§ 203-b. Annulment of authority to do business by foreign\ncorporations. 1. On or before the last day of March, June, September or\nDecember in each calendar year, the tax commission may certify and\ntransmit to the department of state a list containing the names of any\nor all such foreign corporations, except banking corporations, fire,\nmarine, casualty and life insurance companies, co-operative fraternal\ninsurance companies and building and loan associations, which have been\nauthorized to do business in this state pursuant to article thirteen or\narticle fifteen-a of the business corporation law and have not filed\nreports required under this article during the period of time next\npreceding the date of such certification applicable to business\ncorporations as set forth in section two hundred three-a of this\nchapter, have been delinquent in the payment of taxes duly assessed\npursuant to this article for the period applicable to business\ncorporations as set forth in such section, or have been delinquent in\nthe payment of maintenance fees imposed under this article for a period\nexceeding ninety days.\n 2. If the secretary of state, upon comparing the names so certified\nwith his records, shall discover error, he may return the list to the\ntax commission for correction.\n 3. The secretary of state shall make a proclamation under his hand and\nseal of office, as to the corporations whose names are included in such\nlist as finally corrected, declaring the authority of such corporations\nto do business in this state annulled pursuant to the provisions of this\nsection. He shall file the original proclamation in his office and shall\npublish a copy thereof in the state bulletin no later than three months\nfollowing receipt of the list by him.\n 4. Upon the publication of such proclamation in the manner aforesaid,\neach corporation named therein shall be deemed to have had its authority\nannulled without further legal proceedings.\n 5. The secretary of state shall mail a copy of the state bulletin\ncontaining such proclamation to the clerk of each county in the state.\nThe county clerk shall file the copy without charge but need not record\nit.\n 6. The names of all corporations whose authority was so annulled shall\nbe reserved for a period of three months immediately following the\npublication of the proclamation, and during such period no corporation\nshall be formed under a name the same as any name so reserved or so\nnearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive, nor shall any\nforeign corporation, within such period, be authorized to do business in\nthis state under a name the same as any name so reserved or so nearly\nresembling it as to be calculated to deceive.\n 7. Any corporation whose authority was so annulled may file in the\ndepartment of state a certificate of consent of the commissioner of\ntaxation and finance. Such certificate of consent shall be given only if\nthe commissioner of taxation and finance ascertains that all fees and\ntaxes imposed under this chapter or any related statute, as defined in\nsection eighteen hundred of this chapter, as well as penalties and\ninterest charges related thereto, accrued against the corporation have\nbeen paid. The filing of such certificate of consent shall have the\neffect of annulling all of the proceedings theretofore taken for the\nannulment of authority of such corporation under the provisions of this\nsection and it shall thereupon have such corporate powers, rights,\nduties and obligations as it had on the date of the publication of the\nproclamation, with the same force and effect as if such proclamation had\nnot been made or published. The fee of the secretary of state for filing\nsuch certificate shall be fifty dollars. No such certificate shall be\nfiled if the name of the corporation is the same as, or so nearly\nresembles as to be calculated to deceive, that of a domestic corporation\nformed later than three months after the publication o
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