It shall be unlawful for any person to transact business in this Commonwealth as a corporation or to offer or advertise to transact business in this Commonwealth as a corporation unless the alleged corporation is either a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this Commonwealth. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Va. Code Ann. § 13.1-613
Unlawful to transact or offer to transact business as a corporation unless authorized
Known as the Virginia Stock Corporation Act
The act spans §§ 13–13 (265 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In re Wanda G. Wiser Charitable Remainder Unitrust (2011)
Most recently applied in BAE Systems Information v. Spacekey Components, Inc. (February 2012)
Code 1950, § 13.1-135; 1958, c. 565; 1981, c. 320; 1985, c. 522.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.