35-1-228. Voting on amendments by voting groups. - Montana Statutes

     35-1-228. Voting on amendments by voting groups. (1) The holders of the outstanding shares of a class are entitled to vote as a separate voting group, if shareholder voting is otherwise required by this chapter, on a proposed amendment if the amendment would:
     (a) increase or decrease the aggregate number of authorized shares of the class;
     (b) cause an exchange or reclassification of all or part of the shares of the class into shares of another class;
     (c) cause an exchange or reclassification of or create the right of exchange of all or part of the shares of another class into shares of the class;
     (d) change the designation, rights, preferences, or limitations of all or part of the shares of the class;
     (e) change the shares of all or part of the class into a different number of shares of the same class;
     (f) create a new class of shares having rights or preferences with respect to distributions or to dissolution that are prior, superior, or substantially equal to the shares of the class;
     (g) increase the rights, preferences, or number of authorized shares of any class that, after giving effect to the amendment, have rights or preferences with respect to dissolution or to distributions that are prior, superior, or substantially equal to the shares of the class;
     (h) limit or deny an existing preemptive right of all or part of the share of the class; or
     (i) cancel or otherwise affect rights to distributions or dividends that have accumulated but have not yet been declared on all or part of the shares of the class.
     (2) If a proposed amendment would affect a series of a class of shares in one or more of the ways described in subsection (1), the shares of that series are entitled to be voted as a separate voting group on the proposed amendment.
     (3) If a proposed amendment that entitles two or more series of shares to be voted as separate voting groups under this section would affect those two or more series in the same or a substantially similar way, the shareholders of all the series affected must vote together as a single voting group on the proposed amendment.
     (4) A class or series of shares is entitled to the voting rights granted by this section although the articles of incorporation provide that the shares are nonvoting shares.

     History: En. Sec. 115, Ch. 368, L. 1991.