490.1020  Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or shareholders.

1.  A corporation's shareholders may amend or repeal the corporation's bylaws.

2.  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 section 490.1021 reserve that power exclusively to the shareholders in whole or in part.

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

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 288, §118; 2002 Acts, ch 1154, §63, 125


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