490.1602 Inspection of records by shareholders.

1. A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at the corporation’s principal office, any of the records of the corporation described in section 490.1601, subsection 5, if the shareholder gives the corporation signed written notice of the shareholder’s demand at least five business days before the date on which the shareholder wishes to inspect and copy.

2. For any meeting of shareholders for which the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting is different than the record date for notice of the meeting, any person who becomes a shareholder subsequent to the record date for notice of the meeting and is entitled to vote at the meeting is entitled to obtain from the corporation upon request the notice and any other information provided by the corporation to shareholders in connection with the meeting, unless the corporation has made such information generally available to shareholders by posting it on its internet site or by other generally recognized means. Failure of a corporation to provide such information does not affect the validity of action taken at the meeting.

3. A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at a reasonable location specified by the corporation, any of the following records of the corporation if the shareholder meets the requirements of subsection 4 and gives the corporation a signed written notice of the shareholder’s demand at least five business days before the date on which the shareholder wishes to inspect and copy any of the following:

a. Excerpts from minutes of any meeting of the board of directors or a committee of the board of directors while acting in place of the board of directors on behalf of the corporation, minutes of any meeting of the shareholders, and records of action taken by the shareholders, board of directors, or a committee of the board without a meeting, to the extent not subject to inspection under subsection 1.

b. Accounting records of the corporation.

c. The record of shareholders.

4. A shareholder may inspect and copy the records described in subsection 3 only if all of the following apply:

a. The shareholder’s demand is made in good faith and for a proper purpose.

b. The shareholder describes with reasonable particularity the shareholder’s purpose and the records the shareholder desires to inspect.

c. The records are directly connected with the shareholder’s purpose.

5. The right of inspection granted by this section shall not be abolished or limited by a corporation’s articles of incorporation or bylaws.

6. This section does not affect any of the following:

a. The right of a shareholder to inspect records under section 490.720 or, if the shareholder is in litigation with the corporation, to the same extent as any other litigant.

b. The power of a court, independently of this chapter, to compel the production of corporate records for examination.

7. For purposes of this section, “shareholder” includes a beneficial owner whose shares are held in a voting trust or by a nominee on the shareholder’s behalf.

89 Acts, ch 288, §176; 2013 Acts, ch 31, §75, 82

Referred to in §490.720, 490.1603, 490.1604