LD 1539
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permitted by the laws under which the corporation or other eligible
entity is organized or governed.

 
3. Share exchange not contemplated in organic law. If the
organic law of a domestic unincorporated eligible entity does not
provide procedures for the approval of a share exchange, a plan
of share exchange may be adopted and approved and the share
exchange effectuated in accordance with the procedures, if any,
for a merger. If the organic law of a domestic unincorporated
eligible entity does not provide procedures for the approval of
either a share exchange or a merger, a plan of share exchange may
be adopted and approved, the share exchange effectuated and
appraisal rights exercised in accordance with the procedures in
this chapter and chapter 13. For the purposes of applying this
chapter and chapter 13:

 
A. The unincorporated eligible entity, its members or
interest holders, eligible interests and organic documents
taken together are deemed to be a domestic business
corporation, shareholders, shares and articles of
incorporation, respectively and vice versa as the context
may require; and

 
B. If the business and affairs of the unincorporated
eligible entity are managed by a group of persons that is
not identical to the members or interest holders, that group
is deemed to be the board of directors.

 
4. Plan of share exchange. A plan of share exchange must
include:

 
A. The name of each corporation or other eligible entity
whose shares or eligible interests will be acquired and the
name of the corporation or other eligible entity that will
acquire those shares or eligible interests;

 
B. The terms and conditions of the share exchange;

 
C. The manner and basis of exchanging shares of a
corporation or eligible interests in an other eligible
entity whose shares or eligible interests will be acquired
under the share exchange into shares or, other securities,
eligible interests, obligations, rights to acquire shares
or, other securities or eligible interests, cash or other
property or any combination thereof; and

 
D. Any other provisions required by the laws under which
any party to the share exchange is organized, or by the
articles of incorporation or organic documents of any such
party.


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