California Corporations Code CHAPTER 2 - Organization and Bylaws

• Section 200.
  (a) One or more natural persons, partnerships, associations or corporations, domestic or foreign, may form a corporation under this division by executing and filing articles of...
• Section 200.5.
  (a) An existing business association organized as a trust under the laws of this state or of a foreign jurisdiction may incorporate under this division upon...
• Section 201.
  (a) The Secretary of State shall not file articles setting forth a name in which “bank,” “ trust,” “trustee,” or related words appear, unless the certificate...
• Section 201.5.
  The Secretary of State shall not file articles in which the business is to be an insurer unless the certificate of the Insurance Commissioner approving...
• Section 201.6.
  (a) (1) When an insurer has been approved by the Insurance Commissioner pursuant to Section 709.5 of the Insurance Code to redomesticate to this state, the...
• Section 201.7.
  Upon receipt of a certified copy of the commissioner’s authorization issued pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 11542 or subdivision (a) of Section 4097.11 of...
• Section 202.
  The articles of incorporation shall set forth:(a) The name of the corporation; provided, however, that in order for the corporation to be subject to the provisions...
• Section 203.
  Except as specified in the articles or in any shareholders’ agreement, no distinction shall exist between classes or series of shares or the holders thereof.(Added...
• Section 203.5.
  (a) If the articles include the designation and number of shares of one or more series within a class, the stated number of shares for all...
• Section 204.
  The articles of incorporation may set forth:(a) Any or all of the following provisions, which shall not be effective unless expressly provided in the articles:(1) Granting, with...
• Section 204.5.
  (a) If the articles of a corporation include a provision reading substantially as follows: “The liability of the directors of the corporation for monetary damages shall...
• Section 205.
  Solely for the purpose of any statute or regulation imposing any tax or fee based upon the capitalization of a corporation, all authorized shares of...
• Section 206.
  Subject to any limitation contained in the articles and to compliance with any other applicable laws, any corporation other than a corporation subject to the...
• Section 207.
  Subject to any limitations contained in the articles and to compliance with other provisions of this division and any other applicable laws, a corporation shall...
• Section 208.
  (a) No limitation upon the business, purposes or powers of the corporation or upon the powers of the shareholders, officers or directors, or the manner of...
• Section 209.
  For all purposes other than an action in the nature of quo warranto, a copy of the articles of a corporation duly certified by the...
• Section 210.
  If initial directors have not been named in the articles, the incorporator or incorporators, until the directors are elected, may do whatever is necessary and...
• Section 211.
  Bylaws may be adopted, amended or repealed either by approval of the outstanding shares (Section 152) or by the approval of the board, except as...
• Section 212.
  (a) The bylaws shall set forth (unless such provision is contained in the articles, in which case it may only be changed by an amendment of...
• Section 213.
  Every corporation shall keep at its principal executive office in this state, or if its principal executive office is not in this state at its...

Last modified: October 22, 2018