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6. Directors and Trustees

4. Directors, Trustees, and Officers

  • Qualifications and Disqualifications
  • Elections
  • Independent Directors
  • Term, Holdover, and Removal
  • Vacancy
  • Voting Requirements
  • Duties, Liability, and Dealings of Directors
  • Doctrine of Centralized Management
  • Business Judgment Rule
  • Doctrine of Apparent Authority
  • Doctrine of Ratification or Estoppel

Qualifications and Disqualifications – R.A. No. 11232, Sections 22-26

Term of Office (Sec. 22)1

  • Directors shall be elected for a term of one (1) year from among the holders of stocks registered in the corporation’s books
  • Trustees shall be elected for a term not exceeding three (3) years from among the members of the corporation.

Each director/trustee shall hold office until the successor is elected and qualified.

Authorities

  • RA 11232, Sec. 22