490.1008  Amendment pursuant to reorganization.

1.  A corporation's articles of incorporation may be amended without action by the board of directors or shareholders to carry out a plan of reorganization ordered or decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction under the authority of law of the United States.

2.  The individual or individuals designated by the court shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing articles of amendment setting forth all of the following:

a.  The name of the corporation.

b.  The text of each amendment approved by the court.

c.  The date of the court's order or decree approving the articles of amendment.

d.  The title of the reorganization proceeding in which the order or decree was entered.

e.  A statement that the court had jurisdiction of the proceeding under federal statute.

3.  This section does not apply after entry of a final decree in the reorganization proceeding even though the court retains jurisdiction of the proceeding for limited purposes unrelated to consummation of the reorganization plan.

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 288, §116; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §61, 125


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