A. When a division becomes effective:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 29-2606

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriate filing authority: means :

    (a) With respect to corporations, business trusts and limited liability companies, the commission. See Arizona Laws 29-2102

  • Dividing entity: means the domestic entity that approves a plan of division pursuant to section 29-2603 or the foreign entity that approves a division pursuant to the law of its jurisdiction of organization. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Division: means a transaction authorized by article 6 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Entity: means any of the following:

    (a) A corporation. See Arizona Laws 29-2102

  • Foreign entity: means an entity other than a domestic entity. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Governing statute: means , collectively, the statute or statutes governing the internal affairs of an entity. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Governor: means a person by or under whose authority the powers of an entity are exercised and under whose direction the business and affairs of the entity are managed pursuant to the governing statute and organizational documents of the entity. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Interest: means a governance interest or a transferable interest, including a share or membership in a corporation. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Interest holder: means a direct holder of an interest. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Interest holder liability: means :

    (a) Personal liability for an obligation of an entity that is imposed on a person either:

    (i) Solely by reason of the status of the person as an interest holder. See Arizona Laws 29-2102

  • Organizational documents: means the public organizational document and private organizational documents of an entity. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Person: means an individual, a corporation, an estate, a trust, a partnership, a limited liability company, a business or similar trust, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government, a governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Plan: means a plan of merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Qualified foreign entity: means a foreign entity that is authorized to transact business in this state pursuant to a filing with the appropriate filing authority. See Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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 Arizona Laws 29-2102
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

1. If the dividing entity is to survive the division, the dividing entity continues to exist.

2. If the dividing entity is not to survive the division, the dividing entity ceases to exist.

3. The resulting entities created in the division come into existence.

4. As and to the extent specified in the plan of division, property, including rights, privileges, immunities and powers, of the dividing entity is allocated to and vests in the resulting entities created in the division or continues to be vested in the dividing entity, in each case automatically and without assignment, reversion or impairment.

5. Any property, including rights, privileges, immunities and powers, not allocated by the plan of division:

(a) If the dividing entity survives the division, remains vested in the dividing entity.

(b) If the dividing entity does not survive the division, is allocated to and vests equally in the resulting entities as tenants in common, in each case automatically and without assignment, reversion or impairment.

6. Any pending action or proceeding to which the dividing entity is a party at the effective time of the division continues and the name of a new resulting entity to which a cause of action is allocated as provided in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this subsection may be substituted for the name of the dividing entity or added in that action or proceeding.

7. All obligations of the dividing entity are allocated between or among the resulting entities as provided in section 29-2607.

8. If the dividing entity survives the division:

(a) Its public organizational document, if any, is amended if and to the extent provided in the statement of division.

(b) Its private organizational documents that are to be in a record, if any, are amended if and to the extent provided in the plan of division.

9. The interests in the dividing entity that are to be converted in the division are converted and the interest holders of those interests are entitled only to the rights provided to them under the plan of division and to any appraisal rights they may have under section 29-2109 and the dividing entity’s governing statute.

B. Except as provided in the plan of division or in the governing statute or organizational documents of the dividing entity, the division does not give rise to any rights that an interest holder, governor or third party would otherwise have on a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the dividing entity.

C. When a division becomes effective, a person that did not have interest holder liability with respect to the dividing entity and that becomes subject to interest holder liability with respect to the domestic resulting entity as a result of the division has interest holder liability only to the extent provided by the governing statute or organizational documents of the domestic resulting entity, and then only for those obligations that arise after the division becomes effective.

D. When a division becomes effective, the interest holder liability of a person that ceases to hold an interest in a domestic dividing entity with respect to which the person had interest holder liability is as follows:

1. The division does not discharge any interest holder liability under the governing statute or organizational documents of the domestic dividing entity to the extent the interest holder liability arose before the division became effective.

2. The person does not have interest holder liability under the governing statute or organizational documents of the domestic dividing entity for any obligation that arises after the division becomes effective.

3. The governing statute and organizational documents of the domestic dividing entity continue to apply to the release, collection or discharge of any interest holder liability preserved under paragraph 1 of this subsection as if the division had not occurred.

4. The person has the same rights of contribution from any other person as are provided by the governing statute or organizational documents of the domestic dividing entity with respect to any interest holder liability preserved under paragraph 1 of this subsection as if the division had not occurred.

E. When a division becomes effective, a foreign entity that is a resulting entity:

1. May be served with process in this state for the collection and enforcement of any obligations of a domestic dividing entity that were allocated to the foreign entity pursuant to this article, including obligations arising out of the exercise of appraisal rights.

2. If it is not a qualified foreign entity, appoints the appropriate filing authority as its agent for service of process for collecting or enforcing those obligations.

F. When a division becomes effective, the authority, registration or other qualification granted by the appropriate filing authority to transact business or conduct affairs in this state of a foreign dividing entity that does not survive the division is automatically revoked or cancelled.

G. A person does not have constructive notice of an allocation of an interest in real estate in a division until the allocation is recorded in compliance with the requirements for recording of interests in real estate in the state where the real property is located.