48-17-301 - Voting trusts. - Tennessee Statutes

48-17-301. Voting trusts.

(a)  One (1) 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 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.

(b)  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 ten (10) years after its effective date unless extended under subsection (c).

(c)  All or some of the parties to a voting trust may extend it for additional terms of not more than ten (10) years each by signing an extension agreement and obtaining the voting trustee's written consent to the extension. An extension is valid for ten (10) years from the date the first shareholder signs the extension agreement. The voting trustee shall deliver copies of the extension agreement and list of beneficial owners to the corporation's principal office. An extension agreement binds only those parties signing it.

(d)  The trustee or trustees of the voting trust may execute and deliver to the transferring shareholders voting trust certificates evidencing the interest of such transferring shareholder in the shares transferred in trust, and such voting trust certificates shall be transferable in the same manner and with the same effect as certificates representing shares under the provisions of chapter 16 of this title.

[Acts 1986, ch. 887, § 7.30.]