§ 8.20. Regular and special meetings
(a) If the time and place of a directors’ meeting is fixed by the bylaws or the board, the meeting is a regular meeting. All other meetings are special meetings.
(b) A board of directors may hold regular or special meetings in or outside this State.
(c) Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws provide otherwise, a board may permit any or all directors to participate in a regular or special meeting by, or conduct the meeting through the use of, any means of communication, including an electronic, telecommunications, and video- or audio-conferencing conference telephone call, by which all directors participating may simultaneously or sequentially communicate with each other during the meeting. A director participating in a meeting by this means is deemed to be present in person at the meeting. (Added 1995, No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997; amended 2009, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 36, eff. April 15, 2010; 2011, No. 52, § 19, eff. May 27, 2011.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 11B - Nonprofit Corporations
Chapter 8 - Directors and Officers
§ 8.01. Requirement for and duties of board
§ 8.02. Qualifications of directors
§ 8.04. Election, designation, and appointment of directors
§ 8.05. Terms of directors generally
§ 8.06. Staggered terms for directors
§ 8.07. Resignation of directors
§ 8.08. Removal of directors elected by members or directors
§ 8.09. Removal of designated or appointed directors
§ 8.10. Removal of directors by judicial proceeding
§ 8.12. Compensation of directors
§ 8.13. Financially disinterested majority—Public benefit corporations
§ 8.20. Regular and special meetings
§ 8.21. Action without meeting
§ 8.22. Call and notice of meetings
§ 8.25. Committees of the board
§ 8.30. General standards for directors
§ 8.31. Director conflict of interest
§ 8.32. Loans to or guarantees for directors and officers
§ 8.33. Liability for unlawful distributions; statute of limitations
§ 8.41. Duties and authority of officers
§ 8.42. Standards of conduct for officers
§ 8.43. Resignation and removal of officers
§ 8.44. Contract rights of officers
§ 8.45. Officers’ authority to execute documents
§ 8.50. Subchapter definitions
§ 8.51. Authority to indemnify
§ 8.52. Mandatory indemnification
§ 8.54. Court-ordered indemnification
§ 8.55. Determination and authorization of indemnification