45:27-9 - Amendment of charter, certificate of incorporation
45:27-9 Amendment of charter, certificate of incorporation.
9. a. A cemetery company organized as a for-profit corporation may amend its charter or certificate of incorporation to operate as a nonprofit lot owner cemetery subject to the provisions of this act provided a plan for the conversion of its issued stock to certificates of interest is first approved by a majority of its stockholders, and by a majority of the owners of interment spaces in attendance at and voting at a meeting called for that purpose. The stockholders shall be given 10 days' notice of the meeting by mail and the owners of interment spaces shall be notified of the meeting by a notice published at least 10 days in advance of the meeting date in a newspaper qualified to publish legal notices and circulated in the county in which the cemetery is located. The notice shall set forth the purpose of the meeting.
b.Upon approval of its stockholders and the owners of interment spaces, the cemetery company shall file a certified copy of the amended charter with the board, and pay the filing fees. The cemetery company, at the same time, shall make any filing required by the Division of Commercial Recording in the Department of the Treasury.
L.2003,c.261,s.9.