(a) A corporation‘s board of directors may propose dissolution for submission to the shareholders.
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-382
Articles of incorporation: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 414-3
(b) For a proposal to dissolve to be adopted:
(1) The board of directors must recommend dissolution to the shareholders unless the board of directors determines that because of conflict of interest or other special circumstances it should make no recommendation and communicates the basis for its determination to the shareholders; and(2) The shareholders entitled to vote must approve the proposal to dissolve as provided in subsections (e) and (f).(c) The board of directors may condition its submission of the proposal for dissolution on any basis.(d) The corporation shall notify each shareholder, whether or not entitled to vote, of the proposed shareholders’ meeting in accordance with § 414-125. The notice must also state that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting is to consider dissolving the corporation.(e) With respect to the corporations incorporated on or after July 1, 1987, at the meeting a vote of shareholders entitled to vote thereat shall be taken on a resolution to dissolve the corporation. The resolution shall be adopted upon receiving the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of the corporation entitled to vote thereon, unless any class of shares is entitled to vote thereon as a class, in which event the resolution shall be adopted upon receiving the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of each class of shares entitled to vote thereon as a class and of the total shares entitled to vote thereon.(f) With respect to corporations incorporated before July 1, 1987, at the meeting a vote of shareholders entitled to vote thereat shall be taken on a resolution to dissolve the corporation. The resolution shall be adopted upon receiving the affirmative vote of the holders of three-fourths of the shares of the corporation entitled to vote thereon, unless any class of shares is entitled to vote thereon as a class, in which event the resolution shall be adopted upon receiving the affirmative vote of the holders of three-fourths of the shares of each class of shares entitled to vote thereon as a class and of the total shares entitled to vote thereon. The articles of incorporation may be amended by the vote set forth in the preceding sentence to provide for a lesser proportion of shares, or of any class or series thereof, than is provided in the preceding sentence, in which case the articles of incorporation shall control; provided that the lesser proportion shall not be less than the proportion set forth in subsection (e).
