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2025 Texas Statutes
Business Organizations Code
Title 2 - Corporations
Chapter 21 - For-Profit Corporations
Subchapter E. Shareholder Rights and Restrictions
Section 21.208. Preemptive Right in Existing Corporation
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Sec. 21.208. PREEMPTIVE RIGHT IN EXISTING CORPORATION. Subject to the certificate of formation, a shareholder of a corporation incorporated before September 1, 2003, has a preemptive right to acquire unissued or treasury shares of the corporation to the extent provided by Sections 21.204, 21.206, and 21.207. After September 1, 2003, a corporation may limit or deny the preemptive right of the shareholders of the corporation by amending the corporation's certificate of formation.
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
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Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 64 (H.B. 1319), Sec. 47, eff. January 1, 2006.
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