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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 617
CORPORATIONS NOT FOR PROFIT
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617.1202 Sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of corporate property and assets requiring member approval.A sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of a corporation, in all cases other than those not requiring member approval as specified in s. 617.1201, may be made upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration, which may consist in whole or in part of money or property, real or personal, including shares, bonds, or other securities of any corporation or corporations for profit, domestic or foreign, and must be authorized in the following manner:
(1) If the corporation has members entitled to vote on the sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of corporate property, the board of directors must adopt a resolution approving such sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition, and directing that it be submitted to a vote at a meeting of members entitled to vote thereon, which may be either an annual or special meeting. Written notice stating that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of such meeting is to consider the sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation must be given to each member entitled to vote at such meeting in accordance with the articles of incorporation or the bylaws. At such meeting, the members may authorize such sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition and may approve or fix, or may authorize the board of directors to fix, any or all of the terms and conditions thereof and the consideration to be received by the corporation therefor. Such authorization requires at least a majority of the votes which members present at such meeting or represented by proxy are entitled to cast. After such authorization by a vote of members, the board of directors may, in its discretion, abandon such sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of assets, subject to the rights of third parties under any contracts relating to such sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition, without further action or approval by members.
(2) If the corporation has no members or if its members are not entitled to vote thereon, a sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all or substantially all the property and assets of a corporation may be authorized by a majority vote of the directors then in office.
History.s. 75, ch. 90-179.

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Lensa Corp. v. Poinciana Gardens Ass'n, Inc., 765 So. 2d 296 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000).

Cited 12 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2000 Fla. App. LEXIS 10771, 2000 WL 1190613

...Goodman had no actual authority because the true board of directors did not vote on the sale of property; there was also no apparent authority because Dr. Goodman failed to obtain the approval of the directors (as required under the association's bylaws, as well as section 617.1202, Florida Statutes), and at no time did either the board or the membership confer such authority upon him. The sale of all or substantially all of a non-profit corporation's assets is strictly controlled by section 617.1202, which provides, in pertinent part: A sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of a corporation ......
...(2) If the corporation has no members or if its members are not entitled to vote thereon, a sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all or substantially all the property and assets of a corporation may be authorized by a majority vote of the directors then in office. § 617.1202, Fla. Stat. (1995). Association's bylaws do not require membership approval; therefore, the directors had the authority to sell the property and assets of the corporation. See § 617.1202(2), Fla. Stat. Here, a majority vote of the directors was necessary in order to authorize the sale. There is nothing in the record to indicate that Association complied with section 617.1202 or the bylaws before executing the agreement....
...t the creation of a binding real estate contract. The contract did not require that *299 the appellee non-profit corporation approve the sale by the adoption of a corporate resolution, a corporate act which appears to be mandatory in this case under section 617.1202, Florida Statutes (1995)....

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