490.1020  Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or shareholders.

1.  A corporation's board of directors may amend or repeal the corporation's bylaws unless either of the following apply:

a.  The articles of incorporation or this chapter reserve this power exclusively to the shareholders in whole or part.

b.  The shareholders in amending or repealing a particular bylaw provide expressly that the board of directors shall not amend or repeal that bylaw.

2.  A corporation's shareholders may amend or repeal the corporation's bylaws even though the bylaws may also be amended or repealed by its board of directors.

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 288, §118


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