CHAPTER 7. Voting of Shares

Chapter 7 added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 682.

§§ 700–711 · 13 sections

• § 700 (a) Except as provided in Section 708 and except as may be otherwise provided in the articles, each outstanding share, regardless of class, shall be entitled…
• § 701 (a) In order that the corporation may determine the shareholders entitled to notice of any meeting or to vote or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or…
• § 702 (a) Subject to subdivision (c) of Section 703, shares held by an administrator, executor, guardian, conservator or custodian may be voted by such holder either…
• § 703 (a) Shares standing in the name of another corporation, domestic or foreign, may be voted by an officer, agent, or proxyholder as the bylaws of the other…
• § 704 (a) If shares stand of record in the names of two or more persons, whether fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, spouses as…
• § 705 (a) Every person entitled to vote shares may authorize another person or persons to act by proxy with respect to such shares. Any proxy purporting to be…
• § 706 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, an agreement between two or more shareholders of a corporation, if in writing and signed by the…
• § 707 (a) In advance of any meeting of shareholders the board may appoint inspectors of election to act at the meeting and any adjournment thereof. If inspectors of…
• § 708 (a) Except as provided in Sections 301.5 and 708.5, every shareholder complying with subdivision (b) and entitled to vote at any election of directors may…
• § 708.5 (a) For purposes of this section,the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Uncontested election” means an election of directors in which, at the expiration…
• § 709 (a) Upon the filing of an action therefor by any shareholder or by any person who claims to have been denied the right to vote, the superior court of the…
• § 710 (a) This section applies to a corporation with outstanding shares held of record by 100 or more persons (determined as provided in Section 605) that files an…
• § 711 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that: Many of the residents of this state are the legal and beneficial owners or otherwise the ultimate beneficiaries of…