South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-909. Effect of conversion
(a) An organization that has been converted pursuant to this Article is for all purposes the same entity that existed before the conversion.
(b) When a conversion takes effect:
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-909
- Business: includes every trade, occupation, profession, and other lawful purpose, whether or not carried on for profit. See South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-101
- Entity: means a person other than an individual. See South Dakota Codified Laws 47-34A-101
- 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 property, real and personal. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
(1) All property owned by the converting organization remains vested in the converted organization;
(2) All debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the converting organization continue as debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the converted organization;
(3) An action or proceeding pending by or against the converting organization may be continued as if the conversion had not occurred;
(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; and
(6) Except as otherwise agreed, the conversion does not dissolve a converting limited liability company for the purposes of §§ 47-34A-801 to 47-34A-812, inclusive.
(c) A converted organization that is a foreign organization consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state to enforce any debt, obligation, or other liability for which the converting limited liability company is liable if, before the conversion, the converting limited liability company was subject to suit in this state on the debt, obligation, or other liability. A converted organization that is a foreign organization and not authorized to transact business in this state appoints the secretary of state as its agent for service of process for purposes of enforcing a debt, obligation, or other liability under this subsection. Service on the secretary of state under this subsection must be made in the same manner and has the same consequences as set forth in this chapter.
Source: SL 2010, ch 218, § 10; SL 2013, ch 233, § 23.