Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 35. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS

CHAPTER 14. MONTANA BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT(Effective June 1, 2020)

Part 8. Directors and Officers(Effective June 1, 2020)

Judicial Action

35-14-861. Judicial action. (1) A transaction effected or proposed to be effected by the corporation or by an entity controlled by the corporation may not be the subject of equitable relief or give rise to an award of damages or other sanctions against a director of the corporation in a proceeding by a shareholder or by or in the right of the corporation on the ground that the director has an interest respecting the transaction if it is not a director's conflicting interest transaction.

(2) A director's conflicting interest transaction may not be the subject of equitable relief or give rise to an award of damages or other sanctions against a director of the corporation in a proceeding by a shareholder or by or in the right of the corporation on the grounds that the director has an interest respecting the transaction if:

(a) directors' action respecting the transaction was taken in compliance with 35-14-862 at any time;

(b) shareholders' action respecting the transaction was taken in compliance with 35-14-863 at any time; or

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

History: En. Sec. 130, Ch. 271, L. 2019.