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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60334</law_id><section_number>13.1-660</section_number><catch_line>Record date for meeting</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-628</reference><reference>13.1-655</reference><reference>13.1-657</reference><reference>13.1-658</reference><reference>13.1-661</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> The bylaws may fix or provide the manner of fixing in advance the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> or dates for one or more <span class="dictionary">voting groups</span> to determine the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to notice of a <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting, to demand a special meeting, to vote or take action by <span class="dictionary">written</span> consent, or to take any other action. If the bylaws do not fix or provide the manner of fixing a <span class="dictionary">record date</span>, the board of directors may fix in advance the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> or dates. <a id="paragraph-220667" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-660/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A <span class="dictionary">record date</span> fixed under this section may not be more than 70 days before the meeting or action requiring a determination of <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>. <a id="paragraph-220668" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-660/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> A determination of <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to notice of or to vote at a <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting is effective for any adjournment of the meeting unless the board of directors fixes a new <span class="dictionary">record date</span> or dates, which it shall do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting. <a id="paragraph-220669" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-660/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If a <span class="dictionary">court orders</span> a meeting adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting, it may provide that the original <span class="dictionary">record date</span> or dates continue in effect or it may fix a new <span class="dictionary">record date</span> or dates. <a id="paragraph-220670" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-660/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> The <span class="dictionary">record dates</span> for a <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting fixed by or in the manner provided in the bylaws or by the board of directors shall be the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled both to notice of and to vote at the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting, unless in the case of a <span class="dictionary">record date</span> fixed by the board of directors and to the extent not prohibited by the bylaws, the board of directors, at the time it fixes the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to notice of the meeting, fixes a later <span class="dictionary">record date</span> on or before the date of the meeting to determine the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to vote at the meeting. <a id="paragraph-220671" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-660/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 13-192, 13.1-29; 1952, c. 88; 1956, c. 428; 1985, c. 522; 2005, c. 765; 2010, c. 782; 2019, c. 734.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
