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MO Rev Stat § 356.221 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations|Section 356.221 - Merger or consolidation with another corporation, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   356.221. Merger or consolidation with another corporation, when. — 1. A professional corporation may merge or consolidate with another corporation, domestic or foreign, only if every shareholder of each corporation is qualified to be a shareholder of the surviving or new corporation under the laws applying to that surviving or new corporation.  2. Upon the merger or consolidation of a professional corporation, if the surviving or new corporation, as the case may be, is to render professional services in this state, it shall be in full compliance with the provisions of sections 356.011 to 356.261 immediately after the merger or consolidation. Otherwise, that corporation shall not thereafter be subject to the provisions of sections 356.011 to 356.261 and shall not provide professional services in this state. ­­-------- (L. 1986 H.B. 1230)
MO Rev Stat § 356.231 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations|Section 356.231 - Certificates of authority, required, exceptions — foreign corporations may be granted certificates of authority, requirements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   356.231. Certificates of authority, required, exceptions — foreign corporations may be granted certificates of authority, requirements. — 1. No foreign professional corporation shall have the right to transact business of providing professional services in this state until it shall have procured a certificate of authority to do so from the secretary of state. However, no such corporation shall be required to obtain a certificate of authority to transact business in this state solely because it conducts any of the following activities in this state:  (1) Maintaining or defending any action or suit or any administrative or arbitration proceeding directly involving the corporation, or effecting the settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or disputes;  (2) Holding meetings of its directors or shareholders or carrying on other activities concerning its internal affairs;  (3) Maintaining bank accounts;  (4) Borrowing money or creating evidences of debt, mortgage or lien on or other security interest in real or personal property;  (5) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the same;  (6) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not repeated on any type of recurring or regular basis.  2. A foreign professional corporation shall be entitled to procure from the secretary of state a certificate of authority to transact business in this state only if:  (1) The name of the corporation meets the requirements of sections 356.011 to 356.261;  (2) The corporation is organized only for purposes for which a professional corporation organized under sections 356.011 to 356.261 may be organized; and  (3) All the shareholders, at least a majority of the directors and all the officers other than the secretary and treasurer of the corporation are qualified persons with respect to the corporation. ­­-------- (L. 1986 H.B. 1230)
MO Rev Stat § 356.233 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations|Section 356.233 - Additional fee — expiration date.

Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 3 histories   356.233. Additional fee — expiration date. — The secretary of state may collect an additional fee of five dollars on each and every fee required in this chapter. All fees collected as provided in this section shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the secretary of state's technology trust fund account. The provisions of this section shall expire on December 31, 2026. ­­-------- (L. 1994 S.B. 635, A.L. 2001 H.B. 453 merged with S.B. 288, A.L. 2008 S.B. 1150, A.L. 2017 S.B. 95, A.L. 2020 S.B. 631)  Expires 12-31-26
MO Rev Stat § 356.241 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations|Section 356.241 - Foreign professional corporations, application for certificate of authority, contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   356.241. Foreign professional corporations, application for certificate of authority, contents. — The application of a foreign professional corporation for a certificate of authority for the purpose of rendering professional services in this state shall include a statement that all the shareholders, at least a majority of the directors and all the officers other than the secretary and treasurer are licensed in one or more states or territories of the United States or the District of Columbia to render a professional service described in the statement of purposes of the corporation. ­­-------- (L. 1986 H.B. 1230)
MO Rev Stat § 356.251 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations|Section 356.251 - Forfeiture of corporate rights, when — duties of licensing authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   356.251. Forfeiture of corporate rights, when — duties of licensing authority. — The certificate of incorporation of a professional corporation or the certificate of authority of a foreign professional corporation may be forfeited by the secretary of state if the corporation fails to comply with the provisions of sections 356.011 to 356.261 which are applicable to it or if the secretary of state determines or is informed by the licensing authority that the corporation fails or has failed to comply with the requirements of the licensing authority that allow the corporation to practice any professional service as a corporation under sections 356.011 to 356.261. Each licensing authority in this state shall promptly certify to the secretary of state the names of all such corporations that have given cause for forfeiture as provided in sections 356.011 to 356.261, together with the facts pertinent thereto. Whenever a licensing authority shall so certify the name of a corporation to the secretary of state as having given cause for forfeiture of the corporation's certificate of incorporation or certificate of authority as provided in sections 356.011 to 356.261, then the licensing authority shall concurrently mail to the corporation at its registered office in this state a notice that such certification has been made. ­­-------- (L. 1986 H.B. 1230)
MO Rev Stat § 356.261 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations|Section 356.261 - Application of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   356.261. Application of law. — On and after August 13, 1986, the provisions of sections 356.011 to 356.261 shall apply in full to all corporations previously subject to any law which was a predecessor to sections 356.011 to 356.261. ­­-------- (L. 1986 H.B. 1230)
MO Rev Stat § 357.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.010 - Authorization of cooperative plan — purposes — other corporations may convert to cooperatives, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   357.010. Authorization of cooperative plan — purposes — other corporations may convert to cooperatives, procedure. — 1. Any number of persons, not less than twelve, may associate themselves together as a cooperative association, society or exchange, having all the incidents, powers and privileges of corporations, for the purpose of producing or furnishing goods, services, or housing, or for the purpose of conducting any agricultural or mercantile business on the cooperative plan, including the buying, selling, manufacturing, storage, transportation or other handling or dealing in or with, by associations of agriculturists, of agricultural, dairy or similar products, and including the manufacturing transformation of such articles into products derived therefrom, and for the purpose of the purchasing of or selling to all shareholders and others groceries, provisions and all other articles of merchandise.  2. For the purposes of this section the words "association", "company", "corporation", "society" or "exchange" shall be construed to mean the same.  3. A corporation, other than a cooperative incorporated under this chapter, may convert itself into a cooperative, if such corporation can qualify as a cooperative under the provisions of this chapter, by adopting an amendment to its articles of incorporation by which it elects to become subject to the provisions of this chapter. Such amendment shall include all information required by section 357.020 and may include any desirable changes permitted by this chapter. Such amendment shall be adopted, filed and recorded in the manner provided by law applicable to the corporation prior to such conversion, except that the fee for such amendment shall be that amount required of a newly formed cooperative as set forth in section 357.060. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14406, A.L. 1985 S.B. 300)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12748; 1919 § 10247
MO Rev Stat § 357.015 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.015 - Housing cooperative, defined, limitations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   357.015. Housing cooperative, defined, limitations. — 1. For the purposes of this section, a "housing cooperative" means a cooperative incorporated under this chapter, as modified by this section, for the purpose of producing or furnishing housing.  2. Any number of persons, not less than five, may associate themselves together as a housing cooperative under section 357.010.  3. No shareholder in a housing cooperative shall own shares of a greater aggregate par value than twenty percent of the aggregate par value of all shares of stock of such housing cooperative for the purposes of section 357.050.  4. The bylaws of a housing cooperative may provide for the business activities which such housing cooperative is engaged in, and the manner and method of conducting such activities, which may be conducted independently or jointly with any other person, entity or organization for the purposes of section 357.130.  5. Section 357.150 shall not be applicable to a housing cooperative. ­­-------- (L. 1998 S.B. 517)
MO Rev Stat § 357.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.020 - Articles of incorporation — filing — certificate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.020. Articles of incorporation — filing — certificate. — The persons so desiring to associate themselves together shall all sign, and at least five of them acknowledge before a notary public, written articles of association or agreement, which shall contain the name of the said association; the names and residences of the persons forming the same; a statement of the purposes of such association; designation of the city, town, or village, or other place, where its principal place of business shall be located; a statement of the amount of capital stock; and the number of shares and par value of each. When thus signed and acknowledged, the said articles shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds in the county or city in which the principal place of business of such corporation is to be located, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, who, upon receiving the same and the fees required by law, shall issue a certificate of incorporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14407)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12749; 1919 § 10248
MO Rev Stat § 357.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.030 - Amendments to articles — change in number of authorized shares — fees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   357.030. Amendments to articles — change in number of authorized shares — fees. — Any such association may amend its articles of incorporation by a majority vote of its shareholders at any regular shareholders' meeting or at any special shareholders' meeting called for that purpose on sixty days' written notice by mail to all shareholders. Said power to amend shall include the power to increase or diminish the amount of capital stock and the number of shares, but the amount of capital stock shall not be so diminished below the amount of paid-up capital at the time the amendment is adopted. Within thirty days after the adoption of an amendment to its articles of incorporation, such association shall cause a copy of such amendment to be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county or city wherein its principal place of business is located, and a certified copy thereof in the office of the secretary of state. The fee of the secretary of state for filing an article of amendment shall be one dollar, and no increase in the authorized shares of the corporation shall be valid or effectual unless the corporation has paid the director of revenue five dollars for each ten thousand dollars or less of the increase in the authorized shares of the corporation, and the corporation shall file a duplicate receipt issued by the director of revenue for the payments required by this section to be made with the secretary of state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14411, A.L. 1978 S.B. 755)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12753; 1919 § 10251
MO Rev Stat § 357.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.040 - Issuance of common and preferred stock.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   357.040. Issuance of common and preferred stock. — By unanimous agreement persons desiring to associate themselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation to conduct any agricultural or mercantile business for the purpose of producing or furnishing goods, services or housing on the cooperative plan under this chapter may issue both preferred and common stock in such corporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14408, A.L. 1985 S.B. 300)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12750
MO Rev Stat § 357.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.050 - Limit of shares.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.050. Limit of shares. — No shareholder in any such association shall own shares of a greater aggregate par value than ten percent of the aggregate par value of all shares of stock of such association. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14413)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12755; 1919 § 10253
MO Rev Stat § 357.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.060 - Fees for incorporation.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   357.060. Fees for incorporation. — 1. For incorporation under this chapter as herein provided, there shall be paid to and collected by the state director of revenue a fee of fifty dollars for the first fifty thousand dollars or less of capital stock, and the further sum of five dollars for each additional ten thousand dollars of its capital stock. The limitation upon the aggregate amount of capital stock shall be the same as in respect to other corporations.  2. Fees mandated in subsection 1 of this section shall be waived if the association of persons signing the written articles of association and agreement includes a member of the Missouri National Guard or any other active duty military, who resides in the state of Missouri, and provides proof of such service to the secretary of state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14409, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 16, A.L. 2014 S.B. 600)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12751; 1919 § 10249
MO Rev Stat § 357.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.070 - Fees of recorder of deeds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.070. Fees of recorder of deeds. — The fees of the recorder of deeds for any service required by this chapter shall be the same as those now customarily appertaining to his office for similar services. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14412)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12754; 1919 § 10252
MO Rev Stat § 357.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.080 - Management by board — election — removal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.080. Management by board — election — removal. — 1. Every such association shall be managed by a board of not less than five directors, who shall be elected by and from the shareholders, subject to such restrictions and with such qualifications as may be prescribed by the bylaws, at such time and for such term of office as the bylaws may prescribe, and shall hold office for the time for which elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified; but the shareholders shall have the power as herein provided, at any regular or special shareholders' meeting, legally called, to remove any director for cause and to fill the vacancy, and thereupon the director so removed shall cease to be a director of said association.  2. The officers of every such association shall be a president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and treasurer, who shall be elected annually by the directors, and each of said officers must be a director of the association except the secretary and treasurer. The offices of secretary and treasurer may be combined, and when so combined, the person filling the office shall be secretary-treasurer.  3. When any director has been removed for cause, as herein provided, such action shall vacate any office held by him and such vacancy shall be filled from among the board of directors so constituted after the vacancy in such board of directors has been filled by the shareholders as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14410)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12752; 1919 § 10250
MO Rev Stat § 357.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.090 - Election of directors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   357.090. Election of directors. — In the election of directors of such associations, each shareholder, regardless of the number of shares held by him or her in said association, shall have the right to cast only one vote for each director to be elected, which vote may be cast either in person or by proxy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14414, A.L. 1945 p. 77)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12756; 1919 § 10254
MO Rev Stat § 357.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.100 - Business policies — control — vote.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.100. Business policies — control — vote. — Notwithstanding the foregoing provision for the management of the general affairs of each such association by its board of directors, the control of the policies of such association is hereby reserved to and conferred upon their respective shareholders, who shall by direct vote govern the policies of such associations, including their policies with reference to the declaring of dividends, the setting aside of reserve funds, the method of distributing profits, the amendment of articles of association, the increasing and diminishing of capital stock, and other general policies; each shareholder shall be entitled to but one vote, irrespective of the number of shares owned, which vote may be cast by proxy as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14415)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12757; 1919 § 10255
MO Rev Stat § 357.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.110 - Proxies, how voted.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.110. Proxies, how voted. — At any regularly called general or special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of electing directors, a written vote signed by and received by mail or messenger from any absent shareholders shall be accepted as the vote of such absentee. This rule shall apply also to any such written vote of an absentee at any regularly called general or special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of determining the business policies of such association. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14416)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12758; 1919 § 10256
MO Rev Stat § 357.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.120 - Stock, who may purchase.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   357.120. Stock, who may purchase. — Any part or all of the common stock of any corporation organized for the purpose of producing or furnishing goods, services, or housing, or for the purpose of conducting any agricultural or mercantile business on the cooperative plan as provided for by sections 276.160 to 276.230 may be legally purchased and owned in all respects as if purchased and owned by a natural person, by any other corporation incorporated under the laws of Missouri on the cooperative plan, including any other corporation organized under this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14424, A.L. 1985 S.B. 300)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12766
MO Rev Stat § 357.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.140 - Auditing of books annually.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.140. Auditing of books annually. — All associations formed under the provisions of section 357.010, shall keep a set of books showing the business operation of said association, and said books shall be audited by competent auditors once each year; which auditor shall not be a member or stockholder of said association. At the completion of the audit herein provided for, said auditor shall have the right to call a meeting of the board of directors, and explain his report and the financial condition of said association, and a copy of the report of said auditor shall be filed with the secretary and president of the board of directors of such an association, which report may contain recommendations for the proper handling of the business of said association. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14418)  Prior revision: 1929 § 12760
MO Rev Stat § 357.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.150 - Use of funds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.150. Use of funds. — None of the funds of any association organized under the provisions of this chapter shall be used in the payment of any expenses for promotion of any such organization, such, for instance, as commissions, salaries or expenses of any kind, character, or nature whatsoever. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14422)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12764; 1919 § 10260
MO Rev Stat § 357.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 357 - Cooperative Companies|Section 357.160 - Private property exempt.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   357.160. Private property exempt. — The private property of shareholders shall be exempt from execution for the debts of any such association. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14423)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12765; 1919 § 10261