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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.2712

  • 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.
    (1) After a plan of merger is adopted under section 711, the parent corporation shall execute and file a certificate of merger that sets forth all of the following:
    (a) The statements required under section 701(2)(a) and (d), and the manner and basis of converting shares or memberships of each constituent corporation as set forth in the plan of merger.
    (b) The number of outstanding shares or memberships of each class of each subsidiary corporation that is a party to the merger and the number of shares or memberships of each class owned by the parent corporation.
    (c) A statement of any assumed names of merging corporations transferred to the surviving corporation as under section 217(3), specifying each transferred assumed name and the name of the corporation from which it is transferred. The certificate may include a statement of corporate names or assumed names of merging corporations that are to be treated as newly filed assumed names of the surviving corporation under section 217(4).
    (2) Section 131 applies in determining when a certificate of merger becomes effective under this section.