2007 Minnesota Statutes

322B.36 VOTING BY ORGANIZATIONS AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES.
    Subdivision 1. Membership interests held by another organization. Membership interests
of a limited liability company reflected in the required records as being owned by another
domestic or foreign organization may be voted by the chief manager, chief executive officer, or
another legal representative of that organization.
    Subd. 2. Membership interests held by subsidiary. Except as provided in subdivision 3,
membership interests of a limited liability company reflected in the required records as being
owned by a subsidiary are not entitled to be voted on any matter.
    Subd. 3. Membership interests controlled in a fiduciary capacity. Membership interests of
a limited liability company in the name of, or under the control of, the limited liability company
or a subsidiary in a fiduciary capacity are not entitled to be voted on any matter, except to the
extent that the settlor or beneficiary possesses and exercises a right to vote or gives the limited
liability company or, with respect to membership interests in the name of or under control of a
subsidiary, the subsidiary, binding instructions on how to vote the membership interests.
    Subd. 4. Voting by certain representatives. Subject to section 322B.323, membership
interests under the control of a person in a capacity as a personal representative, an administrator,
executor, guardian, conservator, or the like may be voted by the person, either in person or by
proxy, without reflecting in the required records those membership interests in the name of the
person.
    Subd. 5. Voting by trustee in bankruptcy or receiver. Membership interests reflected in the
required records in the name of a trustee in bankruptcy or a receiver may be voted by the trustee
or receiver either in person or by proxy. Membership interests under the control of a trustee in
bankruptcy or a receiver may be voted by the trustee or receiver without reflecting in the required
records the name of the trustee or receiver, if authority to do so is contained in an appropriate
order of the court by which the trustee or receiver was appointed. The right to vote of trustees in
bankruptcy and receivers is subject to section 322B.323.
    Subd. 6. Membership interests held by other organizations. Membership interests
reflected in the required records in the name of an organization not described in subdivisions 1 to
5 may be voted either in person or by proxy by the legal representative of that organization.
    Subd. 7. Grant of security interest. The grant of a security interest in a membership interest
does not entitle the holders of the security interest to vote except as provided in section 322B.313.
History: 1992 c 517 art 2 s 43; 1996 c 361 s 22,23