35-14-702. Special meeting. (1) A corporation shall hold a special meeting of shareholders:
(a) on call of its board of directors or of the person or persons authorized to do so by the articles of incorporation or bylaws; or
(b) if shareholders holding at least 10% of all the votes entitled to be cast on an issue proposed to be considered at the proposed special meeting sign, date, and deliver to the corporation one or more written demands for the meeting describing the purpose or purposes for which it is to be held, provided that the articles of incorporation may fix a lower percentage or a higher percentage, not exceeding 25%, of all the votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, a written demand for a special meeting may be revoked by a writing to that effect received by the corporation before the receipt by the corporation of demands sufficient in number to require the holding of a special meeting.
(2) If not otherwise fixed under 35-14-703 or 35-14-707, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to demand a special meeting is the first date on which a signed shareholder demand is delivered to the corporation. No written demand for a special meeting is effective unless, within 60 days of the earliest date on which the demand delivered to the corporation as required by this section was signed, written demands signed by shareholders holding at least the percentage of votes specified in or fixed in accordance with subsection (1)(b) have been delivered to the corporation.
(3) Unless the board of directors determines to hold the meeting solely by remote participation in accordance with 35-14-709(3), special meetings of shareholders may be held:
(a) in or out of this state at the place stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws; or
(b) if no place is stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws, at the corporation's principal office.
(4) Only business within the purpose or purposes described in the meeting notice required by 35-14-705(3) may be conducted at a special meeting of shareholders.
History: En. Sec. 62, Ch. 271, L. 2019; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 34, L. 2021.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations
Chapter 14. Montana Business Corporation Act
35-14-703. Court-ordered meeting
35-14-704. Action without meeting
35-14-707. Record date for meeting
35-14-709. Remote participation -- shareholder's meetings
35-14-710. through 35-14-719 reserved
35-14-720. Shareholders' list for meeting
35-14-721. Voting entitlements of shares
35-14-723. Shares held by intermediaries and nominees
35-14-724. Acceptance of votes -- other instruments
35-14-725. Quorum and voting requirements -- voting groups
35-14-726. Action by single and multiple voting groups
35-14-727. Modifying quorum or voting requirements
35-14-728. Voting for directors -- cumulative voting
35-14-729. Inspectors of election
35-14-732. Shareholder agreements
35-14-733. through 35-14-739 reserved
35-14-740. Definitions -- derivative proceedings
35-14-743. Stay of proceedings
35-14-745. Discontinuance -- settlement
35-14-746. Payment of expenses
35-14-747. Applicability to foreign corporations
35-14-748. Shareholder action to appoint custodian or receiver
35-14-749. Judicial determination -- corporate offices -- review of elections and shareholder votes