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...ic constituent entity exists and by the laws under which each foreign constituent entity exists. The name of the surviving or new entity may be the same as or similar to that of any constituent entity. (2) To effect a merger or consolidation under this section, the directors of each constituent domestic corporation shall approve an agreement of merger or consolidation to be signed by the chairperson of the board of...

...hat, under any applicable provision of law or under the articles, could be effected or authorized only by or pursuant to a specified vote of the members, the agreement, including any amendments or additions to the agreement proposed at each such meeting, shall be adopted by the same affirmative vote as would be required for that action. (2) For purposes of division (B)(1) of this section, participation by a vo...

...tuent entity and the state under whose laws each constituent entity exists; (b) A statement that each constituent entity has complied with all of the laws under which it exists and that the laws permit the merger or consolidation; (c) The name and mailing address of the person or entity that is to provide, in response to any written request made by a member or other person, a copy of the agreement of merger or...

... license certificate prescribed by the laws of this state for a foreign corporation transacting business in this state or the application for registration prescribed for a foreign limited partnership, limited liability company, or unincorporated association. (D) Any action to set aside any merger or consolidation on the ground that any section of the Revised Code applicable to the merger or consolidation has n...

...or consolidation in compliance with the laws of each state under the laws of which any constituent entity exists, or at any later date that the certificate specifies, the merger or consolidation shall become effective.

...nversion also must be permitted by the laws under which the converted entity will exist. (B)(1) The written declaration of conversion shall set forth all of the following: (a) The name and form of entity that is being converted, the name and form of entity into which the entity will be converted, and the jurisdiction of formation of the converted entity; (b) If the converted entity is a domestic entity, the ...

...verting entity and the state under the laws of which the converting entity exists; (b) A statement that the converting entity has complied with all of the laws under which it exists and that the laws permit the conversion; (c) The name and mailing address of the person or entity that is to provide a copy of the declaration of conversion in response to any written request made by a member of the converting enti...

...on has paid all taxes imposed under the laws of this state that are or will be due from the corporation on the date of the dissolution, or that such payment has been adequately guaranteed; (3) In lieu of the receipt, certificate, or other evidence described in division (G)(1) or (2) of this section, an affidavit of one or more of the persons executing the certificate of dissolution or of an officer of the corp...

...Following the filing of the certificate of dissolution, the directors shall forthwith cause a notice of voluntary dissolution to be published once a week on the same day of each week for two successive weeks, in a newspaper published and of general circulation in the county in which the principal office of the corporation was to be or is located, and shall forthwith cause written notice of dissolution to be given ei...

...n accordance with the regulations and bylaws until the affairs of the corporation are completely wound up. Subject to the orders of courts of this state having jurisdiction over the corporation, the directors shall proceed as speedily as is practicable to a complete winding up of the affairs of the corporation and, to the extent necessary or expedient to that end, shall exercise all the authority of the corporation....

...(A) Without limiting the generality of its authority, the court of common pleas of the county in this state in which is located the principal office of a voluntarily dissolved corporation or of a corporation whose articles have been canceled or whose period of existence has expired, upon the complaint of the corporation, a majority of the directors, or a creditor or member, and upon such notice to all the directors...

...(A) Whenever, after a corporation is dissolved voluntarily or the articles of a corporation have been canceled or the period of existence of a corporation has expired, a receiver is appointed to wind up the affairs of the corporation, all the claims, demands, rights, interests, or liens of creditors, claimants, and members shall be determined as of the day on which the receiver was appointed. Unless it is otherwise o...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved judicially and its affairs wound up: (1) By an order of the supreme court or of a court of appeals in an action in quo warranto brought as provided by sections 2733.02 to 2733.39 of the Revised Code, in which event the court may order the affairs of the corporation to be wound up by its directors as in the case of voluntary dissolution, or by proceedings in, and under the order of,...

...(A) Upon the complaint of not less than one-fourth of the directors of the corporation or upon the complaint of not less than one-fourth of the voting members of the corporation, the court of common pleas of the county in which the corporation maintains its principal office may order the appointment of a provisional director for that corporation if the articles or regulations of the corporation expressly provide for ...

...oration has been incorporated under the laws of this state; and a copy duly certified by the secretary of state of any certificate of amendment or other certificate filed in the secretary of state's office shall be prima-facie evidence of such amendment or of the facts stated in any such certificate, and of the observance and performance of all antecedent conditions necessary to the action which such certificate purp...

...(A) Absent an express agreement to the contrary, a person providing goods to or performing services for a domestic or foreign corporation owes no duty to, incurs no liability or obligation to, and is not in privity with the members or creditors of the corporation by reason of providing goods to or performing services for the corporation. (B) Absent an express agreement to the contrary, a person providing goods to ...

...t exclusive of other remedies at common law or under other statutes.

...ion to any other liabilities imposed by law upon directors of a corporation and except as provided in division (D) of this section, directors shall be jointly and severally liable to the corporation as provided in division (C) of this section if they vote for or assent to any of the following: (1) A distribution of assets to members contrary to law or the articles; (2) A distribution of assets to persons other th...

...No person shall exercise or attempt to exercise any rights, privileges, immunities, powers, franchises, or authority under the articles of a domestic corporation after such articles have been canceled or after such corporation has been dissolved or after the period of existence of the corporation specified in its articles has expired, except such acts as are incident to the winding up of the affairs of such corporati...

... under those sections or under previous laws of this state. (B) Special provisions in the Revised Code for the organization, conduct, or government of designated classes of corporations shall govern to the exclusion of the provisions of sections 1702.01 to 1702.58 of the Revised Code on the same subject, except where it clearly appears that a special provision is cumulative, in which case, that provision and the pro...

...orporated under the general corporation laws of this state, or previous laws, or under special provisions of the Revised Code, or created before September 1, 1851, which corporation has expressedly or impliedly elected to be governed by the laws passed since that date, and whose articles or other documents are filed with the secretary of state, shall file with the secretary of state a verified statement of continued ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, upon reinstatement of a corporation's articles of incorporation in accordance with section 1702.06, 1702.59, or 1724.06 of the Revised Code, the rights, privileges, and franchises, including all real or personal property rights and credits and all contract and other rights, of the corporation existing at the time its articles of incorporation were canceled shall be f...

...er division (B) of this section and the law enforcement officers employed by the municipal corporation, which standards and criteria may include, but are not limited to, either of the following: (a) Provisions governing the reporting of offenses discovered by the police officers employed by the qualified nonprofit corporation police department to the police department of the municipal corporation; (b) Provisions go...

...Whoever violates section 1702.57 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

...ration organized under the cooperative laws of another state or the District of Columbia or a foreign corporation organized under corporation laws of another state, the District of Columbia, or the United States that operates on a cooperative basis. (I) "Handler" means a person who acquires agricultural products under a sales contract for the purpose of processing or reselling agricultural products. (J) "Mark...