(a) Unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise, if a vacancy occurs on a board of directors, including a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors:
(1) the stockholders may fill the vacancy;
(2) the board of directors may fill the vacancy; or
(3) if the directors remaining in office are less than a quorum, they may fill the vacancy by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the directors remaining in office.
(b) If the vacant office was held by a director elected by a voting group of stockholders, only the holders of stock of that voting group are entitled to vote to fill the vacancy if it is filled by the stockholders, and only the remaining directors elected by that voting group, even if less than a quorum, are entitled to fill the vacancy if it is filled by the directors.
(c) A vacancy that will occur at a specific later date (by reason of a resignation effective at a later date under Section 10A-2A-8.07(b) or otherwise) may be filled before the vacancy occurs but the new director may not take office until the vacancy occurs.
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.