N.M. Stat. § 53-2-7
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§ 53-2-7. Amendments by corporations formed under other acts
Official statutory text
Any corporation organized under any general or special act of the territory or state of New Mexico, including railroad, telegraph and express companies, building and loan associations, banks and savings banks, trust companies, land and irrigation companies and other corporations possessing the right to take and condemn lands, may increase or decrease its capital stock, change its name, the par value of the shares of its capital stock or the location of its principal office in or out of this state, extend its corporate existence and fix any method of altering its bylaws permitted by the Business Corporation Act. Any corporation organized under Laws 1878, Chapter 1, may extend its corporate existence in the manner prescribed in the Business Corporation Act. Any corporation except a corporation exercising the right of eminent domain may, in the same manner, relinquish one or more branches of its business to such branches as might have been inserted in its original certificate of incorporation; provided, however, that original articles of incorporation of railroad corporations, and articles of incorporation and consolidation of railroad corporations incorporated or consolidated under the laws of the territory or state of New Mexico, or under the laws of the territory or state and any other state or states, or any such articles which may have heretofore been amended, may be amended or further amended by providing that the term of corporate existence of the corporation shall be perpetual.
Status: in_force
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