Sec. 3. (a) A plan of merger is not effective unless it has been approved:

(1) by a domestic merging entity:

Terms Used In Indiana Code 23-0.6-2-3

  • 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.
  • 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.
(A) in accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic law and organic rules for approval of the merger; or

(B) by all the interest holders of the entity entitled to vote on or consent to any matter if, in the case of an entity that is not a business corporation, neither its organic law nor organic rules provide for approval of the merger; and

(2) in a record, by each interest holder of a domestic merging entity which will have interest holder liability for debts, obligations, and other liabilities that are incurred after the merger becomes effective, unless, in the case of an entity that is not a business corporation or nonprofit corporation:

(A) the organic rules of the entity provide in a record for the approval of a merger in which some or all of its interest holders become subject to interest holder liability by the affirmative vote or consent of fewer than all the interest holders; and

(B) the interest holder consented in a record to or voted for that provision of the organic rules or became an interest holder after the adoption of that provision.

     (b) A merger under this chapter involving a foreign merging entity is not effective unless the merger is approved by the foreign entity in accordance with the law of the foreign entity’s jurisdiction of formation.

As added by P.L.118-2017, SEC.6.