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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) If proposed corporate action requiring appraisal rights under Section 79-4-13.02(a) becomes effective, the corporation must send a written appraisal notice and the form required by subsection (b)(1) to all shareholders who satisfied the requirements of Section 79-4-13.21(a) or Section 79-4-13.21(b). In the case of a merger under Section 79-4-11.05, the parent must deliver an appraisal notice and form to all record shareholders who may be entitled to assert appraisal rights.
(b) The appraisal notice must be delivered no earlier than the date the corporate action specified in Section 79-4-13.02(a) became effective and no later than ten (10) days after such date, and must:
(1) Supply a form that (i) specifies the date of the first announcement to shareholders of the principal terms of the proposed corporate action, if any, and (ii) if such 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 that, as to those shares, the shareholder did not vote for or consent to the transaction;
(2) 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 date may not be earlier than the date for receiving the required form under subsection (2)(ii);
(ii) A date by which the corporation must receive the form, which date may not be fewer than forty (40) nor more that sixty (60) days after the date the subsection (a) appraisal notice is sent, and state that the shareholder shall have waived the right to demand appraisal with respect to the shares unless the form is received by the corporation by such 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 ten (10) days after the date specified in subsection (2)(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 Section 79-4-13.23 must be received, which date must be within twenty (20) days after the date specified in subsection (2)(ii); and
(3) Be accompanied by a copy of this article.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Mississippi Code Title 79. Corporations, Associations and Partnerships § 79-4-13.22 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-79-corporations-associations-and-partnerships/ms-code-sect-79-4-13-22/
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