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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law
Subtitle 3 - Corporations and Associations
Chapter 33 - The Arkansas Nonprofit Corporation Act of 1993
Subchapter 17 - Transition Provisions
§ 4-33-1707. Public benefit, mutual benefit and religious corporations
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AR Code § 4-33-1707 (2017)
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- Upon electing to be governed by the provisions of this chapter, each domestic corporation existing on January 1, 1994, that becomes subject to this chapter shall be designated as a public benefit, mutual benefit or religious corporation as follows:
- (1) Any corporation designated by statute as a public benefit corporation, a mutual benefit corporation or a religious corporation is the type of corporation designated by statute;
- (2) Any corporation that does not come within subsection (1) of this section but is organized primarily or exclusively for religious purposes is a religious corporation;
- (3) Any corporation that does not come within subsection (1) or (2) of this section but that is recognized as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or any successor section, is a public benefit corporation;
- (4) Any corporation that does not come within subsection (1), (2), or (3) of this section, but that is organized for a public or charitable purpose and that upon dissolution must distribute its assets to a public benefit corporation, the United States, a state or a person that is recognized as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or any successor section, is a public benefit corporation; and
- (5) Any corporation that does not come within subsection (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section is a mutual benefit corporation.
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