490.631  Corporation's acquisition of its own shares.

1.  A corporation may acquire its own shares and, except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to section 490.632, shares so acquired constitute authorized but unissued shares.

2.  If the articles of incorporation prohibit the reissue of the acquired shares, the number of authorized shares is reduced by the number of shares acquired.

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 288, §51; 90 Acts, ch 1205, §23; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §12, 125

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