Iowa Code 504.304 – Ultra vires
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
1. Except as provided in subsection 2, the validity of corporate action shall not be challenged on the ground that the corporation lacks or lacked power to act.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 504.304
- Corporation: means a public benefit, mutual benefit, or religious corporation. See Iowa Code 504.141
- 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: means a person who on more than one occasion, pursuant to the provisions of a corporation's articles or bylaws, has a right to vote for the election of a director or directors of a corporation, irrespective of how a member is defined in the articles or bylaws of the corporation. See Iowa Code 504.141
- Proceeding: includes a civil suit and criminal, administrative, or investigatory actions. See Iowa Code 504.141
- Public benefit corporation: means a domestic or foreign corporation that is required to be a public benefit corporation pursuant to section 504. See Iowa Code 504.141
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
2. A corporation‘s power to act may be challenged in a proceeding against the corporation to enjoin an act when a third party has not acquired rights. The proceeding may be brought by the attorney general, a director, or by a member or members in a derivative proceeding.
3. A corporation’s power to act may be challenged in a proceeding against an incumbent or former director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation. The proceeding may be brought by a director, the corporation, directly, derivatively, or through a receiver, a trustee or other legal representative, or in the case of a public benefit corporation, by the attorney general.