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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 617
CORPORATIONS NOT FOR PROFIT
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617.0206 Bylaws.The initial bylaws of a corporation shall be adopted by its board of directors. The power to alter, amend, or repeal the bylaws or adopt new bylaws shall be vested in the board of directors unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation or the bylaws. The bylaws may contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation not inconsistent with law or the articles of incorporation.
History.s. 21, ch. 90-179.

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Cat Cay Yacht Club, Inc. v. Diaz, 264 So. 3d 1071 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

inconsistent with law or the articles of incorporation." § 617.0206, Fla. Stat. (2018). Diaz's fifth amended complaint
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Cat Cay Yacht Club, Inc. v. Diaz, 264 So. 3d 1071 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...CCYC is a Florida corporation organized under the Florida Not For Profit Corporation Act, section 617.01011, et seq. , Florida Statutes (2018). CCYC's bylaws "may contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation not inconsistent with law or the articles of incorporation." § 617.0206, Fla....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2000).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

State, 335 So.2d 815, 817 (Fla. 1976). 6 Section 617.0206, Fla. Stat.
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New Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, Inc. v. Dinkins, 708 So. 2d 972 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 2685, 1998 WL 117539

...The Articles of Incorporation provide for two methods to amend the bylaws: (1) by a procedure initiated by any member, which ultimately requires the approval of two-thirds of the members of the Church (Article X, § 2); and (2) by the .Board (Article VIII, § 1(b)). These are consistent with section 617.0206, Florida Statutes (1995). 2 Any new bylaws, however, must be consistent with the articles of incorporation. § 617.0206, Fla....
...This takes us full circle back to Article III, § 2(b) of the Church’s articles of incorporation, which it will be recalled grants to the Board the “sole responsibility” for dismissing the pastor. Any bylaw to the contrary, including the one suggested here, would be invalid pursuant to section 617.0206, Florida Statutes (1995)....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1999).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

distribution of income or profit. Further, section 617.0206, Florida Statutes, states that a nonprofit

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