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2025 Texas Statutes
Finance Code
Title 3 - Financial Institutions and Businesses
Subtitle E - Other Financial Businesses
Chapter 155 - Bond Investment Companies
Section 155.003. Failure to Make Deposit

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TX Fin Code § 155.003 (2025)
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Sec. 155.003. FAILURE TO MAKE DEPOSIT. (a) A domestic corporation that fails to make the deposit required by this chapter before the 61st day after the date of its organization is considered to have forfeited its charter or certificate of incorporation.

(b) The attorney general shall bring suit in the name of the state to have the charter or certificate of incorporation of a domestic corporation that fails to make a deposit as required by Subsection (a) declared forfeited.

(c) On a finding that a domestic corporation failed to make a deposit as required by Subsection (a), a court in which a proceeding is brought under Subsection (b) shall:

(1) declare the charter or certificate of incorporation of the corporation forfeited;

(2) appoint a receiver for the corporation; and

(3) make equitable compensation for the receiver out of the assets of the corporation.

(d) A receiver appointed under Subsection (c)(2) shall, under the order of the court, distribute to the shareholders the assets of the corporation.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

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