{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-14-3-1502","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 14-3-1502","heading":"Transacting business without certificate of authority.","body":"(a) A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.\n(b) The successor to a foreign corporation that transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority and the assignee of a cause of action arising out of that business may not maintain a proceeding based on that cause of action in any court in this state unless before the commencement of the proceeding the foreign corporation or its successor obtains a certificate of authority.\n(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this Code section, the failure of a foreign corporation to obtain a certificate of authority does not impair the validity of its corporate acts or prevent it from defending any proceeding in this state.","path":["TITLE 14 Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations","CHAPTER 3 Nonprofit Corporations","Article 15 Foreign Corporations","PART 1 Certificate of Authority"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.14.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"a780d14a68caa5ba033c2fd62a25d676c832aaf81b20189b191919329fb1be6f","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-14-3-1501","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-14-3-1503"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}