Section 10-1-1Alteration, amendment or extension of charter by incorporated medical, dental, pharmaceutical, etc., association.
Any incorporated medical association of the State of Alabama, Alabama Dental Association, Alabama Pharmaceutical Association or other corporations organized similarly to any such corporation or of a similar kind may alter, amend or extend its charter, or may do any two or all of these, in the manner following:
(1) A written resolution setting out the name of the corporation and embodying the proposed alterations, amendments or extensions shall be submitted to a lawful annual meeting of the corporation or other lawful meeting of the corporation and adopted by a two-thirds vote of those present at the meeting and lawfully entitled to vote on business matters coming before the meeting;
(2) The president, or some other executive officer of the corporation, and the secretary thereof shall prepare, sign and acknowledge as conveyances are acknowledged and file in the office of the judge of probate of the county wherein the original declaration of incorporation was filed if the charter was secured in that manner or, if the charter was granted by act or acts of the Legislature prior to the time when the Constitution of 1901, went into effect, in the Office of the Secretary of State a certificate containing a copy of said resolution and certifying that it was adopted in the manner above provided; and
(3) Upon the filing of said certificate, the charter of the corporation shall stand altered, amended, or extended as therein shown.
Any such alteration, amendment or extension may be made by changing or adding to the language of the act, or acts, of incorporation, declaration of incorporation or certificate of incorporation of the corporation, as the case may be, or by changing or adding to the language of both or all of them. When any such corporation is now or hereafter may be charged by law with public or quasi-public functions, alterations to or amendments or extensions of its charter shall in no manner add to, detract from or modify said functions or the rights and duties of the corporation in reference thereto, but no such alteration, amendment or extension of the charter of any corporation so charged by law shall be made which will interfere with the discharge of said functions.
(Acts 1915, No. 155, p. 160; Code 1923, §§6983-6985; Code 1940, T. 10, §19.)
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