A benefit corporation shall be formed in accordance with article two, chapter thirty-one-d of this code, and its articles as initially filed with the Secretary of State or as amended, shall state that it is a benefit corporation.
A corporation that was not formed as a benefit corporation may become a benefit corporation by amending its articles so that they contain, in addition to matters required by section two hundred two, article two, chapter thirty-one-d of this code, a statement that the corporation is a benefit corporation. Any such amendment to the articles […]
A benefit corporation may terminate its status as such and cease to be subject to this chapter by amending its articles to delete the provision required by section two hundred one of this article to be set forth in the articles of incorporation, which amendment shall be adopted in accordance with the procedures set forth […]