Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-103-306

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record date: means the date established under chapter 16 or 17 on which a corporation determines the identity of its shareholders for purposes of chapters 11-27 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Share: means the unit into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201

The notice to the corporation‘s shareholders of any annual or special meeting at which the voting rights to be accorded shares acquired or to be acquired in a control share acquisition shall be directed to all shareholders of record of the corporation as of the record date set for such meeting, whether or not such shareholders shall be entitled to vote at such meeting, and shall include or be accompanied by a copy of the acquiring person‘s control share acquisition statement received by the corporation pursuant to this part.