Mississippi § 81-9-45 - Petition and decree thereon.
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§ 81-9-45. Petition and decree thereon.
If the petition shall be signed and sworn to as aforesaid, and shall pray that the liquidation of the bank shall be conducted by the depositors and that a liquidating corporation be formed for such purpose, the chancellor shall, by decree on such petition, create a liquidating corporation, not for pecuniary gain, and without capital or capital stock. The decree shall name five directors for the corporation who shall be natural persons chosen by the chancellor from among the signers of the petition, but such signers as may be named as directors in the petition shall be so named in the decree. The decree shall give the corporation a name, which shall include the words, “liquidating corporation,” preceded by the name of the bank to be liquidated. The municipality in which the bank to be liquidated is domiciled shall be the domicile of the corporation. The decree shall be recorded on the book of corporation charters in the office of the chancery clerk of the proper county, and need not be published.
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