504.711 Members’ list for meeting.
1. After fixing a record date for a notice of a meeting, a corporation shall prepare an
alphabetical list of the names of all its members who are entitled to notice of the meeting.
The list must show the address of each member and number of votes each member is entitled
to cast at the meeting. The corporation shall prepare on a current basis through the time of
the membership meeting a list of members, if any, who are entitled to vote at the meeting,
but not entitled to notice of the meeting. This list shall be prepared on the same basis as and
be part of the list of members.
2. Except as set forth in section 504.1602, subsection 6, the list of members must be
available for inspection by any member for the purpose of communication with other
members concerning the meeting, beginning two business days after notice is given of
the meeting for which the list was prepared and continuing through the meeting, at the
corporation’s principal office or at a reasonable place identified in the meeting notice in the
city where the meeting will be held. Except as set forth in section 504.1602, subsection 6, a
member, a member’s agent, or a member’s attorney is entitled on written demand to inspect
and, subject to the limitations of section 504.1602, subsection 3, and section 504.1605, to
copy the list, at a reasonable time and at the member’s expense, during the period it is
available for inspection.
3. Except as set forth in section 504.1602, subsection 6, a corporation shall make the list
of members available at the meeting, and any member, a member’s agent, or a member’s
attorney is entitled to inspect the list at any time during the meeting or any adjournment.
4. Except as set forth in section 504.1602, subsection 6, if a corporation refuses to allow a
member, a member’s agent, or a member’s attorney to inspect the list of members before or
at the meeting or copy the list as permitted by subsection 2, the district court of the county
where a corporation’s principal office is located or, if none is located in this state, where its
registered office is located, on application of the member, may summarily order the inspection
or copying of the membership list at the corporation’s expense, may postpone the meeting
for which the list was prepared until the inspection or copying is complete, and may order the
corporation to pay the member’s costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred to obtain
the order.
5. Unless a written demand to inspect and copy a membership list has been made under
subsection 2 prior to the membership meeting and a corporation improperly refuses to comply
with the demand, refusal or failure to comply with this section does not affect the validity of
action taken at the meeting.
6. The articles or bylaws of a religious corporation may limit or abolish the rights of a
member under this section to inspect and copy any corporate record.
2004 Acts, ch 1049, §63, 192
Referred to in §504.1602
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