35-1-532. Voting trusts. - Montana Statutes

     35-1-532. Voting trusts. (1) One or more shareholders may create a voting trust, conferring on a trustee the right to vote or otherwise act for them, by signing an agreement setting out the provisions of the trust, which may include anything consistent with its purpose, and by transferring their shares to the trustee. When a voting trust agreement is signed, the trustee shall prepare a list of the names and addresses of all owners of beneficial interests in the trust, together with the number and class of shares each transferred to the trust, and deliver copies of the list and agreement to the corporation's principal office.
     (2) A voting trust becomes effective on the date the first shares subject to the trust are registered in the trustee's name. A voting trust is valid for not more than 10 years after its effective date unless extended under subsection (3).
     (3) All or some of the parties to a voting trust may extend it for additional terms of not more than 10 years each by signing an extension agreement and obtaining the voting trustee's written consent to the extension. An extension is valid for 10 years from the date the first shareholder signs the extension agreement. The voting trustee shall deliver copies of the extension agreement and the list of beneficial owners to the corporation's principal office. An extension agreement binds only those parties signing it.
     (4) The counterpart of the voting trust agreement and the copy of the record deposited with the corporation is subject to the same right of examination by a shareholder of a corporation, in person or by agent or attorney, as are the books and records of the corporation, and the counterpart and the copy of the record are subject to examination by any holder of record of voting trust certificates, either in person or by agent or attorney, at any reasonable time for any proper purpose.

     History: En. Sec. 65, Ch. 368, L. 1991.