Guam § 13126 - Amendment of Articles to Bring Corporation Under This
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 13126 — Amendment of Articles to Bring Corporation Under This, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 13126. Amendment of Articles to Bring Corporation Under This
Chapter.
Any corporation organized or existing pursuant to the General
Corporation Law [part 1 of this Title], may be brought under the provisions
of this Chapter by amending its articles of incorporation in the manner
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prescribed by the General Corporation Law to conform to the provisions of
this Chapter, and whenever any corporation shall have amended its articles
of incorporation to conform to the provisions of this Chapter, it shall be
deemed to be then organized and existing under and entitled to the benefit
of and subject to the provisions of this Chapter for all purposes and as fully
as though originally organized hereunder. Articles of incorporation shall be
deemed to conform to the provisions of this Chapter within the meaning of
the foregoing whenever (a) it is provided or declared therein, in substance,
regardless of form that the corporation is organized and exists as a nonprofit
cooperative corporation for the purposes provided for in or permitted by the
provisions of this Chapter, or one or more of said purposes; or (b) it clearly
appears therefrom that the corporation desires to be subject to, and to be
organized, exist and function under and pursuant to the provisions of this
Chapter. Whenever amended articles conform, as aforesaid, provisions
therein that appeared in the original articles or some previous amended
articles, shall be deemed ineffective if and to the extent that same are
inapplicable to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Chapter.
Construction and Application of Section. The provisions of this
section shall be construed and applied as retrospective as well as
prospective, and may be availed of by a corporation regardless of time of
incorporation, whether prior or subsequent to the adoption of this section,
and all amendments made prior to the adoption of this section shall be
effective and valid to the same extent as though made subsequent to the
adoption of this section.
Source: official Guam text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 13126 ("Amendment of Articles to Bring Corporation Under This") is part of the Guam Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Guam. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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