Section 490.1322 - Appraisal notice and form1. If a corporate action requiring appraisal rights under section 490.1302, subsection 1, becomes effective, the corporation shall deliver a written appraisal notice and form required by subsection 2, to all shareholders who satisfy the requirements of section 490.1321, subsection 1, 2, or 3. In the case of a merger under section 490.1105, the parent shall deliver an appraisal notice and form to all record shareholders who may be entitled to assert appraisal rights.2. The appraisal notice shall be delivered no earlier than the date the corporate action specified in section 490.1302, subsection 1, became effective, and no later than ten days after such date, and must do all of the following:a. Supply a form that does all of the following:(1) Specifies the first date of any announcement to shareholders made before the date the corporate action became effective of the principal terms of the proposed corporate action.(2) If such announcement was made, requires the shareholder asserting appraisal rights to certify whether beneficial ownership of those shares for which appraisal rights are asserted was acquired before that date.(3) Requires the shareholder asserting appraisal rights to certify that such shareholder did not vote for or consent to the transaction as to the class or series of shares for which appraisal is sought.b. State all of the following:(1) Where the form shall be sent and where certificates for certificated shares shall be deposited and the date by which those certificates must be deposited, which date shall not be earlier than the date by which the corporation must receive the required form under subparagraph (2).(2) A date by which the corporation shall receive the form, which date shall not be fewer than forty nor more than sixty days after the date the appraisal notice is sent under subsection 1, and state that the shareholder shall have waived the right to demand appraisal with respect to the shares unless the form is received by the corporation by such specified date.(3) The corporation's estimate of the fair value of the shares.(4) That, if requested in writing, the corporation will provide, to the shareholder so requesting, within ten days after the date specified in subparagraph (2) the number of shareholders who return the forms by the specified date and the total number of shares owned by them.(5) The date by which the notice to withdraw under section 490.1323 shall be received, which date shall be within twenty days after the date specified in subparagraph (2).c. Be accompanied by a copy of this subchapter.89 Acts, ch 288, §136; 91 Acts, ch 211, §8; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §83, 125; 2013 Acts, ch 31, §58 - 61, 82; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §104; 2021 Acts, ch 165, § 163, 230
Amended by 2021 Iowa, ch 165, s 163, eff. 1/1/2022.Amended by 2013 Iowa, ch 31, s 61, eff. 1/1/2014.Amended by 2013 Iowa, ch 31, s 60, eff. 1/1/2014.Amended by 2013 Iowa, ch 31, s 59, eff. 1/1/2014.Amended by 2013 Iowa, ch 31, s 58, eff. 1/1/2014.89 Acts, ch 288, §136; 91 Acts, ch 211, §8; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §83, 125Referred to in §490.1301, 490.1303, 490.1320, 490.1323, 490.1324, 490.1325, 490.1331