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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Business Organizations Code § 21.502: CERTAIN PROCEDURES RELATING TO WINDING UP.

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  1. BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS CODE
  2. TITLE 2. CORPORATIONS
  3. CHAPTER 21. FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS
  4. SUBCHAPTER K. WINDING UP AND TERMINATION

To approve a voluntary winding up, a reinstatement, a cancellation of an event requiring winding up, or a revocation of a voluntary decision to wind up, a corporation must follow one of the following procedures:

(1) all shareholders of the corporation must consent in writing to the winding up, the reinstatement, the cancellation of an event requiring winding up, or the revocation of a voluntary decision to wind up the corporation;

(2) if the corporation has not commenced business and has not issued any shares, a majority of the organizers or the board of directors of the corporation must adopt a resolution to wind up, to reinstate, to cancel an event requiring winding up, or to revoke a voluntary decision to wind up; or

(3)(A) the board of directors of the corporation must adopt a resolution:

(i) recommending the winding up, reinstatement, cancellation of an event requiring winding up, or revocation of a voluntary decision to wind up the corporation; and

(ii) directing that the winding up, reinstatement, cancellation of an event requiring winding up, or revocation of a voluntary decision to wind up the corporation be submitted to the shareholders for approval at an annual or special meeting of shareholders; and

(B) the shareholders must approve the action described by Paragraph (A) in accordance with Section 21.503.

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.

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