2012 Arkansas Code
Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law
Subtitle 3 - Corporations And Associations
Chapter 28 - Nonprofit Organizations
Subchapter 2 - -- Arkansas Nonprofit Corporation Act
§ 4-28-209 - Powers.


AR Code § 4-28-209 (2012) What's This?

Each corporation shall have power:

(1) To have perpetual succession by its corporate name unless a limited period of duration is stated in its articles of incorporation;

(2) To sue and be sued, complain, and defend in its corporate name;

(3) To purchase, take, receive, lease, take by gift, devise, or bequest, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, use, and otherwise deal in and with real or personal property or any interest therein, wherever situated;

(4) To sell, convey, mortgage, pledge, lease, exchange, transfer, and otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property and assets;

(5) To make contracts and incur liabilities, borrow money, issue its notes, bonds, and other obligations, act as a trustee, and secure any of its obligations by mortgage or pledge of all or any of its property, franchises, and income;

(6) To manage its internal affairs in any desired manner so long as the provisions of §§ 4-28-201 -- 4-28-206 and 4-28-209 -- 4-28-224 or other law are not violated; and

(7) To do any and all things necessary, convenient, useful, or incidental to the attainment of its purposes as fully and to the same extent as natural persons lawfully might or could do so long as consistent with the provisions of §§ 4-28-201 -- 4-28-206 and 4-28-209 -- 4-28-224.

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