: Laws 1878, ch. 1, ch. [tit.] 1, § 6; C.L. 1884, § 2627; C.L. 1897, § 3809; Code 1915, § 4667; C.S. 1929, § 116-115; 1941 Comp., § 74-106; 1953 Comp., § 69-1-6; 2013, ch. 75, § 35.