Founding Minutes (Acta Fundacional)

The founding minutes are the document where founding members formalise the decision to incorporate the club. They contain: place and date of the meeting, full identification of each founding member (name, ID, address, nationality), explicit will to incorporate a club under a specific legal form (Elementary, Basic, Association), approval of the attached statutes, designation of the first board (at least president, secretary, treasurer) and the signatures of all attendees.

They are filed at the regional sports-entity registry along with the statutes and, in some regions, with ID copies and proof of fee payment. Without founding minutes the registry will not accept the application.

Applies once: at the moment of incorporation. Subsequent decisions (board renewal, statute reform, new sport sections) are recorded in ordinary general-meeting minutes, not founding minutes.

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