(a) When a conversion takes effect:

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Terms Used In Alabama Code 10A-3A-13.07

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(1) all property and contract rights owned by the converting organization remain vested in the converted organization without transfer, reversion, or impairment, and the title to any property vested by deed or otherwise in the converting organization shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of the conversion;
(2) all debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the converting organization continue as debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the converted organization and neither the rights of creditors, nor the liens upon the property of the converting organization shall be impaired by the conversion;
(3) an action or proceeding pending by or against the converting organization continues as if the conversion had not occurred and the name of the converted organization may, but need not, be substituted for the name of the converting organization in any pending action or proceeding;
(4) except as prohibited by law other than this chapter, all of the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of the converting organization remain vested in the converted organization;
(5) except as otherwise provided in the plan of conversion, the terms and conditions of the plan of conversion take effect;
(6) except as otherwise agreed, for all purposes of the laws of this state, the converting organization shall not be required to wind up its affairs or pay its liabilities and distribute its assets, and the conversion shall not be deemed to constitute a dissolution of the converting organization;
(7) for all purposes of the laws of this state, the rights, privileges, powers, interests in property, debts, liabilities, and duties of the converting organization, shall be the rights, privileges, powers, interests in property, debts, liabilities, and duties of the converted organization, and shall not be deemed as a consequence of the conversion, to have been transferred to the converted organization;
(8) if the converted organization is a nonprofit corporation, for all purposes of the laws of this state, the nonprofit corporation shall be deemed to be the same organization as the converting organization, and the conversion shall constitute a continuation of the existence of the converting organization in the form of a nonprofit corporation;
(9) if the converted organization is a nonprofit corporation, the existence of the nonprofit corporation shall be deemed to have commenced on the date the converting organization commenced its existence in the jurisdiction in which the converting organization was first created, formed, organized, incorporated, or otherwise came into being;
(10) the conversion shall not affect the choice of law applicable to matters arising prior to conversion;
(11) if the Secretary of State has assigned a unique identifying number or other designation to the converting organization and (i) the converted organization is formed pursuant to, or its internal affairs are governed by, the laws of this state, or (ii) the converted organization is, within 30 days after the effective date of the conversion, registered to transact business in this state, then that unique identifying number or other designation shall continue to be assigned to the converted organization; and
(12) the interests, if any, of the converting organization are reclassified into interests or other securities, obligations, rights to acquire interests or other securities, cash, or other property in accordance with the terms of the conversion, and the interest holders, if any, of the converting organization are entitled only to the rights provided to them by those terms and to any rights they may have under the governing statute of the converting organization.
(b) A converted organization that is a foreign entity consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state to enforce any debt, obligation, or other liability for which the converting nonprofit corporation, is liable if, before the conversion, the converting nonprofit corporation was subject to suit in this state on the debt, obligation, or other liability. If a converted organization is a foreign entity and fails to designate or maintain a registered agent, or the designated registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, then service of process on that converted organization for the purposes of enforcing a debt, obligation, or other liability under this subsection may be made in the same manner and has the same consequences as provided in Section 10A-1-5.35.
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