The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-07
CHAPTER 1921 .

s. 1889.
CHAPTER 1921
AN ACT Prescribing the Method
by Which Labor Unions or Labor
Bodies May Be Incorporated or AL
lowed to Do Business Within the
State of Florida; Bestowing Upon
Circuit Courts of This State Juris-
diction to Issue Such Certificates of
Incorporation or Charters; and Pro-
viding for the Right of Intervention
by any Person or Persons to Oppose
the Issuance of Such Charters or
Certificates of Incorporation.
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Florida:
Sec. 1. No certificate of incorpor-
alton or charter of a proposed do
mestic corporation, and no statement
and designation of a foreign corpo-
ration. having for its purpose the
formation of an organization of a
group or a combination of groups
of working men and/or women, or
wage earners. having the name of
Labor. Organized Labor, Federation
of Labor. Brotherhood of Labor,
Union Labor Union Labor Commit
tee. Trade Union. Trades Union, I'm
ion Labor Council. Building Trades
Council. Building Trades Union. AL
lied Printing Trades Council. AL
lied Trades Union, Central Labor
Body Central Labor Union, Fed
Grated Trades Council, Local IN
ion. State Union, National Union, In
ternational Union. District Labor
Council. District Labor Union, Amer
lean Federation of Labor. Florida
Federation of Labor or the compon
ent parts thereof, or the significant
words therein, whether the same are
used in iuxtaposition or with inter-
space, shall be issued, filed, record
ed or authorized. or otherwise auth
orized for the purpose of effecting
incorporation or authorizing it to do
business in the State of Florida
without strict compliance with the
following provisions:
Any five or more persons of legal
age, wishing to form a corporation,
having for its purpose the formation
of a corporation under this law, may
become Incorporated in accordance
herewith:
Circuit Court Clerk for the proper
county a proposed charter subscrib-
ed by the intended incorporators,
which shall set forth:
l. The name of the corporation
and the place where it is to be To-
Gated.
2. The nature of the object and
purpose of the corporation and the
necessity therefor.
3. The qualifications of members
and the manner of their admission.
4. The term. for which it is to
exist.
5. The names and residences of
the subscribers.
6. By what officers the affairs of
the corporation are to be managed
and the times at which they will be
elected or appointed.
z. The names of the officers who
are to manage all the affairs until
the first election or appointment I'M
der the charter
s. BY whom the by laws of the
corporation are to be made, altered
or reScinded.
Sec. 2. The proposed charter shall
be acknowledged by not less than
five of the subscribers before some
officer authorized to take acknowled.
ments. which subscribers shall also
make and subscribe an oath to be
endorsed on the proposed charter
that it is intended in good faith to
carry out the purposes and objects
set forth therein.
Sec g. The subscribers to the
proposed charter shall give notice
of their intention to present the pro-
posed charter to the circuit judge,
or one of the circuit judges where
the circuit has more than one judge,
in the county where it is intended
to operate, giving the name of the
circuit judge to whom the proposed
charter may be addressed. Such no.
tice shall be published in a news
paper of general circulation in the
proper county at least once, or posted
at the court house door in counties
having no newspapers, and shall be
published at least ten days prior to
the date the subscribers intend to
present the proposed charter to the
circuit Judge, and shall state in said
notice the general nature of the pro-
posed charter. and the necessity
therefor.
Sec. 4. The said proposed charter
shall be accompanied by a petition
signed and. sworn to by the SUBJ
scribers to the proposed charter,
stating fully in the said petition
the aims and purposes of such Or
ganization and the necessity there
for.
Sec. 5. Upon the filing of the pro-
posed charter and the netition, and
the giving of such notice, the Cir
cult judge to whom such petition
and proposed charter may be ad-
dressed shall upon the date stated
in such notice, take testimony and
inquire into the admissions and pur-
poses of such organization and the
necessity therefor, and upon such
hearing. if the circuit judge shall
be satisfied that the allegations set
forth in the petition and charter have
been substantiated. and shall find
that such organization will not be
harmful to the community in which
1t proposes to operate and to the
State of Florida, and that it is in
tended in good faith to carry out
the purposes and objects set forth
therein. and that there is a neces-
sity therefor, the judge shall approve
the charter and enter a decree ac-
cordingly. The decree shall be re-
corded in the office of the clerk of
the circuit court and from thence
forth the subscribers and their as
sociates and successors shall be
corporation by the name given.
Sec. 8. Any person, persons, group
OF persons, groups of persons, or
corporations. shall have the right to
intervent by filing of any answer
or answers to the said petition stat
ing their reasons, if any they have,
and be heard thereon. why the cir
cult judge shall not enter a decree
authorizing the subscribers to incor-
porate in accordance with this law.
Sec. Z. The existence as to any
such corporation, the amendment of
its charter. and its dissolution, shall
be in accordance with the general
law as to corporations organized
not for profit.
Sec. s. All other provisions pre-
scribed for corporations not for pro-
fit. not in conflict with the provisions
of this law. shall be applicable to
corporations organized under the pro-
visions of this law.
Sec 8. All laws or parts of laws
in conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 10. This Act shall become eff
fective Immediately upon it's becom-
ing a law.