15A:12-18 - Notice to creditors;  filing claims

15A:12-18.  Notice to creditors;  filing claims
    a.  At any time after a corporation has been dissolved, the corporation, or  a receiver appointed for the corporation pursuant to this chapter, may give  notice requiring all creditors to present their claims in writing. The notice  shall be published three times, once in each of 3 consecutive weeks, in a  newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the registered office  of the corporation is located and shall state that all persons who are creditors of the corporation shall present written proof of their claims to the  corporation or the receiver, as the case may be, at a place and on or before a  date named in the notice, which date shall not be less than 6 months after the  date of the first publication.

    b.  On or before the date of the first publication of the notice as provided  in subsection a. of this section, the corporation, or the receiver, as the case  may be, shall mail a copy of the notice to each known creditor of the  corporation.  The giving of the notice shall not constitute recognition that  any person to whom the notice is directed is a creditor of the corporation  other than for the purpose of receipt of notice hereunder.

    c.  As used in this section,  "creditor"  means all persons to whom the corporation is indebted, and all other persons who have claims or rights against the corporation, whether liquidated or unliquidated, matured or unmatured, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, secured or unsecured.

    d.  Proof of the publication and mailing authorized by this section shall be  made by an affidavit filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

     L.1983, c. 127, s. 15A:12-18, eff. Oct. 1, 1983.