§ 607.08401, Fla. Stat. · Part I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Required officers.
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(1) A corporation shall have the officers described in its bylaws or appointed by the board of directors in accordance with the bylaws.
(2) The board of directors may appoint one or more individuals to act as the officers of the corporation. A duly appointed officer may appoint one or more officers or assistant officers if authorized by the bylaws or the board of directors.
(3) The bylaws or the board of directors shall assign to one of the officers responsibility for preparing minutes of the directors’ and shareholders’ meetings and for authenticating records of the corporation required to be kept pursuant to s. 607.1601(1) and (5).
(4) The same individual may simultaneously hold more than one office in a corporation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 89, ch. 89-154; s. 151, ch. 90-179; s. 104, ch. 2019-90.
Note
Note.—Former s. 607.0840.
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