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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78573</law_id><section_number>13.1-742</section_number><catch_line>Dissolution by directors and shareholders</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-604</reference><reference>13.1-604.1</reference><reference>13.1-653</reference><reference>13.1-724</reference><reference>13.1-743</reference><reference>13.1-995</reference><reference>56-231.21</reference><reference>56-503</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="16">Dissolution</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The board of directors may propose dissolution for submission to the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> by first adopting a resolution authorizing the dissolution. <a id="paragraph-281577" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> For a proposal to dissolve to be approved: <a id="paragraph-281578" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The board of directors shall recommend dissolution to the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> unless the board of directors determines that because of <span class="dictionary">conflict of interests</span> or other special circumstances it should make no recommendation, in which case the board of directors shall inform the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> of the basis for that determination; and <a id="paragraph-281579" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> entitled to vote shall approve the proposal to dissolve as provided in subsection E. <a id="paragraph-281580" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The board of directors may set conditions for the approval of the proposal for dissolution by <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> or on the effectiveness of the dissolution. <a id="paragraph-281581" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If the approval of the <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> is to be sought at a <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting, the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall notify each <span class="dictionary">shareholder</span>, regardless of whether entitled to vote, of the meeting of <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span> at which dissolution will be submitted for approval. The notice shall <span class="dictionary">state</span> that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting is to consider dissolving the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>. <a id="paragraph-281582" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> Unless the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> or the board of directors, acting pursuant to subsection C, requires a greater vote, a greater quorum, or a vote by <span class="dictionary">voting groups</span>, dissolution to be authorized must be approved at a <span class="dictionary">shareholders</span>&#x2019; meeting at which a quorum exists by the holders of more than two-thirds of all votes entitled to be cast on the proposal to dissolve. The <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> may provide for a greater or lesser vote than that provided for in this subsection or a vote by separate <span class="dictionary">voting groups</span> so long as the vote provided for is not less than a majority of all the votes cast by each <span class="dictionary">voting group</span> entitled to vote on the proposed dissolution at a meeting at which a quorum of the <span class="dictionary">voting group</span> exists. <a id="paragraph-281583" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-742/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-81; 1956, c. 428; 1975, c. 500; 1985, c. 522; 2005, c. 765; 2019, c. 734.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
