(a) The rights of a dissenting owner terminate if:
- (1) the owner withdraws the demand under Section 10.356;
- (2) the owner's right of dissent is terminated under Section 10.356;
- (3) a petition is not filed within the period required by Section 10.361; or
- (4) after a hearing held under Section 10.361, the court adjudges that the owner is not entitled to elect to dissent from an action under this subchapter.
(b) On termination of the right of dissent under this section:
- (1) the dissenting owner and all persons claiming a right under the owner are conclusively presumed to have approved and ratified the action to which the owner dissented and are bound by that action;
- (2) the owner's right to be paid the fair value of the owner's ownership interests ceases and the owner's status as an owner of those ownership interests is restored without prejudice in any interim proceeding if the owner's ownership interests were not canceled, converted, or exchanged as a result of the action or a subsequent fundamental business transaction; and
- (3) the dissenting owner is entitled to receive dividends or other distributions made in the interim to owners of the same class and series of ownership interests held by the owner as if a demand for the payment of the ownership interests had not been made under Section 10.356, subject to any change in or adjustment to ownership interests because of the cancellation or exchange of the ownership interests after the date a demand under Section 10.356 was made pursuant to a fundamental business transaction.
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.