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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55572</law_id><section_number>13.1-839</section_number><catch_line>Special meeting</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-840</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="10">Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Members and Meetings</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall hold a special meeting of <span class="dictionary">members</span>: <a id="paragraph-203664" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> On call of the chairman of the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span>, the president, the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span>, or the <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">persons</span> authorized to do so by the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> or bylaws; or <a id="paragraph-203665" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> In the absence of a provision in the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> or bylaws stating who may call a special meeting of <span class="dictionary">members</span>, a special meeting of <span class="dictionary">members</span> may be called by <span class="dictionary">members</span> having one-twentieth of the votes entitled to be cast at such meeting. <a id="paragraph-203666" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Unless otherwise provided in the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span>, a <span class="dictionary">written</span> demand for a special meeting may be revoked by a <span class="dictionary">writing</span>, including an <span class="dictionary">electronic transmission</span>, to that effect received by the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> prior to the receipt by the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> of demands sufficient in number to require the holding of a special meeting. <a id="paragraph-203667" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> If not otherwise fixed under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Court-ordered meeting" href="/13.1-840/">13.1-840</a> or <a class="law" title="Record date" href="/13.1-844/">13.1-844</a>, the <span class="dictionary">record date</span> for determining <span class="dictionary">members</span> entitled to demand a special meeting is the date the first <span class="dictionary">member</span> <span class="dictionary">signs</span> the demand. <a id="paragraph-203668" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Except as otherwise determined by the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> acting pursuant to subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Remote participation in annual and special meetings" href="/13.1-844.2/">13.1-844.2</a>, <span class="dictionary">members</span>&#x2019; meetings may be held at such place in or out of the Commonwealth as may be provided in the bylaws or, where not inconsistent with the bylaws, in the notice of the meeting. <a id="paragraph-203669" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> Only business within the purpose or purposes described in the meeting notice required by subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Notice of meeting" href="/13.1-842/">13.1-842</a> may be conducted at a special <span class="dictionary">members</span>&#x2019; meeting. <a id="paragraph-203670" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-839/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-213; 1956, c. 428; 1975, c. 500; 1985, c. 522; 2007, c. 925; 2012, c. 706; 2018, c. 265.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
