La. Rev. Stat. § 6:870
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Powers of liquidating trustees
Official statutory text
A. While acting as liquidators, the board of directors shall proceed as quickly as may be practicable to wind up the affairs of the association and, to the extent necessary or expedient to that end, shall exercise all the powers of such dissolved association and may fill vacancies, elect officers, carry out the contracts, make new contracts, borrow money, mortgage or pledge the property, sell its assets at public or private sale, or compromise claims in favor of or against the association, apply assets to the discharge of liabilities, distribute assets either in cash or in kind among its members or stockholders according to their respective pro rata interests after paying or adequately providing for the payment of other liabilities and perform all acts necessary or expedient to the winding up of the association.
B. All deeds or other instruments shall be in the name of the association and executed by the president or a vice president and the secretary or an assistant secretary.
C. The board of directors shall also have power to exchange or otherwise dispose of or to put in trust all or any part of the assets, upon such terms and conditions and for such considerations, which may be money, stocks, bonds, shares, or accounts of any insured association or of any federal association, or other considerations, as the board of directors may deem reasonable or expedient, and may distribute such considerations or the proceeds thereof, or trust receipts, or certificates of beneficial interest among the members or stockholders in proportion to their pro rata interests therein.
D. In the absence of fraud, any determination of value made by the board of directors for any such purposes shall be conclusive.
Acts 1970, No. 234, §1. Acts 1983, No. 675, §1.
B. All deeds or other instruments shall be in the name of the association and executed by the president or a vice president and the secretary or an assistant secretary.
C. The board of directors shall also have power to exchange or otherwise dispose of or to put in trust all or any part of the assets, upon such terms and conditions and for such considerations, which may be money, stocks, bonds, shares, or accounts of any insured association or of any federal association, or other considerations, as the board of directors may deem reasonable or expedient, and may distribute such considerations or the proceeds thereof, or trust receipts, or certificates of beneficial interest among the members or stockholders in proportion to their pro rata interests therein.
D. In the absence of fraud, any determination of value made by the board of directors for any such purposes shall be conclusive.
Acts 1970, No. 234, §1. Acts 1983, No. 675, §1.
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