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Sec. B-87. 13-C MRSA §953, sub-§3 is enacted to read:

 
3.__Extrinsic facts.__Terms of a plan of entity conversion may
be made dependent upon facts objectively ascertainable outside
the plan in accordance with section 121, subsection 10.

 
Sec. B-88. 13-C MRSA §954, sub-§§5 to 8, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 640,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §7, are amended to read:

 
5. Majority approval. Unless the corporation's articles of
incorporation or its board of directors acting pursuant to
subsection 3 requires a greater vote, approval of the plan of
entity conversion requires the approval of the shareholders at a
meeting by a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on the
plan by that the shareholders, voting as a single voting group.
The articles of incorporation may provide that the plan may be
approved by a lesser vote of each voting group entitled to vote
on the plan but in no case 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 plan by each voting group
entitled to vote on the plan;

 
6. Voting groups. In addition to the vote required under
subsection 5, separate voting by voting groups is also required
by each class or series of shares. Unless the corporation's
articles of incorporation or the board of directors acting
pursuant to subsection 3 requires a greater vote or a greater
number of votes to be present, if the corporation has more than
one class or series of shares outstanding, approval of the plan
of entity conversion requires the approval of each such separate
voting group by a majority of the votes entitled to be cast on
the conversion by that voting group.__The articles of
incorporation may provide that the plan may be approved by a
lesser vote of each class or series of shares as provided in
subsection 5;

 
7. Transitional rule. If any provision of the corporation's
articles of incorporation or bylaws or of an agreement to which
any of the directors or shareholders are parties, adopted or
entered into before July 1, 2003, applies to a merger of the
corporation and the document does not refer to an entity
conversion of the corporation, the provision is deemed to apply
to an entity conversion of the corporation until such time after
that date as the provision is amended; and

 
8. Written consent. If as a result of an entity conversion
one or more shareholders of the corporation would become subject


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