490.1602 - INSPECTION OF RECORDS BY SHAREHOLDERS. - Iowa Statutes

490.1602 INSPECTION OF RECORDS BY SHAREHOLDERS. 1. A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at the corporation's principal office, any of the records of the corporation described in section 490.1601, subsection 5, if the shareholder gives the corporation written notice of the shareholder's demand at least five business days before the date on which the shareholder wishes to inspect and copy. 2. A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at a reasonable location specified by the corporation, any of the following records of the corporation if the shareholder meets the requirements of subsection 3 and gives the corporation written notice of the shareholder's demand at least five business days before the date on which the shareholder wishes to inspect and copy any of the following: a. Excerpts from minutes of any meeting of the board of directors, records of any action of a committee of the board of directors while acting in place of the board of directors on behalf of the corporation, minutes of any meeting of the shareholders, and records of action taken by the shareholders or board of directors without a meeting, to the extent not subject to inspection under subsection 1 of this section. b. Accounting records of the corporation. c. The record of shareholders. 3. A shareholder may inspect and copy the records described in subsection 2 only if: a. The shareholder's demand is made in good faith and for a proper purpose. b. The shareholder describes with reasonable particularity the shareholder's purpose and the records the shareholder desires to inspect. c. The records are directly connected with the shareholder's purpose. 4. The right of inspection granted by this section shall not be abolished or limited by a corporation's articles of incorporation or bylaws. 5. This section does not affect either of the following: a. The right of a shareholder to inspect records under section 490.720 or, if the shareholder is in litigation with the corporation, to the same extent as any other litigant. b. The power of a court, independently of this chapter, to compel the production of corporate records for examination.          Section History: Recent Form 89 Acts, ch 288, §176 Referred to in § 490.720, 490.1603, 490.1604