Florida Statutes
Chapter 617 - Corporations Not for Profit
617.01011 - Short Title.

Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI - Business Organizations

Chapter 617 - Corporations Not for Profit

617.01011 - Short Title.

617.0102 - Reservation of Power to Amend or Repeal.

617.01201 - Filing Requirements.

617.0121 - Forms.

617.0122 - Fees for Filing Documents and Issuing Certificates.

617.0123 - Effective Date of Document.

617.0124 - Correcting Filed Document.

617.0125 - Filing Duties of Department of State.

617.0126 - Appeal From Department of State’s Refusal to File Document.

617.0127 - Evidentiary Effect of Copy of Filed Document.

617.0128 - Certificate of Status.

617.01301 - Powers of Department of State.

617.01401 - Definitions.

617.0141 - Notice.

617.02011 - Incorporators.

617.0202 - Articles of Incorporation; Content.

617.0203 - Incorporation.

617.0204 - Liability for Preincorporation Transactions.

617.0205 - Organizational Meeting of Directors.

617.0206 - Bylaws.

617.0207 - Emergency Bylaws.

617.0301 - Purposes and Application.

617.0302 - Corporate Powers.

617.0303 - Emergency Powers.

617.0304 - Ultra Vires.

617.0401 - Corporate Name.

617.0403 - Registered Name; Application; Renewal; Revocation.

617.0501 - Registered Office and Registered Agent.

617.05015 - Reserved Name.

617.0502 - Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent; Resignation of Registered Agent.

617.0503 - Registered Agent; Duties; Confidentiality of Investigation Records.

617.0504 - Service of Process, Notice, or Demand on a Corporation.

617.0505 - Distributions; Exceptions.

617.0601 - Members, Generally.

617.0604 - Liability of Members.

617.0605 - Transfer of Membership Interests.

617.0606 - Resignation of Members.

617.0607 - Termination, Expulsion, and Suspension.

617.0608 - Purchase of Memberships.

617.0701 - Meetings of Members, Generally; Failure to Hold Annual Meeting; Special Meeting; Consent to Corporate Actions Without Meetings; Waiver of Notice of Meetings.

617.0721 - Voting by Members.

617.0725 - Quorum.

617.07401 - Members’ Derivative Actions.

617.0801 - Duties of Board of Directors.

617.0802 - Qualifications of Directors.

617.0803 - Number of Directors.

617.0806 - Staggered Terms for Directors.

617.0807 - Resignation of Directors.

617.0808 - Removal of Directors.

617.0809 - Board Vacancy.

617.08101 - Compensation of Directors.

617.0820 - Meetings.

617.0821 - Action by Directors Without a Meeting.

617.0822 - Notice of Meetings.

617.0823 - Waiver of Notice.

617.0824 - Quorum and Voting.

617.0825 - Board Committees and Advisory Committees.

617.0830 - General Standards for Directors.

617.0831 - Indemnification and Liability of Officers, Directors, Employees, and Agents.

617.0832 - Director Conflicts of Interest.

617.0833 - Loans to Directors or Officers.

617.0834 - Officers and Directors of Certain Corporations and Associations Not for Profit; Immunity From Civil Liability.

617.0835 - Prohibited Activities by Private Foundations.

617.0840 - Required Officers.

617.0841 - Duties of Officers.

617.0842 - Resignation and Removal of Officers.

617.0843 - Contract Rights of Officers.

617.0901 - Reincorporation.

617.1001 - Authority to Amend the Articles of Incorporation.

617.1002 - Procedure for Amending Articles of Incorporation.

617.1006 - Contents of Articles of Amendment.

617.1007 - Restated Articles of Incorporation.

617.1008 - Amendment Pursuant to Reorganization.

617.1009 - Effect of Amendment.

617.1101 - Plan of Merger.

617.1102 - Limitation on Merger.

617.1103 - Approval of Plan of Merger; Abandonment of Plan Thereafter.

617.1105 - Articles of Merger.

617.1106 - Effect of Merger.

617.1107 - Merger of Domestic and Foreign Corporations.

617.1108 - Merger of Domestic Corporation and Other Eligible Entities.

617.1201 - Secured Transactions and Other Dispositions of Corporate Property and Assets Not Requiring Member Approval.

617.1202 - Sale, Lease, Exchange, or Other Disposition of Corporate Property and Assets Requiring Member Approval.

617.1301 - Prohibited Distributions.

617.1302 - Authorized Distributions.

617.1401 - Voluntary Dissolution of Corporation Prior to Conducting Its Affairs.

617.1402 - Dissolution of Corporation.

617.1403 - Articles of Dissolution.

617.1404 - Revocation of Dissolution.

617.1405 - Effect of Dissolution.

617.1406 - Plan of Distribution of Assets.

617.1407 - Unknown Claims Against Dissolved Corporation.

617.1408 - Known Claims Against Dissolved Corporation.

617.1420 - Grounds for Administrative Dissolution.

617.1421 - Procedure for and Effect of Administrative Dissolution.

617.1422 - Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution.

617.1423 - Appeal From Denial of Reinstatement.

617.1430 - Grounds for Judicial Dissolution.

617.1431 - Procedure for Judicial Dissolution.

617.1432 - Receivership or Custodianship.

617.1433 - Judgment of Dissolution.

617.1440 - Deposit With Department of Financial Services.

617.1501 - Authority of Foreign Corporation to Conduct Affairs Required.

617.1502 - Consequences of Conducting Affairs Without Authority.

617.1503 - Application for Certificate of Authority.

617.1504 - Amended Certificate of Authority.

617.1505 - Effect of Certificate of Authority.

617.1506 - Corporate Name of Foreign Corporation.

617.1507 - Registered Office and Registered Agent of Foreign Corporation.

617.1508 - Change of Registered Office and Registered Agent of Foreign Corporation.

617.1509 - Resignation of Registered Agent of Foreign Corporation.

617.1510 - Service of Process, Notice, or Demand on a Foreign Corporation.

617.1520 - Withdrawal of Foreign Corporation.

617.1530 - Grounds for Revocation of Authority to Conduct Affairs.

617.1531 - Procedure for and Effect of Revocation.

617.1532 - Appeal From Revocation.

617.1533 - Reinstatement Following Revocation.

617.1601 - Corporate Records.

617.1602 - Inspection of Records by Members.

617.1603 - Scope of Inspection Right.

617.1604 - Court-Ordered Inspection.

617.1605 - Financial Reports for Members.

617.1606 - Access to Records.

617.1622 - Annual Report for Department of State.

617.1623 - Corporate Information Available to the Public; Application to Corporations Incorporated by Circuit Courts and by Special Act of the Legislature.

617.1701 - Application to Existing Domestic Corporation.

617.1702 - Application to Qualified Foreign Corporations.

617.1703 - Application of Chapter.

617.1711 - Application to Foreign and Interstate Commerce.

617.1803 - Domestication of Foreign Not-for-Profit Corporations.

617.1805 - Corporations for Profit; When May Become Corporations Not for Profit.

617.1806 - Conversion to Corporation Not for Profit; Petition and Contents.

617.1807 - Conversion to Corporation Not for Profit; Authority of Circuit Judge.

617.1808 - Application of Act to Corporation Converted to Corporation Not for Profit.

617.1809 - Limited Agricultural Association; Conversion to a Domestic Corporation Not for Profit.

617.1904 - Estoppel.

617.1907 - Effect of Repeal or Amendment of Prior Acts.

617.1908 - Applicability of Florida Business Corporation Act.

617.2001 - Corporations Which May Be Incorporated Hereunder; Incorporation of Certain Medical Services Corporations.

617.2002 - Corporation Not for Profit Organized Pursuant to S. 2, Ch. 87-296; Requirements.

617.2003 - Proceedings to Revoke Articles of Incorporation or Charter or Prevent Its Use.

617.2004 - Extinct Churches and Religious Societies; Property.

617.2005 - Extinct Churches and Religious Societies; Dissolution.

617.2006 - Incorporation of Labor Unions or Bodies.

617.2007 - Sponge Packing and Marketing Corporations.

617.2101 - Corporation Authorized to Act as Trustee.

617.2102 - Fines and Penalties Against Members.

617.2104 - Florida Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act.

617.2105 - Corporation Issued a Deed to Real Property.

617.221 - Membership Associations.