1. NRS 78.411 to 78.444, inclusive, do not apply to any combination of a resident domestic corporation:

(a) Which was not, as of the date that the person first becomes an interested stockholder, a publicly traded corporation, unless the corporation’s articles of incorporation provide otherwise.

(b) Whose articles of incorporation have been amended to provide that the resident domestic corporation is subject to NRS 78.411 to 78.444, inclusive, and which was not a publicly traded corporation on the effective date of the amendment, if the combination is with a person who first became an interested stockholder before the effective date of the amendment.

(c) With an interested stockholder of the resident domestic corporation after the expiration of 4 years after the person first became an interested stockholder.

2. The articles of incorporation of a resident domestic corporation may impose on combinations of the resident domestic corporation stricter requirements than the requirements of NRS 78.411 to 78.444, inclusive.

3. The provisions of NRS 78.411 to 78.444, inclusive, do not restrict the directors of a resident domestic corporation from taking action to protect the interests of the corporation and its stockholders, including, without limitation, adopting or signing plans, arrangements or instruments that grant or deny rights, privileges, power or authority to a holder or holders of a specified number of shares or percentage of share ownership or voting power.

(Added to NRS by 1991, 1206; A 2003, 3101; 2011, 2786; 2015, 3230)