As used in this chapter:
(1) “Anniversary” means that day each year exactly one or more years after:
(a) The date of filing by the Secretary of State of the articles of incorporation in the case of a domestic corporation.
(b) The date of filing by the Secretary of State of an application for authority to transact business in the case of a foreign corporation.
(2) “Articles of incorporation” include amended and restated articles of incorporation, articles of conversion and articles of merger.
(3) “Authorized shares” means the shares of all classes a domestic or foreign corporation is authorized to issue.
(4) “Conspicuous” means so written that a reasonable person against whom the writing is to operate should have noticed it. For example, printing in italics, boldface or contrasting color, typing in capitals or underlined is conspicuous.
(5) “Corporation” or “domestic corporation” means a corporation for profit, which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(6) “Delivery” means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery and electronic transmission.
(7) “Distribution” means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property, except of a corporation’s own shares, or incurrence of indebtedness by a corporation to or for the benefit of its shareholders in respect of any of its shares. A distribution may be in the form of a declaration or payment of a dividend, a purchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares, a distribution of indebtedness, or otherwise.
(8) “Domestic limited liability company” means an entity that is an unincorporated association having one or more members and that is organized under ORS chapter 63.
(9) “Domestic nonprofit corporation” means a corporation not for profit incorporated under ORS chapter 65.
(10) “Domestic professional corporation” means a corporation organized under ORS chapter 58 for the purpose of rendering professional services and for the purposes provided under ORS chapter 58.
(11) “Electronic signature” has the meaning given that term in ORS 84.004.
(12) “Electronic transmission” means any process of communication that does not directly involve the physical transfer of paper and that is suitable for the retention, retrieval and reproduction of information by the recipient.
(13) “Employee” includes an officer but not a director. A director may accept duties that make the director also an employee.
(14) “Entity” includes a corporation, foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, profit and nonprofit unincorporated association, business trust, estate, partnership, trust, two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, any state, the United States and any foreign government.
(15) “Foreign corporation” means a corporation for profit incorporated under a law other than the law of this state.
(16) “Foreign limited liability company” means an entity that is an unincorporated association organized under the laws of a state other than this state, under the laws of a federally recognized Indian tribe or under the laws of a foreign country and that is organized under a statute under which an association may be formed that affords to each of its members limited liability with respect to liabilities of the entity.
(17) “Foreign nonprofit corporation” means a corporation not for profit organized under the laws of a state other than this state.
(18) “Foreign professional corporation” means a professional corporation organized under the laws of a state other than this state.
(19) “Governmental subdivision” includes an authority, county, district and municipality.
(20) “Includes” denotes a partial definition.
(21) “Individual” means a natural person. “Individual” includes the estate of an incompetent individual or a deceased individual.
(22) “Means” denotes an exhaustive definition.
(23) “Office,” when used to refer to the administrative unit directed by the Secretary of State, means the office of the Secretary of State.
(24) “Person” includes individual and entity.
(25) “Principal office” means the office, in or out of this state, where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located and designated in the annual report or application for authority to transact business in this state.
(26) “Proceeding” includes civil, criminal, administrative and investigatory action.
(27) “Record date” means the date established under this chapter on which a corporation determines the identity of its shareholders and their shareholdings for purposes of this chapter. The determinations shall be made as of the close of business on the record date unless another time for doing so is specified when the record date is fixed.
(28) “Shares” means the units into which the proprietary interest in a corporation are divided.
(29) “Shareholder” means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation.
(30) “Signature” includes any manual, facsimile, conformed or electronic signature.
(31) “State,” when referring to a part of the United States, includes a state, commonwealth, territory and insular possession of the United States and its agencies and governmental subdivisions.
(32) “Subscriber” means a person who subscribes for shares in a corporation, whether before or after incorporation.
(33) “United States” includes a district, authority, bureau, commission, department and any other agency of the United States.
(34) “Voting group” means all shares of one or more classes or series that under the articles of incorporation or this chapter are entitled to vote and be counted together collectively on a matter at a meeting of shareholders. All shares entitled by the articles of incorporation or this chapter to vote generally on the matter are for that purpose a single voting group. [1987 c.414 §64; 1989 c.1040 §2; 1999 c.362 §3; 1999 c.371 §2; 2001 c.104 §16; 2001 c.315 §32; 2003 c.80 §1; 2005 c.107 §1]
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