Nevada Revised Statutes 78B.190 – Actions or claims against benefit corporations, directors or officers: Limitations; benefit enforcement proceedings; award of attorney’s fees and expenses
1. Except in a benefit enforcement proceeding, no person may bring an action or assert a claim against a benefit corporation or its directors or officers with respect to:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 78B.190
- 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.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- 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.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
(a) Failure to pursue or create general public benefit or any specific public benefit identified in the articles of incorporation of a benefit corporation pursuant to NRS 78B.140; or
(b) A violation of an obligation, duty or standard of conduct under this chapter.
2. A benefit enforcement proceeding may be commenced or maintained only:
(a) Directly by the benefit corporation; or
(b) Derivatively by:
(1) A shareholder who owned beneficially or of record at least 2 percent of the total number of shares of a class or series outstanding at the time of the act or omission complained of;
(2) A director;
(3) A person or group of persons that owns beneficially or of record 5 percent or more of the equity interests in an entity of which the benefit corporation is a subsidiary at the time of the act or omission complained of; or
(4) Any other person authorized in the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the benefit corporation to commence and maintain a benefit enforcement proceeding.
3. A benefit corporation is not liable for monetary damages under this chapter for any failure of the benefit corporation to create general public benefit or any specific public benefit identified in the articles of incorporation of the benefit corporation pursuant to NRS 78B.140.
4. If the court in a benefit enforcement proceeding finds that a failure to comply with this chapter was without justification, the court may award an amount sufficient to reimburse the plaintiff for the reasonable expenses incurred by the plaintiff, including attorney’s fees and expenses, in connection with the benefit enforcement proceeding.