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Idaho Code § 15-12-209

Operation of an entity or business

Known as the Uniform Power of Attorney Act

The act spans §§ 15-12-101 to 15-12-403 (45 sections).

(13) Pay, compromise or contest taxes or assessments and perform any other act to protect the principal from illegal or unnecessary taxation, fines, penalties or assessments wit…

Subject to the terms of a document or an agreement governing an entity or an entity ownership interest, and unless a power of attorney otherwise provides, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to operation of an entity or business authorizes the agent to:

(1) Operate, buy, sell, enlarge, reduce or terminate an ownership interest;

(2) Perform a duty or discharge a liability and exercise in person or by proxy a right, power, privilege or option that the principal has, may have, or claims to have;

(3) Enforce the terms of an ownership agreement;

(4) Defend, submit to alternative dispute resolution, settle or compromise litigation to which the principal is a party because of an ownership interest;

(5) Exercise in person or by proxy, or enforce by litigation or otherwise, a right, power, privilege or option the principal has or claims to have as the holder of stocks and bonds;

(6) Defend, submit to alternative dispute resolution, settle or compromise litigation to which the principal is a party concerning stocks and bonds;

(7) With respect to an entity or business owned solely by the principal: Continue, modify, renegotiate, extend and terminate a contract made by or on behalf of the principal with respect to the entity or business before execution of the power of attorney;

(8) Determine: The location of its operation;

(9) The nature and extent of its business;

(10) The methods of manufacturing, selling, merchandising, financing, accounting and advertising employed in its operation;

(11) The amount and types of insurance carried; and

(12) The mode of engaging, compensating and dealing with its employees and accountants, attorneys or other agents;

(13) Change the name or form of organization under which the entity or business is operated and enter into an ownership agreement with other persons to take over all or part of the operation of the entity or business; and

(14) Demand and receive money due or claimed by the principal or on the principal’s behalf in the operation of the entity or business and control and disburse the money in the operation of the entity or business;

(15) Put additional capital into an entity or business in which the principal has an interest;

(16) Join in a plan of reorganization, consolidation, conversion, domestication or merger of the entity or business;

(17) Sell or liquidate an entity or business or part of it;

(18) Establish the value of an entity or business under a buy-out agreement to which the principal is a party;

(19) Prepare, sign, file and deliver reports, compilations of information, returns or other papers with respect to an entity or business and make related payments; and

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.