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The "Articles of Incorporation" (sometimes also referred to as the Certificate of Incorporation or the Corporate Charter) act as a charter to establish the existence of a corporation in the United States and Canada, and are filed with Secretary of State, or other company registrar. An equivalent term for LLCs in the United States is the Articles of Organization. For terms with similar meaning in other countries, see ''articles of association''. == United States == The articles of incorporation outline the governance of a corporation along with the corporate bylaws and the corporate statutes in the state where articles of incorporation are filed. The articles of incorporation typically include the name of the corporation, the type of corporate structure (e.g. profit corporation, nonprofit corporation, professional corporation), the Registered agent, the number of authorized shares, the effective date, the duration (perpetual by default), and the names and signatures of the incorporators. The state fee to file articles of incorporation to incorporate a profit corporation range from $50 - $300, and to incorporate a nonprofit corporation range from $0 -$125.〔Entity formation fees ().〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「articles of incorporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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