Authorizes board of planned community association with no less than 2,500 members to allow election of directors or officers by mail. Allows other nonprofits to conduct election by mail if authorized by their bylaws or articles of incorporation. (CD1)

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 414D-115, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§414D-115 Other methods of electing directors. (a) A corporation may provide in its articles or bylaws for the election of directors by members or delegates:

(b) Where directors or officers are to be elected by members, the bylaws or board of directors may allow the election to be conducted by mail if no less than two thousand five hundred members are eligible to vote on the record date determined pursuant to section 414D-107, and the primary purpose of the corporation is the management of a planned community as defined in section 421J-2. Except for the corporations described in this subsection, the election of directors may be conducted by mail only if so provided in a corporation's bylaws or articles of incorporation."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.