§ 17-78-403 — Approval of conversion

Kansas § 17-78-403

• Jurisdiction: Kansas
• Ch. 17: CORPORATIONS
• Art. 78: BUSINESS ENTITY TRANSACTIONS ACT

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(a) An agreement of conversion is not effective unless it has been approved:
(1) By a domestic converting entity:
(A) In accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic rules for approval of a conversion;
(B) if its organic rules do not provide for approval of a conversion, in accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic law and organic rules for approval of:
(i) In the case of an entity that is not a corporation, a merger, as if the conversion were a merger; or
(ii) in the case of a corporation, a merger requiring approval by a vote of the interest holders of the corporation, as if the conversion were that type of merger; or
(C) if neither its organic law nor organic rules provide for approval of a conversion or a merger described in subparagraph (B), by all of the interest holders of the entity entitled to vote on or consent to any matter; and
(2) in a record, by each interest holder of a domestic converting entity that will have interest holder liability for liabilities that arise after the conversion becomes effective, unless, in the case of an entity that is not a corporation:
(A) The organic rules of the entity provide in a record for the approval of a conversion or a merger in which some or all of its interest holders become subject to interest holder liability by the vote or consent of fewer than all of the interest holders; and
(B) the interest holder voted for or consented in a record to that provision of the organic rules or became an interest holder after the adoption of that provision.
(b) A conversion of a foreign converting entity is not effective unless it is approved by the foreign entity in accordance with the law of the foreign entity's jurisdiction of organization.

Legislative History

L. 2009, ch. 47, § 25; July 1, 2010.