2015 Tennessee Code
Title 48 - Corporations And Associations
For-Profit Business Corporations
Chapter 23 - Dissenters' Rights
Part 2 - Procedure for Exercise of Dissenters' Rights
§ 48-23-202 - Notice of intent to demand payment.
(a) If a corporate action specified in § 48-23-102(a) is submitted to a vote at a shareholders' meeting, a shareholder who wishes to assert dissenters' rights with respect to shares for which dissenters' rights may be asserted under this chapter:
(1) Must deliver to the corporation, before the vote is taken, written notice of the shareholder's intent to demand payment if the proposed action is effectuated; and
(2) Must not vote, or cause or permit to be voted, any such shares in favor of the proposed action.
(b) If a corporate action specified in § 48-23-102(a) is to be approved by less than unanimous written consent, a shareholder who wishes to assert dissenters' rights with respect to shares for which dissenters' rights may be asserted under this chapter must not sign a consent in favor of the proposed action with respect to such shares.
(c) A shareholder who fails to satisfy the requirements of subsection (a) or subsection (b) is not entitled to payment under this chapter.
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