Section 1303. Violations  


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  • The  attorney-general  may  bring  an  action  to  restrain  a foreign
      corporation from doing in this state without authority any business  for
      the  doing  of  which  it is required to be authorized in this state, or
      from doing in this state any business not set forth in  its  application
      for  authority  or  certificate  of amendment filed by the department of
      state. The attorney-general may bring an action or special proceeding to
      annul the authority of a foreign corporation doing  in  this  state  any
      business  not  set forth in its application for authority or certificate
      of amendment or the authority of which was obtained  through  fraudulent
      misrepresentation  or  concealment  of  a  material fact or to enjoin or
      annul the authority of any foreign corporation which within  this  state
      contrary  to law has done or omitted any act which if done by a domestic
      corporation would be a cause for  its  dissolution  under  section  1101
      (Attorney-general's  action  for  judicial  dissolution) or to annul the
      authority of a foreign corporation that has been dissolved  or  had  its
      authority   or  existence  otherwise  terminated  or  cancelled  in  the
      jurisdiction of its incorporation. The attorney-general shall deliver  a
      certified  copy  of  the  order of annulment to the department of state.
      Upon the filing thereof by the department of state the authority of  the
      foreign  corporation to do business in this state shall be annulled. The
      secretary of state shall continue as agent of  the  foreign  corporation
      upon  whom  process  against  it  may be served in any action or special
      proceeding based upon  any  liability  or  obligation  incurred  by  the
      foreign  corporation  within  the  state  prior  to  the  filing  of the
      certified copy of the order of annulment by the department of state.