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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="2-701" title_number="2" title_name="Corporations in General -- Formation, Organization, and Operation" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Ratification of Defective Corporate Acts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Date of the defective corporate act” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The date and the time a defective corporate act was purportedly taken; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the exact time is unknown, the date and approximate time a defective corporate act was purportedly taken.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Defective corporate act” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any corporate act purportedly taken that, at the date of the defective corporate act, would have been within the power of the corporation but is void or voidable due to a failure of authorization; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An overissue.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Failure of authorization” means the failure of a corporation to authorize, approve, or otherwise effect a corporate act in compliance with the Maryland General Corporation Law, its charter or bylaws, any action taken by its board of directors, a committee of its board of directors, or its stockholders, or any plan or agreement to which the corporation is a party, if and to the extent that the failure would render the corporate act void or voidable.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Overissue” means the purported issuance by a corporation of stock of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A class or series in excess of the number of shares of the class or series that the corporation has the power to issue under § 2–201(a) of this title or the corporation’s charter at the time of the purported issuance; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any class or series that is not authorized for issuance by the corporation’s charter at the time of the purported issuance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Putative stock” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Stock, including stock purportedly issued upon exercise of rights, options, warrants, or other securities convertible into or exercisable for stock, purportedly created or issued as a result of a defective corporate act, that but for the failure of authorization would constitute valid stock;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Stock purportedly issued in an overissue; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Stock that cannot be determined by the board of directors to be valid stock.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Valid stock” means stock that has been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with the provisions of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
