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...(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 ...

...(A) A copy of the articles or amended articles filed in the office of the secretary of state, certified by the secretary of state, shall be conclusive evidence, except as against the state, that the corporation 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 pr...

...(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 ...

...(A) No officer, director, employee, or agent of a corporation shall, either alone or with another or others, with intent to deceive: (1) Make, issue, deliver, transmit by mail, or publish any prospectus, report, circular, certificate, statement, balance sheet, exhibit, or document, respecting membership rights in, or the activities, assets, liabilities, earnings, or accounts of, a corporation, that is false in any m...

...(A) The members, the directors, and the officers of a corporation shall not be personally liable for any obligation of the corporation. (B) In addition 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 ...

...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...

...at business corporation's becoming a nonprofit corporation upon amendment to its articles or upon adoption of amended articles, as provided by law, shall, upon filing the prescribed certificate in the office of the secretary of state, become a corporation subject to the provisions of, and entitled to all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, franchises, and authority granted by, this chapter.

...(A) Every nonprofit corporation, incorporated 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 stat...

...(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...

...sed in this section: (1) "Qualified nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is established under this chapter and to which all of the following apply: (a) The nonprofit corporation is a tax-exempt charitable organization; (b) The nonprofit corporation has other organizations as members, and at least twenty of its members are tax-exempt charitable organizations; (c) The nonprofit corporation, tog...

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

...a particular type of unincorporated nonprofit association prevails over an inconsistent provision in this chapter to the extent of the inconsistency. (C) This chapter supplements all regulatory laws that are applicable to nonprofit organizations operating in this state. In the event of a conflict, those regulatory laws prevail.

...is state governs all unincorporated nonprofit associations formed or operating in this state. (B) Unless the governing principles of an unincorporated nonprofit association specify a different jurisdiction, the law of the jurisdiction in which the association has its main place of activities governs the internal affairs of the association.

...An unincorporated nonprofit association may acquire, hold, encumber, or transfer in its name an estate or interest in real or personal property. An unincorporated nonprofit association may be a legatee, a devisee, or a beneficiary of a trust or contract. All property acquired by an unincorporated nonprofit association by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise shall be the absolute property of the associa...

...ther liability of an unincorporated nonprofit association, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, is solely the debt, obligation, or other liability of the association and does not become the debt, obligation, or other liability of a member or manager solely because the member acts as a member or the manager acts as a manager. A person's status as a member or a manager of an unincorporated nonprofit ...

...An unincorporated nonprofit association has the capacity to sue and be sued in its own name. A member or a manager of an unincorporated nonprofit association may assert a claim that the member or manager has against the association. An unincorporated nonprofit association may assert a claim that it has against a member or a manager of the association.

... or in equity, of any unincorporated nonprofit association shall be subject to judgment, execution, and other process. A money judgment against an unincorporated nonprofit association shall be enforced only against the association as an entity and shall not be enforceable against the property of any manager or member of the association.

...(A) An unincorporated nonprofit association may file in the office of the secretary of state a statement appointing an agent authorized to receive service of process. The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnersh...

...roceeding against an unincorporated nonprofit association, a summons and complaint or other process may be served on an agent authorized by appointment to receive service of process or a manager of the association or in any other manner authorized by the law of this state.

...roceeding against an unincorporated nonprofit association does not abate merely because of a change in its members or managers.

... an action against an unincorporated nonprofit association brought in this state shall be determined under the statutes applicable to an action brought in this state against a nonprofit corporation.

...A member of an unincorporated nonprofit association is not an agent of the association solely by reason of being a member.