(a) If shares must be acquired under Section 33-19-230 or 33-19-231, the professional corporation shall deliver a written notice to the executor or administrator of the estate of its deceased shareholder, to the disqualified person or transferee or to the terminated shareholder, as the case may be (the selling shareholder), offering to purchase the shares at a price the corporation believes represents their fair value as of the date of death, disqualification, transfer, or termination. The offer notice must state that interest is paid on the shares from the valuation date until the date of payment, the rate of interest, and an explanation of why that rate was selected. The offer notice must be accompanied by the corporation's balance sheet for a fiscal year ending not more than sixteen months before the effective date of the offer notice, an income statement for that year, a statement of changes in shareholders' equity for that year, the latest available interim financial statements, if any, and an explanation of how the fair value was calculated.
(b) The selling shareholder has thirty days from the effective date of the notice to accept the corporation's offer or demand that the corporation commence a proceeding under Section 33-19-250 to determine the fair value of the shares. Unless a later date is agreed on, if the offer is accepted, the corporation shall make payment for the shares within sixty days from the effective date of the offer notice upon the selling shareholder's surrender of his shares to the corporation.
(c) After the corporation makes payment for the shares, the selling shareholder has no further interest in them.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 444, Section 2.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 19 - Professional Corporation Supplement
Section 33-19-101. Short title.
Section 33-19-103. Supplement definitions.
Section 33-19-109. Election of professional corporation status.
Section 33-19-120. General powers.
Section 33-19-130. Rendering professional services.
Section 33-19-140. Prohibited activities.
Section 33-19-150. Corporate name.
Section 33-19-200. Issuance of shares.
Section 33-19-210. Notice of professional corporation status on shares.
Section 33-19-220. Share transfer restriction.
Section 33-19-221. Attempted share transfer in breach of prohibition.
Section 33-19-230. Compulsory acquisition of shares after death or disqualification of shareholder.
Section 33-19-231. Option to purchase shares of a terminated shareholder.
Section 33-19-240. Acquisition procedures.
Section 33-19-250. Court action to appraise shares.
Section 33-19-260. Court costs and fees of experts.
Section 33-19-270. Cancellation of disqualified shares.
Section 33-19-300. Directors and officers.
Section 33-19-310. Voting of shares.
Section 33-19-320. Confidential relationship.
Section 33-19-330. Privileged communications.
Section 33-19-340. Responsibility for professional services.
Section 33-19-410. Termination of professional status.
Section 33-19-420. Judicial dissolution.
Section 33-19-500. Authority to transact business.
Section 33-19-510. Application for certificate of authority.
Section 33-19-520. Revocation of certificate of authority.
Section 33-19-600. Annual report.
Section 33-19-610. Rulemaking by licensing authority.
Section 33-19-620. Licensing authority's regulatory jurisdiction.
Section 33-19-630. Penalty for signing false document.
Section 33-19-700. Application to existing professional corporations.