A. A foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in New Mexico shall procure an amended certificate of authority in the event it changes its corporate name or desires to pursue in New Mexico other or additional purposes than those set forth in its prior application for a certificate of authority by making application therefor to the commission [secretary of state].
B. The requirements in respect to the form and contents of the application, the manner of its execution, the filing of an original and a copy, which may be a photocopy of the original after it was signed or a photocopy that is conformed to the original, with the commission [secretary of state], the issuance of an amended certificate of authority and the effect thereof shall be the same as in the case of an original application for a certificate of authority.
History: 1953 Comp., § 51-14-118, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 217, § 76; 2003, ch. 318, § 24.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Laws 2013, ch. 75, § 9 provided that as of July 1, 2013, the secretary of state, pursuant to N.M. const., Art. 11, § 19, shall assume responsibility for chartering corporations as provided by law, including the performance of the functions of the former corporations bureau of the public regulation commission, and that except for Subsection D of 53-5-8 NMSA 1978, references to the "public regulation commission", "state corporation commission" or "commission" shall be construed to be references to the secretary of state. See 8-4-7 NMSA 1978.
The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, deleted "corporation" preceding "commission" in Subsections A and B and Paragraph A(5); substituted "it" for "him" at the end of Paragraph A(5); and substituted "two authorized officers of the corporation" for "its president or a vice president and by its secretary or an assistant secretary" following "furnished by the" in Subsection B.
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