US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
  § 115. Power to solicit contributions for charitable purposes.
    No   corporation   having  the  power  to  solicit  contributions  for
  charitable purposes may solicit contributions for any purpose for  which
  approval  of  such  solicitation  is  required  under  the provisions of
  section four  hundred  four  of  this  chapter  unless  the  certificate
  specifically  makes  provision  for  such  solicitation and the required
  written approval is endorsed on or annexed to such certificate or unless
  the corporation is among  those  referred  to  in  section  one  hundred
  seventy-two-a  of  the executive law.   If such approval is not obtained
  and the corporation continues to solicit or to receive contributions for
  such purpose or advertises that  it  has  obtained  such  approval,  the
  attorney  general,  at  the request of the officer or body authorized to
  grant such approval, shall maintain an action or proceeding pursuant  to
  the  provisions  of  subparagraph  one  of  paragraph (a) of section one
  hundred twelve of this chapter.  Such an action may also  be  maintained
  in  relation  to  a  corporation  hereinafter  incorporated if the name,
  purposes, objects or the activities of  such  corporation  may,  in  any
  manner,  lead  to  the  belief  that  the  corporation  possesses or may
  exercise any of such purposes.