State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Connecticut > Title33 > Chap602 > Sec33-1178Sec. 33-1178. Unknown claims against dissolved corporation. (a) A dissolved corporation may also publish notice of its dissolution and request that persons with claims against the dissolved corporation present them in accordance with the notice.
(b) The notice shall: (1) Be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the dissolved corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office, is or was last located; (2) describe the information that must be included in a claim and provide a mailing address where the claim may be sent; and (3) state that a claim against the dissolved corporation will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within three years after the publication of the notice.
(c) If the dissolved corporation publishes a newspaper notice in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, the claim of each of the following claimants is barred unless the claimant commences a proceeding to enforce the claim against the dissolved corporation within three years after the publication date of the newspaper notice: (1) A claimant who was not given written notice under section 33-1177; (2) a claimant whose claim was timely sent to the dissolved corporation but not acted on; (3) a claimant whose claim is contingent or based on an event occurring after the effective date of dissolution.
(d) A claim that is not barred by subsection (c) of section 33-1177 or subsection (c) of this section may be enforced: (1) Against the dissolved corporation, to the extent of its undistributed assets; or (2) except as provided in subsection (d) of section 33-1178a, if the assets have been distributed in liquidation to the members of the corporation, against a member of the dissolved corporation to the extent of the member's pro rata share of the claim or the corporate assets distributed to the member in liquidation, whichever is less, but a member's total liability for all claims under this section may not exceed the total amount of assets distributed to the member.
(e) Nothing in this section shall extend any applicable period of limitation.
(P.A. 96-256, S. 123, 209; P.A. 03-18, S. 51.)
History: P.A. 96-256 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 03-18 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), amended Subsec. (c)(1) by replacing "did not receive written notice" with "was not given written notice", and amended Subsec. (d) by adding provision re claim that is not barred by Sec. 33-1177(c) or Subsec. (c), adding exception in Subdiv. (2) re provisions of Sec. 33-1178a(d) and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2003.
