Chapter 617
Corporations Not for Profit

Sections

617.0102
Reservation of power to amend or repeal
617.0121
Forms
617.0122
Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates
617.0123
Effective date of document
617.0124
Correcting filed document
617.0125
Filing duties of Department of State
617.0126
Appeal from Department of State’s refusal to file document
617.0127
Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
617.0128
Certificate of status
617.0141
Notice
617.0202
Articles of incorporation; content
617.0203
Incorporation
617.0204
Liability for preincorporation transactions
617.0205
Organizational meeting of directors
617.0206
Bylaws
617.0207
Emergency bylaws
617.221
Membership associations
617.0301
Purposes and application
617.0302
Corporate powers
617.0303
Emergency powers
617.0304
Ultra vires
617.0401
Corporate name
617.0403
Registered name; application; renewal; revocation
617.0501
Registered office and registered agent
617.0502
Change of registered office or registered agent; resignation of registered agent
617.0503
Registered agent; duties; confidentiality of investigation records
617.0504
Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a corporation
617.0505
Distributions; exceptions
617.0601
Members, generally
617.0604
Liability of members
617.0605
Transfer of membership interests
617.0606
Resignation of members
617.0607
Termination, expulsion, and suspension
617.0608
Purchase of memberships
617.0701
Meetings of members, generally; failure to hold annual meeting; special meeting; consent to corporate actions without meetings; waiver of notice of meetings
617.0721
Voting by members
617.0725
Quorum
617.0801
Duties of board of directors
617.0802
Qualifications of directors
617.0803
Number of directors
617.0806
Staggered terms for directors
617.0807
Resignation of directors
617.0808
Removal of directors
617.0809
Board vacancy
617.0820
Meetings
617.0821
Action by directors without a meeting
617.0822
Notice of meetings
617.0823
Waiver of notice
617.0824
Quorum and voting
617.0825
Board committees and advisory committees
617.0830
General standards for directors
617.0831
Indemnification and liability of officers, directors, employees, and agents
617.0832
Director conflicts of interest
617.0833
Loans to directors or officers
617.0834
Officers and directors of certain corporations and associations not for profit; immunity from civil liability
617.0835
Prohibited activities by private foundations
617.0840
Required officers
617.0841
Duties of officers
617.0842
Resignation and removal of officers
617.0843
Contract rights of officers
617.0901
Reincorporation
617.1001
Authority to amend the articles of incorporation
617.1002
Procedure for amending articles of incorporation
617.1006
Contents of articles of amendment
617.1007
Restated articles of incorporation
617.1008
Amendment pursuant to reorganization
617.1009
Effect of amendment
617.01011
Short title
617.1101
Plan of merger
617.1102
Limitation on merger
617.1103
Approval of plan of merger; abandonment of plan thereafter
617.1105
Articles of merger
617.1106
Effect of merger
617.1107
Merger of domestic and foreign corporations
617.1108
Merger of domestic corporation and other eligible entities
617.1201
Secured transactions and other dispositions of corporate property and assets not requiring member approval
617.01201
Filing requirements
617.1202
Sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of corporate property and assets requiring member approval
617.1301
Prohibited distributions
617.01301
Powers of Department of State
617.1302
Authorized distributions
617.1401
Voluntary dissolution of corporation prior to conducting its affairs
617.01401
Definitions
617.1402
Dissolution of corporation
617.1403
Articles of dissolution
617.1404
Revocation of dissolution
617.1405
Effect of dissolution
617.1406
Plan of distribution of assets
617.1407
Unknown claims against dissolved corporation
617.1408
Known claims against dissolved corporation
617.1420
Grounds for administrative dissolution
617.1421
Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution
617.1422
Reinstatement following administrative dissolution
617.1423
Appeal from denial of reinstatement
617.1430
Grounds for judicial dissolution
617.1431
Procedure for judicial dissolution
617.1432
Receivership or custodianship
617.1433
Judgment of dissolution
617.1440
Deposit with Department of Financial Services
617.1501
Authority of foreign corporation to conduct affairs required
617.1502
Consequences of conducting affairs without authority
617.1503
Application for certificate of authority
617.1504
Amended certificate of authority
617.1505
Effect of certificate of authority
617.1506
Corporate name of foreign corporation
617.1507
Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
617.1508
Change of registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
617.1509
Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
617.1510
Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a foreign corporation
617.1520
Withdrawal of foreign corporation
617.1530
Grounds for revocation of authority to conduct affairs
617.1531
Procedure for and effect of revocation
617.1532
Appeal from revocation
617.1533
Reinstatement following revocation
617.1601
Corporate records
617.1602
Inspection of records by members
617.1603
Scope of inspection right
617.1604
Court-ordered inspection
617.1605
Financial reports for members
617.1606
Access to records
617.1622
Annual report for Department of State
617.1623
Corporate information available to the public; application to corporations incorporated by circuit courts and by special act of the Legislature
617.1701
Application to existing domestic corporation
617.1702
Application to qualified foreign corporations
617.1703
Application of chapter
617.1711
Application to foreign and interstate commerce
617.1803
Domestication of foreign not-for-profit corporations
617.1805
Corporations for profit; when may become corporations not for profit
617.1806
Conversion to corporation not for profit; petition and contents
617.1807
Conversion to corporation not for profit; authority of circuit judge
617.1808
Application of act to corporation converted to corporation not for profit
617.1809
Limited agricultural association; conversion to a domestic corporation not for profit
617.1904
Estoppel
617.1907
Effect of repeal or amendment of prior acts
617.1908
Applicability of Florida Business Corporation Act
617.2001
Corporations which may be incorporated hereunder; incorporation of certain medical services corporations
617.2002
Corporation not for profit organized pursuant to s. 2, ch. 87-296; requirements
617.2003
Proceedings to revoke articles of incorporation or charter or prevent its use
617.2004
Extinct churches and religious societies; property
617.2005
Extinct churches and religious societies; dissolution
617.2006
Incorporation of labor unions or bodies
617.2007
Sponge packing and marketing corporations
617.02011
Incorporators
617.2101
Corporation authorized to act as trustee
617.2102
Fines and penalties against members
617.2104
Florida Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
617.2105
Corporation issued a deed to real property
617.05015
Reserved name
617.07401
Members’ derivative actions
617.08101
Compensation of directors

Current through Fall 2025

Chap. 617. Corps. Not for Profit's source at flsenate​.gov