In a merger under section 489.14604, the plan of merger must do all of the following:
 1. Comply with section 489.1002.

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Terms Used In Iowa Code 489.14605

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Associated member: means a member that meets the requirements of section 489. See Iowa Code 489.14102
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Member: means a person that has become a member of a limited liability company under section 489. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • Operating agreement: means the agreement, whether or not referred to as an operating agreement and whether oral, in a record, implied, or in any combination thereof, of all the members of a limited liability company, including a sole member, concerning the matters described in section 489. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • Protected-series transferable interest: means a right to receive a distribution from a protected series. See Iowa Code 489.14102
  • Protected-series transferee: means a person to which all or part of a protected-series transferable interest of a protected series of a series limited liability company has been transferred, other than the company. See Iowa Code 489.14102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • Transferable interest: means the right, as originally associated with a person's capacity as a member, to receive distributions from a limited liability company in accordance with the operating agreement, whether or not the person remains a member or continues to own any part of the right. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • Transferee: means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a member. See Iowa Code 489.102
 2. State in a record all of the following:

 a. For any protected series of a nonsurviving company, whether after the merger the protected series will be a relocated protected series or be dissolved, wound up, and terminated.
 b. For any protected series of the surviving company which exists before the merger, whether after the merger the protected series will be a continuing protected series or be dissolved, wound up, and terminated.
 c. For each relocated protected series or continuing protected series all of the following:

 (1) The name of any person that becomes an associated member or protected-series transferee of the protected series after the merger, any consideration to be paid by, on behalf of, or in respect of the person, the name of the payor, and the name of the payee.
 (2) The name of any person whose rights or obligations in the person’s capacity as an associated member or protected-series transferee will change after the merger.
 (3) Any consideration to be paid to a person who before the merger was an associated member or protected-series transferee of the protected series and the name of the payor.
 (4) If after the merger the protected series will be a relocated protected series, its new name.
 d. For any protected series to be established by the surviving company as a result of the merger all of the following:

 (1) The name of the protected series.
 (2) Any protected-series transferable interest to be owned by the surviving company when the protected series is established.
 (3) The name of and any protected-series transferable interest owned by any person that will be an associated member of the protected series when the protected series is established.
 e. For any person that is an associated member of a relocated protected series and will remain a member after the merger, any amendment to the operating agreement of the surviving company which is all of the following:

 (1) Is or is proposed to be in a record.
 (2) Is necessary or appropriate to state the rights and obligations of the person as a member of the surviving company.