§ 34-17-1-1 Cases involving persons or corporations

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34-17-1-1 Cases involving persons or corporations

    Sec. 1. An information may be filed against any person or corporation in the following cases:

    (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) Whenever a public officer does or allows an act which, by law, works a forfeiture of the officer's office.

    (3) When an association or number of persons acts within Indiana as a corporation, without being legally incorporated.

    (4) When a corporation does or omits acts that amount to a surrender or forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation.

    (5) When a corporate franchise was procured through fraud practiced upon the state.

    (6) When a corporation:

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

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