2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.1101 - DEFINITIONS.

        490.1101  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Converted entity" means a corporation or other entity
      into which a converting entity converts pursuant to sections 490.1111
      through 490.1114.
         2.  "Converting entity" means a corporation or other entity
      that converts into an other entity or corporation pursuant to section
      490.1111.
         3.  "Governing statute" of a corporation or other entity means
      the statute that governs the corporation or other entity's internal
      affairs.
         4.  "Interests" means the proprietary interests in an other
      entity.
         5.  "Merger" means a business combination pursuant to section
      490.1102.
         6.  "Organizational documents" means the basic document or
      documents that create, or determine the internal governance of, an
      other entity.
         7.  "Other entity" means any association or legal entity,
      other than a domestic or foreign corporation, organized to conduct
      business, including, without limitation, limited partnerships,
      general partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited
      liability companies, joint ventures, joint stock companies, and
      business trusts.
         8.  "Party to a merger" or "party to a share exchange"
      means any domestic or foreign corporation or other entity that will
      accomplish one of the following during a merger:
         a.  Merge under a plan of merger.
         b.  Acquire shares or interests of another corporation or an
      other entity in a share exchange.
         c.  Have all of its shares or interests or all of one or more
      classes or series of its shares or interests acquired in a share
      exchange.
         9.  "Share exchange" means a business combination pursuant to
      section 490.1103.
         10.  "Survivor" in a merger means the corporation or other
      entity into which one or more other corporations or other entities
      are merged.  A survivor of a merger may preexist the merger or be
      created by the merger.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §121; 97 Acts, ch 117, § 3; 97 Acts, ch 171, §
      12; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §65, 125; 2008 Acts, ch 1162, §117, 155