Chapter 617 - CORPORATIONS NOT FOR PROFIT

Section 617.01011 - Short title
Section 617.0102 - Reservation of power to amend or repeal
Section 617.01201 - Filing requirements
Section 617.0121 - Forms
Section 617.0122 - Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates
Section 617.0123 - Effective date of document
Section 617.0124 - Correcting filed document
Section 617.0125 - Filing duties of Department of State
Section 617.0126 - Appeal from Department of State's refusal to file document
Section 617.0127 - Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
Section 617.0128 - Certificate of status
Section 617.01301 - Powers of Department of State
Section 617.01401 - Definitions
Section 617.0141 - Notice
Section 617.02011 - Incorporators
Section 617.0202 - Articles of incorporation; content
Section 617.0203 - Incorporation
Section 617.0204 - Liability for preincorporation transactions
Section 617.0205 - Organizational meeting of directors
Section 617.0206 - Bylaws
Section 617.0207 - Emergency bylaws
Section 617.0301 - Purposes and application
Section 617.0302 - Corporate powers
Section 617.0303 - Emergency powers
Section 617.0304 - Ultra vires
Section 617.0401 - Corporate name
Section 617.0403 - Registered name; application; renewal; revocation
Section 617.0501 - Registered office and registered agent
Section 617.05015 - Reserved name
Section 617.0502 - Change of registered office or registered agent; resignation of registered agent
Section 617.0503 - Registered agent; duties; confidentiality of investigation records
Section 617.0504 - Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a corporation
Section 617.0505 - Distributions; exceptions
Section 617.0601 - Members, generally
Section 617.0604 - Liability of members
Section 617.0605 - Transfer of membership interests
Section 617.0606 - Resignation of members
Section 617.0607 - Termination, expulsion, and suspension
Section 617.0608 - Purchase of memberships
Section 617.0701 - Meetings of members, generally; failure to hold annual meeting; special meeting; consent to corporate actions without meetings; waiver of notice of meetings
Section 617.0721 - Voting by members
Section 617.0725 - Quorum
Section 617.07401 - Members' derivative actions
Section 617.0801 - Duties of board of directors
Section 617.0802 - Qualifications of directors
Section 617.0803 - Number of directors
Section 617.0806 - Staggered terms for directors
Section 617.0807 - Resignation of directors
Section 617.0808 - Removal of directors
Section 617.0809 - Board vacancy
Section 617.08101 - Compensation of directors
Section 617.0820 - Meetings
Section 617.0821 - Action by directors without a meeting
Section 617.0822 - Notice of meetings
Section 617.0823 - Waiver of notice
Section 617.0824 - Quorum and voting
Section 617.0825 - Board committees and advisory committees
Section 617.0830 - General standards for directors
Section 617.0831 - Indemnification and liability of officers, directors, employees, and agents
Section 617.0832 - Director conflicts of interest
Section 617.0833 - Loans to directors or officers
Section 617.0834 - Officers and directors of certain corporations and associations not for profit; immunity from civil liability
Section 617.0835 - Prohibited activities by private foundations
Section 617.0840 - Required officers
Section 617.0841 - Duties of officers
Section 617.0842 - Resignation and removal of officers
Section 617.0843 - Contract rights of officers
Section 617.0901 - Reincorporation
Section 617.1001 - Authority to amend the articles of incorporation
Section 617.1002 - Procedure for amending articles of incorporation
Section 617.1006 - Contents of articles of amendment
Section 617.1007 - Restated articles of incorporation
Section 617.1008 - Amendment pursuant to reorganization
Section 617.1009 - Effect of amendment
Section 617.1101 - Plan of merger
Section 617.1102 - Limitation on merger
Section 617.1103 - Approval of plan of merger; abandonment of plan thereafter
Section 617.1105 - Articles of merger
Section 617.1106 - Effect of merger
Section 617.1107 - Merger of domestic and foreign corporations
Section 617.1108 - Merger of domestic corporation and other eligible entities
Section 617.1201 - Secured transactions and other dispositions of corporate property and assets not requiring member approval
Section 617.1202 - Sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of corporate property and assets requiring member approval
Section 617.1301 - Prohibited distributions
Section 617.1302 - Authorized distributions
Section 617.1401 - Voluntary dissolution of corporation prior to conducting its affairs
Section 617.1402 - Dissolution of corporation
Section 617.1403 - Articles of dissolution
Section 617.1404 - Revocation of dissolution
Section 617.1405 - Effect of dissolution
Section 617.1406 - Plan of distribution of assets
Section 617.1407 - Unknown claims against dissolved corporation
Section 617.1408 - Known claims against dissolved corporation
Section 617.1420 - Grounds for administrative dissolution
Section 617.1421 - Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution
Section 617.1422 - Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
Section 617.1423 - Appeal from denial of reinstatement
Section 617.1430 - Grounds for judicial dissolution
Section 617.1431 - Procedure for judicial dissolution
Section 617.1432 - Receivership or custodianship
Section 617.1433 - Judgment of dissolution
Section 617.1440 - Deposit with Department of Financial Services
Section 617.1501 - Authority of foreign corporation to conduct affairs required
Section 617.1502 - Consequences of conducting affairs without authority
Section 617.1503 - Application for certificate of authority
Section 617.1504 - Amended certificate of authority
Section 617.1505 - Effect of certificate of authority
Section 617.1506 - Corporate name of foreign corporation
Section 617.1507 - Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
Section 617.1508 - Change of registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
Section 617.1509 - Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
Section 617.1510 - Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a foreign corporation
Section 617.1520 - Withdrawal of foreign corporation
Section 617.1530 - Grounds for revocation of authority to conduct affairs
Section 617.1531 - Procedure for and effect of revocation
Section 617.1532 - Appeal from revocation
Section 617.1533 - Reinstatement following revocation
Section 617.1601 - Corporate records
Section 617.1602 - Inspection of records by members
Section 617.1603 - Scope of inspection right
Section 617.1604 - Court-ordered inspection
Section 617.1605 - Financial reports for members
Section 617.1606 - Access to records
Section 617.1622 - Annual report for Department of State
Section 617.1623 - Corporate information available to the public; application to corporations incorporated by circuit courts and by special act of the Legislature
Section 617.1701 - Application to existing domestic corporation
Section 617.1702 - Application to qualified foreign corporations
Section 617.1703 - Application of chapter
Section 617.1711 - Application to foreign and interstate commerce
Section 617.1803 - Domestication of foreign not-for-profit corporations
Section 617.1805 - Corporations for profit; when may become corporations not for profit
Section 617.1806 - Conversion to corporation not for profit; petition and contents
Section 617.1807 - Conversion to corporation not for profit; authority of circuit judge
Section 617.1808 - Application of act to corporation converted to corporation not for profit
Section 617.1809 - Limited agricultural association; conversion to a domestic corporation not for profit
Section 617.1904 - Estoppel
Section 617.1907 - Effect of repeal or amendment of prior acts
Section 617.1908 - Applicability of Florida Business Corporation Act
Section 617.2001 - Corporations which may be incorporated hereunder; incorporation of certain medical services corporations
Section 617.2002 - Corporation not for profit organized pursuant to s. 2, ch. 87-296; requirements
Section 617.2003 - Proceedings to revoke articles of incorporation or charter or prevent its use
Section 617.2004 - Extinct churches and religious societies; property
Section 617.2005 - Extinct churches and religious societies; dissolution
Section 617.2006 - Incorporation of labor unions or bodies
Section 617.2007 - Sponge packing and marketing corporations
Section 617.2101 - Corporation authorized to act as trustee
Section 617.2102 - Fines and penalties against members
Section 617.2104 - Florida Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
Section 617.2105 - Corporation issued a deed to real property
Section 617.221 - Membership associations