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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 1. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS · Article 6. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS

7-1-756. Duration and dissolution of corporation.

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  1. (a)

    The period of duration of a corporation organized under this article shall be 35 years, subject, however, to the right of its shareholders and the members to dissolve the corporation prior to the expiration of said period as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, and further subject to any longer period of duration as may be specified in the articles of incorporation as originally filed and approved or as thereafter amended pursuant to Code Section 7-1-750.#

  2. (b)

    The corporation may, upon the votes of the shareholders and the members of the corporation, voting separately by classes, dissolve said corporation; and such dissolution shall require approval by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes to which the shareholders shall be entitled. Upon any dissolution of the corporation, none of the corporation’s assets shall be distributed to the shareholders until all sums due the members of the corporation as creditors thereof have been paid in full.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1972, p. 798, §§ 16, 17; Code 1933, § 41A-3417, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1059, § 2.

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