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MO Rev Stat § 351.1198 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1198 - Discontinuance of involuntary dissolution.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1198. Discontinuance of involuntary dissolution. — The involuntary or supervised voluntary dissolution of a cooperative may be discontinued at any time during the dissolution proceedings if it is established that cause for dissolution does not exist. The court shall dismiss the proceedings and direct the receiver, if any, to redeliver to the cooperative its remaining property and assets. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1201 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1201 - Court order of dissolution, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1201. Court order of dissolution, when. — 1. In an involuntary or supervised voluntary dissolution, after the costs and expenses of the proceedings and all debts, obligations, and liabilities of the cooperative have been paid or discharged and the remaining property and assets have been distributed to its members or if its property and assets are not sufficient to satisfy and discharge the costs, expenses, debts, obligations, and liabilities, when all the property and assets have been applied so far as they will go to their payment according to their priorities, the court shall enter an order dissolving the cooperative.  2. When the order dissolving the cooperative has been entered, the cooperative shall be dissolved. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1204 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1204 - Certified copy of dissolution to be filed.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1204. Certified copy of dissolution to be filed. — After the court enters an order dissolving a cooperative, the court administrator shall cause a certified copy of the dissolution order to be filed with the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall not charge a fee for filing the dissolution order. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1207 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1207 - Creditor claims after dissolution forever barred.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1207. Creditor claims after dissolution forever barred. — 1. A person who is or becomes a creditor or claimant before, during, or following the conclusion of dissolution proceedings who does not file a claim or pursue a remedy in a legal, administrative, or arbitration proceeding during the pendency of the dissolution proceeding or has not initiated a legal, administrative, or arbitration proceeding before the commencement of the dissolution proceedings, all those claiming through or under the creditor or claimant are forever barred from suing on that claim or otherwise realizing upon or enforcing it, except as provided in this section.  2. Debts, obligations, and liabilities incurred during dissolution proceedings shall be paid or provided for by the cooperative before the distribution of assets to a member. A person to whom this kind of debt, obligation, or liability is owed but is not paid may pursue any remedy against the offenders, directors, or members of the cooperative before the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. This subsection shall not apply to dissolution under the supervision or order of a court. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1210 - Claims against dissolved cooperative, former officers, directors, and members may defend.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1210. Claims against dissolved cooperative, former officers, directors, and members may defend. — After a cooperative has been dissolved, any of its former officers, directors, or members may assert or defend, in the name of the cooperative, a claim by or against the cooperative. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1216 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1216 - Notice deemed given, when — electronic communications, consent given, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1216. Notice deemed given, when — electronic communications, consent given, when. — 1. Any notice to members given by the cooperative under any provision of sections 351.1000 to 351.1228, the articles, or the bylaws may be given in any of the following forms, and such notice is deemed given:  (1) If by facsimile communication, when directed to a telephone number at which the member has consented to receive notice;  (2) If by electronic mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the member has consented to receive notice;  (3) If by a posting on an electronic network on which the member has consented to receive notice, together with separate notice to the member of the specific posting, upon the later of:  (a) The posting; and  (b) The giving of the separate notice;  (4) If by any other form of electronic communication by which the member has consented to receive notice, when directed to the member;  (5) If by United States mail, then when placed in the mail and directed to the address shown as the last known address of the member in the records of the cooperative; and  (6) If by overnight courier service, then when delivered to the courier service and directed to the address shown as the last known address of the member in the records of the cooperative.  2. For any notice which is required to be given to a director under sections 351.1000 to 351.1228, such notice may be given in any method as set forth in subsection 1 of this section upon such director consenting to such director's receipt of notice in such manner.  3. For a member that is a business entity, notice mailed or delivered by an alternative method under subsection 1 of this section shall be to an officer of the entity.  4. An affidavit of the secretary, other authorized officer, or authorized agent of the cooperative that the notice has been given by a form of electronic communication is, in the absence of fraud, prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the affidavit.  5. Consent by a member to notice given by electronic communication may be given in writing or by authenticated electronic communication. The cooperative shall be entitled to rely on any consent so given until revoked by the member provided that no revocation affects the validity of any notice given before receipt by the cooperative of revocation of the consent.  6. Unless otherwise stated herein, all notices shall be deemed effective when given.  7. Failure of a member to receive a special or regular members' meeting notice shall not invalidate an action taken by the members at a members' meeting. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1219 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1219 - Cooperative not deemed a franchise.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1219. Cooperative not deemed a franchise. — A cooperative formed under and operating in compliance with sections 351.1000 to 351.1228 shall not be deemed or construed to be a franchise under the laws of the state of Missouri. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1222 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1222 - Records and signatures — definitions — legal effect of.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1222. Records and signatures — definitions — legal effect of. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:  (1) "Electronic", relating to technology, having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities;  (2) "Electronic record", a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means;  (3) "Electronic signature", an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record;  (4) "Record", information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form;  (5) "Signed", the signature of a person that has been written on a document, and with respect to a document required by sections 351.1000 to 351.1228 to be filed with the secretary of state, a document that has been signed by a person authorized to do so by sections 351.1000 to 351.1228, the articles, or bylaws, or by a resolution approved by the board or the members. A signature on a document may be a facsimile affixed, engraved, printed, placed, stamped with indelible ink, transmitted by facsimile, or electronically, or in any other manner reproduced on the document.  2. For purposes of sections 351.1000 to 351.1228:  (1) A record or signature shall not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form;  (2) A contract shall not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation;  (3) If a provision requires a record to be in writing, an electronic record satisfies the requirement; and  (4) If a provision requires a signature, an electronic signature satisfies the requirement. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1225 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1225 - Amendments and repeal of act, state reserves right of.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1225. Amendments and repeal of act, state reserves right of. — The state reserves the right to amend or repeal the provisions of sections 351.1000 to 351.1228 by law. A cooperative organized or governed by sections 351.1000 to 351.1228 is subject to this reserved right. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1227 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1227 - Additional powers of secretary of state — rulemaking authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1227. Additional powers of secretary of state — rulemaking authority. — The secretary of state shall have further power and authority as is reasonably necessary to enable the secretary of state to administer this chapter efficiently and to perform the duties therein imposed upon the secretary of state. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly under chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2011, shall be invalid and void. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 351.1228 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 351 - General and Business Corporations|Section 351.1228 - Filing fees, determined by secretary of state.

Effective - 28 Aug 2011   351.1228. Filing fees, determined by secretary of state. — Unless otherwise provided, the filing fee for documents filed under sections 351.1000 to 351.1228 shall be determined by the secretary of state. ­­-------- (L. 2011 S.B. 366)
MO Rev Stat § 352.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.010 - Incorporation of benevolent associations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.010. Incorporation of benevolent associations. — Any number of persons not less than three, who shall have associated themselves by articles of agreement in writing, as a society, company, association or organization formed for benevolent, religious, scientific, fraternal-beneficial, or educational purposes, may be consolidated and united into a corporation. Such articles of agreement may be organic regulations, or a constitution, or other form of association, and any corporate name, not already assumed by another corporation, may be chosen as the title of the corporation; provided, always, that the purpose and scope of the association be clearly and fully set forth. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5436)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4996; 1919 § 10264; 1909 § 3432  CROSS REFERENCE:  Firemen's pension and relief association, who may form, 87.495
MO Rev Stat § 352.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.020 - Character of associations which may incorporate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.020. Character of associations which may incorporate. — Any association formed for benevolent purposes, including any purely charitable society, hospital, asylum, house of refuge, reformatory and eleemosynary institution, fraternal-beneficial associations, or any association whose object is to promote temperance or other virtue conducive to the well-being of the community, and, generally, any association formed to provide for some good in the order of benevolence, that is useful to the public, may become a body corporate and politic under this chapter; any association, congregation, society or church organization formed for religious purposes, and any association formed to provide or maintain a cemetery; any school, college, institute, academy or other association formed for educational or scientific purposes, including therein any association formed specially to promote literature, history, science, information or skill among the learned professions, intellectual culture in any branch or department, or the establishing of a museum, library, art gallery, or the erection of a public monument, and in general, any association, society, company or organization which tends to the public advantage in relation to any or several of the objects above enumerated, and whatever is incident to such objects, may be created a body corporate and politic by complying with sections 352.010 and 352.060. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5439)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4999; 1919 § 10267; 1909 § 3435
MO Rev Stat § 352.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.030 - May be formed to execute trusts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.030. May be formed to execute trusts. — Corporations may be formed, under the provisions of this chapter, to execute any trust the purpose whereof is within the purview of this chapter, and may receive and take, by deed or devise, in their corporate capacity, any property, real and personal, for the uses and purposes of such trust, and execute the trust so created. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5443)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5002; 1919 § 10270; 1909 § 3438
MO Rev Stat § 352.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.050 - What associations not to incorporate under this chapter — company formed to erect building for use of society, may incorporate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.050. What associations not to incorporate under this chapter — company formed to erect building for use of society, may incorporate. — No association, society or company formed for manufacturing, agricultural or business purposes of any kind, or for pecuniary profit in any form, nor any corporation having a capital stock divided into shares, shall be incorporated under this chapter; provided, that any company formed to erect a building for the exclusive use of a society within the purview of this chapter, without pecuniary consideration from such society, may become a body corporate under this chapter notwithstanding it has a capital stock in shares, and may receive subscriptions to such stock, to be paid in real estate, in money, property or services rendered to such company. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5444)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5003; 1919 § 10271; 1909 § 3439
MO Rev Stat § 352.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.060 - Incorporation — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.060. Incorporation — procedure. — 1. The persons holding the offices respectively of president, secretary and treasurer of the association, or other chief officers, by whatever name they may be known, shall submit to the circuit court having jurisdiction in the city or county where such association is located, the articles of agreement, with the petition praying for a pro forma decree thereon.  2. If the court shall be of the opinion that such articles of agreement and the purposes of the association come properly within the purview of this chapter, and are not inconsistent with the constitution or laws of the United States, or of this state, the court shall enter of record an order to that effect, a certified copy of which order shall, by the clerk, be endorsed upon or attached to said articles. But no such order shall be made until such petition shall have remained on file in the clerk's office of said court for at least three days after said petition shall have been presented to the court; and whenever the judge to whom such petition shall have been presented shall entertain any doubt as to the lawfulness or public usefulness of the proposed corporation, it shall be his duty to appoint some competent attorney, as a friend of the court, whose duty it shall be to examine said petition and show cause, if any there be, on some day to be fixed by the court, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, and said attorney shall not be confined in his examination to said petition and articles of association, but may introduce such testimony as may be available and proper in order to fully disclose the true purposes of the association; and upon the hearing thereof, the court shall make such further order granting or dismissing said petition as to it may seem best, and upon the granting of such petition, the petitioners shall cause the articles of agreement, with the certificate aforesaid, to be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which the association is located, and then filed in the office of the secretary of state.  3. The secretary of state shall issue to the petitioners a certified copy of such articles of agreement, with the several certificates thereon as filed in his office, which certified copy shall be the charter of incorporation; and thereupon the petitioners, their associates and successors, shall be created and be a body corporate and politic, by the corporate name designated in such charter, and such charter, together with this chapter, shall be received in all courts and places as legal evidence of the incorporation of such association. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5437)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4997; 1919 § 10265; 1909 § 3433
MO Rev Stat § 352.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.070 - Amendment of charter.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.070. Amendment of charter. — Any corporation formed under this chapter or any existing corporation formed for benevolent, religious, scientific or educational purposes, may amend its charter in any matter germane to such charter, by submitting the proposed amendment to the circuit court, and in other respects proceeding as required in section 352.060 for the original articles of agreement. And upon the issuing of a certified copy of such amendment by the secretary of state, such amendment shall become and be part of the charter of such corporation, with like effect and validity as though originally incorporated in such charter. Any such corporation may, without losing its personal identity, change its corporate name as an amendment to its charter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5440)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5000; 1919 § 10268; 1909 § 3436
MO Rev Stat § 352.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.080 - Changing location — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.080. Changing location — procedure. — 1. Every corporation now organized or that may hereafter be organized under what is known as the benevolent, religious, scientific, fraternal-beneficial, educational and miscellaneous corporation act through the circuit courts of the state may change its location from one county to another in this state by filing with the circuit court of the county or city to which it proposes to move, a certified copy of its articles of association accompanied by a petition signed by the persons holding the offices of president, secretary and treasurer of the association, or other chief officers by whatever name they may be known, asking that the corporation be moved and reincorporated in the county or city to which it wishes to move, with all of its rights, franchises and properties that it then has. After the copy of the articles of association and petition are filed with the circuit court they shall be proceeded with as is provided in filing new articles of association and petition as in section 352.020.  2. Nothing herein provided shall be construed to prevent the corporation continuing in perpetual succession to all its rights, franchises and properties, and liable for all its previous obligations as if no change of location had been made, and it shall enjoy all the rights and privileges as a corporation formed in the county or city to which it moves in the first instance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5441)
MO Rev Stat § 352.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.090 - Incorporated association may become fraternal benefit society.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.090. Incorporated association may become fraternal benefit society. — Any such society, order or association heretofore or hereafter incorporated under the provisions of the laws of this state may avail itself of the benefits of chapter 378 by amending its constitution or articles of association or reincorporating thereunder, or by an amended constitution or amended articles of association in the manner prescribed by this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5438)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4998; 1919 § 10266; 1909 § 3434
MO Rev Stat § 352.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 352 - Religious and Charitable Associations — Charitable Gift Annuities|Section 352.100 - Record kept.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   352.100. Record kept. — Every corporation formed under this chapter shall keep a fair record of all its proceedings, which record shall be open, at all reasonable hours, to the inspection of all its members. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5445)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5004; 1919 § 10272; 1909 § 3440