(1) Unless the articles
of incorporation or bylaws require a greater or lesser number, a
quorum of a board of directors consists of a majority of the
number of directors specified in or fixed in accordance with the
articles of incorporation or bylaws.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, a quorum
of a board of directors may in no event be less than one-third of
the number of directors specified in or fixed in accordance with
the articles of incorporation or bylaws.
(3) If a quorum is present when a vote is taken, the
affirmative vote of a majority of directors present is the act of
the board of directors unless the articles of incorporation or
bylaws require the vote of a greater number of directors.
(4) A director who is present at a meeting of the board of
directors when corporate action is approved is deemed to have
assented to the corporate action unless: (a) The director
objects at the beginning of the meeting, or promptly upon the
director's arrival, to holding it or transacting business at the
meeting; (b) the director's dissent or abstention as to the
corporate action is entered in the minutes of the meeting; or (c)
the director delivers notice of the director's dissent or
abstention as to the corporate action to the presiding officer of
the meeting before adjournment or to the corporation within a
reasonable time after adjournment of the meeting. The right of
dissent or abstention is not available to a director who votes in
favor of the corporate action.
[2009 c 189 § 26; 2002 c 297 § 31; 1991 c 72 § 35; 1989 c 165 § 95.]