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**OFFICE OF**  **THE A-ITORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 

Honorable ~3dm~dha.m Secreta Awilll) %axae

**Dear Sir:** 

**Attention: Kr.**  **8. 3.**  **Long1 i** 

**our0 a**  **permit to**  **do** esr in t&e State of

,‘and **related watt-s.** 

Uainfstrations of. thlo **depart** t such oorparat ion8 em not **re-**

**“ 1,**  **Is a**  **non-profit eduoational~,**  oharitable, **religious benevolent**  fore1 noa-profit **foraisn oorpaxat**  r aorporatlon, or any **on, reqalred**  **to eoourb**  **a permit**  **to** do **bueineee ia**  this &ate?

**‘ 2,**  **If suah**  **oorporat ien8**  **ire ‘** **retpaired to**  **Be** wfe apermit, what riling fee should thla deptirt5ent request?. I 

### 910 tbnorablo Sidney L&ham, ~38 e

“S. If l

uoh oorporatiorra are required to seoure a~petlait, l hotid this depetimnt EollbOt a franohiao tax for their operations In this State?

“4. If aaah oorp0ratlona are not 

### reqalreb **to** secure **(I pefndt**  **fro-** 

### thla 0rri0e, are auah oorperatlona **aothoris& to**  **Ilo buainarr**  In thI8 **Steta** without a permit?*



### rides: **Art$olq** 1589, Vernon~a Annotated Civil Statutes, **pro-**

*Any oorporation for peounlary profit, exoept aa hemigdter prevideb, o?ga,aaiwb. or oreate nndor **the** lawa

o?l 4 **other** Stati,

orof a4

territorl W the Uslted Statra, 0s any munlolpallt~ ot 

### anohState 01 territory; or of tiy foraign &ovenment, anrerelgnty of muzkiolpalIty, desiring to trenagot **or** aolicrlt bwiiaeaa la Tsrar, of to establish a general 

### or8peelal oifioe fr thI8 State rhall file with the Seoretary ot State aduly oerdfled @opt of **its** artlalea **ai inaorporation;**  **anb** thereupea luoh offisial shall 

### ieaue to 

### *al6 corporation a **parrit bp**  **traneact** bualnen in this State ior a period of tea yeare from the date OS80 illlly l **ald** artifolor ot incorporation. It eueh oorporat ion 1a created too more3h.m one purpose8 the petit maybe llalte4l to 

### oneor**more**

### purpoae8.
It in stated la Hildebrand*a “Texas CorparatIonr,* v01unI, 4, page 131

l **AoeordLn& to**  **Vernon ’** **s Annotated**  CIvIl **atatutaa** Artiale 1889 only foreign oorporatlona for peounlarr prorlt that tranaaat or wllslt buaineaa Ia Texas am required to **take** 

### out **a pWalt.**  **A**

### torelgpr **aorporatioa for**  benotolent , rell&ma, philmthroplo purposes where the charters provide that all of its revenues except reasonable expenses will be devoted to one or more aueh 

### purposes is not organfeed for peouniary prsflt. Suoh a aorporation doea not @onewithin the prerialoa oi the 

### Texas statute, and, therefore, aould reaover 08 a oldr due It without proving that it obtained a peralt. hoorporction organiced for the abovo **purpose** 

### has **au**

thorIt to buy land reasonably neaeaeary to further **its** 

### oharter power*;*
Xnthe oaae of City of Saa AhtonIo. et al v. Salvation 6-P 137 3. II. 860, In oonstruing itrtioler 745 d 745 Revised ta **utea,** 1695, whloh contained praatIaa117 the %e la&uage as hrtlolea 1529 and 16S0, 

### Vernon’s **Annotated** Clvll **Statutes,** it **was said**  **i**
a* l * The aorporatloa not **being** organtsed

**or** operated **for &n~ou.niarf** **profit, but**  **by** the terma 

### 0s its inoorporatloa atriotlp prohibited 

### frombeIn wnduated for peeuni~j 

### pmrit, etiolr I46 

### sad‘144 have no applloation to it, and it was not **required to**  obtain a petit to operate and eonduot its ai

### fairs **ia Pexaa**  

### aa **a** oandltlon **pree8dent** fo Its mebitalning this aatIo&*
titer oarefull~ considering Utiole 1539, rupra It la **apparent** that auoh statute applies only to SoraIgn eorporatlona oreatsd for peaunlary 

### p0rit and a088 not apply to 

### anyncbn-profit $(rrign 

### eorporatioacr which ate not lnoorporated 

### forpaoaniary pro-

. la view or the rorei5oIng **authoritlea,** wareepectfallP amwer your first quo&ion 

### as stated above In tha aegatlte.



### Aswe have anawered **your** rirat question in ths negative, It neoesaarilP follow8 that 70~ aeauad and th.lrd **queatfonr require**  no answer. Ia view of whet has heretofore beea said, your **fourth** question i8 rospeatrolly answered in the 

### afrlr5ctlve.

- AIrIy:RP k-dell Nilllema Aaaiataut