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
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