Nebraska Dissolution Package to Dissolve Corporation
NEBRASKA CORPORATE
DISSOLUTION
LAW SUMMARY
STATUTORY REFERENCE
NEBRASKA STATUTES, §§ 21-20,151 through 21-20,157
There are three ways to dissolve a business corporation in
the State of Nebraska: administratively, judicially, and voluntarily.
This summary addresses only voluntary dissolution.
A majority of the incorporators or initial directors of a corporation
that has not issued shares or has not commenced business may dissolve a
corporation by delivering to the Secretary of State for filing articles
of dissolution that set forth:
1. The name of the corporation;
2. The date of its incorporation;
3. Either that none of the corporation's shares has been issued or
that the corporation has not commenced business;
4. That no debt of the corporation remains unpaid;
5. That the net assets of the corporation remaining after winding up
have been distributed to the shareholders if shares were issued; and
6. That a majority of the incorporators or initial directors authorized
the dissolution.
A corporation's board of directors may propose dissolution for submission
to the shareholders. For a proposal to dissolve to be adopted:
1. The board of directors must recommend dissolution
to the shareholders unless the board of directors determines that because
of conflict of interest or other special circumstances it should make no
recommendation and communicates the basis for its determination to the
shareholders; and
2. The shareholders entitled to vote must approve the proposal to dissolve.
The board of directors may condition its submission of the proposal to
dissolve on any basis.
The corporation must notify each shareholder, whether or not entitled
to vote, of the proposed shareholders' meeting in accordance with §
21-2055. The notice must also state that the purpose or one of the purposes
of the meeting is to consider dissolving the corporation.
Unless the articles of incorporation or the board of requires a greater
vote or a vote by voting groups, the proposal to dissolve to be adopted
must be approved by a two-thirds majority of all the votes entitled to
be cast on the proposal to dissolve.
At any time after dissolution is authorized, the corporation may dissolve
by delivering to the Secretary of State for filing articles of dissolution
setting forth:
1. The name of the corporation;
2. The date dissolution was authorized;
3. If dissolution was approved by the shareholders, then the number
of votes entitled to be cast on the proposal to dissolve; and either the
total number of votes cast for and against dissolution or the total number
of undisputed votes cast for dissolution and a statement that the number
cast for dissolution was sufficient for approval; and
4. If voting by voting groups was required, the information about the
number of votes cast for the proposal to dissolve must be separately provided
for each voting group entitled to vote separately on the proposal to dissolve.
A corporation is dissolved upon the effective date of its articles of dissolution.
A dissolved corporation continues its corporate existence but may not
carry on any business, except that appropriate to wind up and liquidate
its business and affairs, including:
1. Collecting its assets;
2. Disposing of its properties that will not be distributed in kind
to its shareholders;
3. Discharging or making provision for discharging its liabilities;
4. Distributing its remaining property among its shareholders according
to their interests; and
5. Doing every other act necessary to wind up and liquidate its business
and affairs.
Dissolution of a corporation does not:
1. Transfer title to the corporation's property;
2. Prevent transfer of its shares or securities, although the authorization
to dissolve may provide for closing the corporation's share transfer records;
3. Subject its directors or officers to standards of conduct different
from those prescribed in §§ 21-2078 to 21-20,115;
4. Change quorum or voting requirements for its board of directors
or shareholders, change provisions for selection, resignation, or removal
of its directors or officers or both, or change provisions for amending
its bylaws;
5. Prevent commencement of a proceeding by or against the corporation
in its corporate name;
6. Abate or suspend a proceeding pending by or against the corporation
on the effective date of dissolution; or
7. Terminate the authority of the registered agent of the corporation.
A dissolved corporation may dispose of the known claims against it by following
the statutory procedures.
The dissolved corporation can notify its known claimants in writing
of the dissolution at any time after its effective date. The written notice
must:
1. Describe the information that must be included in a claim;
2. Provide a mailing address where a claim may be sent;
3. State the deadline, which may not be fewer than one hundred twenty
days from the effective date of the written notice, by which the dissolved
corporation must receive the claim; and
4. State that the claim will be barred if not received by the deadline.
A claim against the dissolved corporation is be barred:
1. If a claimant who was given the statutory written notice
does not deliver the claim to the dissolved corporation by the deadline;
or
2. If a claimant whose claim was rejected by the dissolved corporation
does not commence a proceeding to enforce the claim within ninety days
from the effective date of the rejection notice.
A claim does not include a contingent liability or a claim based on an
event occurring after the effective date of dissolution.
A dissolved corporation may also publish notice of its dissolution and
request that persons with claims against the corporation present them in
accordance with the notice. The published notice must:
1. Be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation
in the county where the dissolved corporation's principal office,
or, if none in this state, its registered office, is or was last located;
2. Describe the information that must be included in a claim and provide
a mailing address where the claim may be sent; and
3. State that a claim against the corporation will be barred unless
a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after
the publication of the notice.
If the dissolved corporation publishes the statutory newspaper notice,
the claim of each of the following claimants is barred unless the claimant
commences a proceeding to enforce the claim against the dissolved corporation
within five years after the publication date of the newspaper notice:
1. A claimant who did not receive written notice under section
21-20,156;
2. A claimant whose claim was timely sent to the dissolved corporation
but not acted on; and
3. A claimant whose claim is contingent or based on an event occurring
after the effective date of dissolution.
A claim against a dissolved corporation may be enforced:
1. Against the corporation to the extent of its undistributed
assets; or
2. If the assets have been distributed in liquidation, against a shareholder
of the dissolved corporation to the extent of his or her pro rata share
of the claim or the corporate assets distributed to him or her in liquidation,
whichever is less, but a shareholder's total liability for all claims under
this section may not exceed the total amount of assets distributed to him
or her.
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