 | Wisconsin - Law - 1982 - 872 pages
...Section 1. Corporations without banking powers or privileges may be formed under general laws, b'lt shall not be created by special act, except for municipal...cannot be attained under general laws. All general laws or special acts enacted under the provisions of this section may be altered or repealed by the legislature... | |
 | Henrik N. Dullea - Political Science - 1997 - 564 pages
...1, added in 1846, allows the formation of corporations by general law and not by special act except where, "in the judgment of the legislature, the objects...corporation cannot be attained under general laws." An earlier provision required an extraordinary majority of two-thirds of the members of each house... | |
 | Political Science - 1998 - 272 pages
...Similarly, a current provision stipulates that corporations may not be formed by special act except "in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature,...of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws."15 In other words, the legislature can use its own judgment to determine whether a corporation... | |
 | Zane L. Miller - Political Science - 2001 - 220 pages
...reserved to the legislature the right to pass separate acts of incorporation — individual charters — "in cases where in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be obtained under general laws."20 As the assemblage saw it, this exception allowed for the grants of... | |
 | Howard Schweber - Political Science - 2004 - 314 pages
...bond issues in excess of $50,000. Democrats gained a provision banning special acts of incorporation "except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the general assembly, the objects of the corporation can not be attained under general laws" (Article XV;... | |
 | Lawrence M. Friedman - Law - 2005 - 642 pages
...New York Constitution of 1846 took a somewhat more drastic step. It restricted special charters to "cases where in the judgment of the Legislature, the...of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws."6'" As it turned out, the legislature was quite accommodating in making such judgments. At the... | |
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Corporations may be formed under general laws; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. 
