Texas Business Organizations Code 101.607 – Class or Group of Members or Managers
(a) The company agreement may:
(1) establish classes or groups of one or more members or managers associated with a protected series or registered series each of which has certain express relative rights, powers, and duties, including voting rights; and
(2) provide for the manner of establishing additional classes or groups of one or more members or managers associated with the protected series or registered series each of which has certain express rights, powers, and duties, including providing for voting rights and rights, powers, and duties senior to existing classes and groups of members or managers associated with the protected series or registered series.
(b) The company agreement may provide for the taking of an action without the vote or approval of any member or manager or class or group of members or managers, including the amendment of the company agreement or an action to create under the provisions of the company agreement a class or group of the protected series or registered series of membership interests that was not previously outstanding.
Terms Used In Texas Business Organizations Code 101.607
- 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.
- Manager: means a person designated as a manager of a limited liability company that is not managed by members of the company. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Member: means :
(A) in the case of a limited liability company, a person who has become, and has not ceased to be, a member in the limited liability company as provided by its governing documents or this code;
(B) in the case of a nonprofit corporation, a person who has membership rights in the nonprofit corporation under its governing documents;
(C) in the case of a cooperative association, a member of a nonshare or share association;
(D) in the case of a nonprofit association, a person who has membership rights in the nonprofit association under its governing documents; or
(E) in the case of a professional association, a person who has membership rights in the professional association under its governing documents. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002 - Protected series: means a series of a domestic limited liability company that is established as a protected series in accordance with § 101. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- Registered series: means a series of a domestic limited liability company that is formed as a registered series in accordance with § 101. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
(c) The company agreement may provide that:
(1) all or certain identified members or managers or a specified class or group of the members or managers associated with a protected series or registered series have the right to vote on any matter separately or with all or any class or group of the members or managers associated with the protected series or registered series;
(2) any member or class or group of members associated with a protected series or registered series has no voting rights; and
(3) voting by members or managers associated with a protected series or registered series is on a per capita, number, financial interest, class, group, or any other basis.