California Corporations Code CHAPTER 7 - Voting of Shares

• Section 700.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 708 and except as may be otherwise provided in the articles, each outstanding share, regardless of class, shall be entitled...
• Section 701.
  (a) In order that the corporation may determine the shareholders entitled to notice of any meeting or to vote or entitled to receive payment of any...
• Section 702.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (c) of Section 703, shares held by an administrator, executor, guardian, conservator or custodian may be voted by such holder either in...
• Section 703.
  (a) Shares standing in the name of another corporation, domestic or foreign, may be voted by an officer, agent, or proxyholder as the bylaws of the...
• Section 704.
  (a) If shares stand of record in the names of two or more persons, whether fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, spouses...
• Section 705.
  (a) Every person entitled to vote shares may authorize another person or persons to act by proxy with respect to such shares. Any proxy purporting to...
• Section 706.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, an agreement between two or more shareholders of a corporation, if in writing and signed by the parties...
• Section 707.
  (a) In advance of any meeting of shareholders the board may appoint inspectors of election to act at the meeting and any adjournment thereof. If inspectors...
• Section 708.
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 301.5 and 708.5, every shareholder complying with subdivision (b) and entitled to vote at any election of directors may cumulate...
• Section 708.5.
  (a) For purposes of this section,the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Uncontested election” means an election of directors in which, at the expiration of the time fixed under...
• Section 709.
  (a) Upon the filing of an action therefor by any shareholder or by any person who claims to have been denied the right to vote, the...
• Section 710.
  (a) This section applies to a corporation with outstanding shares held of record by 100 or more persons (determined as provided in Section 605) that files...
• Section 711.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that:Many of the residents of this state are the legal and beneficial owners or otherwise the ultimate beneficiaries of shares...

Last modified: October 22, 2018