Tex. Business Organizations Code § 4.052

This is the official text of Tex. Business Organizations Code § 4.052, part of Texas’s Business Organizations Code — governs the formation and operation of corporations, LLCs, and partnerships.

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§ 4.052. DELAYED EFFECTIVENESS OF CERTAIN FILINGS.

Official statutory text

(a) Except as provided by Section 4.058, a filing instrument may take effect after the time the instrument would otherwise take effect as provided by this code for the entity filing the instrument.

(b) If the effectiveness of a filing instrument is to be delayed as permitted by this section, the filing instrument may take effect:

(1) at a specified date;

(2) at a specified date and time;

(3) on the occurrence of a specified future event or fact, including an act of any person; or

(4) after the occurrence of a future event or fact, including the act of any person, at a specified date, at a specified date and time, or after the passage of a specified period of time.

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