State ex rel. Preston Mill Co. v. Howell

Citations

• 67 Wash. 377
• 121 P. 861
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1187

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — License Pees — Failure to Pay — Effect—Reinstatement — Statutes—Construction. Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 3715a and 3715b, having provided that a corporation whose name has been stricken from the records for failure to pay its annual license fee might apply, at any time within six months, for reinstatement upon paying all fees and a penalty of $25, the amendment thereof by Laws 1911, p. 135, by changing the time within which the application could be made from six months to “any time after its name has been stricken,” and increasing the penalty to $100, was intended to render inoperative Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3715d, providing that a corporation failing to make application for reinstatement within six months shall be thereby dissolved; since the acts are purely revenue measures, and the intent of the amendment was to permit reinstatement upon the conditions prescribed at any time, thereby increasing the revenues of the state.</p> <p>Same — Corporate Franchises — Forfeiture. Such act does not violate Const., art. 12, § 3, prohibiting the legislature from remitting the forfeiture of any corporate franchise or charter, the striking of delinquent names for failure to pay license fees not being the forfeiture of a franchise or charter within the meaning of the constitution.</p>