Section 312. Unissued securities and reorganization  


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  • 1. The holders of
      capital  stock  of  such  corporation  shall  not,  as  such,  have  any
      pre-emptive  or preferential right to purchase or subscribe for any part
      of the unissued or new issue  of  capital  stock  of  such  corporation,
      whether  now  or  hereafter  authorized  or  issued,  or  to purchase or
      subscribe for any bonds or other obligations, whether or not convertible
      into stock of such corporation, now or hereafter authorized or issued.
        2. Whenever a compromise or arrangement or any plan of  reorganization
      of  such  corporation  is  proposed  between  such  corporation  and its
      creditors, members or stockholders, the supreme court, by virtue of  its
      general  equity powers, may on application of such corporation or of any
      creditor, member or stockholder thereof, or on the  application  of  any
      receiver or receivers appointed for such corporation, order a meeting of
      such  creditors,  members or stockholders, as the case may be, as may be
      affected  by  the  proposed  compromise  or  arrangement  or   plan   of
      reorganization,  which  shall be called in such manner as the said court
      directs. If, at such meeting, such compromise or arrangement or plan  of
      reorganization  is  agreed  to  by  or  on  behalf  of the creditors, if
      affected thereby, holding two-thirds in amount  of  the  claims  against
      such  corporation,  and by or on behalf of the stockholders, if affected
      thereby, holding the majority of capital stock, and by or on  behalf  of
      the  members,  if  affected thereby, holding two-thirds in amount of the
      outstanding  notes  or  other  interest-bearing  obligations   of   such
      corporation  as  provided  for  in  section  three hundred seven of this
      article, and if such agreement shall be further evidenced by the written
      acceptance of said creditors, stockholders and members,  duly  filed  in
      the said court, such compromise or arrangement or plan of reorganization
      shall,  if  approved by the said court as just and equitable, be binding
      on all creditors, stockholders or members, as the case may be,  who  are
      affected  thereby,  and also on such corporation. All persons who become
      creditors, stockholders or members of such corporation shall  be  deemed
      to  have  become  creditors,  stockholders  or  members  subject  in all
      respects to this section, and the same shall be absolutely binding  upon
      them.  For  the  purposes of this subdivision only, members shall not be
      deemed to be creditors  and  shall  act  under  this  subdivision  as  a
      separate class.