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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0874\">874<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":62759,"section_number":"13.1-601","catch_line":"Short title","order_by":null,"url":"\/13.1-601\/"},{"id":76305,"section_number":"13.1-801","catch_line":"Short title","order_by":null,"url":"\/13.1-801\/"}],"permalink":{"id":251355,"object_type":"law","relational_id":83080,"identifier":"56-231.22","token":"56\/9.1\/1\/56-231.22","url":"\/56-231.22\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-231.22\/","token":"56\/9.1\/1\/56-231.22","dublin_core":{"Title":"Charter amendments","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-231.22","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A <span class=\"dictionary\">cooperative<\/span> may <span class=\"dictionary\">amend<\/span> its articles of incorporation to change its corporate name, to increase or reduce the number of its directors or change any other provision therein; however, no <span class=\"dictionary\">cooperative<\/span> shall <span class=\"dictionary\">amend<\/span> its articles of incorporation to embody therein any purpose, power or provision which would not be authorized if original articles including such additional or changed purpose, power or provision were offered for filing at the time articles under this section are offered. Such amendment may be accomplished in the method prescribed in Chapters 9 (\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Short title\" href=\"\/13.1-601\/\">13.1-601<\/a> et seq.) and 10 (\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Short title\" href=\"\/13.1-801\/\">13.1-801<\/a> et seq.) of Title 13.1.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCHARTER AMENDMENTS (\u00a7 56-231.22)\n\nA cooperative may amend its articles of incorporation to change its corporate\nname, to increase or reduce the number of its directors or change any other\nprovision therein; however, no cooperative shall amend its articles of\nincorporation to embody therein any purpose, power or provision which would not\nbe authorized if original articles including such additional or changed purpose,\npower or provision were offered for filing at the time articles under this\nsection are offered. Such amendment may be accomplished in the method prescribed\nin Chapters 9 (\u00a7 13.1-601 et seq.) and 10 (\u00a7 13.1-801 et seq.) of Title 13.1.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 874.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}