491.55  Right to vote stock--attachment.

Every executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee shall represent the stock in the person's hands at all corporate meetings, and may vote the same as a stockholder.

Every person who shall pledge the person's stock, in the absence of a written agreement to the contrary, may represent the same at all such meetings and vote accordingly.

The owner of corporate stock levied upon by attachment or other proceeding shall have the right to vote the same at all corporate meetings, until such time as the owner shall have been divested of title thereto by execution sale.

Nothing contained in this section shall in any manner conflict with any provision in the articles of incorporation, or the bylaws of the corporation issuing the stock.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 1641-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 8391; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 491.55]


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