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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65190</law_id><section_number>13.1-614.4</section_number><catch_line>Action of ratification</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-614.3</reference><reference>13.1-614.8</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Virginia Stock Corporation Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1.1">Ratification of Defective Corporate Actions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The quorum and voting requirements applicable to a ratifying action by the board of directors under subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a> shall be the quorum and voting requirements applicable to the <span class="dictionary">corporate action</span> proposed to be ratified at the time such ratifying action is taken. <a id="paragraph-237113" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-614.4/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the ratification of the <span class="dictionary">defective corporate action</span> requires approval by the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> under subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a>, and if the approval is to be given at a meeting, the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall notify each holder of valid and <span class="dictionary">putative shares</span>, regardless of whether entitled to vote, as of the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for notice of the meeting and as of the date of the occurrence of <span class="dictionary">defective corporate action</span>, provided that notice shall not be required to be given to holders of valid or <span class="dictionary">putative shares</span> whose identities or addresses for notice cannot be determined from the records of the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>. The notice shall <span class="dictionary">state</span> that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting, is to consider ratification of a <span class="dictionary">defective corporate action</span> and shall be accompanied by (i) either a copy of the action taken by the board of directors in accordance with subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a> or the information required by subdivisions A 1 through A 4 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a> and (ii) a statement that any claim that the ratification of such <span class="dictionary">defective corporate action</span> and any <span class="dictionary">putative shares</span> issued as a result of such <span class="dictionary">defective corporate action</span> should not be effective, or should be effective only on certain conditions, shall be brought within 120 days from the applicable <span class="dictionary">validation effective time</span>. <a id="paragraph-237114" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-614.4/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Except as provided in subsection D with respect to the voting requirements to ratify the election of a director, the quorum and voting requirements applicable to the approval by the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> required by subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a> shall be the quorum and voting requirements applicable to the corporate action proposed to be ratified at the time of such <span class="dictionary">shareholder</span> approval. <a id="paragraph-237115" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-614.4/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The approval by <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> to ratify the election of a director requires that the votes cast within the <span class="dictionary">voting group</span> favoring such ratification exceed the votes cast opposing such ratification of the election at a meeting at which a quorum is present. <a id="paragraph-237116" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-614.4/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> <span class="dictionary">Putative shares</span> on the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to vote on any matter submitted to <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> under subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a>, and without giving effect to any ratification of <span class="dictionary">putative shares</span> that becomes effective as a result of such vote, shall neither be entitled to vote nor counted for quorum purposes in any vote to approve the ratification of any <span class="dictionary">defective corporate action</span>. <a id="paragraph-237117" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-614.4/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="F"><p><span class="prefix-number">F.</span> If the approval under this section of <span class="dictionary">putative shares</span> would result in an <span class="dictionary">over-issuance of shares</span>, in addition to the approval required by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Ratification of defective corporate actions" href="/13.1-614.3/">13.1-614.3</a>, the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall approve an amendment of the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> under Article 11 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Authority to amend articles of incorporation" href="/13.1-705/">13.1-705</a> et seq.) to increase the number of shares of an authorized class or series or to authorize the creation of a class or series of shares so there is no <span class="dictionary">over-issuance of shares</span>. <a id="paragraph-237118" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-614.4/#F"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2019, c. 734.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
