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Corporate bylaws are the internal rules your Vermont corporation runs on, and the statute says in terms that they need not exist on paper. Answer a few simple questions and Document Genius builds a customizable set in minutes.

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What Are Corporate Bylaws in Vermont?

Corporate bylaws are the internal rules a Vermont corporation adopts to govern itself. Title 11A, section 2.06 of the Vermont Business Corporation Act covers them in two subsections.

One clause inside the second subsection is unusual. Vermont corporate bylaws may be stored or depicted in any tangible or electronic medium, and the legislature put that permission in the bylaws section itself.

Vermont Requirements for Corporate Bylaws

Two subsections, and the second does more work than its length suggests.

Adoption

Subsection (a) directs the incorporators or the board of directors to adopt initial bylaws for the corporation.

Contents

Subsection (b) permits any provisions for managing the business and regulating the affairs of the corporation that are not inconsistent with law or the articles of incorporation.

Any Medium You Like

The same subsection then adds that the bylaws may be stored or depicted in any tangible or electronic medium. Paper, a signed PDF, and a record sitting in a document system all satisfy the statute equally.

When That Arrived

The legislature added section 2.06 in 1993, with effect from the start of 1994. The medium clause came later, through an amendment effective in April 2010, which is why older Vermont templates tend not to mention it.

Do Vermont Bylaws Have to Be on Paper?

No. Subsection (b) puts tangible and electronic media on the same footing, so a corporation can hold its bylaws entirely in digital form.

The practical question shifts from format to retrievability. A record nobody can locate serves no better than one nobody ever wrote, whichever medium holds it.

Decide where the authoritative copy lives. Naming that location in the bylaws themselves saves an argument about which version governs when several are circulating.

The words stored or depicted cover two different things: where the bylaws are kept, and how they are rendered when someone reads them. A file format nobody can display on request may satisfy the first and not the second.

How to Adopt Corporate Bylaws in Vermont

Adopting Vermont corporate bylaws is internal, and no filing goes to the Secretary of State.

  1. File your articles of incorporation and let the corporation come into existence.
  2. Pick the adopting group, since subsection (a) takes the incorporators or the board.
  3. Draft the bylaws, ranging over meetings, quorum, directors, officers, and shares.
  4. Choose your medium and your storage location, which subsection (b) leaves entirely open.
  5. Adopt and record the decision, noting who acted and when.
  6. Keep the authoritative copy accessible and replace it whenever an amendment passes.