2005 Idaho Code - 50-201 — PROOF OF CORPORATE EXISTENCE -- EFFECT OF THIS ACT

                                  TITLE  50
                            MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
                                  CHAPTER 2
                       GENERAL PROVISIONS -- GOVERNMENT
                                 -- TERRITORY
    50-201.  PROOF OF CORPORATE EXISTENCE -- EFFECT OF THIS ACT. The corporate
name of each city governed by this act shall be City of ..... All courts
within the county in which such city is situated shall take judicial notice of
the corporate capacity and existence of such city, and of the fact that such
city is identical with, and a continuation of such former corporation. In all
other courts of the state the corporate capacity and existence of such city
may be proved by copies of the certificate of incorporation, required to be
filed with the secretary of state, duly authenticated, declaring the same to
be a city.
    All by-laws, ordinances and resolutions lawfully passed and in force in
any city under its former organization, shall remain in full force and effect
until altered or repealed by the mayor and council under the provisions of
this act.
    The territorial limits of each city shall remain the same as under its
former organization; but such territorial limits may be extended or changed as
may be provided by law; and the rights and property of every description which
are vested in any city under its former organization shall remain in full
force and effect.
    Each city shall be the successor of its former organization and shall have
perpetual succession. No right or liability of any city, either in favor of or
against it, existing at the time, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall
be affected by such change. It shall have and exercise all powers, functions,
rights and privileges, now or hereafter granted it, and shall be subject to
all the duties, obligations, liabilities and limitations now or hereafter
imposed upon such city by the constitution and laws of the state of Idaho.
    Processes and notices affecting corporations shall be served upon the
mayor and in his absence upon the clerk or in the absence of such officers,
then by leaving a certified copy at the office of the clerk.