35-9-205. Compulsory purchase of shares after death of shareholder. (1) Sections 35-9-206 through 35-9-208 and this section apply to a statutory close corporation only if so provided in its articles of incorporation. If these sections apply, the executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased shareholder may require the corporation to purchase or cause to be purchased all but not less than all of the decedent's shares or to be dissolved.
(2) The provisions of 35-9-206 through 35-9-208 may be modified only if the modification is set forth or referred to in the articles of incorporation.
(3) An amendment to the articles of incorporation to provide for application of 35-9-206 through 35-9-208 or to modify or delete the provisions of these sections must be approved by the holders of at least two-thirds of the votes of each class or series of shares of the statutory close corporation, voting as separate voting groups, whether or not otherwise entitled to vote on amendments. If the corporation has no shareholders when the amendment is proposed, it must be approved by at least two-thirds of the subscribers for shares, if any, or if none, by all of the incorporators.
(4) A shareholder who votes against an amendment to modify or delete the provisions of 35-9-206 through 35-9-208 is entitled to dissenters' rights under 35-1-826 through 35-1-839 if the amendment upon adoption terminates or substantially alters the shareholder's existing rights under these sections to have the shareholder's shares purchased.
(5) A shareholder may waive the shareholder's and the shareholder's estate's rights under 35-9-206 through 35-9-208 by a signed writing.
(6) Sections 35-9-206 through 35-9-208 do not prohibit any other agreement providing for the purchase of shares upon a shareholder's death, nor do they prevent a shareholder from enforcing any remedy that the shareholder has independently of 35-9-206 through 35-9-208.
History: En. Sec. 8, Ch. 432, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 199, Ch. 368, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1299, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
