115 - Power to solicit contributions for charitable purposes. - New York Statutes

§ 115. Power to solicit contributions for charitable purposes. No corporation having the power to solicit contributions for charitable purposes may solicit contributions for any purpose for which approval of such solicitation is required under the provisions of section four hundred four of this chapter unless the certificate specifically makes provision for such solicitation and the required written approval is endorsed on or annexed to such certificate or unless the corporation is among those referred to in section one hundred seventy-two-a of the executive law. If such approval is not obtained and the corporation continues to solicit or to receive contributions for such purpose or advertises that it has obtained such approval, the attorney general, at the request of the officer or body authorized to grant such approval, shall maintain an action or proceeding pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph one of paragraph (a) of section one hundred twelve of this chapter. Such an action may also be maintained in relation to a corporation hereinafter incorporated if the name, purposes, objects or the activities of such corporation may, in any manner, lead to the belief that the corporation possesses or may exercise any of such purposes.