---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 145"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "145"
heading: "Certificate of incorporation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/145"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — China Trade"
---

# §145. Certificate of incorporation


The [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) shall, upon the filing of such [application](/usc/15/77ccc.md?p=8), issue a certificate of incorporation certifying that the provisions of this chapter have been complied with and declaring that the incorporators are a body corporate, if (a) an incorporation fee of $100 has been paid him; (b) he finds that the articles of incorporation and statements therein conform to the requirements of, and that the incorporation is authorized by, this chapter; and (c) he finds that such [corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) will aid in developing markets in [China](/usc/15/142.md?p=b) for goods produced in the United States. A copy of the articles of incorporation shall be made a part of the certificate of incorporation and printed in full thereon. Any failure, previous to the issuance of the certificate of incorporation, by the incorporators or in respect to the [application](/usc/15/77ccc.md?p=8) for the certificate of incorporation, to conform to any requirement of law which is a condition precedent to such issuance, may not subsequent thereto be held to invalidate the certificate of incorporation or alter the legal status of any act of a [China Trade Act corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c), except in proceedings instituted by the [registrar](/usc/15/142.md?p=f) for the revocation of the certificate of incorporation.


## Source credit

(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 5, 42 Stat. 850.)