Each nonprofit corporation shall have the power to indemnify any director or officer or former director or officer of the corporation, or any person who may have served at its request as a director or officer of another corporation, whether profit or nonprofit, in which it owns shares of capital stock or of which it is a creditor, against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with the defense of any action, suit, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in which he or she is made a party by reason of being or having been such director or officer, except in relation to matters as to which he or she shall be adjudged in the action, suit, or proceeding to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his or her duty; and to make any other indemnification that shall be authorized by the governing documents of the nonprofit corporation, vote of the board of directors, or resolution adopted after notice by the members entitled to vote.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.
Chapter 3 - Nonprofit Corporations.
Article 2 - Substantive Provisions.
Division D - Entity Specific Powers; Limitations.
Section 10A-3-2.41 - Shares of Stock and Dividends Prohibited; Compensation and Benefits Permitted.
Section 10A-3-2.42 - Loans to Directors and Officers Prohibited.
Section 10A-3-2.43 - Power to Indemnify Directors or Officers.
Section 10A-3-2.44 - Assertion of Lack of Capacity or Power; Defense of Ultra Vires