35-14-1322. Appraisal notice and form. (1) If a corporate action requiring appraisal rights under 35-14-1302(1) becomes effective, the corporation shall deliver the written appraisal notice and form required by subsection (2) of this section to all shareholders who satisfy the requirements of 35-14-1321(1), (2), or (3). In the case of a merger under 35-14-1105, the parent shall deliver an appraisal notice and form to all record shareholders who may be entitled to assert appraisal rights.

(2) The appraisal notice must be delivered no earlier than the date the corporate action specified in 35-14-1302(1) became effective and no later than 10 days after that date and must:

(a) supply a form that:

(i) specifies the first date of any announcement to shareholders made before the date the corporate action became effective of the principal terms of the proposed corporate action; and

(ii) if the announcement was made, requires the shareholder asserting appraisal rights to certify whether beneficial ownership of those shares for which appraisal rights are asserted was acquired before that date; and

(iii) requires the shareholder asserting appraisal rights to certify that the shareholder did not vote for or consent to the transaction as to the class or series of shares for which appraisal is sought;

(b) state:

(i) where the form must be sent and where certificates for certificated shares must be deposited and the date by which those certificates must be deposited, which may not be earlier than the date by which the corporation must receive the required form under subsection (2)(b)(ii);

(ii) a date by which the corporation must receive the form, which may not be fewer than 40 or more than 60 days after the date the appraisal notice required by subsection (1) is sent, and state that the shareholder has waived the right to demand appraisal with respect to the shares unless the form is received by the corporation by the specified date;

(iii) the corporation's estimate of the fair value of the shares;

(iv) that if requested in writing, the corporation will provide to the shareholder so requesting, within 10 days after the date specified in subsection (2)(b)(ii), the number of shareholders who return the forms by the specified date and the total number of shares owned by them; and

(v) the date by which the notice to withdraw under 35-14-1323 must be received, which must be within 20 days after the date specified in subsection (2)(b)(ii) of this section; and

(c) be accompanied by a copy of this part.