New York Banking Law Title 6 - Stockholders

• 6001 - By-Laws.
  1. The initial by-laws of a corporation shall be adopted by its incorporators. Except as otherwise provided in the organization certificate under section six thousand...
• 6002 - Meetings of Stockholders.
  1. Meetings of stockholders may be held at such place, within or without this state, as may be fixed by or under the by-laws, or...
• 6003 - Special Meeting for Election of Directors.
  1. If, for a period of one month after the date fixed by or under section six thousand two or the by-laws for the annual...
• 6004 - Fixing Record Date.
  1. For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or...
• 6005 - Notice of Meetings of Stockholders.
  1. Whenever under the provisions of this chapter stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, written notice shall state the...
• 6006 - Waivers of Notice.
  Notice of meeting need not be given to any stockholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, in person or by proxy, whether before or...
• 6007 - List of Stockholders At Meetings.
  A list of stockholders as of the record date, certified by the corporate officer responsible for its preparation or by a transfer agent, shall be...
• 6008 - Quorum of Stockholders.
  1. The holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote thereat shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of stockholders for the transaction...
• 6009 - Proxies.
  1. Every stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent without a meeting may authorize another person or...
• 6010 - Selection of Inspectors At Stockholders' Meetings.
  Unless otherwise provided in the by-laws, the board, in advance of any stockholders' meeting, may appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting...
• 6011 - Duties of Inspectors At Stockholders' Meetings.
  The inspectors shall determine the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a...
• 6012 - Qualification of Voters.
  1. Every stockholder of record shall be entitled at every meeting of stockholders to one vote for every share standing in his name on the...
• 6013 - Limitations on Right to Vote.
  The organization certificate may provide, except as limited by section five thousand one, either absolutely or conditionally, that the holders of any designated class or...
• 6014 - Vote of Stockholders.
  1. Directors shall, except as otherwise required by this article or by the organization certificate as permitted by this article, be elected by a plurality...
• 6015 - Written Consent of Stockholders, Subscribers or Incorporators Without a Meeting.
  1. Whenever under this chapter stockholders are required or permitted to take any action by vote, such action may be taken without a meeting on...
• 6016 - Greater Requirement As to Quorum and Vote of Stockholders.
  1. The organization certificate may contain provisions specifying either or both of the following: (a) That the proportion of shares, or the proportion of shares...
• 6017 - Voting by Class or Classes of Shares.
  1. The organization certificate may contain provisions specifying that any class or classes of shares or of any series thereof shall vote as a class...
• 6018 - Cumulative Voting.
  The organization certificate of any corporation may provide that in all elections of directors of such corporation each stockholder shall be entitled to as many...
• 6019 - Powers of Supreme Court Respecting Elections.
  Upon the petition of any stockholder aggrieved by an election, and upon notice to the persons declared elected thereat, the corporation and such other persons...
• 6020 - Agreements As to Voting.
  An agreement between two or more stockholders, if in writing and signed by the parties thereto, may provide that in exercising any voting rights, the...
• 6021 - Preemptive Rights.
  1. As used in this section, the term: (a) "Unlimited dividend rights" means the right without limitation as to amount either to all or to...
• 6022 - Procedure to Enforce Stockholder's Right to Receive Payment for Shares.
  1. A stockholder intending to enforce his right under a section of this chapter to receive payment for his shares if the proposed corporate action...
• 6023 - Books and Records; Right of Inspection, Prima Facie Evidence.
  1. Each corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account and shall keep minutes of the proceedings of its stockholders, board and...
• 6024 - Infant Securityholders.
  1. A corporation may treat an infant who holds shares, capital notes or debentures of such corporation as having capacity to receive and to empower...
• 6025 - Stockholders' Derivative Action Brought in the Right of the Corporation to Procure a Judgment in Its Favor.
  1. An action may be brought in the right of a corporation to procure a judgment in its favor, by a holder of shares or...
• 6026 - Security for Expenses in Stockholders' Derivative Action Brought in the Right of the Corporation to Procure a Judgment in Its Favor.
  In any action specified in section six thousand twenty-five, if the plaintiff or plaintiffs hold less than five percent of any class of the outstanding...
• 6029 - Liability of Stockholders for Wages Due to Laborers, Servants or Employees.
  1. The ten largest stockholders, as determined by the fair value of their beneficial interest as of the beginning of the period on which the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019