32-4-206. Board of directors. (1) The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed and conducted by a board of directors, a president and treasurer, and other officers and agents as the corporation by its bylaws shall authorize.
(2) The board of directors shall consist of a number, not less than nine, as determined in the first instance by the incorporators and thereafter annually by the stockholders of the corporation, provided that any state, county, or municipal agency or authority that has made a grant or loan to the corporation shall have at least one seat on the board of directors and additional seats representative of its proportional investment in the corporation.
(3) The directors need not be stockholders in the corporation.
(4) The board of directors may exercise all the powers of the corporation except as are conferred by law or by the bylaws of the corporation upon the stockholders and shall choose and appoint all the agents and officers of the corporation and fill all vacancies in the office of director.
(5) The board of directors shall be elected in the first instance by the incorporators and thereafter at each annual meeting of the corporation or, if no annual meeting is held in any year at the time fixed by the bylaws, at a special meeting held in lieu of the annual meeting. At each annual meeting or at each special meeting held in lieu of the annual meeting, the stockholders shall elect the directors. The directors shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the corporation or special meeting held in lieu of the annual meeting after their election and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless sooner removed in accordance with the provisions of the bylaws.
(6) Directors and officers are not responsible for losses unless the losses were occasioned by the willful misconduct of the directors and officers.
History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 128, L. 1969; R.C.M. 1947, 15-2606; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 91, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 497, L. 1989.
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