2005 Minnesota Statutes

     300.51 Certificate of incorporation issued by secretary 
  of state. 

    Whenever a corporation applies for incorporation to the 
 secretary of state and pays the prescribed fee, the secretary of 
 state must execute, record, and issue a certificate.  The 
 certificate must contain the names of the incorporators, the 
 corporation's nature and purpose, the amount of its capital 
 stock, the fact of its compliance with all prescribed statutory 
 provisions, and that it is duly organized and exists as a 
 corporation under the name and of the kind specified, with the 
 powers, rights, and privileges, and subject to the limitations 
 and restrictions pertaining to it.  The certificate is prima 
 facie evidence of the facts stated in it.  

    HIST: (7476) RL s 2874; 1984 c 628 art 5 s 1