DC Code § 29-306.70 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 29 - Business Organizations. [Enacted title]|Chapter 3 - Business Corporations|Subchapter VI - Directors and Officers|Part F - Directors’ Conflicting Interest Transactions|§ 29-306.70. Definitions

For the purposes of this part, the term: (1) “Control”, including the term “controlled by”, means: (A) Having the power, directly or indirectly, to elect or remove a majority of the members of the board of directors or other governing body of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting shares or interests, by contract, or otherwise; or (B) Being subject to a majority of the risk of loss from the entity’s activities or entitled to receive a majority of the entity’s residual returns. (2) “Director’s conflicting interest transaction” means a transaction effected or proposed to be effected by the corporation, or by an entity controlled by the corporation: (A) To which, at the relevant time, the director is a party; (B) Respecting which, at the relevant time, the director had knowledge and a material financial interest known to the director; or (C) Respecting which, at the relevant time, the director knew that a related person was a party or had a material financial interest. (3) “Fair to the corporation” means, for the purposes of § 29-306.71(b)(3), that the transaction as a whole was beneficial to the corporation, taking into appropriate account whether it was: (A) Fair in terms of the director’s dealings with the corporation; and (B) Comparable to what might have been obtainable in an arm’s length transaction, given the consideration paid or received by the corporation. (4) “Material financial interest” means a financial interest in a transaction that would reasonably be expected to impair the objectivity of the director’s judgment when participating in action on the authorization of the transaction. (5) “Related person” means: (A) The director’s spouse; (B) A child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, step parent, grandparent, sibling, step sibling, half sibling, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew, or spouse of any thereof, of the director or of the director’s spouse; (C) An individual living in the same home as the director; (D) An entity, other than the corporation or an entity controlled by the corporation, controlled by the director or any person specified above in this paragraph; (E) A domestic or foreign: (i) Business or nonprofit corporation, other than the corporation or an entity controlled by the corporation, of which the director is a governor; (ii) Unincorporated entity of which the director is a governor or a member of the governing body; or (iii) Individual, trust, or estate for whom or of which the director is a trustee, guardian, personal representative, or like fiduciary; or (F) A person that is, or an entity that is controlled by, an employer of the director. (6) “Relevant time” means: (A) The time at which directors’ action respecting the transaction is taken in compliance with § 29-306.72; or (B) If the transaction is not brought before the board of directors of the corporation, or its committee, for action under § 29-306.72, at the time the corporation, or an entity controlled by the corporation, becomes legally obligated to consummate the transaction. (7) “Required disclosure” means disclosure of: (A) The existence and nature of the director’s conflicting interest; and (B) All facts known to the director respecting the subject matter of the transaction that a director free of such conflicting interest would reasonably believe to be material in deciding whether to proceed with the transaction.  (July 2, 2011, D.C. Law 18-378, § 2, 58 DCR 1720.)  Section References This section is referenced in § 29-306.72, § 29-306.73, and § 29-306.80.