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...(A) Except as provided in sections 1701.01 to 1701.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the provisions of said sections shall apply only to domestic corporations, and except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of said sections shall apply to all domestic corporations, whether formed under said sections or under previous laws of this state. (B) Special provisions in the Revised Code for the organizat...

...(A) Unless another form of notice is required by the articles, the regulations, the bylaws, or by applicable law, any notice required by this chapter shall be in writing and shall be delivered personally or sent by telegram, by the use of authorized communications equipment, or by United States mail, express mail, or courier service, with postage or fees prepaid. (B) In computing the period of time for the giving of...

...(A) A corporation may sue and be sued. (B) A corporation may adopt and alter a corporate seal and use it or a facsimile of it, but failure to affix the corporate seal shall not affect the validity of any instrument. (C) Unless otherwise provided in the articles, a corporation may take property of any description, or any interest in property, by gift, devise, or bequest. (D) Subject to limitations prescribed b...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved voluntarily in the manner provided in this section. (B) A resolution of dissolution for a corporation shall set forth: (1) That the corporation elects to be dissolved; (2) Any additional provision deemed necessary with respect to the proposed dissolution and winding up. (C) The directors may adopt a resolution of dissolution in the following cases: (1) When the corporation...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 1702.01 to 1702.58 of the Revised Code, the provisions of those sections shall apply only to domestic corporations, and except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of those sections shall apply to all domestic corporations, whether formed under those sections or under previous laws of this state. (B) Special provisions in the Revised Code for the organization, cond...

...(A) If the laws of the United States prohibit, preempt, or otherwise eliminate the licensing requirement of sections 1703.01 to 1703.31 of the Revised Code with respect to a corporation that is a bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association chartered under the laws of the United States, the main office of which is located in another state, the bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association shall no...

...Any person intending to organize a corporation under the laws of another state, or any foreign corporation intending to transact business in this state or intending to change its name, may file in the office of the secretary of state, in writing and on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for the exclusive use of a name to be used by that proposed or existing foreign corporation. If the secret...

...No foreign corporation shall transact in this state any business that could not be lawfully transacted by a domestic corporation. Whenever the secretary of state finds that a foreign corporation licensed to transact business in this state is transacting in this state a business that a domestic corporation could not lawfully transact, is transacting business in this state in a corporate name that is not readily distin...

...No foreign nonprofit corporation shall exercise its corporate privileges in this state in a continual course of transactions until it has first procured from the secretary of state a certificate authorizing it to do so. Before issuing such certificate, the secretary of state shall require such foreign corporation to file in the secretary of state's office a certificate of good standing or subsistence, setting forth...

...(A) A limited liability company is a separate legal entity. A limited liability company's status for tax purposes shall not affect its status as a separate legal entity formed under this chapter. (B) A limited liability company has perpetual duration.

...(A) This chapter shall be construed to give maximum effect to the principles of freedom of contract and to the enforceability of operating agreements. (B) Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, principles of law and equity supplement this chapter. (C) Rules that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this chapter. (D) Sections 1309....

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, both of the following apply: (1) An operating agreement governs relations among the members as members and between the members and the limited liability company. (2) To the extent that an operating agreement does not otherwise provide for a matter described in division (A)(1) of this section, this chapter governs the matter. (B)(1) To th...

...(A) The articles of organization may be amended at any time. (B) The articles of organization may be restated with or without amendment at any time. (C) To amend its articles of organization, a limited liability company shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, a certificate of amendment containing both of the following information: (1) The name and regi...

...(A) Each record authorized or required to be delivered to the secretary of state for filing under this chapter shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) The record shall contain all information required by the law of this state to be contained in the record but, unless otherwise provided by law, shall not be required to contain other information. (2) The record shall be on or in a medium and in such form ...

...(A) The secretary of state, upon request and payment of the requisite fee, shall furnish to any person a certificate of full force and effect for a limited liability company if the records filed in the office of the secretary of state show that the limited liability company has been formed under the laws of this state. A certificate of full force and effect shall state all of the following: (1) The limited liabilit...

...A person named in a filed statement of authority may deliver to the secretary of state for filing on a form prescribed by the secretary of state a statement of denial that does both of the following: (A) States the name and registration number of the limited liability company and the date of filing of the statement of authority to which the statement of denial pertains; (B) Denies the person's authority.

...(A) An assignment, in whole or in part, of a membership interest: (1) Is permissible; (2)(a) Does not by itself cause a member to cease to be a member of the limited liability company; (b) Does not by itself cause a member to cease to be associated with a series of the limited liability company. (3) Does not by itself cause a dissolution and winding up of the limited liability company, or a series thereof; ...

...(A) A dissolved limited liability company continues its existence as a limited liability company but may not carry on any activities except as is appropriate to wind up and liquidate its activities and affairs. Appropriate activities include all of the following: (1) Collecting its assets; (2) Disposing of its properties that will not be distributed in kind to persons owning membership interests; (3) Dischargin...

...(A) In order for a foreign limited liability company or any one or more of its series to transact business in this state, the foreign limited liability company shall register with the secretary of state. Neither a foreign limited liability company nor any one or more of its series may transact business in this state until the registration has been approved by the secretary of state and the foreign limited liability c...

...In any derivative action in the right of a foreign limited liability company, or a series thereof, the right of a person to commence or maintain a derivative action in the right of a foreign limited liability company, or a series thereof, and any matters raised in the action covered by sections 1706.61 to 1706.616 of the Revised Code shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction under which the foreign limited lia...

...A limited liability company formed and existing under this chapter may conduct its activities and affairs, carry on its operations, and have and exercise the powers granted by this chapter in any state, foreign country, or other jurisdiction.

... exchange, in such manner and upon such forms as are prescribed by the division, accompanied by payment of an approval fee of two hundred dollars, and the division shall make such investigation and may hold such hearings as it deems necessary to determine the propriety of giving approval. The cost of such investigation shall be borne by the applicant. The division may enter an order of approval, and if it does so, it...

...(A)(1) No control bid for any securities of a subject company shall be made pursuant to a tender offer or request or invitation for tenders until the offeror files with the division of securities the information prescribed in division (A)(2) of this section. The offeror shall deliver a copy of the information specified in division (A)(2) of this section, by personal service, to the subject company at its principal of...

...(A) No person who makes or opposes a control bid to offerees in this state shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Make any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; (2) Engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fr...

...(A) For the purpose of preventing manipulative practices by a person who makes a proposal, or publicly discloses the intention or possibility of making a proposal, to acquire control of a corporation formed under the laws of this state, any profit realized, directly or indirectly, from the disposition of any equity securities of a corporation by a person who, within eighteen months before disposition directly or indi...