§ 5527 Director Election Challenge Period

Corporations Code·California

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•If you want to complain about how a director was picked or fired, you have to do it within 9 months.
•If no one complains within 9 months, it’s like it never happened—everything is fine.
•This rule only works if no one lied or cheated. If they did, the 9-month rule doesn’t apply.

Example

A company picks a new boss, but some people think it wasn’t fair.

If those people don’t say anything for 9 months, the boss stays, and no one can complain later unless someone lied to get them the job.

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§ 5527 Director Election Challenge Period

An action challenging the validity of any election, appointment or removal of a director or directors must be commenced within nine months after the election, appointment or removal. If no such action is commenced, in the absence of fraud, any election, appointment or removal of a director is conclusively presumed valid nine months thereafter. (Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 587, Sec. 14.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

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election appointment removal director nine months fraud conclusively presumed valid

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Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Corporations Code. Section 5527.

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