2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 12 — Corporations and associations
RS 12:140.14 — Shareholder meeting to determine control share voting rights
§140.14. Shareholder meeting to determine control share voting rights
A. If the acquiring person so requests at the time of delivery of an acquiring person statement and gives an undertaking to pay the corporation's expenses of a special meeting, within ten days thereafter, the directors of the issuing public corporation shall call a special meeting of shareholders of the issuing public corporation for the purpose of considering the voting rights to be accorded the shares acquired or to be acquired in the control share acquisition.
B. Unless the acquiring person agrees in writing to another date, the special meeting of shareholders shall be held within fifty days after receipt by the issuing public corporation of the request.
C. If no request is made, the voting rights to be accorded the shares acquired in the control share acquisition shall be presented to the next special or annual meeting of shareholders.
D. If the acquiring person so requests in writing at the time of delivery of the acquiring person statement, the special meeting shall not be held sooner than thirty days after receipt by the issuing public corporation of the acquiring person statement.
Acts 1988, No. 173, §1, eff. June 29, 1988.
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