2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.708 - CONDUCT OF THE MEETING.

        490.708  CONDUCT OF THE MEETING.
         1.  At each meeting of shareholders, a chairperson shall preside.
      The chairperson shall be appointed as provided in the bylaws or, in
      the absence of such provisions, by the board.
         2.  The chairperson, unless the articles of incorporation or
      bylaws provide otherwise, shall determine the order of business and
      shall have the authority to establish rules for the conduct of the
      meeting.
         3.  Any rules adopted for, and the conduct of, the meeting shall
      be fair to shareholders.
         4.  The chairperson of the meeting shall announce at the meeting
      when the polls close for each matter voted upon.  If no announcement
      is made, the polls shall be deemed to have closed upon the final
      adjournment of the meeting.  After the polls close, no ballots,
      proxies, or votes nor any revocations or changes to any ballots,
      proxies, or votes may be accepted.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2002 Acts, ch 1154, §16, 125
         Referred to in § 534.504

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