Section 351.260

Title XXIII CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Chapter 351

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   

  351.260.  Voting of shares standing in name of another corporation, domestic or foreign — deceased person's shares — receivers — pledges. — 1.  Shares standing in the name of another corporation, domestic or foreign, may be voted by such officer, agent or proxy as the bylaws of such corporation may prescribe, or, in the absence of such provision, as the board of directors of such corporation may determine.

  2.  Shares standing in the name of a deceased person may be voted by his personal representative, either in person or by proxy.  Shares standing in the name of a conservator or trustee may be voted by such fiduciary, either in person or by proxy, but no conservator or trustee shall be entitled, as such fiduciary, to vote shares held by him without a transfer of such shares into his name.

  3.  Shares standing in the name of a receiver may be voted by such receiver, and shares held by or under the control of a receiver may be voted by such receiver without the transfer thereof into his name if authority so to do be contained in an appropriate order of the court by which such receiver was appointed.

  4.  A shareholder whose shares are pledged shall be entitled to vote such shares until the shares have been transferred into the name of the pledgee, and thereafter the pledgee shall be entitled to vote the shares so transferred.

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(RSMo 1939 §§ 5001, 5351, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 33, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 4530, 4946; 1919 §§ 9726, 10157; 1909 §§ 2967, 3352