1.A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business
hours at the corporation’s principal office, any of the records of the corporation described in
section490.1601,subsection1,excludingminutesofmeetingsof,andrecordsofactionstaken
without a meeting by, the corporation’s board of directors and board committees established
under section 490.825, if the shareholder gives the corporation a signed written notice of the
shareholder’s demand at least five business days before the date on which the shareholder
wishes to inspect and copy.
2.A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business
hours at a reasonable location specified by the corporation, any of the following records
of the corporation if the shareholder meets t
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1. A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business
hours at the corporation’s principal office, any of the records of the corporation described in
section490.1601,subsection1,excludingminutesofmeetingsof,andrecordsofactionstaken
without a meeting by, the corporation’s board of directors and board committees established
under section 490.825, if the shareholder gives the corporation a signed written notice of the
shareholder’s demand at least five business days before the date on which the shareholder
wishes to inspect and copy.
2. A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business
hours at a reasonable location specified by the corporation, any of the following records
of the corporation if the shareholder meets the requirements of subsection 3 and gives the
corporation a signed written notice of the shareholder’s demand at least five business days
before the date on which the shareholder wishes to inspect and copy any of the following:
a. The financial statements of the corporation maintained in accordance with section
490.1601, subsection 2.
b. Accounting records of the corporation.
c. Excerpts from minutes of any meeting of, or records of any actions taken without
a meeting by, the corporation’s board of directors and board committees maintained in
accordance with section 490.1601, subsection 1.
d. Therecordofshareholdersmaintainedinaccordancewithsection490.1601,subsection
4.
3. A shareholder may inspect and copy the records described in subsection 2 only if all of
the following apply:
a. The shareholder’s demand is made in good faith and for a proper purpose.
b. The shareholder’s demand describes with reasonable particularity the shareholder’s
purpose and the records the shareholder desires to inspect.
c. The records are directly connected with the shareholder’s purpose.
4. The corporation may impose reasonable restrictions on the confidentiality, use, or
distribution of records described in subsection 2.
5. Foranymeetingofshareholdersforwhichtherecorddatefordeterminingshareholders
entitled to vote at the meeting is different from the record date for notice of the meeting, any
person who becomes a shareholder subsequent to the record date for notice of the meeting
andisentitledtovoteatthemeetingisentitledtoobtainfromthecorporationuponrequestthe
notice and any other information provided by the corporation to shareholders in connection
with the meeting, unless the corporation has made such information generally available to
shareholders by posting it on its internet site or by other generally recognized means. Failure
of a corporation to provide such information does not affect the validity of action taken at the
meeting.
6. The right of inspection granted by this section shall not be abolished or limited by a
corporation’s articles of incorporation or bylaws.
7. This section does not affect any of the following:
a. Therightofashareholdertoinspectrecordsundersection490.720or,iftheshareholder
is in litigation with the corporation, to the same extent as any other litigant.
b. The power of a court, independently of this chapter, to compel the production of
corporate records for examination and to impose reasonable restrictions as provided in
section 490.1604, subsection 3, provided that, in the case of production of records described
in subsection 2, at the request of a shareholder, the shareholder has met the requirements
of subsection 3.
8. As used in this section, “shareholder” means a record shareholder, a beneficial
shareholder, and an unrestricted voting trust beneficial owner.