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IN Code § 28-13-5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-1. Annual Meeting Requisites

Sec. 1. (a) A corporation must hold a meeting of the shareholders annually at a time stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws.(b) Annual meetings of shareholders shall be held at the principal office of the corporation, or in the city, town, or county in which the principal office is located at the place stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws. If no place is stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws, annual meetings shall be held at the corporation's principal office.(c) The failure to hold an annual meeting at the time stated in or fixed in accordance with a corporation's bylaws does not affect the validity of any action taken by the corporation.(d) If the articles of incorporation or bylaws so provide, any or all shareholders may participate in an annual shareholders' meeting by, or through the use of, any means of communication by which all shareholders participating may simultaneously communicate with each other during the meeting. A shareholder participating in a meeting by this means is considered to be present in person at the meeting.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-2. Special Meeting; Corporations With More Than 50 Shareholders

Sec. 2. (a) A corporation with more than fifty (50) shareholders must hold a special meeting of shareholders on call of the corporation's board of directors or the person or persons, including shareholders or officers, specifically authorized to do so by the articles of incorporation or bylaws.(b) If the articles of incorporation require the holding of a special meeting on the demand of the corporation's shareholders, but do not specify the percentage of votes entitled to be cast on an issue necessary to demand a special meeting, the board of directors may establish the percentage in the corporation's bylaws. Absent adoption of a bylaw provision, the demand for a special meeting must be made by the holders of all of the votes entitled to be cast on an issue.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-3. Special Meeting; Corporations of 50 or Fewer Shareholders

Sec. 3. A corporation with not more than fifty (50) shareholders must hold a special meeting of shareholders as follows:(1) On call of the corporation's board of directors or the person or persons, including shareholders or officers, specifically authorized to do so by the articles of incorporation or bylaws.(2) If the holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of all the votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered at the proposed special meeting sign, date, and deliver to the corporation's secretary one (1) or more written demands for the meeting describing the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be held.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-4. Special Meeting Requisites and Procedure

Sec. 4. (a) Special meetings of shareholders shall be held at the principal office of the corporation, or in the city, town, or county in which the principal office is located at the place stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws. If no place is stated or fixed in accordance with the bylaws, special meetings shall be held at the corporation's principal office.(b) Only business within the purpose or purposes described in the meeting notice required by section 7 of this chapter may be conducted at a special shareholders' meeting.(c) If the articles of incorporation or bylaws so provide, any or all shareholders may participate in a special meeting of shareholders by, or through the use of, any means of communication by which all shareholders participating may simultaneously communicate with each other during the meeting. A shareholder participating in a meeting by this means is considered to be present in person at the meeting.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-5. Court Ordered Meeting; Requisites and Procedure

Sec. 5. (a) The circuit or superior court of the county where a corporation's principal office is located may order a meeting to be held and may fix the time and place of the meeting.(b) A meeting ordered under this section shall be conducted in accordance with the corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws:(1) on application of any shareholder of the corporation entitled to participate in an annual meeting if an annual meeting was not held within the earlier of six (6) months after the end of the corporation's fiscal year or fifteen (15) months after its last annual meeting; or(2) on application of a shareholder who signed a demand for a special meeting valid under section 2 of this chapter if:(A) notice of the special meeting was not given within sixty (60) days after the date the demand was delivered to the corporation's secretary; or(B) the special meeting was not held in accordance with the notice.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-6. Action Taken Without Meeting; Consent of Voting Shareholders

Sec. 6. (a) Action required or permitted by this article to be taken at a shareholders' meeting may be taken without a meeting if the action is taken by all the shareholders entitled to vote on the action. The action must be evidenced by at least one (1) written consent describing the action taken, signed by all the shareholders entitled to vote on the action, and delivered to the corporation for inclusion in the minutes or filing with the corporation records.(b) If not otherwise determined under section 11 of this chapter, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to take action without a meeting is the date the first shareholder signs the consent under subsection (a).(c) Action taken under this section is effective when the last shareholder signs the consent, unless the consent specifies a different prior or subsequent effective date.(d) A consent signed under this section has the effect of a meeting vote and may be described as such in any document.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-7. Action With Unanimous Consent of Voting Shareholders; Notice to Nonvoting Shareholders

Sec. 7. If this article requires that notice of proposed action be given to nonvoting shareholders and the action is to be taken by unanimous consent of the voting shareholders, the corporation must give its nonvoting shareholders written notice of the proposed action at least ten (10) days before the action is taken. The notice must contain or be accompanied by the same material that under this article would have been required to be sent to nonvoting shareholders in a notice of meeting at which the proposed action would have been submitted to the shareholders for action.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-8. Notice of Annual and Special Shareholders' Meeting; Prerequisites

Sec. 8. (a) A corporation shall notify shareholders of the date, time, and place of each annual and special shareholders' meeting not less than ten (10) or more than sixty (60) days before the meeting date. Unless this article or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, the corporation is required to give notice only to shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting.(b) Unless this article or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, notice of an annual meeting need not include a description of the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.(c) Notice of a special meeting must include a description of the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.(d) If not otherwise fixed under section 11 of this chapter, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at an annual or special shareholders' meeting is the close of business on the day before the first notice is delivered to shareholders.(e) This subsection applies only to a corporation that is a building and loan association or a mutual savings bank. Notice of the annual or a special meeting of the shareholders may be given by publication of the notice. Notice under this subsection must satisfy all of the following:(1) The notice must be published one (1) time at least ten (10) days before the date of the meeting.(2) The notice must be published in one (1) of the following:(A) A newspaper of general circulation in the city or town in which the principal office of the corporation is located.(B) If publication cannot be made under clause (A), publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the principal office of the corporation is located.(C) If publication cannot be made under clause (A) or (B), publication in a newspaper published closest to the location of the principal office of the corporation.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163. Amended by P.L.42-1993, SEC.93.
IN Code § 28-13-5-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-9. Adjournment of Annual or Special Shareholders' Meeting; Notice

Sec. 9. Unless the bylaws require otherwise, if an annual or special shareholders' meeting is adjourned to a different date, time, or place, notice need not be given of the new date, time, or place if the new date, time, or place is announced at the meeting before adjournment. If a new record date for the adjourned meeting is or must be fixed under section 11 of this chapter, notice of the adjourned meeting must be given under this section to persons who are shareholders as of the new record date.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-10. Waiver by Shareholder Entitled to Notice of Meeting; Effect of Attendance at Meeting

Sec. 10. (a) A shareholder may waive any notice required by this article, the articles of incorporation, or bylaws before or after the date and time stated in the notice. The waiver by the shareholder entitled to the notice must be in writing and be delivered to the corporation for inclusion in the minutes or filing with the corporate records.(b) A shareholder's attendance at a meeting:(1) waives objection to lack of notice or defective notice of the meeting, unless the shareholder at the beginning of the meeting objects to holding the meeting or transacting business at the meeting; and(2) waives objection to consideration of a particular matter at the meeting that is not within the purpose or purposes described in the meeting notice, unless the shareholder objects to considering the matter when it is presented.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-5-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 5. Meetings of Shareholders|28-13-5-11. Record Date; Fixing for Shareholder Meeting or Action; Adjournment by Order of Court

Sec. 11. (a) The bylaws may fix or provide the manner of fixing the record date for at least one (1) voting group to determine the shareholders entitled to notice of a shareholders' meeting, to demand a special meeting, to vote, or to take any other action. If the bylaws do not fix or provide for fixing a record date, the board of directors of the corporation may fix a future date as the record date.(b) A record date fixed under this section may not be more than seventy (70) days before the meeting or action requiring a determination of shareholders.(c) A determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a shareholders' meeting is effective for any adjournment of the meeting unless the board of directors fixes a new record date. The board of directors must fix a new record date if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the date fixed for the original meeting.(d) If a court orders a meeting adjourned to a date more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the date fixed for the original meeting, the court may:(1) provide that the original record date continues in effect; or(2) fix a new record date.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-6-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 6. Voting by Shareholders|28-13-6-1. Shareholders' List; Requisites and Necessity; Inspection and Copying

Sec. 1. (a) After fixing a record date for a meeting, a corporation shall prepare an alphabetical list of the names of all the corporation's shareholders who are entitled to notice of a shareholders' meeting. The list must:(1) be arranged by voting group;(2) be arranged by class or series of shares within each voting group; and(3) show the address of and number of shares held by each shareholder.(b) The shareholders' list must be available for inspection by any shareholder entitled to vote at the meeting, beginning five (5) business days before the date of the meeting for which the list was prepared and continuing through the meeting, at the corporation's principal office or at a place identified in the meeting notice in the city where the meeting will be held. A shareholder, or the shareholder's agent or attorney authorized in writing, is entitled on written demand to inspect and to copy the list, during regular business hours and at the shareholder's expense, during the period it is available for inspection if the following requirements are met:(1) The shareholder's demand is made in good faith and for a proper purpose.(2) The shareholder describes with reasonable particularity the shareholder's purpose and the records the shareholder desires to inspect.(3) The records are directly connected with the shareholder's purpose.(c) The corporation shall make the shareholders' list available at the meeting, and any shareholder, or the shareholder's agent or attorney authorized in writing, is entitled to inspect the list at any time during the meeting or any adjournment.(d) If the corporation refuses to allow a shareholder, or the shareholder's agent or attorney authorized in writing, to inspect or copy the shareholders' list during the period specified in subsection (b), the circuit or superior court of the county where a corporation's principal office is located, on application of the shareholder, may order the inspection or copying.(e) Refusal or failure to prepare or make available the shareholders' list does not affect the validity of action taken at the meeting.(f) The use and distribution of any information acquired from inspection or copying the shareholders' list under the rights granted by this section are restricted solely to the proper purpose described with particularity under subsection (b).(g) In addition to the inspection rights described in this section, a shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at a reasonable location specified by the corporation, the record of shareholders, if the shareholder:(1) meets the requirements of subsection (b); and(2) gives the corporation written notice of the shareholder's demand at least five (5) business days before the date the shareholder wishes to inspect and copy the record.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-6-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 6. Voting by Shareholders|28-13-6-2. Voting of Shares

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) or unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise, each outstanding share, regardless of class, is entitled to one (1) vote on each matter voted on at a shareholders' meeting.(b) Absent special circumstances, the shares of a corporation are not entitled to vote if the shares are owned, directly or indirectly, by a second corporation, domestic or foreign, and the corporation owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the shares entitled to vote for directors of the second corporation.(c) Subsection (b) does not limit the power of a corporation to vote any shares, including its own shares, held by the corporation in or for an employee benefit plan or in any other fiduciary capacity.(d) Redeemable shares are not entitled to vote after notice of redemption is mailed to the holders and a sum sufficient to redeem the shares has been deposited with a corporation, trust company, or other financial institution under an irrevocable obligation to pay the holders the redemption price on surrender of the shares.(e) A mutual savings association or mutual savings bank may establish the rights of its voting parties in its articles of incorporation or articles of conversion.(f) A member or a shareholder of a mutual savings bank or a mutual savings association that has not established the rights of its voting parties under subsection (e) is entitled at a members' or shareholders' meeting to cast one (1) vote for each one hundred dollars ($100) or fraction of one hundred dollars ($100) of the total amount paid on all deposits in the member's name or all shares standing in the shareholder's name on the books of the mutual savings bank or mutual savings association. Each borrowing member is entitled to cast one (1) vote as a borrower. A person may not, except as proxy, cast more than fifty (50) votes at an election held by the mutual savings bank or mutual savings association.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163. Amended by P.L.42-1993, SEC.94; P.L.176-1996, SEC.29; P.L.192-1997, SEC.27; P.L.79-1998, SEC.90; P.L.215-1999, SEC.9.
IN Code § 28-13-6-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 6. Voting by Shareholders|28-13-6-3. Proxy Voting

Sec. 3. (a) A shareholder may vote the shareholder's shares in person or by proxy.(b) A shareholder may appoint a proxy to vote or otherwise act for the shareholder by signing an appointment form, either personally or by the shareholder's attorney-in-fact.(c) An appointment of a proxy is effective when received by the secretary or other officer or agent authorized to tabulate votes. An appointment is valid for eleven (11) months unless a shorter or longer period is expressly provided in the appointment form.(d) An appointment of a proxy is revocable by the shareholder unless the appointment form conspicuously states that the appointment form is irrevocable and the appointment is coupled with an interest. Appointments coupled with an interest include the appointment of the following:(1) A pledgee.(2) A person who purchased or agreed to purchase the shares.(3) A creditor of the corporation who extended the corporation credit under terms requiring the appointment.(4) An employee of the corporation whose employment contract requires the appointment.(5) A party to a voting agreement created under IC 28-13-7-2.(e) The death or incapacity of the shareholder appointing a proxy does not affect the right of the corporation to accept the proxy's authority unless notice of the death or incapacity is received by the secretary or other officer or agent authorized to tabulate votes before the proxy exercises the proxy's authority under the appointment.(f) An appointment made irrevocable under subsection (d) is revoked when the interest with which it is coupled is extinguished.(g) A transferee for value of shares subject to an irrevocable appointment may revoke the appointment if:(1) the transferee did not know of the appointment's existence when the transferee acquired the shares; and(2) the existence of the irrevocable appointment was not noted conspicuously on the certificate representing the shares or on the information statement for shares without certificates.(h) Subject to section 5 of this chapter and to any express limitation on the proxy's authority appearing on the face of the appointment form, a corporation is entitled to accept the proxy's vote or other action as that of the shareholder making the appointment.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.
IN Code § 28-13-6-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 28. Financial Institutions|Article 13. Corporate Governance|Chapter 6. Voting by Shareholders|28-13-6-4. Beneficial Owner of Shares; Recognition Procedure; Disclosure Procedure; Sanctions to Ensure Compliance

Sec. 4. (a) A corporation may establish a recognition procedure by which the beneficial owner of shares that are registered in the name of a nominee is recognized by the corporation as the shareholder. The extent of this recognition may be determined in the recognition procedure.(b) A corporation may establish a disclosure procedure by which the names of beneficial owners of the corporation's shares shall, to the extent not prohibited by law, be disclosed to the corporation. A corporation may not establish a procedure requiring disclosure of the names of the beneficial owners of a private trust created in good faith and not for the purpose of circumventing a disclosure procedure adopted pursuant to this section. The corporation may adopt reasonable sanctions to ensure compliance with its disclosure procedure, including:(1) prohibiting the voting of;(2) providing for mandatory or optional reacquisition of; or(3) the withholding or payment into escrow of dividends with respect to;shares as to which the beneficial owner's name is not disclosed as required by the disclosure procedure.As added by P.L.14-1992, SEC.163.