2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 12 - Corporations and Associations
RS 12:1-1406 - Known claims against dissolved corporation

LA Rev Stat § 12:1-1406 What's This?

§1-1406. Known claims against dissolved corporation

A. A dissolved corporation may dispose of the known claims against it by notifying its known claimants in writing of the dissolution at any time after its effective date.

B. The written notice must do all of the following:

(1) Describe information that must be included in a claim.

(2) Provide a mailing address where a claim may be sent.

(3) State the deadline, which may not be fewer than one hundred and twenty days from the effective date of the written notice, by which the dissolved corporation must receive the claim.

(4) State that the claim will be extinguished by peremption if not received by the deadline.

C. A claim against the dissolved corporation is perempted by either of the following:

(1) If a claimant who was given written notice under Subsection B of this Section does not deliver the claim to the dissolved corporation by the deadline.

(2) If a claimant whose claim was rejected by the dissolved corporation does not commence a proceeding to enforce the claim by the deadline stated in the rejection notice for the commencement of an enforcement proceeding, which may not be fewer than ninety days after the effective date of the rejection notice.

D. For purposes of this Section, "claim" does not include a contingent liability or a claim based on an event occurring after the effective date of dissolution.

Acts 2014, No. 328, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

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