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  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.001 - Authority Of Secretary Of State
    (a) The secretary of state may adopt procedural rules for the filing of instruments, including the filing of instruments by electronic or other means, authorized ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.002 - Interrogatories By Secretary Of State
    (a) As necessary and proper for the secretary of state to determine whether a filing entity or a foreign filing entity has complied with this ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.003 - Information Disclosed By Interrogatories
    An interrogatory sent by the secretary of state and the answer to the interrogatory are subject to Chapter 552, Government Code. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.004 - Appeals From Secretary Of State
    (a) If the secretary of state does not approve the filing of a filing instrument, the secretary of state shall, before the 11th day after ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.151 - Authority Of Attorney General To Examine Books And Records
    Each filing entity and foreign filing entity shall permit the attorney general to inspect, examine, and make copies, as the attorney general considers necessary in ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.152 - Request To Examine
    To examine the business of a filing entity or foreign filing entity, the attorney general shall make a written request to a managerial official, who ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.153 - Authority To Examine Management Of Entity
    The attorney general may investigate the organization, conduct, and management of a filing entity or foreign filing entity and determine if the entity has been ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.154 - Authority To Disclose Information
    Information held by the attorney general and derived in the course of an examination of an entity's records or documents is not public information, is ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.155 - Forfeiture Of Business Privileges
    A foreign filing entity or a filing entity that fails or refuses to permit the attorney general to examine or make copies of a record, ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.156 - Criminal Penalty
    (a) A managerial official or other individual having the authority to manage the affairs of a filing entity or foreign filing entity commits an offense ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.201 - Lien For Law Violations
    (a) If a filing entity or foreign filing entity violates a law of this state, including the law against trusts, monopolies, and conspiracies, or combinations ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.251 - Receiver
    In a suit filed by this state against a filing entity or foreign filing entity for the termination of the entity's certificate of formation or ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.252 - Foreclosure
    (a) The attorney general may bring suit to foreclose a lien created by this chapter. (b) If a filing entity or a foreign filing entity ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.253 - Action Against Insolvent Entity
    When the attorney general is convinced that a filing entity or foreign filing entity is insolvent, the attorney general shall institute quo warranto or other ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.254 - Suits By District Or County Attorney
    A district or county attorney shall bring and prosecute a proceeding under Section 12.252 or 12.253 when directed to do so by the attorney general. ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.255 - Permission To Sue
    Before a petition may be filed by the attorney general or by a district or county attorney in a suit authorized by Section 12.252 or ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.256 - Examination And Notice
    (a) The judge of a court in which a proceeding under Section 12.252 or 12.253 is to be filed shall carefully examine the petition before ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.257 - Dismissal Of Action
    (a) A suit authorized by Section 12.253 or 12.258 may not be filed or, if filed, shall be dismissed if the entity, through its owners ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.258 - Liquidation Of Insolvent Entity
    (a) A court hearing a proceeding under Section 12.253 against an insolvent entity may, after the entity has been shown to be insolvent, appoint one ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.259 - Extraordinary Remedies; Bond
    The state has a right to a writ of attachment, garnishment, sequestration, or injunction, without bond, to aid in the enforcement of the state's rights ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.260 - Abatement Of Suit
    An action or cause of action for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture that this state has or may have against a filing entity or foreign ...
  • Texas Business Organizations Code Section 12.261 - Provisions Cumulative
    Each right or remedy provided by this chapter is cumulative and does not affect any other right or remedy for the enforcement, payment, or collection ...
  • Last modified: August 10, 2007