79-15-133 - Certificate of authority; failure to obtain; ability to sue and be sued. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 79-15-133. Certificate of authority; failure to obtain; ability to sue and be sued.
 

No foreign investment trust transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority shall be permitted to maintain any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state. Nor shall any action, suit or proceeding be maintained in any court of this state by any successor or assignee of such foreign investment trust on any right, claim or demand arising out of the transaction of business by such foreign investment trust in this state. 
 

The failure of a foreign investment trust to obtain a certificate of authority to transact business in this state shall not impair the validity of any contract or act of such foreign investment trust, and shall not prevent such foreign investment trust from defending any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state. 
 

A foreign investment trust which transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority shall be liable to this state, for the years or parts thereof during which it transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority, in an amount equal to all fees which would have been imposed by Section 79-15-135 upon such foreign investment trust had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority to transact business in this state as required by Sections 79-15-101 et seq. and thereafter filed all reports required by said sections, plus all penalties imposed by said sections for failure to pay such fees. The attorney general shall bring proceedings to recover all amounts due this state under the provisions of this section. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1978, ch. 463, § 18, eff from and after July 1, 1978.