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proposed thereon to the court, in every action or proceeding for the dissolution of a corporation or a distribution of its assets, shall, in all cases, be served on the attorney-general, in the same manner as provided by law for the service of papers on attorneys who have appeared in actions, whether the applications but for this section would be ex parte or upon notice, and no order or judgment granted shall vary in any material respect from the relief specified in such copy, order or judgment, unless the attorney-general shall appear on the return day and shall have been heard in relation thereto; and any order or judgment granted in any action or proceeding aforesaid, without such service of such papers upon the attorneygeneral, shall be void, and no receiver of any such corporation shall pay to any person any money directed to be paid by any order or judgment made in an such action or proceeding, until the expiration of eight days after a certified copy of such order or judgment shall have been served as aforesaid upon the attorney-general.

§ 313. Designation of depositories of funds in order appointing receiver. All orders appointing receivers of corporations shall designate therein one or more places of deposit, wherein all funds of the corporation not needed for immediate disbursement shall be deposited and no deposits or investments of such trust funds shall be made elsewhere, except upon the order of the court upon due notice given to the attorney-general.

314. Application to the court in certain actions and proceedings. All applications to the court shall be made in the judicial district where the principal office of the corporation against which proceedings are taken is located, excepting such applications as are made in actions brought by the attorney-general on behalf of the people of the state, and all such applications shall be made in the judicial district in which the action is triable.

§ 315. County wherein action may be brought by attorney-general on behalf of the people. -An action or proceeding brought by the attorney-general on behalf of the people of the state against any corporation for the purpose of procuring its dissolution, the appointment of a receiver, or the sequestration of its property, may be brought in any county of the state, to be designated by the attorneygeneral.

§ 316. Preferences in actions or proceedings by or against receivers. - All actions or other legal proceedings and appeals therefrom or therein brought by or against a receiver of any of the insolvent corporations referred to in this chapter, shall have a preference upon the calendars of all courts next in order to actions or proceedings brought by the people of the state of New York.

ARTICLE 13.

ALTERATION AND REPEAL OF CHARTER OF CORPORATION.

SECTION 320. Alteration and repeal of charter.

321. Conflicting corporate laws.

§ 320. Alteration and repeal of charter. The charter of every corporation shall be subject to alteration, suspension and repeal, in the discretion of the legislature.

§ 321. Conflicting corporate laws. If in any corporate law there is or shall be any provision in conflict with any provisions of this chapter or of the stock corporation law, the provisions so conflicting shall prevail, and the provision of this chapter or of the stock corporation law with which it conflicts shall not apply in such a case. If in any such law there is or shall be a provision relating to a matter embraced in this chapter or in the stock corporation law, but not in conflict with it, such provision in such other law shall be deemed to be in addition to the provision in this chapter or in the stock corporation law relating to the same subject-matter, and both provisions shall, in such case, be applicable.

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ARTICLE 14.

LAWS REPEALED; CONSTRUCTION; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT.

SECTION 330. Laws repealed.

331. Construction.

332. When to take effect.

§ 330. Laws repealed.

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Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.

See People v. O'Brien, 111 N. Y. 1.

§ 331. Construction. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair any right or liability which any existing corporation, its officers, directors, stockholders, or creditors may have or be subject to or which any such corporation, other than a railroad corporation, had or was subject to on the date when this chapter takes effect, by virtue of any special act of the legislature creating such corporation or creating or defining any such right or liability, unless such special act is repealed by this chapter or the other general laws hereinbefore mentioned.

§ 332. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.

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