{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-77","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 46-5-77","heading":"Time of corporate existence of cooperative.","body":"The corporate existence of the cooperative shall begin at the time of the filing of the articles of incorporation, with the judge’s order thereon, with the clerk of the superior court, but the cooperative shall not be licensed to transact any business until it shall have received the certificate from the Secretary of State in the manner prescribed in Code Section 46-5-75.","path":["TITLE 46 Public Utilities and Public Transportation","CHAPTER 5 Telephone Service","Article 2 Telephone Service","PART 3 Rural Telephone Cooperatives"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.46.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":"dc2b0fdfe9dc0c923a9698aa1162feb4986c78d0a94b033a690649f9661ca1d9","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-76","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-78"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}