Section 10A-3A-7.04 - Action without meeting(a) Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation, any action required or permitted by this chapter to be taken at any meeting of the members may be taken without a meeting, and without prior notice, if one or more consents in writing setting forth the action so taken are signed by the members having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be required to authorize or take the action at a meeting at which all members entitled to vote on the action were present and voted. The action must be evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken, signed by the members approving the action and delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation for filing by the membership nonprofit corporation with the minutes or corporate records.(b) If not otherwise fixed under Section 10A-3A-7.07 and if prior action by the board of directors is not required respecting the action to be taken without a meeting, the record date for determining the members entitled to take action without a meeting shall be the first date on which a written consent signed by a member is delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation. If not otherwise fixed under Section 10A-3A-7.07 and if prior action by the board of directors is required respecting the action to be taken without a meeting, the record date shall be the close of business on the day the resolution of the board of directors taking the prior action is adopted. No written consent of a member shall be effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless, within 60 days of the earliest date on which a consent is delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation as required by this section, written consents signed by sufficient members to take the action have been delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation. Any person signing a consent may provide, whether through instruction to an agent or otherwise, that the consent will be effective at a future time, including a time determined upon the happening of an event, occurring not later than 60 days after the instruction is given or the provision is made, if evidence of the instruction or provision is provided to the membership nonprofit corporation. If a person signs a consent when that person is not a member, then that person's consent shall not be valid unless that person is a member as of the record date for determining members entitled to consent to the action. Unless a person's written consent states that it is irrevocable, that written consent may be revoked by that person by a writing to that effect delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation before unrevoked written consents sufficient in number to take the corporate action have been delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation.(c) A consent signed pursuant to the provisions of this section has the effect of a vote taken at a meeting and may be described as such in any document. Unless the certificate of incorporation, bylaws, or a resolution of the board of directors provides for a reasonable delay to permit tabulation of written consents, the action taken by written consent shall be effective when written consents signed by sufficient members to take the action have been delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation.(d) If action is taken by less than unanimous written consent of the voting members, the membership nonprofit corporation shall give its nonconsenting voting members written notice of the action not more than 10 days after (i) written consents sufficient to take the action have been delivered to the membership nonprofit corporation or (ii) any later date that tabulation of consents is completed pursuant to an authorization under subsection (c). The notice must reasonably describe the action taken.(e) The notice requirements in subsection (d) shall not delay the effectiveness of actions taken by written consent, and a failure to comply with those notice requirements shall not invalidate actions taken by written consent, provided that this subsection shall not be deemed to limit judicial power to fashion any appropriate remedy in favor of a member adversely affected by a failure to give the notice within the required time period.Ala. Code § 10A-3A-7.04 (1975)
Amended by Act 2024-413,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2024.Added by Act 2023-503,§ 1, eff. 1/1/2024.