An information may be filed against any person or corporation in the following cases:

1. (1) When a person usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises a public office or a franchise within Indiana or an office in a corporation created by the authority of this state.
2. (2) Whenever a public officer does or allows an act which, by law, works a forfeiture of the officer's office.
3. (3) When an association or number of persons acts within Indiana as a corporation, without being legally incorporated.
4. (4) When a corporation does or omits acts that amount to a surrender or forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation.
5. (5) When a corporate franchise was procured through fraud practiced upon the state.

6. (6) When a corporation:

   1. (A) exceeds or abuses the authority conferred upon the corporation by law; or

   2. (B) exercises authority not conferred upon it by law.

      [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-59-1.]

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.12.