KRS 279.040: Filing and approval of articles -- When corporation may begin business.

(1) The incorporators shall execute triplicate originals of the articles of incorporation

that satisfy the requirements of KRS 14A.2 -010 to 14A.2 -150, and each

incorporator shall acknowledge each triplicate original before an officer authorized

to take ack nowledgments of deeds. They shall then file the triplicate originals,

together with the certificate of acknowledgment, in the office of the Secretary of

State. If the Secretary of State finds the articles to be legal and valid, he shall

immediately indorse his approval on each of the triplicate originals, retain, record

and file one (1) triplicate original in his office, and deliver the other two (2)

triplicate originals, with his approval indorsed thereon, to the incorporators. The

incorporators shall then file one (1) approved triplicate original in the office of the

county clerk of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is to be

located.

(2) As soon as the Secretary of State has filed the articles of incorporation, the proposed

corporation shall be a body politic and corporate and may transact business in its

corporate name.