Section 501B.27. Reimbursement — indemnification — advancement of expenses.

  1.  Except as otherwise provided in the governing principles, an unincorporated nonprofit association shall reimburse a member, manager, employee, or volunteer for authorized expenses reasonably incurred in the course of the member’s, manager’s, employee’s, or volunteer’s activities on behalf of the association.

  2.  An unincorporated nonprofit association may indemnify a member, manager, employee, or volunteer for any debt, obligation, or other liability incurred in the course of the member’s, manager’s, employee’s, or volunteer’s activities on behalf of the association if the person seeking indemnification has complied with section 501B.18 or 501B.23, or other law, as applicable. Governing principles in a record may broaden or limit indemnification.

  3.  If a person is made or threatened to be made a party in an action based on that person’s activities on behalf of an unincorporated nonprofit association and the person makes a request in a record to the association, a majority of the disinterested managers may approve in a record advance payment, or reimbursement, by the association, of all or a part of the reasonable expenses, including attorney fees and costs, incurred by the person before the final disposition of the proceeding. To be entitled to an advance payment or reimbursement, the person must state in a record that the person has a good faith belief that the criteria for indemnification in subsection 2 have been satisfied and that the person will repay the amounts advanced or reimbursed if the criteria for payment have not been satisfied. Governing principles in a record may broaden or limit the advance payments or reimbursements.

  4.  An unincorporated nonprofit association may purchase insurance on behalf of a member, manager, employee, or volunteer for liability asserted against or incurred by the member, manager, employee, or volunteer in the capacity of a member, manager, employee, or volunteer whether or not the association has authority under this chapter to reimburse, indemnify, or advance expenses to the member, manager, employee, or volunteer against the liability.

  5.  The rights of reimbursement, indemnification, and advancement of expenses under this section apply to a former member, manager, employee, or volunteer for an activity undertaken on behalf of the unincorporated nonprofit association while a member, manager, employee, or volunteer.

2010 Acts, ch 1112, §27, 33