Published: 2015-07-08
Key Benefits:
A corporation may issue memberships having different rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions, or conditions, as provided in its articles or bylaws. If the articles or bylaws authorize at least one class of voting memberships, a corporation may also authorize and issue additional classes of memberships, preferred or otherwise, that are divisible into a series or are nonvoting or both.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 538, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2014.)
Except as provided in the articles or bylaws, all memberships shall have the same rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions and conditions.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1625, Sec. 3. Operative January 1, 1984.)
(a) Unless the corporation’s articles or bylaws so provide, memberships are not redeemable. A corporation may provide in its articles or bylaws for one or more classes or series of memberships which are redeemable, in whole or in part, for such consideration within such time or upon the happening of one or more specified events and upon the terms and conditions stated in the articles or bylaws. However, no membership shall actually be redeemed if prohibited by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12450).
(b) Nothing in this section shall prevent a corporation from creating a sinking fund or similar provision for, or entering into an agreement for, the redemption or purchase of its memberships to the extent permitted by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12450).
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 538, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2014.)