Texas Business Organizations Code 11.052 – Winding Up Procedures
(a) Except as provided by the title of this code governing the domestic entity, on the occurrence of an event requiring winding up of a domestic entity, unless the event requiring winding up is revoked under § 11.151 or canceled under § 11.152, the owners, members, managerial officials, or other persons specified in the title of this code governing the domestic entity shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, wind up the business and affairs of the domestic entity. The domestic entity shall:
(1) cease to carry on its business, except to the extent necessary to wind up its business;
(2) if the domestic entity is not a general partnership, send a written notice of the winding up to each known claimant against the domestic entity;
(3) collect and sell its property to the extent the property is not to be distributed in kind to the domestic entity’s owners or members; and
(4) perform any other act required to wind up its business and affairs.
(b) During the winding up process, the domestic entity may prosecute or defend a civil, criminal, or administrative action.
Terms Used In Texas Business Organizations Code 11.052
- Business: means a trade, occupation, profession, or other commercial activity. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Domestic: means , with respect to an entity, that the entity is formed under this code or the entity's internal affairs are governed by this code. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Domestic entity: means an organization formed under or the internal affairs of which are governed by this code. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Entity: means a domestic entity or foreign entity. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Property: includes tangible and intangible property and an interest in that property. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- written: means an expression of words, letters, characters, numbers, symbols, figures, or other textual information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002