N.Y. Business Corporation Law § 1303: Violations

§ 1303. Violations.

The attorney-general may bring an action to restrain a foreign

corporation from doing in this state without authority any business for

the doing of which it is required to be authorized in this state, or

from doing in this state any business not set forth in its application

for authority or certificate of amendment filed by the department of

state. The attorney-general may bring an action or special proceeding to

annul the authority of a foreign corporation doing in this state any

business not set forth in its application for authority or certificate

of amendment or the authority of which was obtained through fraudulent

misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact or to enjoin or

annul the authority of any foreign corporation which within this state

contrary to law has done or omitted any act which if done by a domestic

corporation would be a cause for its dissolution under section 1101

(Attorney-general's action for judicial dissolution) or to annul the

authority of a foreign corporation that has been dissolved or had its

authority or existence otherwise terminated or cancelled in the

jurisdiction of its incorporation. The attorney-general shall deliver a

certified copy of the order of annulment to the department of state.

Upon the filing thereof by the department of state the authority of the

foreign corporation to do business in this state shall be annulled. The

secretary of state shall continue as agent of the foreign corporation

upon whom process against it may be served in any action or special

proceeding based upon any liability or obligation incurred by the

foreign corporation within the state prior to the filing of the

certified copy of the order of annulment by the department of state.