Montana Code Annotated
Part 7. Shareholders
35-14-730. Voting trusts

35-14-730. Voting trusts. (1) One or more shareholders may create a voting trust, conferring on a trustee the right to vote or otherwise act for them, by signing an agreement setting out the provisions of the trust, which may include anything consistent with its purpose, and transferring their shares to the trustee. When a voting trust agreement is signed, the trustee shall prepare a list of the names and addresses of all voting trust beneficial owners, together with the number and class of shares each transferred to the trust, and deliver copies of the list and agreement to the corporation at its principal office.
(2) A voting trust becomes effective on the date the first shares subject to the trust are registered in the trustee's name.
(3) Limits, if any, on the duration of a voting trust are as set forth in the voting trust. A voting trust that became effective prior to June 1, 2020, remains governed by the statute concerning duration then in effect unless the voting trust is amended to provide otherwise by unanimous agreement of the parties to the voting trust.
History: En. Sec. 80, Ch. 271, L. 2019.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations

Chapter 14. Montana Business Corporation Act

Part 7. Shareholders

35-14-701. Annual meeting

35-14-702. Special meeting

35-14-703. Court-ordered meeting

35-14-704. Action without meeting

35-14-705. Notice of meeting

35-14-706. Waiver of notice

35-14-707. Record date for meeting

35-14-708. Conduct of 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

35-14-722. Proxies

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

35-14-730. Voting trusts

35-14-731. Voting agreements

35-14-732. Shareholder agreements

35-14-733. through 35-14-739 reserved

35-14-740. Definitions -- derivative proceedings

35-14-741. Standing

35-14-742. Demand

35-14-743. Stay of proceedings

35-14-744. Dismissal

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