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17-78-503. Approval of domestication. (a) An agreement of domestication is not effective unless it has been approved:

(1) By a domestic domesticating entity:

(A) In accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic rules for approval of a domestication;

(B) if its organic rules do not provide for approval of a domestication, 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 domestication 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 domestication were that type of merger; or

(C) if neither its organic law nor organic rules provide for approval of a domestication 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 domesticating entity that will have interest holder liability for liabilities that arise after the domestication becomes effective, unless, in the case of an entity that is not a corporation:

(A) The organic rules of the entity in a record provide for the approval of a domestication 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 domestication of a foreign domesticating entity is not effective unless it is approved in accordance with the law of the foreign entity's jurisdiction of organization.

History: L. 2009, ch. 47, § 31; July 1, 2010.