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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66939</law_id><section_number>13.1-858</section_number><catch_line>Staggered terms of directors</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-814.1</reference><reference>13.1-857</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="8">Directors and Officers</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> may provide for staggering the terms of <span class="dictionary">directors</span> by dividing the total number of <span class="dictionary">directors</span> into groups, and the terms of office of the several groups need not be uniform. <a id="paragraph-242688" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-858/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> permit cumulative voting, any provision establishing staggered terms of <span class="dictionary">directors</span> shall provide that at least three <span class="dictionary">directors</span> shall be elected at each annual <span class="dictionary">members</span>&#x2019; meeting. <a id="paragraph-242689" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-858/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-221; 1956, c. 428; 1985, c. 522; 1987, c. 140; 1989, c. 419; 2007, c. 925.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
