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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-617" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Sanitary Commissions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “corporate document” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Articles of incorporation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Articles of amendment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Articles of joinder; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Articles of withdrawal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>When a corporate document is filed with it, the State Department of Assessments and Taxation shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Endorse on the corporate document the time and date the corporate document was received; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Examine the corporate document.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If, after examination, the State Department of Assessments and Taxation determines that the corporate document is proper, the State Department of Assessments and Taxation shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Issue a certificate of approval;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Include with the certificate of approval a copy of the corporate document; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Record a copy of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The corporate document; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The certificate of approval.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>When the State Department of Assessments and Taxation issues a certificate of approval under this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The corporate document is effective;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The district exists as provided in the corporate document; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The corporate document is conclusively presumed to have been adopted lawfully.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
