(A) Unless the articles or the regulations provide for a different term, each director shall hold office until the next annual meeting of voting members and until the director’s successor is elected, or until the director’s earlier resignation, removal from office, or death.

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Terms Used In Ohio Code 1702.28

  • Articles: includes original articles of incorporation, agreements of merger or consolidation if and only to the extent that articles of incorporation are adopted or amended in the agreements, amended articles, and amendments to any of these, and, in the case of a corporation created before September 1, 1851, the special charter and any amendments to it made by special act of the general assembly or pursuant to general law. See Ohio Code 1702.01
  • Directors: means the persons vested with the authority to conduct the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name, such as trustees, by which they are designated. See Ohio Code 1702.01

(B) The articles or the regulations may provide for the classification of directors into classes and that the terms of office of the several classes need not be uniform.