Louisiana § RS 12:225 - Officers and agents

§ RS 12:225. Officers and agents

A.(1)  The board of directors shall elect a president, a secretary and a treasurer, and may elect one or more vice presidents.  Unless otherwise provided in the articles, none of said officers need be a director, and any two of these offices may be combined in one person; provided that no person holding more than one office may sign, in more than one capacity, any certificate or other instrument required by law to be signed by two officers.  The treasurer may be a corporation.  

(2)  If the officers are listed in the articles or in an amendment thereto, a municipal address, which shall not be a post office box only, shall be indicated for each such officer.  

B.  Such other officers and agents as may be necessary for the business of the corporation may be appointed by the board of directors or in the manner provided in the by-laws.  

C.  Election or appointment of an officer shall not of itself create contract rights.  

D.  Officers and agents shall have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the property and affairs of the corporation as may be prescribed in the by-laws or by the board.  

E.  Any officer or agent may be removed by the board of directors with or without cause at any time, without prejudice, however, to the contract rights of the person so removed.  

F.  The articles may provide that only the members, or only a particular class or classes of directors, or only directors elected by the vote of a particular class or series of members, may elect certain or all of the officers, in which event officers so elected may be removed without cause only by the members or directors empowered to elect their successors.  

G.  Except as otherwise provided in the articles or by-laws, or by resolution of the board of directors, the president or vice-president of any corporation shall have power in the name and behalf of the corporation to authorize the institution, prosecution or defense of any suit and other legal proceedings, and no exception of want of authority shall lie on the part of any other party.  Such persons shall have authority in the corporation's name and behalf to direct the issuance of conservatory writs and to bond property in custodia legis, to execute bonds in connection with any legal proceedings, and to make any affidavit required by law or the rules of the court.  Such acts shall have the same force and effect as the act of the corporation itself, and be binding upon it.  

Acts 1968, No. 105, §1; Acts 1989, No. 102, §1.