The certificate of incorporation may provide for staggering the terms of directors by dividing the total number of directors into two or three groups, with each group containing half or one-third of the total, as near as may be practicable. In that event, the terms of directors in the first group expire at the first annual stockholders' meeting after their election, the terms of the second group expire at the second annual stockholders' meeting after their election, and the terms of the third group, if any, expire at the third annual stockholders' meeting after their election. At each annual stockholders' meeting held thereafter, directors shall be elected for a term of two years or three years, as the case may be, to succeed those whose terms expire.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.
Chapter 2A - Alabama Business Corporation Law.
Article 8 - Directors and Officers.
Division A - Board of Directors.
Section 10A-2A-8.01 - Requirement for and Functions of Board of Directors.
Section 10A-2A-8.02 - Qualifications of Directors.
Section 10A-2A-8.03 - Number and Election of Directors.
Section 10A-2A-8.04 - Election of Directors by Certain Classes or Series of Stock.
Section 10A-2A-8.05 - Terms of Directors Generally.
Section 10A-2A-8.06 - Staggered Terms for Directors.
Section 10A-2A-8.07 - Resignation of Directors.
Section 10A-2A-8.08 - Removal of Directors by Stockholders.
Section 10A-2A-8.09 - Removal of Directors by Judicial Proceeding.