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Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-18-101

Requirement for and duties of board of directors

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Lewis Ex Rel. Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Boyd (1992)

Most recently applied in Byrd v. Tenn. Wine & Spirits Retailers Ass'n (February 2018)

Acts 1986, ch. 887, § 8.01.

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(1) Except as provided in subsection (c), each corporation must have a board of directors.

(2) All corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the authority of, and the business and affairs of the corporation managed under the direction of, its board of directors, subject to any limitation set forth in the charter.

(3) A corporation having fifty (50) or fewer shareholders may dispense with or limit the authority of a board of directors by describing in its charter who will perform some or all of the duties of a board of directors; provided, that any such person or persons shall be subject to the same standards of conduct that this chapter imposes on directors in the performance of their duties.

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