2022 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 38 - South Carolina Benefit Corporation Act
Section 33-38-220. Termination of status as benefit corporation.
(A) A benefit corporation may terminate its status and cease to be subject to this chapter by amending its articles of incorporation to remove the provision that the corporation is a benefit corporation governed by this chapter. The amendment must be approved in the manner required by Section 33-38-230. Any sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all, or substantially all, of the property of a benefit corporation, unless the transaction is in the usual and regular course of business, shall not be effective unless it is approved in the manner required by Section 33-38-230.
(B) If a plan of merger, conversion, or share exchange would have the effect of terminating the status of a benefit corporation as a benefit corporation, the plan must be approved in the manner required by Section 33-38-230.
HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 277, Section 1, eff June 14, 2012.
Code Commissioner's Note
At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the reference in subsection (A) to "Section 33-38-20" was changed to "Section 33-38-230" to correct a typographical error.
