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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.105

  • 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.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
     Same; purchase of business of another corporation. Whenever any cooperative corporation shall purchase the business of another corporation, firm or person or persons, it may pay for the same in whole or in part by issuing to the selling corporation, firm, person or persons, shares of its capital stock to an amount which, at par value, would equal the fair market value of the business so purchased, and in such case the transfer to the purchasing corporation of such business at such valuation shall be equivalent to payment in cash for the shares of stock so issued.