Nevada § 82.451 - Voluntary dissolution by directors and members or by directors alone; directors to act as trustees for liquidation and winding up of corporate affairs
Full text of Nevada Nevada Revised Statutes § 82.451 — Voluntary dissolution by directors and members or by directors alone; directors to act as trustees for liquidation and winding up of corporate affairs, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 82.451. Voluntary dissolution by directors and members or by directors alone; directors to act as trustees for liquidation and winding up of corporate affairs
1. A corporation may be dissolved and its affairs wound up voluntarily if the board
of directors adopts a resolution to that effect and calls a meeting of the members
entitled to vote to take action upon the resolution. The resolution must also be approved by any person or superior organization whose
approval is required by a provision of the articles authorized by NRS 82.091 . The meeting of the members must be held with due notice. If at the meeting the members entitled to exercise a majority of all the voting
power consent by resolution to the dissolution, a certificate signed by an officer
of the corporation setting forth that the dissolution has been approved in compliance
with this section, together with a list of the names and addresses, either residence
or business, of the president, the secretary and the treasurer, or the equivalent
thereof, and all the directors of the corporation, must be filed in the Office of
the Secretary of State. 2. If a corporation has no members entitled to vote upon a resolution calling for
the dissolution of the corporation, the corporation may be dissolved and its affairs
wound up voluntarily by the board of directors if it adopts a resolution to that effect. The resolution must also be approved by any person or superior organization whose
approval is required by a provision of the articles authorized by NRS 82.091 . A certificate setting forth that the dissolution has been approved in compliance
with this section and a list of the officers and directors, signed as provided in
subsection 1, must be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. 3. Upon the dissolution of any corporation under the provisions of this section or
upon the expiration of its period of corporate existence, the directors are the trustees
of the corporation in liquidation and in winding up the affairs of the corporation. The act of a majority of the directors as trustees remaining in office is the act
of the directors as trustees. 4. A certificate filed pursuant to this section is effective at the time of the filing
of the certificate with the Secretary of State or upon a later date and time as specified
in the certificate, which date must not be more than 90 days after the date on which
the certificate is filed. If a certificate filed pursuant to this section specifies a later effective date
but does not specify an effective time, the certificate is effective at 12:01 a.m.
in the Pacific time zone on the specified later date.
Source: official Nevada text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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