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7.__Date authorized.__The date dissolution was authorized; and

 
8.__Effective date.__The effective date of the dissolution.__A
corporation is dissolved upon the effective date of its articles
of dissolution.

 
Sec. B-110. 13-C MRSA §1402, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 640,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, is repealed and the
following enacted in its place:

 
5.__Adoption of dissolution by majority.__Unless the
corporation's articles of incorporation or the corporation's
board of directors acting pursuant to subsection 3 requires a
greater vote, approval of the proposal to dissolve requires the
approval of the shareholders by a majority of all the votes
entitled to be cast on the proposal by that voting group and, if
any class or series is entitled to vote as a separate voting
group on the proposal, the approval of each separate voting group
by a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on the
proposal by that voting group.__The corporation's articles of
incorporation may provide that a proposal to dissolve may be
approved by a lesser vote of each voting group entitled to vote
on the proposal, but in no case by less than a majority of the
votes cast by that voting group at a meeting at which there
exists for each such voting group a quorum consisting of at least
a majority of the votes entitled to be cast on the proposal by
each voting group entitled to vote on the proposal.

 
Sec. B-111. 13-C MRSA §1403, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 640, Pt. A,
§2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, is amended to read:

 
§1403. Dissolution by written consent of all

 
shareholders

 
A corporation may be voluntarily dissolved by unanimous
written consent of its shareholders, whether or not entitled to
vote by the corporation's articles of incorporation proposal to
dissolve may be approved by written consent of shareholders
entitled to vote as provided in section 704. If a unanimous
written consent is given the dissolution is approved by written
consent of all shareholders, whether or not entitled to vote, a
resolution of the corporation's board of directors proposing the
dissolution is not necessary.

 
Sec. B-112. 13-C MRSA §1404, sub-§1, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 640,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, is amended to read:


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