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Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
(a) A corporation may elect voluntarily to wind up and dissolve by
(1) the vote of shareholders taken at a special or annual meeting with notice under AS 10.06.410 to each shareholder entitled to vote at the meeting and stating that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting is to consider approval of voluntary dissolution of the corporation; at the meeting the election to voluntarily dissolve is adopted upon receiving the affirmative votes of two-thirds or more of the shares of the corporation entitled to vote, unless any class of shares is entitled to vote as a class, in which case the election is adopted upon receiving the affirmative vote of two-thirds or more of the shares of each class entitled to vote as a class and of two-thirds or more of the shares entitled to vote; or
(2) written consent of the shares taken without a meeting under AS 10.06.423.
(b) A corporation may elect by approval of the board to wind up and dissolve if the corporation has
(1) been adjudicated bankrupt;
(2) disposed of all of its assets and has not conducted any business for a period of five years immediately preceding the adoption of the resolution to dissolve the corporation; or
(3) issued no shares.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Alaska Statutes Title 10. Corporations and Associations § 10.06.605. Voluntary dissolution by vote or written consent of shares, or by approval of the board - last updated January 01, 2022 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ak/title-10-corporations-and-associations/ak-st-sect-10-06-605/
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