ORS 65.207
Court-ordered meeting
- attorney fees
(1)
The circuit court of the county where a corporation’s principal office is located, or, if the principal office is not in this state, where the registered office of the corporation is or was last located, may summarily order a meeting to be held:(a)
On application of any member or other person entitled to participate in an annual or regular meeting or, if the corporation is a public benefit corporation, the Attorney General, if the corporation did not hold an annual meeting within the earlier of six months after the end of the corporation’s fiscal year or 15 months after the corporation’s last annual meeting;(b)
On application of any member or other person entitled to participate in a regular meeting or, if the corporation is a public benefit corporation, the Attorney General, if a regular meeting is not held within 40 days after the date the regular meeting was required to be held;(c)
On application of a member who signed a demand for a special meeting valid under ORS 65.204 (Special meeting), a person or persons entitled to call a special meeting or, if the corporation is a public benefit corporation, the Attorney General, if notice of the special meeting was not given within 30 days after the date the demand was delivered to the corporation’s secretary or the special meeting was not held in accordance with the notice; or(d)
In accordance with ORS 65.281 (Judicial review of corporate action) for the purpose of approving a ratification of a defective corporate action, as defined in ORS 65.260 (Definitions for ORS 65.260 to 65.281).(2)
The court may fix the time and place of the meeting, determine the members entitled to participate in the meeting, specify a record date for determining members entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting, prescribe the form and content of the meeting notice, fix the quorum required for specific matters to be considered at the meeting or direct that the votes represented at the meeting constitute a quorum for action on those matters, and enter other orders necessary to accomplish the purpose or purposes of the meeting.(3)
Intentionally left blank —Ed.(a)
Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the court may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in an action under this section.(b)
The court may not award attorney fees to the state or a political subdivision of the state if the state or political subdivision prevails in an action under this section.(4)
The request must be set for hearing at the earliest possible time and must take precedence over all matters, except matters of the same character and hearings on preliminary injunctions under ORCP 79 B(3). A court may not issue an order under this section without notice to the corporation at least five days in advance of the time specified for the hearing unless the court fixes a different period in the order. [1989 c.1010 §54; 1995 c.696 §14; 2019 c.174 §39; 2019 c.325 §24a]
Source:
Section 65.207 — Court-ordered meeting; attorney fees, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors065.html.
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