Fla. Stat. Chapter 617
Not For Profit Corporations
150 sections
- § 617.01011Short title
- § 617.0102Reservation of power to amend or repeal
- § 617.01201Filing requirements
- § 617.0121Forms
- § 617.0122Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates
- § 617.0123Effective date of document
- § 617.0124Correcting filed document
- § 617.0125Filing duties of Department of State
- § 617.0126Appeal from Department of State’s refusal to file document
- § 617.0127Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
- § 617.0128Certificate of status
- § 617.01301Powers of Department of State
- § 617.01401Definitions
- § 617.0141Notice
- § 617.02011Incorporators
- § 617.0202Articles of incorporation; content
- § 617.0203Incorporation
- § 617.0204Liability for preincorporation transactions
- § 617.0205Organizational meeting of directors
- § 617.0206Bylaws
- § 617.0207Emergency bylaws
- § 617.0301Purposes and application
- § 617.0302Corporate powers
- § 617.0303Emergency powers
- § 617.0304Ultra vires
- § 617.0401Corporate name
- § 617.0403Registered name; application; renewal; revocation
- § 617.0501Registered office and registered agent
- § 617.05015Reserved name
- § 617.0502Change of registered office or registered agent; resignation of registered agent
- § 617.0503Registered agent; duties; confidentiality of investigation records
- § 617.0504Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a corporation
- § 617.0505Distributions; exceptions
- § 617.0601Members, generally
- § 617.0604Liability of members
- § 617.0605Transfer of membership interests
- § 617.0606Resignation of members
- § 617.0607Termination, expulsion, and suspension
- § 617.0608Purchase of memberships
- § 617.0701Meetings of members, generally; failure to hold annual meeting; special meeting; consent to corporate actions without meetings; waiver of notice of meetings
- § 617.0721Voting by members
- § 617.0725Quorum
- § 617.07401Members’ derivative actions
- § 617.0801Duties of board of directors
- § 617.0802Qualifications of directors
- § 617.0803Number of directors
- § 617.0806Staggered terms for directors
- § 617.0807Resignation of directors
- § 617.0808Removal of directors
- § 617.0809Board vacancy
- § 617.08101Compensation of directors
- § 617.0820Meetings
- § 617.0821Action by directors without a meeting
- § 617.0822Notice of meetings
- § 617.0823Waiver of notice
- § 617.0824Quorum and voting
- § 617.0825Board committees and advisory committees
- § 617.0830General standards for directors
- § 617.0831Indemnification and liability of officers, directors, employees, and agents
- § 617.0832Director conflicts of interest
- § 617.0833Loans to directors or officers
- § 617.0834Officers and directors of certain corporations and associations not for profit; immunity from civil liability
- § 617.0835Prohibited activities by private foundations
- § 617.0840Required officers
- § 617.0841Duties of officers
- § 617.0842Resignation and removal of officers
- § 617.0843Contract rights of officers
- § 617.0901Reincorporation
- § 617.1001Authority to amend the articles of incorporation
- § 617.1002Procedure for amending articles of incorporation
- § 617.1006Contents of articles of amendment
- § 617.1007Restated articles of incorporation
- § 617.1008Amendment pursuant to reorganization
- § 617.1009Effect of amendment
- § 617.1101Plan of merger
- § 617.1102Limitation on merger
- § 617.1103Approval of plan of merger; abandonment of plan thereafter
- § 617.1105Articles of merger
- § 617.1106Effect of merger
- § 617.1107Merger of domestic and foreign corporations
- § 617.1108Merger of domestic corporation and other eligible entities
- § 617.1201Secured transactions and other dispositions of corporate property and assets not requiring member approval
- § 617.1202Sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of corporate property and assets requiring member approval
- § 617.1301Prohibited distributions
- § 617.1302Authorized distributions
- § 617.1401Voluntary dissolution of corporation prior to conducting its affairs
- § 617.1402Dissolution of corporation
- § 617.1403Articles of dissolution
- § 617.1404Revocation of dissolution
- § 617.1405Effect of dissolution
- § 617.1406Plan of distribution of assets
- § 617.1407Unknown claims against dissolved corporation
- § 617.1408Known claims against dissolved corporation
- § 617.1420Grounds for administrative dissolution
- § 617.1421Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution
- § 617.1422Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
- § 617.1423Appeal from denial of reinstatement
- § 617.1430Grounds for judicial dissolution
- § 617.1431Procedure for judicial dissolution
- § 617.1432Receivership or custodianship
- § 617.1433Judgment of dissolution
- § 617.1440Deposit with Department of Financial Services
- § 617.1501Authority of foreign corporation to conduct affairs required
- § 617.1502Consequences of conducting affairs without authority
- § 617.1503Application for certificate of authority
- § 617.1504Amended certificate of authority
- § 617.1505Effect of certificate of authority
- § 617.1506Corporate name of foreign corporation
- § 617.1507Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
- § 617.1508Change of registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
- § 617.1509Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
- § 617.1510Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a foreign corporation
- § 617.1520Withdrawal of foreign corporation
- § 617.1530Grounds for revocation of authority to conduct affairs
- § 617.1531Procedure for and effect of revocation
- § 617.1532Appeal from revocation
- § 617.1533Reinstatement following revocation
- § 617.1601Corporate records
- § 617.1602Inspection of records by members
- § 617.1603Scope of inspection right
- § 617.1604Court-ordered inspection
- § 617.1605Financial reports for members
- § 617.1606Access to records
- § 617.1622Annual report for Department of State
- § 617.1623Corporate information available to the public; application to corporations incorporated by circuit courts and by special act of the Legislature
- § 617.1701Application to existing domestic corporation
- § 617.1702Application to qualified foreign corporations
- § 617.1703Application of chapter
- § 617.1711Application to foreign and interstate commerce
- § 617.1803Domestication of foreign not-for-profit corporations
- § 617.1805Corporations for profit; when may become corporations not for profit
- § 617.1806Conversion to corporation not for profit; petition and contents
- § 617.1807Conversion to corporation not for profit; authority of circuit judge
- § 617.1808Application of act to corporation converted to corporation not for profit
- § 617.1809Limited agricultural association; conversion to a domestic corporation not for profit
- § 617.1904Estoppel
- § 617.1907Effect of repeal or amendment of prior acts
- § 617.1908Applicability of Florida Business Corporation Act
- § 617.2001Corporations which may be incorporated hereunder; incorporation of certain medical services corporations
- § 617.2002Corporation not for profit organized pursuant to s. 2, ch. 87-296; requirements
- § 617.2003Proceedings to revoke articles of incorporation or charter or prevent its use
- § 617.2004Extinct churches and religious societies; property
- § 617.2005Extinct churches and religious societies; dissolution
- § 617.2006Incorporation of labor unions or bodies
- § 617.2007Sponge packing and marketing corporations
- § 617.2101Corporation authorized to act as trustee
- § 617.2102Fines and penalties against members
- § 617.2104Florida Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
- § 617.2105Corporation issued a deed to real property
- § 617.221Membership associations
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