2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 13 - Corporations and Associations
Chapter 1 - General Corporation Law
Subchapter X - Sale of Assets; Dissolution
§ 286. Directors as trustees of dissolving corporation

  • (a) Upon the dissolution in any manner of any corporation the directors then in office shall be liquidating trustees thereof, with full power to settle the affairs, collect the outstanding debts, sell and convey the property and divide the moneys and other property among the stockholders, after paying its debts as far as such money and property shall enable them; they shall have power to meet and act under the bylaws of the corporation and, under regulations to be made by a majority of said trustees, to prescribe the terms and conditions of the sale of such property, and may sell all or any part for cash, or partly on credit, or take mortgages and bonds for part of the purchase price for all or any part of said property.

  • (b) The directors, constituted liquidating trustees as aforesaid, shall have authority to sue for and recover the aforesaid debts and property, by the name of the corporation, and shall be suable by the same name, or in their own names or individual capacities for the debts owing by such corporation, and shall be jointly and severally responsible for such debts, to the amount of the moneys and property of the corporation which shall come to their hands or possession as such trustees.

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