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§ 281. Sale, lease or exchange of assets; consideration

Every corporation may, by resolution of its board of directors, sell, lease or exchange all of its property and assets, including its good will, upon such terms and conditions and for such price, rent or property, which may be in whole or in part shares of stock in, and/or other securities of, any other corporation […]

§ 282. Surrender of corporate rights before payment of capital and beginning business

Before the payment of any part of the capital and before beginning business for which the corporation was created, the incorporators named in the articles of incorporation, or a majority of them, may surrender all their corporate rights and franchises, by filing in the office of the Lieutenant Governor a certificate, verified by the oath […]

§ 283. Dissolution; procedure

(a) If in the judgment of the board of directors, it is deemed advisable and beneficial for the corporation that it should be dissolved, the board, within twenty days after the adoption of a resolution to that effect by a majority of the whole board at any meeting called for that purpose, of which meeting […]

§ 284. Payment of taxes before dissolution

No certificate of dissolution shall be issued under the provisions of section 283 of this title until all taxes, penalties or fees due to or assessable by Government of the United States Virgin Islands have been paid by the corporation and the Commissioner of Finance shall have so certified.

§ 286. Directors as trustees of dissolving corporation

(a) Upon the dissolution in any manner of any corporation the directors then in office shall be liquidating trustees thereof, with full power to settle the affairs, collect the outstanding debts, sell and convey the property and divide the moneys and other property among the stockholders, after paying its debts as far as such money […]

§ 288. Revocation or forfeiture of articles of incorporation; proceedings

(a) An action for any one or more of the following causes, to procure a judgment dissolving a corporation created by or under this chapter, and forfeiting its corporate rights and franchises; or its license to do business within the United States Virgin Islands, if it be a foreign corporation, may be maintained in the […]

§ 289. Filing decree of forfeiture or dissolution

Whenever any corporation is dissolved or its articles of incorporation forfeited by decree or judgment of a competent court, a certified copy of the decree or judgment shall be forthwith filed in the office of the Lieutenant Governor by the clerk of the court in which the decree or judgment shall be entered.

§ 290. Wages; preferred liabilities

In the administration, liquidation or distribution of the property of any corporation upon its voluntary or involuntary dissolution, or upon revocation of its articles of incorporation or forfeiture of its corporate existence, after payment of necessary costs and expenses of preserving its assets, wages or commissions earned by employees or salesmen of the corporation within […]