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10A-2A-7.21
Section 10A-2A-7.21 Voting entitlement of stock. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b)
and (d) or unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise, each outstanding share
of stock, regardless of class or series, is entitled to one vote on each matter voted on at
a stockholders' meeting. Only stock is entitled to vote. (b) Stock of a corporation is not
entitled to vote if it is owned by or otherwise belongs to the corporation directly, or indirectly
through an entity of which a majority of the voting power is held directly or indirectly by
the corporation or which is otherwise controlled by the corporation. (c) Stock held by the
corporation in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of any person is entitled to vote unless
it is held for the benefit of, or otherwise belongs to, the corporation directly, or indirectly
through an entity of which a majority of the voting power is held directly or indirectly by
the corporation or which is otherwise controlled by the corporation....
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10A-2A-14.10
Section 10A-2A-14.10 Grounds for judicial dissolution. (a) The circuit court for the county
in which the corporation's principal office is located in this state, and if none in this
state, the circuit court for the county in which the corporation's most recent registered
office is located may dissolve a corporation: (1) in a proceeding by the Attorney General
if it is established that: (i) the corporation obtained its certificate of incorporation through
fraud; or (ii) the corporation has continued to exceed or abuse the authority conferred upon
it by law; (2) in a proceeding by a stockholder if it is established that: (i) the directors
are deadlocked in the management of the corporate affairs, the stockholders are unable to
break the deadlock, and irreparable injury to the corporation is threatened or being suffered,
or the business and affairs of the corporation can no longer be conducted to the advantage
of the stockholders generally, because of the deadlock; (ii) the directors or...
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10A-2A-6.30
Section 10A-2A-6.30 Stockholders' preemptive rights. (a) The stockholders of a corporation
do not have a preemptive right to acquire the corporation's unissued stock except to the extent
the certificate of incorporation so provides. (b) A statement included in the certificate
of incorporation that "the corporation elects to have preemptive rights" (or words
of similar effect) means that the following principles apply except to the extent the certificate
of incorporation expressly provides otherwise: (1) The stockholders of the corporation have
a preemptive right, granted on uniform terms and conditions prescribed by the board of directors
to provide a fair and reasonable opportunity to exercise the right, to acquire proportional
amounts of the corporation's unissued stock upon the decision of the board of directors to
issue them. (2) A preemptive right may be waived by a stockholder. A waiver evidenced by a
writing is irrevocable even though it is not supported by consideration. (3)...
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10A-2A-12.02
Section 10A-2A-12.02 Stockholder approval of certain dispositions. (a) A sale, lease, exchange,
or other disposition of assets, other than a disposition described in Section 10A-2A-12.01,
requires approval of the corporation's stockholders if the disposition would leave the corporation
without a significant continuing business activity. A corporation will conclusively be deemed
to have retained a significant continuing business activity if it retains a business activity
that represented, for the corporation and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, at least
(i) 25 percent of total assets at the end of the most recently completed fiscal year, and
(ii) either 25 percent of either income from continuing operations before taxes or 25 percent
of revenues from continuing operations, in each case for the most recently completed fiscal
year. (b) To obtain the approval of the stockholders under subsection (a) the board of directors
shall first adopt a resolution authorizing the disposition....
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10A-2-10.06
Section 10A-2-10.06 Articles of amendment. REPEALED IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2019-94
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. A corporation amending
its articles of incorporation shall deliver to the judge of probate for filing articles of
amendment setting forth: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) The text of each amendment adopted;
(3) If an amendment provides for an exchange, reclassification, or cancellation of issued
shares, provisions for implementing the amendment if not contained in the amendment itself;
(4) The date of each amendment's adoption; (5) If an amendment was adopted by the board of
directors without shareholder action, a statement to that effect and that shareholder action
was not required; (6) If an amendment was approved by the shareholders: (i) The designation,
number of outstanding shares, number of votes entitled to be cast by each voting group entitled
to vote separately on the amendment, and the number of votes of...
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10A-2A-7.32
Section 10A-2A-7.32 Stockholder agreements. (a) An agreement among the stockholders of a corporation
that complies with this section is effective among the stockholders and the corporation even
though it is inconsistent with one or more other provisions of this chapter in that it: (1)
eliminates the board of directors or restricts the discretion or powers of the board of directors;
(2) governs the authorization or making of distributions, regardless of whether they are in
proportion to ownership of stock, subject to the limitations in Section 10A-2A-6.40; (3) establishes
who shall be directors or officers of the corporation, or their terms of office or manner
of selection or removal; (4) governs, in general or in regard to specific matters, the exercise
or division of voting power by or between the stockholders and directors or by or among any
of them, including use of weighted voting rights or director proxies; (5) establishes the
terms and conditions of any agreement for the transfer...
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11-50A-6
Section 11-50A-6 Board of directors; election committee; meetings; officers; compensation;
recordkeeping. (a) The board of directors of the authority shall be elected by the duly designated
representatives of the municipalities which are authorized and directed to designate a member
of the election committee as hereinafter provided in this section. Until the first meeting
of the board of directors following the meeting in 2015 of the election committee hereinafter
provided for, the board of directors shall consist of nine members; thereafter, the board
shall consist of the number of members equal to the number of municipalities contracting with
the authority for the purchase of electric power and energy pursuant to Section 11-50A-17,
which are authorized and directed to designate a member of the election committee. Members
of the board of directors shall be eligible to succeed themselves. The business, affairs,
and property of the authority shall be managed by its board of directors....
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10A-2-1.40
Section 10A-2-1.40 Definitions applicable to business corporations. In this chapter: REPEALED
IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2019-94 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT
CODE SUPPLEMENT. (1) "Articles of incorporation" include amended and restated articles
of incorporation and, in the case of a corporation existing on January 1, 1981, its certificate
of incorporation, including any amended certificate, and also include, except where the context
otherwise requires, articles of merger. The term "articles of incorporations" as
used in this chapter is synonymous with the term "certificate of formation" employed
in Chapter 1. (2) "Authorized shares" means the shares of all classes a domestic
or foreign business corporation is authorized to issue. (3) "Corporation" or "domestic
corporation" means a business corporation, which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated
under or subject to the provisions of this chapter. (4) "Distribution" means a direct
or indirect...
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11-99B-4
Section 11-99B-4 Filing of certificate of incorporation and copies of resolutions of governing
bodies with judge of probate; contents and execution of certificate of incorporation; notification
of Secretary of State of recordation of certificate of incorporation by judge of probate.
(a) Following the adoption of an authorizing resolution by that governing body that was the
last to adopt an authorizing resolution, but if and only if each other governing body with
whom such application was filed has theretofore adopted an authorizing resolution, the applicants
shall proceed to incorporate a district by filing for record in the office of the judge of
probate of the county in which the principal office of the district is to be located, as specified
in the certificate of incorporation provided for in this section, a certificate of incorporation
which shall comply with the requirements of this section and which shall be in the form and
executed in the manner provided in this section. (b) The...
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10A-1-8.01
Section 10A-1-8.01 Conversion of business and nonprofit entities. (a) A conversion of an entity
may be accomplished as provided in this section: (1) CORPORATIONS. a. The terms and conditions
of a plan of conversion of a corporation, other than a nonprofit corporation, must be approved
in accordance with the procedures and by the stockholder vote required by Article 9 of Chapter
2A. If the governing documents provide for approval of a conversion by less than all of a
corporation's stockholders, approval of the conversion shall constitute corporate action subject
to appraisal rights pursuant to Article 13 of Chapter 2A. No conversion of a corporation to
a general or limited partnership may be effected without the consent in writing of each stockholder
who will have personal liability with respect to the converted entity, notwithstanding any
provision in the governing documents of the converting corporation providing for less than
unanimous stockholder approval for the conversion. b. The...
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