17-78-403. Approval of conversion.

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(a)An agreement of conversion is not effective unless it has been approved:

(1)By a domestic converting entity:

(A)In accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic rules for approval of a conversion;

(B)if its organic rules do not provide for approval of a conversion, in accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic law and organic rules for approval of:

(i)In the case of an entity that is not a corporation, a merger, as if the conversion were a merger; or

(ii)in the case of a corporation, a merger requiring approval by a vote of the interest holders of the corporation, as if the conversion were that type of merger; or

(C)if neither its organic law nor organic rules provide for approval of a conversion or a merger described in subparagraph (B), by all of the interest holders of the entity entitled to vote on or consent to any matter; and

(2)in a record, by each interest holder of a domestic converting entity that will have interest holder liability for liabilities that arise after the conversion becomes effective, unless, in the case of an entity that is not a corporation:

(A)The organic rules of the entity provide in a record for the approval of a conversion or a merger in which some or all of its interest holders become subject to interest holder liability by the vote or consent of fewer than all of the interest holders; and

(B)the interest holder voted for or consented in a record to that provision of the organic rules or became an interest holder after the adoption of that provision.

(b)A conversion of a foreign converting entity is not effective unless it is approved by the foreign entity in accordance with the law of the foreign entity's jurisdiction of organization.