Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 35. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS

CHAPTER 1. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS

Part 4. Directors and Officers

Judicial Action

35-1-462. Judicial action. (1) A transaction effected or proposed to be effected by a corporation or by a subsidiary of the corporation or any other entity in which the corporation has a controlling interest that is not a director's conflicting interest transaction may not be enjoined, set aside, or give rise to an award of damages or other sanctions in a proceeding by a shareholder or by or in the right of the corporation because a director of the corporation or any person with whom the director has a personal, economic, or other association has an interest in the transaction.

(2) A director's conflicting interest transaction may not be enjoined, set aside, or give rise to an award of damages or other sanctions in a proceeding by a shareholder or by or in the right of the corporation because the director or any person with whom the director has a personal, economic, or other association has an interest in the transaction if:

(a) directors' action respecting the transaction was at any time taken in compliance with 35-1-463;

(b) shareholders' action respecting the transaction was at any time taken in compliance with 35-1-464; or

(c) the transaction, judged according to the circumstances at the time of commitment, is established to have been fair to the corporation.

History: En. Sec. 109, Ch. 368, L. 1991.