{"id":1067,"date":"2018-01-01T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesslaw.smithrayl.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:36:48","slug":"indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Business Entity Harmonization: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[March 3, 2018. The General Assembly amended some of the provisions created the Business Entity Harmonization Bill, as discussed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-postscript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postscript<\/a> to this series.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indiana law provides for several types of business and nonprofit entities, each of which is governed by one or more articles of Title 23 of the Indiana Code, all of which require similar filings with the Indiana Secretary of State, and all of which are capable of undergoing transactions such as mergers and conversions into other types of entities. The types of entities and the governing portions of Title 23 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Corporations,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iga.in.gov\/legislative\/laws\/2017\/ic\/titles\/023#23-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article 1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Indiana Business Entity Harmonization: Part I\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Business Entity Harmonization Bill removes inconsistencies in filing requirements and transaction procedures for corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and nonprofit corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,12,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporations","category-indiana-general-assembly","category-limited-liability-companies","category-non-profit-organizations","category-partnerships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indiana Business Entity Harmonization: Part I &#8212; Indiana Business Law Blog &#8212; January 1, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Indiana Business Entity Harmonization Bill removes inconsistencies in filing requirements and transaction procedures for corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and nonprofit corporations. &#8212; January 1, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael R. 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