Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 24.03A - Washington Nonprofit Corporation Act.
24.03A.890 - Dispositions requiring member approval.

RCW 24.03A.890
Dispositions requiring member approval.

(1) A sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of assets, other than a disposition described in RCW 24.03A.885, requires approval of the corporation's members that are entitled to vote on the disposition, unless the articles or bylaws otherwise provide.
(2) A disposition that requires approval of the members must be initiated by a resolution by the board authorizing the disposition. After adoption of the resolution, the board shall submit the proposed disposition to the members for their approval. The board shall also deliver to the members a recommendation that the members approve the proposed disposition, unless the board makes a determination that because of conflicts of interest or other special circumstances it should not make a recommendation, in which case the board shall deliver to the members the basis for that determination.
(3) The board may condition its submission of a disposition to the members under subsection (2) of this section on any basis.
(4) If a disposition is required to be approved by the members, and if the approval is to be given at a meeting, then the nonprofit corporation shall give notice to each member, whether or not entitled to vote, of the meeting of members at which the disposition is to be submitted for approval. The notice shall state that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting is to consider the disposition and must contain a description of the disposition, including the terms and conditions thereof and the consideration to be received by the corporation.
(5) Unless the articles, bylaws, or the board acting pursuant to subsection (3) of this section requires a greater vote, or a greater number of votes to be present, the approval of a disposition by the members entitled to vote thereon requires the approval of a majority of those members at a meeting at which a quorum is present, and, if any class of members is entitled to vote as a separate group on the disposition, the approval of a majority of the members of each separate voting group entitled to vote at a meeting at which a quorum of the voting group is present.
(6) If a membership corporation has no members entitled to vote on a disposition, then the corporation shall deliver notice of a proposed disposition to all members of the corporation at least ten days before the meeting at which the board is to act upon the disposition.
(7) After a disposition has been approved by the members under subsection (5) of this section, and at any time before the disposition has been consummated, it may be abandoned by the nonprofit corporation without action by the members, subject to any contractual rights of other parties to the disposition.
(8) In addition to the approval of a disposition of assets by the board and members as required by this section, the disposition must also be approved in the form of a record by any person or group of persons whose approval is required under RCW 24.03A.705 to amend the articles or bylaws.
(9) The assets of a direct or indirect consolidated subsidiary are deemed the assets of the parent nonprofit corporation for the purposes of this section.
(10) A disposition of assets in the course of a dissolution governed by RCW 24.03A.904 through 24.03A.926 is not governed by RCW 24.03A.885 through 24.03A.902.

[ 2021 c 176 § 3402.]
NOTES:

Effective date—2021 c 176: See note following RCW 24.03A.005.

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