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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70173</law_id><section_number>13.1-658</section_number><catch_line>Notice of meeting</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-655</reference><reference>13.1-707</reference><reference>13.1-724</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="8">Shareholders</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Except as otherwise provided in subsection F, a <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall notify <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> of the date, time, and place, if any, of each annual and special <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting no fewer than 10 nor more than 60 days before the meeting date except that notice of a <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting to act on an amendment of the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span>, a plan of <span class="dictionary">merger</span>, <span class="dictionary">share exchange</span>, domestication, or conversion, a proposed sale of <span class="dictionary">assets</span> pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Shareholder approval of certain dispositions" href="/13.1-724/">13.1-724</a>, or the dissolution of the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall be given not fewer than 25 nor more than 60 days before the meeting date. If the board of directors has authorized participation by means of remote communication pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Remote participation in shareholders' meetings" href="/13.1-660.2/">13.1-660.2</a> for holders of any class or series of <span class="dictionary">shares</span>, the notice to the holders of such class or series of <span class="dictionary">shares</span> shall describe the means of remote communication to be used. The notice shall include the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to vote at the meeting, if such date is different from the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to notice of the meeting. Unless this chapter or the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> require otherwise, the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> is required to give notice only to <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to vote at the meeting as of the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to notice of the meeting. <a id="paragraph-253405" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-658/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Unless the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> or this chapter requires otherwise, notice of an annual meeting of <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> need not <span class="dictionary">state</span> the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. <a id="paragraph-253406" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-658/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Notice of a special meeting of <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> shall <span class="dictionary">state</span> the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. <a id="paragraph-253407" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-658/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If not otherwise fixed under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Court-ordered meeting" href="/13.1-656/">13.1-656</a> or <a class="law" title="Record date for meeting" href="/13.1-660/">13.1-660</a>, the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to notice of and to vote at an annual or special <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting is the day before the first notice is delivered to <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>. <a id="paragraph-253408" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-658/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> Unless the bylaws require otherwise, if an annual or special <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting is adjourned to a different date, time, or place, notice need not be given of the new date, time, or place if the new date, time, or place, if any, is announced at the meeting before adjournment. If a new <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for the adjourned meeting is or shall be fixed under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Record date for meeting" href="/13.1-660/">13.1-660</a>, however, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given not fewer than 10 days before the meeting date to <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting as of the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting. <a id="paragraph-253409" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-658/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-26; 1956, c. 428; 1958, c. 564; 1975, c. 500; 1984, c. 301; 1985, c. 522; 1999, c. 102; 2001, c. 545; 2002, cc. 1, 285; 2005, c. 765; 2010, c. 782; 2015, c. 611; 2017, c. 646; 2019, c. 734; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 487.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
