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PUBLIC LAW 87-569-AUG. 6, 1962

[76 STAT.

davit giving the latest known post office address of such corporation, and such service shall be sufficient if notice thereof and a copy of the process, notice, or demand are forwarded by registered or certified mail, addressed to such corporation at the address given in such affidavit. (d) The Commissioners shall keep a record of all processes, notices, and demands served upon them under this section, and shall record therein the time of such service and their action with reference thereto. (e) Nothing herein contained shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice, or demand, required or permitted by law to be served upon a corporation in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law. AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF FOREIGN CORPORATION

SEC. 74. Whenever the articles of incorporation of a foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in the District are amended, such foreign corporation shall, within ninety days after such amendment; becomes effective, file with the Commissioners a copy of such amendment duly certified by the proper officer of the state or country under; the laws of which it is incorporated; but the filing thereof shall not of itself enlarge or alter the purpose or purposes which such corporation is authorized to pursue in conducting its affairs in the District, nor authorize such corporation to conduct affairs in the District under any other name than the name set forth in its certificate of authority. MERGER OF FOREIGN CORPORATION

SEC. 75. Whenever a foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in the District shall be a party to a statutory merger permitted by the laws of the state or country under the laws of which it is incorporated, and such corporation shall be the surviving corporation, it shall, within ninety days after such merger becomes effective, deliver to the Commissioners a copy of the articles of merger duly certified by the proper officer of the state or country under the laws of which such statutory merger was effected; and it shall not be necessary for such corporation to procure either a new or amended certificate oi authority to conduct affairs in the District unless the name of such corporation be changed thereby or unless the corporation desires to pursue in the District other or additional purposes than those which it is then authorized to pursue in the District. A M E N D E D CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY

SEC. 76. (a) A foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in the District shall procure an amended certificate of authority in the event it changes its corporate name, or desires to pursue in the District other or additional purposes than those set forth in its prior application for a certificate of authority, by making application therefor to the Commissioners. (b) The requirements in respect to the form and contents of such application, the manner of its execution, the delivering of duplicate originals thereof to the Commissioners, the issuance of an amended certificate of authority and the effect thereof, shall be the same as in the case of an original application for a certificate of authority.

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