Iowa Code 490.1431 – Procedure for judicial dissolution
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1. Venue for a proceeding by the attorney general to dissolve a corporation lies in Polk county. Venue for a proceeding brought by any other party named in section 490.1430, subsection 1, lies in the county where a corporation’s principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office is or was last located.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 490.1431
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Principal office: means the office, in or out of this state, so designated in the biennial report required by section 490. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Proceeding: includes a civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a domestic or foreign corporation are divided. See Iowa Code 490.140
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
2. It is not necessary to make shareholders parties to a proceeding to dissolve a corporation unless relief is sought against them individually.
3. A court in a proceeding brought to dissolve a corporation may issue injunctions, appoint a receiver or custodian during the proceeding with all powers and duties the court directs, take other action required to preserve the corporate assets wherever located, and carry on the business of the corporation until a full hearing can be held.
4. Within ten days of the commencement of a proceeding to dissolve a corporation under section 490.1430, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, the corporation shall deliver to all shareholders, other than the petitioner, a notice stating that the shareholders are entitled to avoid the dissolution of the corporation by electing to purchase the petitioner’s shares under section 490.1434, and accompanied by a copy of section 490.1434.