N.Y. Business Corporation Law § 202: General powers

§ 202. General powers.

(a) Each corporation, subject to any limitations provided in this

chapter or any other statute of this state or its certificate of

incorporation, shall have power in furtherance of its corporate

purposes:

(1) To have perpetual duration.

(2) To sue and be sued in all courts and to participate in actions and

proceedings, whether judicial, administrative, arbitrative or otherwise,

in like cases as natural persons.

(3) To have a corporate seal, and to alter such seal at pleasure, and

to use it by causing it or a facsimile to be affixed or impressed or

reproduced in any other manner.

(4) To purchase, receive, take by grant, gift, devise, bequest or

otherwise, lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use

and otherwise deal in and with, real or personal property, or any

interest therein, wherever situated.

(5) To sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose

of, or mortgage or pledge, or create a security interest in, all or any

of its property, or any interest therein, wherever situated.

(6) To purchase, take, receive, subscribe for, or otherwise acquire,

own, hold, vote, employ, sell, lend, lease, exchange, transfer, or

otherwise dispose of, mortgage, pledge, use and otherwise deal in and

with, bonds and other obligations, shares, or other securities or

interests issued by others, whether engaged in similar or different

business, governmental, or other activities.

(7) To make contracts, give guarantees and incur liabilities, borrow

money at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine, issue

its notes, bonds and other obligations, and secure any of its

obligations by mortgage or pledge of all or any of its property or any

interest therein, wherever situated.

(8) To lend money, invest and reinvest its funds, and take and hold

real and personal property as security for the payment of funds so

loaned or invested.

(9) To do business, carry on its operations, and have offices and

exercise the powers granted by this chapter in any jurisdiction within

or without the United States.

(10) To elect or appoint officers, employees and other agents of the

corporation, define their duties, fix their compensation and the

compensation of directors, and to indemnify corporate personnel.

(11) To adopt, amend or repeal by-laws, including emergency by-laws

made pursuant to subdivision seventeen of section twelve of the state

defense emergency act, relating to the business of the corporation, the

conduct of its affairs, its rights or powers or the rights or powers of

its shareholders, directors or officers.

(12) To make donations, irrespective of corporate benefit, for the

public welfare or for community fund, hospital, charitable, educational,

scientific, civic or similar purposes, and in time of war or other

national emergency in aid thereof.

(13) To pay pensions, establish and carry out pension, profit-sharing,

share bonus, share purchase, share option, savings, thrift and other

retirement, incentive and benefit plans, trusts and provisions for any

or all of its directors, officers and employees.

(14) To purchase, receive, take, or otherwise acquire, own, hold,

sell, lend, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, pledge, use and

otherwise deal in and with its own shares.

(15) To be a promoter, partner, member, associate or manager of other

business enterprises or ventures, or to the extent permitted in any

other jurisdiction to be an incorporator of other corporations of any

type or kind.

(16) To have and exercise all powers necessary or convenient to effect

any or all of the purposes for which the corporation is formed.

(b) No corporation shall do business in New York state under any name,

other than that appearing in its certificate of incorporation, without

compliance with the filing provisions of section one hundred thirty of

the general business law governing the conduct of business under an

assumed name.