(a) A shareholder‘s agent or attorney has the same inspection and copying rights as the shareholder the agent or attorney represents.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-26-103

  • 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.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
(b) The right to copy records under § 48-26-102 includes, if reasonable, the right to receive copies made by photographic, xerographic, or other means.
(c) The corporation may impose a reasonable charge, covering the costs of labor and material, for copies of any documents provided to the shareholder. The charge may not exceed the estimated cost of production or reproduction of the records.
(d) The corporation may comply with a shareholder’s demand to inspect the record of shareholders under § 48-26-102(b)(3) by providing the shareholder with a list of its shareholders that was compiled no earlier than the date of the shareholder’s demand.
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