2011 California Code
Corporations Code
TITLE 1. CORPORATIONS [100 - 14551]
CHAPTER 16. Voluntary Dissolution
Section 12631
(a) Whenever a corporation has elected to wind up and dissolve a certificate evidencing that election shall forthwith be filed.
(b) The certificate shall be an officers certificate or shall be signed and verified by at least a majority of the directors then in office or by one or more members authorized to do so by approval of a majority of all members (Section 12223) and shall set forth:
(1) That the corporation has elected to wind up and dissolve.
(2) If the election was made by the vote of members alone, the number of votes for the election and that the election was made by persons holding at least a majority of the voting power.
(3) If the certificate is executed by a member or members, that the subscribing person or persons were authorized to execute the certificate by persons representing at least a majority of the voting power.
(4) If the election was made by the board pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 12630, the certificate shall also set forth the circumstances showing the corporation to be within one of the categories described in that subdivision.
(c) If an election to dissolve made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 12630 is made by the vote of all the members of a corporation with members or by all members of the board of a corporation without members and a statement to that effect is added to the certificate of dissolution pursuant to Section 12631, the separate filing of the certificate of election pursuant to this section is not required.
(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 453, Sec. 31. Effective January 1, 2000.)
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