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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55110</law_id><section_number>13.1-710</section_number><catch_line>Articles of amendment</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-347</reference><reference>13.1-639</reference><reference>6.2-105</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="11">Amendment of Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> After an amendment of the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> has been adopted and approved as required by this chapter, the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall <span class="dictionary">deliver</span> to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> for filing articles of amendment that shall set forth: <a id="paragraph-202073" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The name of the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>; <a id="paragraph-202074" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The text of each amendment adopted or the information required by subdivision L 5 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Filing requirements" href="/13.1-604/">13.1-604</a>; <a id="paragraph-202075" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If an amendment provides for an exchange, reclassification, or cancellation of issued <span class="dictionary">shares</span>, provisions for implementing the amendment if not contained in the amendment itself, which provisions may be made dependent upon <span class="dictionary">facts</span> objectively ascertainable outside the articles of amendment in accordance with subsection L of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Filing requirements" href="/13.1-604/">13.1-604</a>; <a id="paragraph-202076" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The date of each amendment&#x2019;s adoption or approval; <a id="paragraph-202077" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> If an amendment (i) was adopted by the board of directors or the incorporators without <span class="dictionary">shareholder</span> approval, a statement that the amendment was duly adopted by the board of directors or by a majority of the incorporators, as the case may be, including the reason that <span class="dictionary">shareholder</span> and, if applicable, board of directors&#x2019; approval was not required; (ii) was approved by the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>, either a statement that the amendment was adopted by unanimous consent of the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>, or a statement that the amendment was adopted by the board of directors, was submitted to the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> in accordance with this article, and was duly approved by the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> in the manner required by this chapter and by the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span>; or (iii) is being filed pursuant to subdivision L 5 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Filing requirements" href="/13.1-604/">13.1-604</a>, a statement to that effect. <a id="paragraph-202078" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> finds that the articles of amendment comply with the requirements of <span class="dictionary">law</span> and that all required fees have been paid, it shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a certificate of amendment. <a id="paragraph-202079" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-710/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 13.1-58, 13.1-59; 1956, c. 428; 1958, c. 564; 1975, c. 500; 1985, c. 522; 2002, c. 497; 2005, c. 765; 2015, c. 623; 2019, c. 734; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 487.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
