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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) The board of directors shall manage or direct the business and affairs of the public benefit corporation in a manner that balances the pecuniary interests of the stockholders, the best interests of those materially affected by the corporation's conduct and the specific public benefit or public benefits identified in its articles of incorporation.
(b) A director of a public benefit corporation shall not, by virtue of the public benefit provisions or K.S.A. 17-72a02(a), and amendments thereto, have any duty to any person on account of any interest of such person in the public benefit or public benefits identified in the articles of incorporation or on account of any interest materially affected by the corporation's conduct and, with respect to a decision implicating the balancing requirement in subsection (a), will be deemed to satisfy such director's fiduciary duties to stockholders and the corporation if such director's decision is both informed and disinterested and not such that no person of ordinary, sound judgment would approve.
(c) A director's ownership of or other interest in the stock of the public benefit corporation shall not alone, for the purposes of this section, create a conflict of interest on the part of the director with respect to the director's decision implicating the balancing requirement in subsection (a), except to the extent that such ownership or interest would create a conflict of interest if the corporation were not a public benefit corporation. In the absence of a conflict of interest, no failure to satisfy that balancing requirement shall, for the purposes of K.S.A. 17-6002(b)(8) or 17-6305, and amendments thereto, constitute an act or omission not in good faith, or a breach of the duty of loyalty unless the articles of incorporation so provide.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kansas Statutes Chapter 17. Corporations § 17-72a05. Duties of directors - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ks/chapter-17-corporations/ks-st-sect-17-72a05/
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