Missouri Laws 355.271 – List of members
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 vote at the annual meeting. The list must show the address and number of votes each member is entitled to vote at the meeting.
2. 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. A member, a member’s agent or a member’s attorney is entitled on written demand to inspect the list, at a reasonable time, during the period it is available for inspection.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 355.271
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Corporation: public benefit and mutual benefit corporations. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Member: without regard to what a person is called in the articles or bylaws, any person or persons who on more than one occasion, pursuant to a provision of a corporation's articles or bylaws, have the right to vote for the election of a director or directors. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Membership: the rights and obligations a member or members have pursuant to a corporation's articles, bylaws and this chapter. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Principal office: the office, in or out of this state, so designated in the corporate registration report filed pursuant to section 355. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Record date: the date established pursuant to sections 355. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- State: when referring to a part of the United States, includes a state or commonwealth, and its agencies and governmental subdivisions, and any territory or insular possession, and its agencies and governmental subdivisions, of the United States. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Vote: includes authorization by written ballot and written consent. See Missouri Laws 355.066
3. The corporation shall make the list of members available at the meeting, and any member, a member’s agent or attorney is entitled to inspect the list at any time during the meeting or any adjournment.
4. If the 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, the circuit court of the county where a corporation’s principal office, or, if none in this state, its registered office, is located, on application of the member, may summarily order the inspection and may postpone the meeting for which the list was prepared until the inspection is complete, and may order the corporation to pay the member’s costs, including reasonable counsel fees, incurred to obtain the order.
5. Unless a written demand to inspect a membership list has been made under subsection 2 of this section 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.