                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FILING CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION (§ 56-490)

The natural persons executing the certificate of incorporation shall be
residents of the territory in which the principal operations of the cooperative
are to be conducted who intend to use telephone service to be furnished by the
cooperative. The certificate of incorporation shall be subscribed by at least
five such persons and acknowledged by them before an officer authorized by the
law of this Commonwealth to take and certify acknowledgments of deeds and
conveyances. When so acknowledged the certificate shall be filed in accordance
with the provisions of Article 3 (§ 13.1-618 et seq.) of Chapter 9 of Title
13.1, and when so filed the articles of incorporation, or certified copies
thereof, shall be received in all the courts of this Commonwealth and elsewhere
as prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein, and of the due
incorporation of the cooperative. All of the provisions of the Virginia Stock
Corporation Act (§ 13.1-601 et seq.) and the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act
(§ 13.1-801 et seq.) insofar as not inconsistent with this chapter are hereby
made applicable to such cooperatives, and as soon as the charter is lodged for
recordation in the office of the State Corporation Commission, the proposed
cooperative described therein, under its designated name, shall be and
constitute a body corporate with all of the applicable powers provided for in §
56-49. A cooperative need not have a registered office or a registered agent.

HISTORY: 1950, p. 590; 1956, c. 434.