Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 79-11-305: Filing of amendments to articles of incorporation.

A corporation amending its articles of incorporation shall deliver to the Secretary of State for filing articles of amendment setting forth:
(a) The name of the corporation;
(b) The text of each amendment adopted;
(c) The date of each amendment’s adoption;
(d) If an amendment was adopted by the incorporators or board of directors without action by members, a statement to that effect and that action by members was not required;
(e) If an amendment was approved by the members:
(i) The designation, number of memberships outstanding, number of votes entitled to be cast by each class entitled to vote separately on the amendment, and number of votes of each class indisputably represented at the meeting;
(ii) Either the total number of votes cast for and against the amendment by each class entitled to vote separately on the amendment or the total number of undisputed votes cast for the amendment by each class and a statement that the number cast for the amendment by each class was sufficient for approval by that voting group.

Where this section sits in the code

Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships
Chapter 11. Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies
Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act

A corporation amending its articles of incorporation shall deliver to the Secretary of State for filing articles of amendment setting forth:

(a) The name of the corporation;

(b) The text of each amendment adopted;

(d) If an amendment was adopted by the incorporators or board of directors without action by members, a statement to that effect and that action by members was not required;

(e) If an amendment was approved by the members:

(i) The designation, number of memberships outstanding, number of votes entitled to be cast by each class entitled to vote separately on the amendment, and number of votes of each class indisputably represented at the meeting;

(ii) Either the total number of votes cast for and against the amendment by each class entitled to vote separately on the amendment or the total number of undisputed votes cast for the amendment by each class and a statement that the number cast for the amendment by each class was sufficient for approval by that voting group.

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