(a) Under a unanimous stockholders' agreement, the stockholders of a close corporation may regulate any aspect of the affairs of the corporation or the relations of the stockholders, including:
- (1) The management of the business and affairs of the corporation;
- (2) Restrictions on the transfer of stock;
- (3) The right of one or more stockholders to dissolve the corporation at will or on the occurrence of a specified event or contingency;
- (4) The exercise or division of voting power;
- (5) The terms and conditions of employment of an officer or employee of the corporation, without regard to the period of his employment;
- (6) The individuals who are to be directors and officers of the corporation; and
- (7) The payment of dividends or the division of profits.
- (b) A unanimous stockholders' agreement may be amended, but only by the unanimous written consent of the stockholders then parties to the agreement.
(c) A stockholder who acquires his stock after a unanimous stockholders' agreement becomes effective is considered to have actually assented to the agreement and is a party to it:
- (1) Whether or not he has actual knowledge of the existence of the agreement at the time he acquires the stock, if acquired by gift or bequest from a person who was a party to the agreement; and
- (2) If he has actual knowledge of the existence of the agreement at the time he acquires the stock, if acquired in any other manner.
(d)
- (1) A court of equity may enforce a unanimous stockholders' agreement by injunction or by any other relief which the court in its discretion determines to be fair and appropriate in the circumstances.
- (2) As an alternative to the granting of an injunction or other equitable relief, on motion of a party to the proceeding, the court may order dissolution of the corporation under the provisions of Subtitle 6 of this title.
- (e) This section does not affect any otherwise valid agreement among stockholders of a close corporation or of any other corporation.
Added by Acts 1975, c. 311, § 2, eff. July 1, 1975.
Formerly Art. 23, § 104.