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representative who is legally competent to receive them shall be reduced to cash subject to known trust restrictions and deposited with the unclaimed property division of the department of revenue for safekeeping. B. Notwithstanding subsection A, in the discretion of the unclaimed property division of the department of revenue property may be received and held in kind. C. If the creditor, claimant, member or legal representative who is legally competent to receive the distributive portion furnishes satisfactory proof of entitlement to the amount deposited or property held in kind, the unclaimed property division of the department of revenue shall pay the creditor, member or legal representative that amount or property. Title 10, Chapter 38 FOREIGN CORPORATIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS Article 1 Grant of Authority 10-11501. Authority to conduct affairs required A. A foreign corporation shall not conduct affairs in this state until it is granted authority to transact business in this state as provided in this chapter from the commission. B. The following activities, among others, do not constitute conducting affairs within the meaning of subsection A: 1. Maintaining, defending or settling any proceeding. 2. Holding meetings of the board of directors or members or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs. 3. Maintaining bank accounts. 4. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of memberships or securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities. 5. Selling through independent contractors. 6. Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts. 7. Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages and security interests in real or personal property. 8. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the same. 9. Owning, without more, real or personal property. 10. Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature. 11. Conducting affairs in interstate commerce. 12. Being a limited partner of a limited partnership or a member of a limited liability company. C. The list of activities in subsection B is not exhaustive. 10-11502. Consequences for conducting affairs without authority A. A foreign corporation conducting affairs in this state without a grant of authority shall not be permitted to maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it is authorized to transact business. B. The successor to a foreign corporation that transacted business in this state without a grant of authority and the assignee of a cause of action arising out of that business may not maintain a proceeding on that cause of action in any court in this state until the foreign corporation or its successor obtains authority to transact business. C. A court may stay a proceeding commenced by a foreign corporation, its successor or its assignee until it determines whether the foreign corporation, its successor or its assignee requires authority to transact business in this state. If it so determines, the court may further stay the proceeding until the foreign corporation or its successor obtains authority to transact business in this state. D. A foreign corporation that conducts affairs in this state without authority is liable to this state, for the years or portions of years during which it transacted business in this state without authority, in an amount equal to all fees that would have been imposed by chapters 24 through 40 of this title on the corporation if

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