Title 23, BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

Sec. 12.5. (a) As used in sections 13 and 14 of this chapter, "health care entity" means any organization or business that provides health care services. The term does not include the following: (1) A hospital. (2) An insurer (as defined in IC 27-1-4.5-2). (3) A pharmacy benefit …

Sec. 13. (a) A domestic filing entity or registered foreign entity shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing a biennial report that states: (1) the name of the entity and, if a registered foreign entity, its jurisdiction of formation; (2) the information required by IC 2…

Sec. 14. (a) Each health care entity that does business in Indiana shall report the following information as part of the report under this chapter: (1) The name of each person or entity that has: (A) either: (i) an ownership interest of at least five percent (5%); or (ii) if the …

Sec. 2. (a) The secretary of state may provide forms for entity filings required or permitted to be made by this article, but, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), their use is not required. (b) The secretary of state may require that a cover sheet for an entity filing…

Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this article and subject to section 5(d) of this chapter, an entity filing is effective: (1) on the date and at the time of its filing by the secretary of state as provided in section 6(b) of this chapter; (2) on the date of filing and at t…

Sec. 4. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a record delivered to the secretary of state for filing may be withdrawn before it takes effect by delivering to the secretary of state for filing a statement of withdrawal. (b) A statement of withdrawal must: (1) identify…

Sec. 5. (a) A person on whose behalf a filed record was delivered to the secretary of state for filing may correct the record if: (1) the record at the time of filing was inaccurate; (2) the record was defectively signed; or (3) the electronic transmission of the record to the se…

Sec. 6. (a) The secretary of state shall file an entity filing delivered to the secretary of state for filing which satisfies this article. The duty of the secretary of state under this section is ministerial. (b) When the secretary of state files an entity filing, the secretary …

Sec. 7. A certification from the secretary of state accompanying a copy of a filed record is conclusive evidence that the copy is an accurate representation of the original record on file with the secretary of state. As added by P.L.118-2017, SEC.5.

Sec. 8. (a) On request of any person, the secretary of state shall issue a certificate of existence for a domestic filing entity or a certificate of registration for a registered foreign entity. (b) A certificate issued under subsection (a) must state: (1) the domestic filing ent…

Sec. 9. (a) A person commits a Class A misdemeanor if the person signs a document that the person knows is false in a material respect with the intent that the document be delivered to the secretary of state for filing. (b) Any record filed under this article may be signed by an …

Sec. 1. Any number of persons not less than ten (10) may voluntarily associate themselves by written articles, to be signed and acknowledged by them before some disinterested person authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds, specifying in the written articles the objects …

Sec. 10. Any and all associations or corporations organized under or having existence by virtue of this chapter shall remain subject to the control of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, and may be, by law, required and compelled to make a report of all its proceedings …

Sec. 2. Such association may be formed, either on the basis of capital stock or by requiring annual membership fees, for the purpose of maintaining boards of trade, commercial or real estate exchanges, chambers of commerce or other commercial organizations, under such name as the…

Sec. 3. Every such association shall file their articles of incorporation in the recorder's office of the county in which such association may be formed; and, upon the expense of filing and recording being paid, the recorder shall record the same in the miscellaneous book of reco…

Sec. 4. Every such association shall, from the time such articles are filed in the proper recorder's office be deemed and held to be a corporation, and shall have and possess all the rights, powers and privileges given to corporations by common law; to sue and be sued; and to ren…

Sec. 5. Every such corporation may, at its discretion, divide its corporate property into shares and designate and prescribe the manner and under what conditions the said stock or shares thereof may be held, sold, transferred, conveyed, voted, retired, cancelled or forfeited. For…

Sec. 6. Every such corporation shall, in the manner specified in its articles of incorporation, elect such officers, directors and agents as may be necessary to carry into operation the objects of its organization. It may adopt and prescribe rules and by-laws for the government o…

Sec. 7. Every such corporation may adopt rules, by-laws and regulations relating to the arbitration and settlement of business controversies and misunderstanding between its members, and may appoint, annually, or oftener, committees to whom such disputes may be referred for settl…

Sec. 8. Any willful violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, by any association or corporation organized under or by virtue of this chapter, shall forfeit all rights of such corporation or association acquired under this chapter, and it may be proceeded against by info…

Sec. 9. (a) This chapter shall not authorize the organization of any banking, insurance, telegraph, mining, manufacturing, warehouse, or transportation company, but any board of trade or other commercial organization organized under this chapter may create and operate among its m…

Sec. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, by complying with this chapter: (1) one (1) or more domestic entities may merge with one (1) or more domestic or foreign entities into a domestic or foreign surviving entity; and (2) two (2) or more foreign entities may me…

Sec. 2. (a) A domestic entity may become a party to a merger under this chapter by approving a plan of merger. The plan must be in a record and contain: (1) as to each merging entity, its name, jurisdiction of formation, and type of entity; (2) the manner of converting the intere…

Sec. 3. (a) A plan of merger is not effective unless it has been approved: (1) by a domestic merging entity: (A) in accordance with the requirements, if any, in its organic law and organic rules for approval of the merger; or (B) by all the interest holders of the entity entitled…

Sec. 4. (a) A plan of merger may be amended only with the consent of each party to the plan, except as otherwise provided in the plan. (b) A domestic merging entity may approve an amendment of a plan of merger: (1) in the same manner as the plan was approved, if the plan does not…

Sec. 5. (a) Articles of merger must be signed by each merging entity and delivered to the secretary of state for filing. (b) Articles of merger must contain: (1) the name, jurisdiction of formation, and type of entity of each merging entity that is not the surviving entity; (2) t…

Sec. 6. (a) When a merger under this chapter becomes effective: (1) the surviving entity continues; (2) each merging entity that is not the surviving entity ceases to exist; (3) all property of each merging entity vests in the surviving entity without transfer, reversion, or impa…

Sec. 1. Any persons, congregation, society, church or any grand or subordinate lodge of Free Masons, or Odd Fellows, or Knights of Pythias, or any grand or subordinate chapter, council or encampment of Free Masons, or Odd fellows, or Knights of Pythias, or any temple or division …

Sec. 10. Such society may, at any meeting, by giving ten (10) days' notice of the time and purpose thereof, change their corporate name; but the name chosen by such society shall not be assumed until a record has first been made of the fact in the recorder's office of the proper …

Sec. 11. The trustees chosen as provided in this chapter, after record of their election or appointment is made in the recorder's office of the proper county, shall have power and authority, as such trustees, to receive conveyances of lands, whether the same be by purchase, gift …

Sec. 12. Such trustees and their successors in office may also acquire and possess personal property for the use of any such society, and may appropriate the same, and the income or interest thereof, and all other funds and incomes in their hands as such trustees, for the purpose…

Sec. 13. Such trustees, to more effectually carry out the objects of their trust, may sell, loan or otherwise dispose of their corporate property; and any conveyance thereof by such trustees, or a majority of them, in behalf of such society, shall vest in the purchaser of the sam…

Sec. 14. When any society within the meaning of this chapter shall have been dissolved from any cause, a majority of the persons interested in the society may revive the same, within five (5) years after such dissolution, by electing a new board of trustees, and making record of …

Sec. 15. The provisions of this chapter shall extend to every society, educational or religious, which, previous to May 6, 1853, had acquired land for the purpose of erecting a house of worship, or other appropriate building, not exceeding five (5) acres, upon condition that the …

Sec. 16. The officers of any society, by whatever name such officers may be designated, elected in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or according to the rules of any such church, society, or order, may, whenever the laws or usages of the same require it, perform the duties o…

Sec. 17. All the provisions of this chapter are hereby extended, so far as the same may be applicable, to any individuals who may unite themselves together for the purpose of receiving donations of lands or purchasing the same for cemeteries. Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.17…

Sec. 18. When such donations or purchases shall be made to or by any such individuals, and a certificate thereof or conveyance therefor, together with the articles of association by which such individuals have become united for such purpose, shall be filed in the office of the re…

Sec. 19. Lands conveyed to the board of county commissioners, by deed duly recorded, for the purpose of a public or private cemetery, shall be held by such board forever in trust for such purpose. Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.19.

Sec. 2. The word "society" in this chapter shall be deemed to include churches, associations, congregations, grand and subordinate lodges, chapters, councils, encampments, divisions, and all other orders enumerated in section 1 of this chapter. Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.…

Sec. 20. In all cases where the donors or donees of any public burying ground shall lay the same off into lots, plainly designated by corner stones or posts, and record a plat thereof in the recorder's office, then persons interring in said burying place shall bury within the lot…

Sec. 21. The donor of a private burying ground, his heirs and assigns forever, shall have the exclusive right of admitting corpses for interment, and shall direct where the same shall be buried; and may grant any right of burial in such ground as shall not interfere with the grav…

Sec. 22. No burying ground specified in this chapter shall pass or be held contrary to the intent or meaning of this chapter by virtue of any subsequent devise, purchase, descent, or conveyance of the donor. Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.22. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.34…

Sec. 3. Notice of the first election of trustees shall be given at least ten (10) days before the election by publication in a newspaper of the county, if any be published in the county, otherwise by posting such notices in three (3) public places in the township where such elect…

Sec. 4. Such society, at the first and every subsequent election, shall appoint a clerk thereof, who shall take, count and make a poll-list of the votes given for trustees; and, within ten (10) days thereafter, shall deposit in the recorder's office of the county where the real e…

Sec. 5. As between such society, the trustees thereof, and all other persons claiming under them, and any person granting real estate thereto, and all persons claiming under him, such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the matters and things therein recited; and as betwe…

Sec. 6. Such trustees shall severally hold their offices until their successors are duly chosen according to the rules of such society; and any society, by a majority vote, at a meeting of one-third (1/3) of the resident members thereof notice being given as aforesaid, may remove…