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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 60.227: Voting entitlement of shares.

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  1. 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code
  2. 7. Corporations and Partnerships
  3. Chapter 60 — Private Corporations

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section and in ORS 60.807, or unless a corporation’s articles of incorporation provide otherwise, each outstanding share, regardless of class, is entitled to one vote on each matter voted on at a shareholders’ meeting. Only shares are entitled to vote.

      (2) The shares of a corporation are not entitled to vote if they are owned, directly or indirectly, by a second domestic or foreign corporation, and the first corporation owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the shares entitled to vote for directors of the second corporation.

      (3) Subsection (2) of this section does not limit the power of a corporation to vote any shares, including the corporation’s own shares that the corporation holds in a fiduciary capacity.

      (4) Redeemable shares are not entitled to vote after notice of redemption is delivered to the holders and a sum sufficient to redeem the shares has been deposited with a bank, trust company or other financial institution under an irrevocable obligation to pay the holders the redemption price on surrender of the shares.

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