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