RCW 23B.08.060
Staggered terms for directors.
(1) The articles of incorporation may provide for staggering the terms of directors by dividing the total number of directors into two or three groups, with each group containing one-half or one-third of the total, as near as may be. In that event, the terms of directors in the first group expire at the first annual shareholders' meeting after their election, the terms of the second group expire at the second annual shareholders' meeting after their election, and the terms of the third group, if any, expire at the third annual shareholders' meeting after their election. At each annual shareholders' meeting held thereafter, directors shall be chosen for a term of two years or three years, as the case may be, to succeed those whose terms expire.
(2) If cumulative voting is authorized, any provision establishing staggered terms of directors shall provide that at least three directors shall be elected at each annual shareholders' meeting.
[ 1989 c 165 § 85.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 23B - Washington Business Corporation Act
Chapter 23B.08 - Directors and Officers.
23B.08.010 - Requirement for and duties of board of directors.
23B.08.020 - Qualifications of directors.
23B.08.030 - Number and election of directors.
23B.08.040 - Election of directors by certain classes or series of shares.
23B.08.050 - Terms of directors—Generally.
23B.08.060 - Staggered terms for directors.
23B.08.070 - Resignation of directors.
23B.08.080 - Removal of directors by shareholders.
23B.08.090 - Removal of directors by judicial proceeding.
23B.08.100 - Vacancy on board of directors.
23B.08.110 - Compensation of directors.
23B.08.200 - Regular or special meetings of the board.
23B.08.210 - Corporate action without meeting.
23B.08.220 - Notice of meeting.
23B.08.230 - Waiver of notice.
23B.08.240 - Quorum and voting.
23B.08.245 - Corporate action—Vote of shareholders.
23B.08.300 - General standards for directors.
23B.08.310 - Liability for unlawful distributions.
23B.08.320 - Limitation on liability of directors.
23B.08.410 - Duties of officers.
23B.08.420 - Standards of conduct for officers.
23B.08.430 - Resignation and removal of officers.
23B.08.440 - Contract rights of officers.
23B.08.500 - Indemnification definitions.
23B.08.510 - Authority to indemnify.
23B.08.520 - Mandatory indemnification.
23B.08.530 - Advance for expenses.
23B.08.540 - Court-ordered indemnification.
23B.08.550 - Determination and authorization of indemnification.
23B.08.560 - Shareholder authorized indemnification and advancement of expenses.
23B.08.570 - Indemnification of officers, employees, and agents.
23B.08.590 - Validity of indemnification or advance for expenses.
23B.08.600 - Report to shareholders.
23B.08.603 - Indemnification or advance for expenses—Later amendment or repeal of subject provision.
23B.08.720 - Directors' action.
23B.08.730 - Shareholders' action.
23B.08.735 - Pursuit of business opportunities—Duty to corporation.
23B.08.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.