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urn: urn:us-la:rs:12:1825
citation: "R.S. 12:1825"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 12 › Chapter 27 › Part III"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2012, number: 442, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Right of action

A. The duties of directors and officers under this Chapter and the general public benefit purpose and any specific public benefit purpose of a benefit corporation may be enforced only in accordance with this Section in a benefit enforcement proceeding, and no person shall bring an action or assert a claim against a benefit corporation.

B. A benefit enforcement proceeding shall be commenced or maintained only directly by the benefit corporation or derivatively by one of the following parties:

(1) A shareholder.

(2) A benefit director.

(3) Other persons as specified in the articles or bylaws of the benefit corporation.