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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.3145

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
  • Member capital: means the assets that a member must provide by payment, transfer, or allocation of net savings to a cooperative as a condition of admission to or retention of membership and with respect to which the member has rights to dividends, redemption, or distributions on dissolution under this chapter. See Michigan Laws 450.3104
  Notwithstanding section 611(4), 703a(2)(d), 753(4), or 804(6), unless the articles of incorporation provide for a higher vote for passage, amendment of the articles of incorporation, amendment of the bylaws that alters member voting rights or member capital, merger, disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the corporation, or dissolution require approval by the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by members that are eligible to vote on that matter, and if a class is eligible to vote on that matter as a class, the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by members of that class. An action described in this section shall be taken at a meeting called according to the notice provisions of section 404.