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2025 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 10 - Corporations and Associations
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 2 - Filing Documents and Fees
Article 3 - Arizona Corporation Commission Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 4 - Definitions, Notice and Shareholders Chapter 2 - INCORPORATION
Article 1 - Incorporation
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 5 - OFFICE AND AGENT
Article 1 - Place of Business and Agent
Article 1 - Shares
Article 2 - Issuance of Shares
Article 3 - Subsequent Acquisition of Shares by Shareholders and Corporation
Article 4 - Distributions Chapter 7 - SHAREHOLDERS
Article 1 - Meetings
Article 2 - Voting
Article 3 - Voting Trusts and Agreements Chapter 7 - SHAREHOLDERS
Article 4 - Derivative Proceedings
Article 1 - Board of Directors
Article 2 - Meetings and Action of the Board
Article 3 - Standards of Conduct
Article 4 - Officers
Article 5 - Indemnification
Article 6 - Director's Conflicting Interest Transactions
Article 1 - Amendment of Articles of Incorporation
Article 2 - Amendment of Bylaws
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - Dissent and Payment for Shares
Article 2 - Procedure for Exercise of Dissenters' Rights
Article 3 - Judicial Appraisal of Shares Chapter 14 - DISSOLUTION
Article 1 - Voluntary Dissolution
Article 2 - Administrative Dissolution
Article 3 - Judicial Dissolution
Article 4 - Miscellaneous Chapter 15 - FOREIGN CORPORATION
Article 1 - Grant of Authority
Article 2 - Withdrawal
Article 3 - Revocation of Grant of Authority
Article 1 - Records
Article 2 - Reports
Article 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - Close Corporations
Article 2 - Unclaimed Shares and Dividends
Article 4 - Business Trusts
Article 1 - Cooperative Marketing Associations
Article 2 - Electric Cooperative Nonprofit Membership Corporations
Article 3 - Fraternal and Benevolent Societies
Article 4 - Nonprofit Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative Corporations
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 20 - PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
Article 2 - Creation
Article 3 - Shares
Article 4 - Governance
Article 5 - Reorganization and Termination
Article 6 - Foreign Professional Corporations
Article 8 - Transition Provisions Chapter 21 - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Formation and Operation
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 2 - Corporate Purposes Chapter 22 - BENEFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 3 - Accountability
Article 4 - Transparency Chapter 23 - CORPORATE TAKEOVERS
Article 1 - In General
Article 2 - Control Share Acquisitions
Article 3 - Business Combinations
Article 1 - Short Title Chapter 24 - GENERAL PROVISIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 2 - Filing Documents and Fees-Nonprofit Corporations
Article 3 - Arizona Corporation Commission Chapter 24 - GENERAL PROVISIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 4 - Definitions, Notice, Private Foundations, Judicial Relief and Religious Organizations
Article 1 - Incorporation
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 28 - OFFICE AND AGENT-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Place of Business and Agent
Article 1 - Admission of Members Chapter 29 - MEMBERS AND MEMBERSHIP-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 2 - Types of Memberships-Members' Rights and Obligations
Article 3 - Resignation and Termination
Article 4 - Derivative Suits
Article 5 - Delegates Chapter 30 - MEMBERS' MEETINGS AND VOTING-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Meetings and Action Without Meetings
Article 2 - Voting
Article 3 - Voting Agreement and Trusts Chapter 31 - DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Board of Directors
Article 2 - Meetings and Action of the Board
Article 3 - Standards of Conduct Chapter 31 - DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 4 - Officers
Article 5 - Indemnification
Article 6 - Director's Conflicting Interest Transactions
Article 1 - Articles of Incorporation
Article 2 - Bylaws
Article 3 - Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 37 - DISSOLUTION-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Voluntary Dissolution
Article 2 - Administrative Dissolution
Article 3 - Judicial Dissolution
Article 4 - Miscellaneous Chapter 38 - FOREIGN CORPORATIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Grant of Authority
Article 2 - Withdrawal
Article 3 - Revocation of Certificate of Authority
Article 1 - Records
Article 2 - Reports
Article 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 2 - Filing Documents and Fees
- § 10-120 - Filing requirements
- § 10-121 - Forms
- § 10-122 - Filing, service and copying fees; expedited report filing and access; same day and next day services; posted wait times; advance monies; definition
- § 10-122.01 - Public access fund; purpose; exemption; money on deposit account
- § 10-123 - Effective time and date of document
- § 10-124 - Correcting filed document; articles of incorporation; authority to transact business
- § 10-125 - Filing duty of commission
- § 10-127 - Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
- § 10-128 - Certificate of good standing
Article 3 - Arizona Corporation Commission Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 4 - Definitions, Notice and Shareholders Chapter 2 - INCORPORATION
Article 1 - Incorporation
- § 10-201 - Incorporators
- § 10-202 - Articles of incorporation; violation; classification
- § 10-203 - Incorporation
- § 10-204 - Actions before incorporation; liability
- § 10-205 - Organization of corporation
- § 10-206 - Bylaws
- § 10-207 - Emergency bylaws
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-301 - Purposes
- § 10-302 - General powers
- § 10-303 - Emergency powers
- § 10-304 - Validity of actions
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 5 - OFFICE AND AGENT
Article 1 - Place of Business and Agent
- § 10-501 - Known place of business and statutory agent
- § 10-502 - Change of known place of business or statutory agent
- § 10-503 - Resignation of statutory agent
- § 10-504 - Service on corporation
Article 1 - Shares
- § 10-601 - Authorized shares
- § 10-602 - Terms of class or series determined by board of directors
- § 10-603 - Issued and outstanding shares
- § 10-604 - Fractional shares
Article 2 - Issuance of Shares
- § 10-620 - Subscription for shares
- § 10-621 - Issuance of shares
- § 10-622 - Liability of subscribers and shareholders
- § 10-623 - Share dividends
- § 10-624 - Share rights, options and warrants
- § 10-625 - Form and content of certificates
- § 10-626 - Shares without certificates
- § 10-627 - Restriction on transfer of shares and other securities; definition
- § 10-628 - Expense of issue
- § 10-629 - Adjustment of terms of rights, options and warrants; conditions to exercise of rights, options and warrants
Article 3 - Subsequent Acquisition of Shares by Shareholders and Corporation
- § 10-630 - Shareholders' preemptive rights; definition
- § 10-631 - Corporation's acquisition of its own shares
Article 4 - Distributions Chapter 7 - SHAREHOLDERS
Article 1 - Meetings
- § 10-701 - Annual meeting
- § 10-702 - Special meeting
- § 10-703 - Court ordered meeting
- § 10-704 - Action by shareholders without meeting; notice
- § 10-705 - Notice of meeting
- § 10-706 - Waiver of notice
- § 10-707 - Record date
- § 10-708 - Participation in shareholders' meetings; remote communication
Article 2 - Voting
- § 10-720 - Shareholders' list for meeting
- § 10-721 - Voting entitlement of shares
- § 10-722 - Proxies
- § 10-723 - Shares held by nominees
- § 10-724 - Corporation's acceptance of votes
- § 10-725 - Quorum and voting requirements for voting groups
- § 10-726 - Action by single and multiple voting groups
- § 10-727 - Greater quorum or voting requirements
- § 10-728 - Voting for directors; cumulative voting
Article 3 - Voting Trusts and Agreements Chapter 7 - SHAREHOLDERS
Article 4 - Derivative Proceedings
- § 10-740 - Definitions
- § 10-741 - Standing
- § 10-742 - Demand
- § 10-743 - Stay of proceedings
- § 10-744 - Dismissal
- § 10-745 - Discontinuance or settlement
- § 10-746 - Payment of expenses
- § 10-747 - Applicability to foreign corporations
Article 1 - Board of Directors
- § 10-801 - Board of directors
- § 10-802 - Qualification of directors
- § 10-803 - Number and election of directors
- § 10-804 - Election of directors by certain classes or series of shareholders
- § 10-805 - Terms of directors generally
- § 10-806 - Staggered terms for directors
- § 10-807 - Resignation of directors
- § 10-808 - Removal of directors by shareholders
- § 10-809 - Removal of directors by judicial proceeding
- § 10-810 - Vacancy on board
- § 10-811 - Compensation of directors
Article 2 - Meetings and Action of the Board
- § 10-820 - Meetings
- § 10-821 - Action by directors without meeting
- § 10-822 - Notice of meetings
- § 10-823 - Waiver of notice
- § 10-824 - Quorum and voting
- § 10-825 - Committees
Article 3 - Standards of Conduct
- § 10-830 - General standards of conduct for directors
- § 10-831 - Standards of liability for directors; presumption
- § 10-833 - Liability for unlawful distributions
Article 4 - Officers
- § 10-840 - Required officers
- § 10-841 - Duties of officers
- § 10-842 - Standards of conduct for officers
- § 10-843 - Resignation and removal of officers
- § 10-844 - Contract rights of officers
- § 10-845 - Standards of liability for officers; presumption
- § 10-846 - Enforcement proceedings; liability for monetary damages; definitions
Article 5 - Indemnification
- § 10-850 - Definitions
- § 10-851 - Authority to indemnify
- § 10-852 - Mandatory indemnification
- § 10-853 - Advance for expenses
- § 10-854 - Court ordered indemnification
- § 10-855 - Determination and authorization of indemnification
- § 10-856 - Indemnification of officers
- § 10-857 - Insurance
- § 10-858 - Application of article
Article 6 - Director's Conflicting Interest Transactions
- § 10-860 - Definitions
- § 10-861 - Judicial action
- § 10-862 - Directors' action; definition
- § 10-863 - Shareholders' action; definition
Article 1 - Amendment of Articles of Incorporation
- § 10-1001 - Authority to amend
- § 10-1002 - Amendment by board of directors
- § 10-1003 - Amendment by board of directors and shareholders
- § 10-1004 - Voting on amendments by voting groups
- § 10-1005 - Amendment before issuance of shares
- § 10-1006 - Articles of amendment
- § 10-1007 - Restated articles of incorporation
- § 10-1008 - Amendment pursuant to reorganization
- § 10-1009 - Effect of amendments
Article 2 - Amendment of Bylaws
- § 10-1020 - Amendment by board of directors or shareholders
- § 10-1021 - Bylaw increasing quorum or voting requirement for shareholders
- § 10-1022 - Bylaw increasing quorum or voting requirement for directors
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-1101 - Definitions
- § 10-1102 - Entity restructuring transactions
- § 10-1103 - Action on plan
- § 10-1104 - Merger or other transaction involving subsidiary
- § 10-1105 - Statement of merger or interest exchange; publication or posting
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-1201 - Sale of assets in regular course of business and mortgage of assets
- § 10-1202 - Sale of assets other than in regular course of business
Article 1 - Dissent and Payment for Shares
- § 10-1301 - Definitions
- § 10-1302 - Right to dissent; applicability
- § 10-1303 - Dissent by nominees and beneficial owners
Article 2 - Procedure for Exercise of Dissenters' Rights
- § 10-1320 - Notice of dissenters' rights
- § 10-1321 - Notice of intent to demand payment
- § 10-1322 - Dissenters' notice
- § 10-1323 - Duty to demand payment
- § 10-1324 - Share restrictions
- § 10-1325 - Payment
- § 10-1326 - Failure to take action
- § 10-1327 - After-acquired shares
- § 10-1328 - Procedure if shareholder dissatisfied with payment or offer
Article 3 - Judicial Appraisal of Shares Chapter 14 - DISSOLUTION
Article 1 - Voluntary Dissolution
- § 10-1401 - Dissolution by incorporators or initial directors
- § 10-1402 - Dissolution by board of directors and shareholders
- § 10-1403 - Articles of dissolution; effective date of dissolution
- § 10-1404 - Revocation of dissolution
- § 10-1405 - Effect of dissolution
- § 10-1406 - Known claims against dissolved corporation; definition
- § 10-1407 - Unknown claims against dissolved corporation
Article 2 - Administrative Dissolution
- § 10-1420 - Grounds for administrative dissolution
- § 10-1421 - Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution
- § 10-1422 - Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
Article 3 - Judicial Dissolution
- § 10-1430 - Grounds for judicial dissolution or equitable relief
- § 10-1431 - Procedure for judicial dissolution or equitable relief
- § 10-1432 - Receivership
- § 10-1433 - Decree of dissolution
- § 10-1434 - Election to purchase in lieu of dissolution
Article 4 - Miscellaneous Chapter 15 - FOREIGN CORPORATION
Article 1 - Grant of Authority
- § 10-1501 - Authority to transact business required
- § 10-1502 - Consequences of transacting business without authority; penalty
- § 10-1503 - Application for authority to transact business
- § 10-1504 - Delivery of changes; changes requiring amended authority
- § 10-1505 - Effect of grant of authority
- § 10-1506 - Corporate name of foreign corporation
- § 10-1507 - Known place of business and statutory agent of foreign corporation
- § 10-1508 - Change of known place of business or statutory agent of foreign corporation
- § 10-1509 - Resignation of statutory agent of foreign corporation
- § 10-1510 - Service on foreign corporation
Article 2 - Withdrawal
- § 10-1520 - Withdrawal of foreign corporation
- § 10-1521 - Withdrawal by duly authorized officers; foreign corporations
Article 3 - Revocation of Grant of Authority
- § 10-1530 - Grounds for revocation
- § 10-1531 - Procedure for and effect of revocation; reinstatement
Article 1 - Records
- § 10-1601 - Corporate records
- § 10-1602 - Inspection of records by shareholders
- § 10-1603 - Scope of inspection right; charge
- § 10-1604 - Court-ordered inspection
Article 2 - Reports
- § 10-1620 - Financial statements for shareholders
- § 10-1621 - Other reports to shareholders
- § 10-1622 - Annual report
- § 10-1623 - Statement of bankruptcy or receivership; interrogatories before subsequent incorporation; violation; classification; definitions
Article 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions
- § 10-1630 - Certificate of good standing; license and registration renewal
- § 10-1631 - Civil liability for false statements
- § 10-1632 - Interrogatory or signature violations; corporate records; classification
- § 10-1633 - Interrogatories by the commission
- § 10-1634 - Information disclosed by interrogatories
- § 10-1635 - Certified copies received in evidence
- § 10-1636 - Civil liability for false filings; exceptions
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-1701 - Application to existing domestic corporations
- § 10-1702 - Application to qualified foreign corporations
Article 1 - Close Corporations
- § 10-1801 - Law applicable to close corporations
- § 10-1802 - Definitions
- § 10-1803 - Mandatory provisions of articles of incorporation
- § 10-1804 - Optional provisions of articles of incorporation
- § 10-1805 - Managers
- § 10-1806 - Settlement of disputes; arbitration
- § 10-1807 - Option to dissolve
- § 10-1808 - Purposes
- § 10-1809 - Capital units, transfers and encumbrances
- § 10-1810 - Definition of relative rights of capital units
- § 10-1811 - Changes in investor relationships
- § 10-1812 - Variable relative rights
- § 10-1813 - Limitation of liability
- § 10-1814 - Appointment of conservator
- § 10-1815 - Involuntary dissolution or liquidation pursuant to court order
- § 10-1816 - Court relief other than dissolution, liquidation or appointment of conservator
- § 10-1817 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
Article 2 - Unclaimed Shares and Dividends
- § 10-1841 - Claim for unclaimed shares or dividends
- § 10-1842 - Payment of claim
- § 10-1843 - Court action upon refusal to pay claim
Article 4 - Business Trusts
- § 10-1871 - Definitions
- § 10-1872 - Classifications of business trusts
- § 10-1873 - Form of association authorized
- § 10-1874 - Required delivery to commission; certified copy of trust instrument
- § 10-1875 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
- § 10-1876 - Amendments to trust instrument; filing; recordation
- § 10-1877 - Powers; construction of instrument; binding effect of terms and conditions
- § 10-1878 - Taxation
- § 10-1879 - Corporation laws applicable
Article 1 - Cooperative Marketing Associations
- § 10-2001 - Definitions
- § 10-2002 - Law governing associations
- § 10-2003 - Requirements for formation; association profits
- § 10-2004 - Articles of incorporation; amendments
- § 10-2005 - Powers of association
- § 10-2006 - Bylaws; renewal upon expiration of contract period
- § 10-2007 - By-laws concerning property rights of members; amendment
- § 10-2008 - Eligibility for membership
- § 10-2009 - Membership certificates; voting; liability
- § 10-2010 - Appraisal of interest and payment upon withdrawal or expulsion of member
- § 10-2011 - General powers of directors; election; compensation
- § 10-2012 - Organization of board of directors
- § 10-2013 - Removal of officer or director
- § 10-2014 - General and special meetings of association; notice
- § 10-2015 - Referral to membership
- § 10-2016 - Marketing contracts; remedies for breach
- § 10-2017 - Pilot agreement; list of other agreements; recording
- § 10-2018 - Investments; limitation; disposition of profits
- § 10-2019 - Annual reports
- § 10-2020 - License and other fees; tax exemption
- § 10-2021 - Distribution of unclaimed reserves
- § 10-2022 - Associations not deemed in restraint of trade
- § 10-2023 - Inducing breach of contract; spreading false report; classification
- § 10-2024 - Producer-distributor agreement not to join, become or remain member of cooperative or trade association
- § 10-2025 - Security law; applicability
- § 10-2026 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
Article 2 - Electric Cooperative Nonprofit Membership Corporations
- § 10-2051 - Definitions
- § 10-2052 - Purpose
- § 10-2053 - Requirements for formation
- § 10-2054 - Name
- § 10-2055 - Articles of incorporation
- § 10-2056 - Amendment of articles
- § 10-2057 - Powers of electric cooperative
- § 10-2058 - Board of directors; compensation; term; quorum
- § 10-2059 - Officers of cooperative
- § 10-2060 - Members in cooperative
- § 10-2061 - Nonliability of members for cooperative indebtedness
- § 10-2062 - Annual and special meetings of members; notice; quorum; voting
- § 10-2063 - Waiver of notice of meeting
- § 10-2064 - Bylaws
- § 10-2065 - Districts; boundaries
- § 10-2066 - Change of location of principal office
- § 10-2067 - Nonprofit operation
- § 10-2068 - Disposition of property
- § 10-2069 - Recording of mortgages; effect
- § 10-2070 - Use of roads and streets; notice; protest
- § 10-2071 - Unclaimed patronage capital credits; fees; uses; exemption; definition
- § 10-2073 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
- § 10-2077 - Dissolution
- § 10-2078 - Filing of articles
- § 10-2079 - Fees
- § 10-2080 - Exemption from securities regulations
- § 10-2081 - Exemption from antitrust statutes
- § 10-2082 - Taking of acknowledgments by officer or member
- § 10-2083 - Construction of article
- § 10-2084 - Electric cooperative nonprofit membership corporations; annual report
- § 10-2085 - Expanded use for broadband service; just compensation; notice; fees; definitions
Article 3 - Fraternal and Benevolent Societies
- § 10-2101 - Requirements for formation
- § 10-2102 - Powers of trustees
- § 10-2103 - Title to property of society
- § 10-2104 - Election, removal and meetings of trustees
- § 10-2105 - Filing facsimile of society insignia
- § 10-2106 - Wearing insignia of patriotic or fraternal order without authority to obtain aid; classification
- § 10-2107 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
Article 4 - Nonprofit Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative Corporations
- § 10-2121 - Definitions
- § 10-2122 - Purpose
- § 10-2123 - Incorporators
- § 10-2124 - Use of name
- § 10-2125 - Articles of incorporation
- § 10-2126 - Amendment of articles; change of location of principal office
- § 10-2127 - Powers of a generation and transmission cooperative
- § 10-2128 - Membership in a generation and transmission cooperative; voting; nonliability
- § 10-2129 - Annual and special meetings of members; notice; quorum
- § 10-2130 - Board of directors; term; compensation; quorum
- § 10-2131 - Officers of a generation and transmission cooperative
- § 10-2132 - Bylaws
- § 10-2133 - Nonprofit operation
- § 10-2134 - Disposition of property
- § 10-2135 - Recording of mortgages; effect
- § 10-2136 - Use of roads and streets; notice; protest
- § 10-2138 - Prohibition of duplication of service
- § 10-2139 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
- § 10-2141 - Conversion of cooperatives into generation and transmission cooperatives
- § 10-2143 - Dissolution
- § 10-2144 - Filing of articles
- § 10-2145 - Fees
- § 10-2146 - Exemption from securities regulations
- § 10-2147 - Exemption from antitrust statutes
- § 10-2148 - Taking of acknowledgments by officer or member
- § 10-2149 - Admission of foreign generation and transmission cooperatives
- § 10-2150 - Nonprofit electric generation and transmission cooperative corporations; annual report
- § 10-2151 - Expanded use for broadband service; notice; just compensation actions
- § 10-2152 - Annual assessments; gross intrastate revenue exception
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 20 - PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
Article 2 - Creation
- § 10-2210 - Election of professional corporation status
- § 10-2211 - Purposes
- § 10-2212 - General powers
- § 10-2213 - Rendering professional services; applicability
- § 10-2214 - Prohibited activities; authorized investments
- § 10-2215 - Corporation name
Article 3 - Shares
- § 10-2220 - Issuance of shares
- § 10-2221 - Shares and professional corporation status on shares
- § 10-2222 - Share transfer restriction
- § 10-2223 - Compulsory acquisition of shares after death, dissolution or disqualification of shareholder
- § 10-2224 - Acquisition procedure
- § 10-2225 - Court action to appraise shares
- § 10-2226 - Court costs and fees of experts
- § 10-2227 - Cancellation of disqualified shares
- § 10-2228 - Definition of disqualified shareholder
Article 4 - Governance
- § 10-2230 - Directors and officers
- § 10-2231 - Voting of shares
- § 10-2232 - Professional relationship
- § 10-2233 - Privileged communications
- § 10-2234 - Responsibility for professional services
Article 5 - Reorganization and Termination
- § 10-2240 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
- § 10-2241 - Termination of professional corporation status
- § 10-2242 - Judicial dissolution
Article 6 - Foreign Professional Corporations
- § 10-2244 - Authority to transact business
- § 10-2245 - Application for authority to transact business
- § 10-2246 - Revocation of certificate of authority
Article 8 - Transition Provisions Chapter 21 - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Formation and Operation
- § 10-2251 - Definitions
- § 10-2252 - Purposes
- § 10-2253 - General powers
- § 10-2254 - Capital stock
- § 10-2255 - Loans by members
- § 10-2256 - Authority to become shareholders
- § 10-2257 - Temporary board of directors
- § 10-2258 - Board of directors
- § 10-2259 - Method of incorporation
- § 10-2260 - Approval of articles of incorporation; incorporation
- § 10-2261 - Authorization to commence business
- § 10-2262 - Surplus and dividends
- § 10-2263 - Investment of excess funds
- § 10-2264 - Members as agents for corporations
- § 10-2265 - Supervision and reports
- § 10-2266 - Dissolution or liquidation
- § 10-2267 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-2401 - Application and effect of chapter
- § 10-2402 - Definitions
- § 10-2403 - Incorporation of benefit corporation
- § 10-2404 - Election of benefit corporation status
- § 10-2405 - Termination of benefit corporation status
- § 10-2406 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
Article 2 - Corporate Purposes Chapter 22 - BENEFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 3 - Accountability
- § 10-2431 - Standard of conduct for directors
- § 10-2432 - Standard of conduct for officers
- § 10-2433 - Right of action
Article 4 - Transparency Chapter 23 - CORPORATE TAKEOVERS
Article 1 - In General
- § 10-2701 - Definitions
- § 10-2702 - Duties of director
- § 10-2703 - Special meetings of shareholders
- § 10-2704 - Limitation on share repurchases; definition
- § 10-2705 - Compensation agreements
- § 10-2706 - Application
Article 2 - Control Share Acquisitions
- § 10-2721 - Control share acquisitions; exemption from article
- § 10-2722 - Information statement
- § 10-2723 - Meeting of shareholders
- § 10-2724 - Financing
- § 10-2725 - Voting rights
- § 10-2726 - Rights of action
- § 10-2727 - Redemption
Article 3 - Business Combinations
- § 10-2741 - Business combination with interested shareholder; approval by committee of the directors
- § 10-2742 - Requirements after three years
- § 10-2743 - Business combinations; exemptions
Article 1 - Short Title Chapter 24 - GENERAL PROVISIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 2 - Filing Documents and Fees-Nonprofit Corporations
- § 10-3120 - Filing requirements
- § 10-3121 - Forms
- § 10-3122 - Filing, service and copying fees; public access fund; expedited report filing and access; same day and next day services
- § 10-3123 - Effective time and date of document
- § 10-3124 - Correcting filed document; articles of incorporation; application for authority to conduct affairs
- § 10-3125 - Filing duty of commission
- § 10-3127 - Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
- § 10-3128 - Certificate of good standing
Article 3 - Arizona Corporation Commission Chapter 24 - GENERAL PROVISIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 4 - Definitions, Notice, Private Foundations, Judicial Relief and Religious Organizations
- § 10-3140 - Definitions
- § 10-3141 - Notice
- § 10-3150 - Private foundations; definition
- § 10-3160 - Judicial relief
- § 10-3180 - Religious corporations; constitutional protections
Article 1 - Incorporation
- § 10-3201 - Incorporators
- § 10-3202 - Articles of incorporation; violation; classification
- § 10-3203 - Incorporation
- § 10-3204 - Liability for noncorporate transactions
- § 10-3205 - Organization of corporation
- § 10-3206 - Bylaws
- § 10-3207 - Emergency bylaws
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-3301 - Purposes
- § 10-3302 - General powers
- § 10-3303 - Emergency powers
- § 10-3304 - Validity of actions
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 28 - OFFICE AND AGENT-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Place of Business and Agent
- § 10-3501 - Known place of business and statutory agent
- § 10-3502 - Change of known place of business and statutory agent
- § 10-3503 - Resignation of statutory agent
- § 10-3504 - Service on corporation
Article 1 - Admission of Members Chapter 29 - MEMBERS AND MEMBERSHIP-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 2 - Types of Memberships-Members' Rights and Obligations
- § 10-3610 - Difference in rights and obligations of members
- § 10-3611 - Transfers
- § 10-3612 - Member's liability to third parties
- § 10-3613 - Member's liability for dues, assessments and fees
- § 10-3614 - Creditor's action against member
Article 3 - Resignation and Termination
- § 10-3620 - Resignation
- § 10-3621 - Termination, expulsion and suspension
- § 10-3622 - Purchase of memberships
Article 4 - Derivative Suits
- § 10-3630 - Definitions
- § 10-3631 - Standing
- § 10-3632 - Demand
- § 10-3633 - Stay of proceedings
- § 10-3634 - Dismissal
- § 10-3635 - Discontinuance or settlement
- § 10-3636 - Payment of expenses
- § 10-3637 - Applicability to foreign corporations
Article 5 - Delegates Chapter 30 - MEMBERS' MEETINGS AND VOTING-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Meetings and Action Without Meetings
- § 10-3701 - Annual and regular meetings; exceptions
- § 10-3702 - Special meeting
- § 10-3703 - Court ordered meeting; costs; attorney fees
- § 10-3704 - Action by written consent; definition
- § 10-3705 - Notice of meeting
- § 10-3706 - Waiver of notice
- § 10-3707 - Record date; determining members entitled to notice and vote
- § 10-3708 - Action by written ballot; online voting
Article 2 - Voting
- § 10-3720 - Members' list for meeting
- § 10-3721 - Voting entitlement generally
- § 10-3722 - Quorum requirements
- § 10-3723 - Voting requirements
- § 10-3724 - Proxies
- § 10-3725 - Cumulative voting for directors
- § 10-3726 - Other methods of electing directors
- § 10-3727 - Corporation's acceptance of votes
Article 3 - Voting Agreement and Trusts Chapter 31 - DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Board of Directors
- § 10-3801 - Requirement for and duties of board
- § 10-3802 - Qualifications of directors
- § 10-3803 - Number of directors
- § 10-3804 - Election, designation and appointment of directors
- § 10-3805 - Terms of directors generally
- § 10-3806 - Staggered terms for directors
- § 10-3807 - Resignation of directors
- § 10-3808 - Removal of directors elected by members or directors
- § 10-3809 - Removal of designated or appointed directors
- § 10-3810 - Removal of directors by judicial proceeding
- § 10-3811 - Vacancy on board
- § 10-3812 - Compensation of directors
Article 2 - Meetings and Action of the Board
- § 10-3820 - Regular and special meetings
- § 10-3821 - Action without meeting
- § 10-3822 - Call and notice of meetings
- § 10-3823 - Waiver of notice
- § 10-3824 - Quorum and voting
- § 10-3825 - Committees of the board
Article 3 - Standards of Conduct Chapter 31 - DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 4 - Officers
- § 10-3840 - Officers
- § 10-3841 - Duties and authority of officers
- § 10-3842 - Standards of conduct for officers
- § 10-3843 - Resignation and removal of officers
- § 10-3844 - Contract rights of officers
- § 10-3845 - Officers' authority to execute documents
Article 5 - Indemnification
- § 10-3850 - Definitions
- § 10-3851 - Authority to indemnify
- § 10-3852 - Mandatory indemnification
- § 10-3853 - Advance for expenses
- § 10-3854 - Court ordered indemnification
- § 10-3855 - Determination and authorization of indemnification
- § 10-3856 - Indemnification of officers
- § 10-3857 - Insurance
- § 10-3858 - Application of article
Article 6 - Director's Conflicting Interest Transactions
- § 10-3860 - Definitions
- § 10-3861 - Judicial action
- § 10-3862 - Directors' action; definition
- § 10-3863 - Members' action; definition
- § 10-3864 - Conflict of interest policy; exceptions
Article 1 - Articles of Incorporation
- § 10-11001 - Authority to amend
- § 10-11002 - Amendment by board of directors
- § 10-11003 - Amendment by board of directors and members
- § 10-11004 - Class voting by members on amendments
- § 10-11006 - Articles of amendment
- § 10-11007 - Restated articles of incorporation
- § 10-11008 - Amendment pursuant to reorganization
- § 10-11009 - Effect of amendment and restatement
Article 2 - Bylaws
- § 10-11020 - Amendment by board of directors
- § 10-11021 - Amendment by board of directors or members
- § 10-11022 - Class voting by members on amendments
- § 10-11023 - Bylaw increasing quorum or voting requirement for members
- § 10-11024 - Bylaw increasing quorum or voting requirement for directors
Article 3 - Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
- § 10-11030 - Approval by third persons
- § 10-11031 - Amendment terminating members or redeeming or canceling memberships
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-11101 - Definitions
- § 10-11102 - Entity restructuring transactions
- § 10-11103 - Action on plan
- § 10-11105 - Statement of merger or interest exchange; publication or posting
- § 10-11108 - Requests, devises and gifts
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-11201 - Sale of assets in regular course of activities and mortgage of assets
- § 10-11202 - Sale of assets other than in regular course of activities
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-11251 - Definitions
- § 10-11252 - Scope; included transactions; excluded transactions
- § 10-11253 - Public hearing; notice; requirements; summary report
- § 10-11254 - Applicability
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 37 - DISSOLUTION-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Voluntary Dissolution
- § 10-11401 - Dissolution by incorporators or directors and third persons
- § 10-11402 - Dissolution by directors and third persons
- § 10-11403 - Articles of dissolution
- § 10-11404 - Revocation of dissolution
- § 10-11405 - Effect of dissolution
- § 10-11406 - Known claims against dissolved corporation
- § 10-11407 - Unknown claims against dissolved corporation
Article 2 - Administrative Dissolution
- § 10-11420 - Grounds for administrative dissolution
- § 10-11421 - Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution
- § 10-11422 - Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
Article 3 - Judicial Dissolution
- § 10-11430 - Grounds for judicial dissolution
- § 10-11431 - Procedure for judicial dissolution
- § 10-11432 - Receivership
- § 10-11433 - Decree of dissolution
Article 4 - Miscellaneous Chapter 38 - FOREIGN CORPORATIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS
Article 1 - Grant of Authority
- § 10-11501 - Authority to conduct affairs required
- § 10-11502 - Consequences of conducting affairs without authority
- § 10-11503 - Application for certificate of authority
- § 10-11504 - Delivery of changes; changes requiring amendment to application for authority
- § 10-11505 - Effect of grant of authority
- § 10-11506 - Corporate name of foreign corporation
- § 10-11507 - Known place of business and statutory agent of foreign corporation
- § 10-11508 - Change of known place of business or statutory agent of foreign corporation
- § 10-11509 - Resignation of statutory agent of foreign corporation
- § 10-11510 - Service on foreign corporation
Article 2 - Withdrawal
- § 10-11520 - Withdrawal of foreign corporation
- § 10-11521 - Withdrawal by directors or members; foreign corporations
Article 3 - Revocation of Certificate of Authority
- § 10-11530 - Grounds for revocation
- § 10-11531 - Procedure for and effect of revocation; reinstatement
Article 1 - Records
- § 10-11601 - Corporate records
- § 10-11602 - Inspection of records by members; applicability
- § 10-11603 - Scope of inspection rights; charge
- § 10-11604 - Court ordered inspection
- § 10-11605 - Limitations on use of membership list; applicability
Article 2 - Reports
- § 10-11620 - Financial statements for members
- § 10-11621 - Report of indemnification to members
- § 10-11622 - Annual report
- § 10-11623 - Statement of bankruptcy or receivership; interrogatories before subsequent incorporation; violation; classification; definition
Article 3 - Miscellaneous Provisions
- § 10-11630 - Certificate of good standing; license and registration renewal
- § 10-11631 - Civil liability for false statements
- § 10-11632 - Interrogatory or signature violations; corporate records; classification
- § 10-11633 - Interrogatories by the commission
- § 10-11634 - Information disclosed by interrogatories
- § 10-11635 - Certified copies received in evidence
- § 10-11636 - Civil liability for false or misleading filings; exceptions
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-11701 - Application to existing domestic corporations
- § 10-11702 - Application to qualified foreign corporations
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-11801 - Definitions
- § 10-11802 - Managing and investing institutional funds; standard of conduct
- § 10-11803 - Appropriation for expenditure or accumulation of endowment fund; construction
- § 10-11804 - Delegation of management and investment functions
- § 10-11805 - Release or modification of restrictions on management, investment or purpose
- § 10-11806 - Applicability
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 10-11901 - Purposes for which corporation sole may be formed
- § 10-11902 - Requirements for formation
- § 10-11903 - Articles of incorporation; amendment
- § 10-11904 - Powers of corporation sole
- § 10-11905 - Execution of instruments
- § 10-11906 - Succession of title and authority
- § 10-11907 - Succession of title to religious property held by person not incorporated as corporation sole
- § 10-11908 - Officer; director; law applicable to corporations sole
- § 10-11909 - Merger, interest exchange, conversion, domestication or division; definitions
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