eLaws of Florida

  SECTION 607.0830. General standards for directors.  


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  • 1(1) 2Each member of the board of directors, when discharging the duties of a director, including in discharging his or her duties as a member of a board committee, must act:
    32(a) 33In good faith; and
    37(b) 38In a manner he or she reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation.
    55(2) 56The members of the board of directors or a board committee, when becoming informed in connection with a decisionmaking function or devoting attention to an oversight function, shall discharge their duties with the care that an ordinary prudent person in a like position would reasonably believe appropriate under similar circumstances.
    106(3) 107In discharging board or board committee duties, a director who does not have knowledge that makes reliance unwarranted is entitled to rely on the performance by any of the persons specified in paragraph (5)(a) or paragraph (5)(b) to whom the board may have delegated, formally or informally by course of conduct, the authority or duty to perform one or more of the board’s functions that are delegable under applicable law.
    177(4) 178In discharging board or board committee duties, a director who does not have knowledge that makes reliance unwarranted is entitled to rely on information, opinions, reports, or statements, including financial statements and other financial data, prepared or presented by any of the persons specified in subsection (5).
    225(5) 226A director is entitled to rely, in accordance with subsection (3) or subsection (4), on:
    241(a) 242One or more officers or employees of the corporation whom the director reasonably believes to be reliable and competent in the functions performed or the information, opinions, reports, or statements provided;
    273(b) 274Legal counsel, public accountants, or other persons retained by the corporation or by a committee of the board of the corporation as to matters involving skills or expertise the director reasonably believes are matters:
    3081. 309Within the particular person’s professional or expert competence; or
    3182. 319As to which the particular person merits confidence; or
    328(c) 329A committee of the board of directors of which the director is not a member if the director reasonably believes the committee merits confidence.
    353(6) 354In discharging board or board committee duties, a director may consider such factors as the director deems relevant, including the long-term prospects and interests of the corporation and its shareholders, and the social, economic, legal, or other effects of any action on the employees, suppliers, customers of the corporation or its subsidiaries, the communities and society in which the corporation or its subsidiaries operate, and the economy of the state and the nation.
History.-s. 84, ch. 89-154; s. 26, ch. 97-102; s. 99, ch. 2019-90.

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