Article 34. Types and forms of legal entities of the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. A legal entity may be an organization that pursues income extraction as the main goal of its activities (a commercial organization) or does not have income extraction as such a goal and does not distribute the net income received among the participants (a non-profit organization).
2. A legal entity that is a commercial organization may be established only in the form of a state-owned enterprise, a business partnership, a joint-stock company, or a production cooperative.
3. A legal entity that is a non-profit organization may be established in the form of an institution, a public association, a joint-stock company, a consumer cooperative, a foundation, a religious association, or in any other form provided for by legislative acts.
A non-profit organization can engage in entrepreneurial activity only insofar as it meets its statutory goals.
3-1. A legal entity that is a non-profit organization and is maintained only at the expense of the state budget may be created exclusively in the form of a state institution.
4. Legal entities may form associations (Article 110 of this Code).
5. A legal entity acts on the basis of this Code, the Law on Each of the Forms of Legal Entities, other legislative acts and constituent documents.
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