Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) or unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise, each outstanding share, regardless of class, is entitled to one (1) vote on each matter voted on at a shareholders’ meeting.

     (b) Absent special circumstances, the shares of a corporation are not entitled to vote if the shares are owned, directly or indirectly, by a second corporation, domestic or foreign, and the corporation owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the shares entitled to vote for directors of the second corporation.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 28-13-6-2

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
     (c) Subsection (b) does not limit the power of a corporation to vote any shares, including its own shares, held by the corporation in or for an employee benefit plan or in any other fiduciary capacity.

     (d) Redeemable shares are not entitled to vote after notice of redemption is mailed to the holders and a sum sufficient to redeem the shares has been deposited with a corporation, trust company, or other financial institution under an irrevocable obligation to pay the holders the redemption price on surrender of the shares.

     (e) A mutual savings association or mutual savings bank may establish the rights of its voting parties in its articles of incorporation or articles of conversion.

     (f) A member or a shareholder of a mutual savings bank or a mutual savings association that has not established the rights of its voting parties under subsection (e) is entitled at a members’ or shareholders’ meeting to cast one (1) vote for each one hundred dollars ($100) or fraction of one hundred dollars ($100) of the total amount paid on all deposits in the member’s name or all shares standing in the shareholder’s name on the books of the mutual savings bank or mutual savings association. Each borrowing member is entitled to cast one (1) vote as a borrower. A person may not, except as proxy, cast more than fifty (50) votes at an election held by the mutual savings bank or mutual savings association.

As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163. Amended by P.L.42-1993, SEC.94; P.L.176-1996, SEC.29; P.L.192-1997, SEC.27; P.L.79-1998, SEC.90; P.L.215-1999, SEC.9.

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