Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 4 - BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW (§§ 4-1-101 — 4-119-105) › Subtitle 3 - CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS (§§ 4-25-101 — 4-38-1203) › Chapter 26 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS GENERALLY (§§ 4-26-101 — 4-26-1204) › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 4-26-101 — 4-26-107) › Section 4-26-103 - Applicability of chapter

(a)
Corporations may be organized under this chapter for any lawful purposes except that where another statute of this state, other than Acts 1931, No. 255, which is repealed by this chapter, requires that corporations of any designated class be organized thereunder, corporations of that designated class shall be organized under the other statute and shall be subject to the provisions thereof.
(b)
In respect to all corporations of any designated class that could be organized under this chapter but which are subject to the provisions of any other statute or statutes placing restrictions or conditions on the organization of these corporations, or providing for the regulation of corporations after organization, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to corporations only to the extent that this chapter is not inconsistent with the provisions of the other statute or statutes. This chapter is not intended to repeal, amend, or qualify any statutes of such character.
(c)
From and after midnight December 31, 1965, all corporations now existing and chartered under Acts 1931, No. 255 [repealed], or under Acts 1927, No. 250, or under Act April 12, 1869, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter, subject, however, to the following:
(1)
A corporation originally incorporated under a general business corporation statute of this state, but belonging to a class whereunder the organizational filing procedures have been transferred to some state office or agency other than the Secretary of State, will not be subjected to the provisions of this chapter;
(2)
Previously chartered corporations brought under the provisions of this chapter will not be required to substitute new filings under this chapter for filings heretofore made with the Secretary of State and the county clerk in accordance with the requirements of the applicable antecedent statutes; and each designation of a resident agent and resident office made in accordance with the then applicable law by a previously chartered corporation brought under this chapter is declared a valid designation for the purposes of this chapter;
(3)
Previously chartered corporations that are subject to regulation under other statutes shall remain subject to such regulation.
(d)
To the extent that they were subject to the provisions of Acts 1931, No. 255, corporations created under the Dental Corporation Act, §
4-29-401
et seq., or under the Medical Corporation Act, §
4-29-301
et seq., shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter. However, corporations created under the Dental Corporation Act, §
4-29-401
et seq., or the Medical Corporation Act, §
4-29-301
et seq., prior to midnight December 31, 1965, will not be required to make new filings in lieu of lawful filings made by those corporations prior to midnight, December 31, 1965, and each lawful designation of resident agent or resident office made prior to midnight December 31, 1965, by the corporations shall be continued in effect as a valid designation under this chapter.
Acts 1965, No. 576, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 64-103.