{"id":1859,"date":"2022-03-30T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/statutes-california-laws\/?page_id=1859"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:45:05","slug":"california-corporations-code-309","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/california-corporations-code-309\/","title":{"rendered":"California Corporations Code 309"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-e878f05c31dff72941bf1e49a00d9ff5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Currrent as of February 4, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l1ddqatd-9b6755dac2b3f4fe116c8454a2fb9a28\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-l1ddqatd-9b6755dac2b3f4fe116c8454a2fb9a28 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:19px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l1ddqatd-9b6755dac2b3f4fe116c8454a2fb9a28 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>Corporations Code \u00a7\u2002<span class=\"SS_prior SS_SH\">309<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"SS_Banner\">Directors and officers to exercise powers in good faith; Liability<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>(a)<\/strong> A director shall perform the duties of a director, including duties as a member of any committee of the board upon which the director may serve, in good faith, in a manner such director believes to be in the best interests of the corporation and its shareholders and with such care, including reasonable inquiry, as an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(b)<\/strong> In performing the duties of a director, a director shall be entitled to rely on information, opinions, reports or statements, including financial statements and other financial data, in each case prepared or presented by any of the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(1) One or more officers or employees of the corporation whom the director believes to be reliable and competent in the matters presented.<br \/>\n(2) Counsel, independent accountants or other persons as to matters which the director believes to be within such person\u2019s professional or expert competence.<br \/>\n(3) A committee of the board upon which the director does not serve, as to matters within its designated authority, which committee the director believes to merit confidence, so long as, in any such case, the director acts in good faith, after reasonable inquiry when the need therefor is indicated by the circumstances and without knowledge that would cause such reliance to be unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(c)<\/strong> A person who performs the duties of a director in accordance with subdivisions (a) and (b) shall have no liability based upon any alleged failure to discharge the person\u2019s obligations as a director. In addition, the liability of a director for monetary damages may be eliminated or limited in a corporation\u2019s articles to the extent provided in paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 204.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Added Stats 1975 ch 682 \u00a7 7, effective January 1, 1977. Amended Stats 1976 ch 641 \u00a7 9.5, effective January 1, 1977; Stats 1987 ch 1201 \u00a7 7, ch 1203 \u00a7 2, effective September 27, 1987.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>California Corporations Code 309<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>California Corporations Code 309 - California Statutes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/california-corporations-code-309\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Corporations Code 309 - 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