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The 2026 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 617
NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
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F.S. 617.18033
617.18033 Amendment of a plan of domestication; abandonment.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in the plan of domestication and before the articles of domestication have taken effect, a plan of domestication of a domestic corporation adopted under s. 617.180301(3) may be amended:
(a) In the same manner as the plan of domestication was approved, if the plan does not provide for the manner in which it may be amended; or
(b) In the manner provided in the plan of domestication, except that an interest holder who was entitled to vote on or consent to approval of the plan is entitled to vote on or consent to any amendment of the plan which will change:
1. The amount or kind of eligible interests or other rights, obligations, rights to acquire eligible interests, cash, other property, other rights, or any combination of the foregoing, to be received by any of the interest holders of the domesticating corporation under the plan;
2. The organic rules of the domesticated corporation that are to be in writing and that will be in effect immediately after the domestication becomes effective, except for changes that do not require approval of the interest holder of the domesticated corporation under its proposed organic rules as set forth in the plan of domestication; or
3. Any of the other terms or conditions of the plan, if the change would adversely affect the interest holder in any material respect.
(2) After a plan of domestication has been adopted and approved by a domestic corporation as required by this chapter, and before the articles of domestication have become effective, the plan may be abandoned by the corporation in the same manner as the plan was approved by the corporation without action by its interest holders in accordance with any procedures set forth in the plan or, if no such procedures are set forth in the plan, in the manner determined by the board of directors of the domestic corporation.
(3) If a domestication is abandoned after the articles of domestication have been delivered to the department for filing but before the articles of domestication become effective, a statement of abandonment signed by the domesticating corporation must be delivered to the department for filing before the articles of domestication become effective. The statement shall take effect upon filing, and the domestication shall be deemed abandoned and may not become effective. The statement of abandonment must contain:
(a) The name of the domesticating corporation;
(b) The date on which the articles of domestication were filed by the department; and
(c) A statement that the domestication has been abandoned in accordance with this section.
History.s. 111, ch. 2026-168.