2023 Code of Alabama › Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code. › Chapter 2A - Alabama Business Corporation Law. › Article 13 - Appraisal Rights. › Division B - Procedure for Exercise of Appraisal Rights. › Section 10A-2A-13.20 - Notice of Appraisal Rights.

Section 10A-2A-13.20
Notice of appraisal rights.
(a) Where any corporate action specified in Section 10A-2A-13.02(a) is to be submitted to a vote at a stockholders' meeting, the meeting notice (or where no approval of the corporate action is required pursuant to Section 10A-2A-11.04(j), the offer made pursuant to Section 10A-2A-11.04(j)), must state that the corporation has concluded that appraisal rights are, are not, or may be available under this Article 13. If the corporation concludes that appraisal rights are or may be available, a copy of this Article 13 must accompany the meeting notice or offer sent to those record stockholders entitled to exercise appraisal rights.
(b) In a merger pursuant to Section 10A-2A-11.05, the parent entity shall notify in writing all record stockholders of the subsidiary who are entitled to assert appraisal rights that the corporate action became effective. The notice shall be sent within 10 days after the corporate action became effective and include the materials described in Section 10A-2A-13.22.
(c) Where any corporate action specified in Section 10A-2A-13.02(a) is to be approved by written consent of the stockholders pursuant to Section 10A-2A-7.04:
(1) written notice that appraisal rights are, are not, or may be available shall be sent to each record stockholder from whom a consent is solicited at the time consent of each stockholder is first solicited and, if the corporation has concluded that appraisal rights are or may be available, the notice must be accompanied by a copy of this Article 13; and
(2) written notice that appraisal rights are, are not, or may be available must be delivered together with the notice to nonconsenting and nonvoting stockholders required by Section 10A-2A-7.04(d) and (e), may include the materials described in Section 10A-2A-13.22 and, if the corporation has concluded that appraisal rights are or may be available, must be accompanied by a copy of this Article 13.
(d) Where corporate action described in Section 10A-2A-13.02(a) is proposed, or a merger pursuant to Section 10A-2A-11.05 is effected, the notice referred to in subsection (a) or (c), if the corporation concludes that appraisal rights are or may be available, and in subsection (b) must be accompanied by:
(1) financial statements of the corporation that issued the stock that may be subject to appraisal, consisting of a balance sheet as of the end of a fiscal year ending not more than 16 months before the date of the notice, an income statement for that year, and a cash flow statement for that year; provided that, if the financial statements are not reasonably available, the corporation shall provide reasonably equivalent financial information; and
(2) the latest interim financial statements of the corporation, if any.
(e) The right to receive the information described in subsection (d) may be waived in writing by a stockholder before or after the corporate action.
(Act 2019-94, §1.)