Iowa Code 490.1301 – Subchapter definitions
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As used in this subchapter:
1. “Affiliate” means a person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person or is a senior executive of such person. For purposes of section 490.1302, subsection 2, paragraph “d”, a person is deemed to be an affiliate of its senior executives.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 490.1301
- Appraisal: A determination of property value.
- Articles of incorporation: means the articles of incorporation described in section 490. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Beneficial shareholder: means a person who owns the beneficial interest in shares, which may be a record shareholder or a person on whose behalf shares are registered in the name of an intermediary or nominee. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporate action: means any action taken by or on behalf of the corporation, including any action taken by the incorporator, the board of directors, a committee of the board of directors, an officer or agent of the corporation, or the shareholders. See Iowa Code 490.145
- 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.
- Entity: includes a domestic and foreign business corporation; domestic and foreign nonprofit corporation; estate; trust; domestic and foreign unincorporated entity; and a state, the United States, and a foreign government. See Iowa Code 490.140
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Governor: means any person under whose authority the powers of an entity are exercised and under whose direction the activities and affairs of the entity are managed pursuant to the organic law governing the entity and its organic rules. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Individual: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Interest: means either or both of the following rights under the organic law governing an unincorporated entity:a. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Merger: means a transaction pursuant to section 490. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Person: means a person as defined in section 4. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Record shareholder: means any of the following:
a. See Iowa Code 490.140- Shareholder: means a record shareholder. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a domestic or foreign corporation are divided. See Iowa Code 490.140
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Voting power: means the current power to vote in the election of directors. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Voting trust beneficial owner: means an owner of a beneficial interest in shares of the corporation held in a voting trust established pursuant to section 490. See Iowa Code 490.140
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. “Corporation” means the domestic corporation that is the issuer of the shares held by a shareholder demanding appraisal and, for matters covered in sections 490.1322 through 490.1331, “corporation” includes the survivor of a merger.3. “Fair value” means the value of the corporation’s shares determined according to the following:a. Immediately before the effectiveness of the corporate action to which the shareholder objects.b. Using customary and current valuation concepts and techniques generally employed for similar businesses in the context of the transaction requiring appraisal.c. Without discounting for lack of marketability or minority status except, if appropriate, for amendments to the articles of incorporation pursuant to section 490.1302, subsection 1, paragraph “d”.4. “Interest” means interest from the date the corporate action becomes effective until the date of payment, at the rate of interest on judgments in this state on the effective date of the corporate action.5. “Interested transaction” means a corporate action described in section 490.1302, subsection 1, other than a merger pursuant to section 490.1105, involving an interested person in which any of the shares or assets of the corporation are being acquired or converted. As used in this subsection:a. “Beneficial owner” means any person who, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, or understanding, other than a revocable proxy, has or shares the power to vote, or to direct the voting of, shares; except that a member of a national securities exchange is not deemed to be a beneficial owner of securities held directly or indirectly by it on behalf of another person if the member is precluded by the rules of the exchange from voting without instruction on contested matters or matters that may affect substantially the rights or privileges of the holders of the securities to be voted. When two or more persons agree to act together for the purpose of voting their shares of the corporation, each member of the group formed thereby is deemed to have acquired beneficial ownership, as of the date of the agreement, of all shares having voting power of the corporation beneficially owned by any member of the group.b. “Excluded shares” means shares acquired pursuant to an offer for all shares having voting power if the offer was made within one year before the corporate action for consideration of the same kind and of a value equal to or less than that paid in connection with the corporate action.c. “Interested person” means a person, or an affiliate of a person, who at any time during the one-year period immediately preceding approval by the board of directors of the corporate action was or had any of the following:(1) Was the beneficial owner of twenty percent or more of the voting power of the corporation, other than as owner of excluded shares.(2) Had the power, contractually or otherwise, other than as owner of excluded shares, to cause the appointment or election of twenty-five percent or more of the directors to the board of directors of the corporation.(3) Was a senior executive or director of the corporation or a senior executive of any affiliate of the corporation, and that senior executive or director will receive, as a result of the corporate action, a financial benefit not generally available to other shareholders as such, other than any of the following:(a) Employment, consulting, retirement, or similar benefits established separately and not as part of or in contemplation of the corporate action.(b) Employment, consulting, retirement, or similar benefits established in contemplation of, or as part of, the corporate action that are not more favorable than those existing before the corporate action or, if more favorable, that have been approved on behalf of the corporation in the same manner as is provided in section 490.862.(c) In the case of a director of the corporation who will, in the corporate action, become a director or governor of the acquiror or any of its affiliates, rights, and benefits as a director or governor that are provided on the same basis as those afforded by the acquiror generally to other directors or governors of such entity or such affiliate.6. “Preferred shares” means a class or series of shares whose holders have preference over any other class or series of shares with respect to distributions.7. “Senior executive” means the chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and any individual in charge of a principal business unit or function.8. “Shareholder” means a record shareholder, a beneficial shareholder, and a voting trust beneficial owner.