Texas Statutes
Subchapter J. Ratification of Defective Corporate Acts; Proceedings
Section 22.508. Certificate of Validation

Sec. 22.508. CERTIFICATE OF VALIDATION. (a) If a defective corporate act ratified under this subchapter would have required under any other provision of the corporate statute the filing of a filing instrument or other document with the filing officer, the corporation shall file a certificate of validation with respect to the defective corporate act in accordance with Chapter 4, regardless of whether a filing instrument or other document was previously filed with respect to the defective corporate act.
(b) A separate certificate of validation is required for each defective corporate act for which a certificate of validation is required under this section, except that two or more defective corporate acts may be included in a single certificate of validation if the corporation filed, or to comply with the applicable provisions of this code could have filed, a single filing instrument or other document under another provision of this code to effect the acts.
(c) The certificate of validation must include:
(1) each defective corporate act that is a subject of the certificate of validation, including:
(A) the date of the defective corporate act; and
(B) the nature of the failure of authorization with respect to the defective corporate act;
(2) a statement that each defective corporate act was ratified in accordance with this subchapter, including:
(A) the date on which the board of directors ratified each defective corporate act; and
(B) if the corporation has members with voting rights, the date, if any, on which the members approved the ratification of each defective corporate act or, if the management of the affairs of the corporation is vested in its members under Section 22.202, the date on which the members ratified each defective corporate act; and
(3) as appropriate:
(A) if a filing instrument was previously filed with a filing officer under the corporate statute with respect to the defective corporate act and no change to the filing instrument is required to give effect to the defective corporate act as ratified in accordance with this subchapter:
(i) the name, title, and filing date of the previously filed filing instrument and of any certificate of correction to the filing instrument; and
(ii) a statement that a copy of the previously filed filing instrument, together with any certificate of correction to the filing instrument, is attached as an exhibit to the certificate of validation;
(B) if a filing instrument was previously filed with a filing officer under the corporate statute with respect to the defective corporate act and the filing instrument requires any change to give effect to the defective corporate act as ratified in accordance with this subchapter, including a change to the date and time of the effectiveness of the filing instrument:
(i) the name, title, and filing date of the previously filed filing instrument and of any certificate of correction to the filing instrument;
(ii) a statement that a filing instrument containing all the information required to be included under the applicable provisions of this code to give effect to the ratified defective corporate act is attached as an exhibit to the certificate of validation; and
(iii) the date and time that the attached filing instrument is considered to have become effective under this subchapter; or
(C) if a filing instrument was not previously filed with a filing officer under the corporate statute with respect to the defective corporate act and the defective corporate act as ratified under this subchapter would have required under the other applicable provisions of this code the filing of a filing instrument in accordance with Chapter 4, if the defective corporate act had occurred when this code was in effect:
(i) a statement that a filing instrument containing all the information required to be included under the applicable provisions of this code to give effect to the defective corporate act, as if the defective corporate act had occurred when this code was in effect, is attached as an exhibit to the certificate of validation; and
(ii) the date and time that the attached filing instrument is considered to have become effective under this subchapter.
(d) A filing instrument attached to a certificate of validation under Subsection (c)(3)(B) or (C) does not need to be executed separately and does not need to include any statement required by any other provision of this code that the instrument has been approved and adopted in accordance with that provision.
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 664 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 39 (S.B. 1203), Sec. 25, eff. September 1, 2021.