1. A corporation may revoke its dissolution within one hundred twenty days of its effective date.

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Terms Used In Iowa Code 504.1404

  • articles: includes amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • board of directors: means the board of directors of a corporation except that no person or group of persons are the board of directors because of powers delegated to that person or group pursuant to section 504. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • 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.
  • Corporation: means a public benefit, mutual benefit, or religious corporation. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • Directors: means individuals, designated in the articles or bylaws or elected by the incorporators, and their successors and individuals elected or appointed by any other name or title to act as members of the board. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • filing: means filed in the office of the secretary of state. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • 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
  • Member: means a person who on more than one occasion, pursuant to the provisions of a corporation's articles or bylaws, has a right to vote for the election of a director or directors of a corporation, irrespective of how a member is defined in the articles or bylaws of the corporation. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • Person: includes any individual or entity. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under section 504. See Iowa Code 504.141
  • 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
 2. Revocation of dissolution must be authorized in the same manner as the dissolution was authorized unless that authorization permitted revocation by action of the board of directors alone, in which event the board of directors may revoke the dissolution without action by the members or any other person.
 3. After the revocation of dissolution is authorized, the corporation may revoke the dissolution by delivering to the secretary of state for filing, articles of revocation of dissolution, together with a copy of its articles of dissolution, that set forth all of the following:

 a. The name of the corporation.
 b. The effective date of the dissolution that was revoked.
 c. The date that the revocation of dissolution was authorized.
 d. If the corporation’s board of directors or incorporators revoked the dissolution, a statement to that effect.
 e. If the corporation’s board of directors revoked a dissolution authorized by the members alone or in conjunction with another person or persons, a statement that revocation was permitted by action of the board of directors alone pursuant to that authorization.
 f. If member or third-person action was required to revoke the dissolution, the information required by section 504.1403, subsection 1, paragraphs “e” and “f”.
 4. Revocation of dissolution is effective upon the effective date of the articles of revocation of dissolution.
 5. When the revocation of dissolution is effective, it relates back to and takes effect as of the effective date of the dissolution and the corporation resumes carrying on its activities as if dissolution had never occurred.