35-2-528. Court-ordered meeting.
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35-2-528 . Court-ordered meeting.
(1)The district court for the judicial district of the county where a corporation's principal office is located or, if the principal office is not located in this state, in Lewis and Clark County may summarily order a meeting to be held:
(a)on application of a member or other person entitled to participate in an annual or regular meeting and, in the case of a public benefit corporation, the attorney general, if an annual meeting was not held within the earlier of 6 months after the end of the corporation's fiscal year or 15 months after its last annual meeting;
(b)on application of a member or other person entitled to participate in a regular meeting and, in the case of a public benefit corporation, the attorney general, if a regular meeting is not held within 40 days after the date it was required to be held; or
(c)on application of a member who signed a demand for a special meeting valid under 35-2-527 , a person entitled to call a special meeting and, in the case of a public benefit corporation, the attorney general, if:
(i)notice of the special meeting was not given within 30 days after the date the demand was delivered to a corporate officer; or
(ii)the special meeting was not held in accordance with the notice.
(2)The court may fix the time and place of the meeting, specify a record date for determining members entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting, prescribe the form and content of the meeting notice, fix the quorum required for specific matters to be considered at the meeting or direct that the votes represented at the meeting constitute a quorum for action on those matters, and enter other orders necessary to accomplish the purpose or purposes of the meeting.
(3)If the court orders a meeting, it may also order the corporation to pay the member's costs, including reasonable attorney fees, incurred to obtain the order.