(a)

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-103-305

  • board of directors: means the governing board of a corporation, whether denominated the board of directors or otherwise, except that no person or group of persons is the board of directors because of powers delegated to that person or group pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
  • Control: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a person whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Control share acquisition: means the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any person of ownership of, or the power to direct the exercise of voting power with respect to, issued and outstanding control shares. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • control shares: includes such shares only to the extent to which their acquisition causes the acquiring person to exceed any threshold of voting power set forth above for which approval has not been obtained previously pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • 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.
  • Corporation: means a corporation organized under the laws of Tennessee which has become subject to this part pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery, and, if authorized in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity and any "associate" (as defined in subdivision (1)) of such individual or entity. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Share: means the unit into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • written: means any information in the form of a document. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
(1) If the acquiring person so demands contemporaneously with the delivery of a control share acquisition statement, the board of directors of the corporation, within twenty (20) days of the receipt of the demand, shall call a special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of considering the voting rights to be accorded the control shares acquired or to be acquired in the control share acquisition. The demand will not be effective unless accompanied by an undertaking to pay the corporation‘s reasonable expenses in connection with noticing and holding the special meeting, which expenses shall not include any expenses of the corporation in opposing a resolution to accord voting rights to the acquiring person.
(2) Promptly after the board has called the special meeting, the corporation shall give written notice of the special meeting to shareholders. Such notice shall be given not less than twenty (20) days before the date of the special meeting.
(3) Unless the acquiring person and the corporation shall agree in writing to a later date, the special meeting shall be held not more than fifty (50) days after the receipt by the corporation of the demand. If the acquiring person so requests in the demand, the special meeting will be held no sooner than thirty (30) days after receipt by the corporation of the demand.
(b) If no demand respecting a special meeting of the corporation’s shareholders is made in accordance with subsection (a), consideration of the voting rights to be accorded the shares acquired or to be acquired in the control share acquisition shall be presented at the next annual or special meeting of the corporation’s shareholders as to which notice has not been given prior to the receipt by the corporation of the control share acquisition statement.
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