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. Service of process, notice, or 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. Service of process, notice, or 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.