§ 10A-2-14.31 — Procedure for Judicial Dissolution

Alabama § 10A-2-14.31

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 10A: Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code
• Ch. 2: Business Corporations
• Art. 14: Dissolution
• Div. C: Judicial Dissolution

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REPEALED IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2019-94 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
(a) Venue for a proceeding to dissolve a corporation lies in the county where a corporation’s articles of incorporation are filed, or, in the case of a corporation created by an act of the Legislature prior to the adoption of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or which resulted from a merger or consolidation, in Montgomery County.
(b) It is not necessary to make shareholders parties to a proceeding to dissolve a corporation unless relief is sought against them individually.
(c) A court in a proceeding brought to dissolve a corporation may issue injunctions, appoint a receiver or custodian pendente lite with all powers and duties the court directs, take other action required to preserve the corporate assets wherever located, and carry on the business of the corporation until a full hearing can be held.
(d) Within 10 days of the commencement of a proceeding under Section 10A-2-14.30(2) to dissolve a corporation that has no shares listed on a national securities exchange or regularly traded in a market maintained by one or more members of a national securities exchange, the corporation must send to all shareholders, other than the petitioner, a notice stating that the shareholders are entitled to avoid the dissolution of the corporation by electing to purchase the petitioner’s shares under Section 10A-2-14.34 and accompanied by a copy of Section 10A-2-14.34.

Legislative History

(Acts 1994, No. 94-245, p. 343, §1; §10-2B-14.31; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §149.)