352.080. Changing location--procedure. - Missouri Statutes

Changing location--procedure.

352.080. 1. Every corporation now organized or that mayhereafter be organized under what is known as the benevolent,religious, scientific, fraternal-beneficial, educational andmiscellaneous corporation act through the circuit courts of thestate may change its location from one county to another in thisstate by filing with the circuit court of the county or city towhich it proposes to move, a certified copy of its articles ofassociation accompanied by a petition signed by the personsholding the offices of president, secretary and treasurer of theassociation, or other chief officers by whatever name they may beknown, asking that the corporation be moved and reincorporated inthe county or city to which it wishes to move, with all of itsrights, franchises and properties that it then has. After thecopy of the articles of association and petition are filed withthe circuit court they shall be proceeded with as is provided infiling new articles of association and petition as in section352.020.

2. Nothing herein provided shall be construed to prevent thecorporation continuing in perpetual succession to all its rights,franchises and properties, and liable for all its previousobligations as if no change of location had been made, and itshall enjoy all the rights and privileges as a corporation formedin the county or city to which it moves in the first instance.

(RSMo 1939 § 5441)