Iowa Code 490.723 – Shares held by intermediaries and nominees
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1. A corporation‘s board of directors may establish a procedure under which a person on whose behalf shares are registered in the name of an intermediary or nominee may elect to be treated by the corporation as the record shareholder by filing with the corporation a beneficial ownership certificate. The terms, conditions, and limitations of this treatment shall be specified in the procedure. To the extent such person is treated under such procedure as having rights or privileges that the record shareholder otherwise would have, the record shareholder shall not have those rights or privileges.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 490.723
- 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.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Person: means a person as defined in section 4. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Record shareholder: means any of the following:a. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Shareholder: means a record shareholder. See Iowa Code 490.140
- Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a domestic or foreign corporation are divided. See Iowa Code 490.140
2. The procedure must specify all of the following:a. The types of intermediaries or nominees to which it applies.b. The rights or privileges that the corporation recognizes in a person with respect to whom a beneficial ownership certificate is filed.c. The manner in which the procedure is selected which must include that the beneficial ownership certificate be signed or assented to by or on behalf of the record shareholder and the person on whose behalf the shares are held.d. The information that must be provided when the procedure is selected.e. The period for which selection of the procedure is effective.f. Requirements for notice to the corporation with respect to the arrangement.g. The form and contents of the beneficial ownership certificate.3. The procedure may specify any other aspects of the rights and duties created by the filing of a beneficial ownership certificate.