Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 4 — China Trade
§ 144a. Incorporation fee for perpetual existence
Statutory text
Any China Trade Act corporation existing on , may make its existence perpetual only upon application to the Secretary of Commerce to amend its charter in that respect and upon payment of a fee equivalent to the incorporation fee. Upon receipt of such application and the payment of such prescribed fee, the Secretary shall approve such application and the charter of the corporation shall be amended accordingly.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 75–696 § 2 · 52 Stat. 1195
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 144a
(June 25, 1938, ch. 696, § 2, 52 Stat. 1196.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1938, ch. 696, § 2, 52 Stat. 1196.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The amendment made by section 1 of this Act shall apply to every China Trade Act corporation created after the date of the Procedure to make existing corporations perpetual. enactment of this Act. Any China Trade Act corporation existing on the date of the enactment of this Act may make its existence perpetual only upon application to the Secretary of Commerce to amend its charter in that respect and upon payment of a fee equivalent to the incorporation fee. Upon receipt of such application and the payment of such prescribed fee, the Secretary shall approve such application and the charter of the corporation shall be amended accordingly.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the China Trade Act, 1922, which comprises this chapter.
Credits
(June 25, 1938, ch. 696, § 2, 52 Stat. 1196.)