Sec. 1. (a) In case a majority in interest of the creditors of a railroad company and the majority in interest of the stockholders of such company agree upon a plan for the readjustment or capitalization of the debt and stock thereof, thereupon an agreement as aforesaid, either before or after a sale of such railroad under judicial proceedings, and a purchase at such sale by trustees on behalf of the parties to such agreement, all the franchises and powers, including the franchises to act as a corporation conferred by the charter of such railroad company, pass by such sale and vest in the trustees, together with the railroad and all the other property embraced in the sale. In case any railroad situate wholly or partly within Indiana, or any part thereof situate within Indiana, shall, in pursuance of such agreement, be sold by virtue of any mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, either by foreclosure or other proceedings in law or equity, or pursuant to any power in such mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust contained, or by the joint exercise of those authorities, as provided in this section, the purchaser or purchasers of the same, or their survivor or survivors, or the associates of a purchaser or survivor, may form a corporation, by filing in the office of the secretary of state a certificate, under the signature of the purchasers, survivors, and associates specifying the name of such corporation, the number of directors, the names of the first directors and the period of their service (not exceeding one (1) year), the amount of the original capital, and the number of shares into which such capital is to be divided.

     (b) The persons signing the certificate, and their successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name therein specified. A copy of such certificate, attested by the signature of the secretary of state or the secretary’s deputy, shall, in all courts and places, be evidence of the due organization and existence of the corporation and of the facts in the certificate stated. No sale under this chapter shall be valid unless notice thereof, stating time and place of sale, shall have been published in some newspaper of general circulation in the city of New York, and also by publishing the notice in at least one (1) newspaper of general circulation published in each county in Indiana through which the railroad may run, not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days, at the discretion of the court ordering the sale, immediately preceding the sale.

Formerly: Acts 1861, c.78, s.1. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.74; P.L.1-1989, SEC.17.