District of Columbia Code Division V. Local Business Affairs § 26-1307. Charter of incorporation -- Recording; certificate to be obtained from Superintendent of Banking and Financial Institutions [Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking].

If the charter be granted as aforesaid, it, together with the certificate of the Council of the District of Columbia granting the same indorsed thereon, shall be filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, and shall be recorded by him. On the filing of the said certificate with the said Recorder of Deeds as herein provided, approved as aforesaid by the said Council, the persons named therein and their successors shall thereupon and thereby be and become a body corporate and politic, and as such shall be vested with all the powers and charged with all the liabilities conferred upon and imposed by this chapter upon companies organized under the provisions hereof; provided, however, that no corporation created and organized under the provisions hereof, or availing itself of the provisions hereof as contained in § 26-1313, shall be authorized to transact the business of a trust company, or any business of a fiduciary character, until it shall have filed with the Superintendent of Banking and Financial Institutions [Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking] a copy of its certificate of organization and charter, and shall have obtained from him and filed the same for record with the said Recorder of Deeds, a certificate that the said capital stock of said company has been paid in and the deposit of securities made with said Superintendent of Banking and Financial Institutions [Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking] in the manner and to the extent required by this chapter.