When the application has been made, filed and recorded as provided in this article, the applicants shall constitute a corporation under the name proposed in the application and with the powers set forth in this article. The Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation, under the Great Seal of the State, reciting the fact of such incorporation and shall record the same with the application. There shall be no fees paid to the Secretary of State for any work in connection with the incorporation or dissolution of the corporation.
Ala. Code § 2-6-73 (1975)