2009 Connecticut Code
Title 33 Corporations
Chapter 602 Nonstock Corporations
Sec. 33-1088. Removal of directors by members or directors.

      Sec. 33-1088. Removal of directors by members or directors. (a) The members entitled to vote for the election of directors or, if there are no such members, the directors, may remove one or more directors with or without cause unless the certificate of incorporation provides that directors may be removed only for cause.

      (b) If a director is elected by a class of members only the members of that class may participate in the vote to remove him.

      (c) If cumulative voting is authorized, a director may not be removed if the number of votes sufficient to elect him under cumulative voting is voted against his removal. If cumulative voting is not authorized, a director may be removed only if the number of votes cast to remove him exceeds the number of votes cast not to remove him.

      (d) A director may be removed by the members entitled to vote for directors or, if there are no such members, the directors, only at a meeting called for the purpose of removing him and the meeting notice must state that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting is removal of the director.

      (P.A. 96-256, S. 64, 209.)

      History: P.A. 96-256 effective January 1, 1997.

      Annotation to former section 33-451:

      Subsec. (b):

      Cited. 30 CA 129.