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Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-18-110

Vacancy on board

Acts 1986, ch. 887, § 8.10.

(1) Unless the charter provides otherwise, if a vacancy occurs on a board of directors, including a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors or a vacancy resulting from a removal with or without cause: The shareholders may fill the vacancy;

(2) The board of directors may fill the vacancy; or

(3) If the directors remaining in office constitute fewer than a quorum of the board, they may fill the vacancy by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the directors remaining in office.

(4) If the vacant office was held by a director elected by a voting group of shareholders, only the holders of shares of that voting group are entitled to vote to fill the vacancy if it is filled by the shareholders.

(5) A vacancy that will occur at a specific later date (by reason of a resignation effective at a later date under § 48-18-107(b) or otherwise) may be filled before the vacancy occurs but the new director may not take office until the vacancy occurs.

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.