(a) A corporation's certificate of incorporation may be amended without action by the board of directors or shareholders to carry out a plan of reorganization ordered or decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction under a law of the United States.

(b) The individual or individuals designated by the court shall deliver to the Secretary of the State for filing a certificate of amendment setting forth: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) the text of each amendment approved by the court; (3) the date of the court's order or decree approving the certificate of amendment; (4) the title of the reorganization proceeding in which the order or decree was entered; and (5) a statement that the court had jurisdiction of the proceeding under federal statute.

(c) This section does not apply after entry of a final decree in the reorganization proceeding even though the court retains jurisdiction of the proceeding for limited purposes unrelated to consummation of the reorganization plan.

(P.A. 94-186, S. 127, 215; P.A. 96-271, S. 93, 94, 254; P.A. 03-18, S. 15.)

History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 96-271 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “articles” of incorporation with “certificate” of incorporation and amended Subsec. (b) to replace “articles” of amendment with “certificate” of amendment, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 03-18 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision re amendment without board or shareholder action if the certificate of incorporation after amendment contains only provisions required or permitted by Sec. 33-636 and replacing “federal statute” with “a law of the United States”, amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “federal law” with “federal statute”, deleted former Subsec. (c) re dissenters' rights and redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as new Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2003.