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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58197</law_id><section_number>13.1-885</section_number><catch_line>Amendment of articles of incorporation by directors</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-869</reference><reference>13.1-894</reference><reference>13.1-895</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="10">Amendment of Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Where there are no <span class="dictionary">members</span>, or no <span class="dictionary">members</span> having voting rights, an amendment shall be adopted at a meeting of the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> upon receiving the vote of at least two-thirds of the directors in office. The board may adopt one or more amendments at any one meeting. <a id="paragraph-213285" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-885/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Unless the <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> provide otherwise, a <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> may adopt one or more amendments to the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> without <span class="dictionary">member</span> action: <a id="paragraph-213286" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-885/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> To delete the names and addresses of the initial directors; <a id="paragraph-213287" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-885/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> To delete the name of the initial registered agent or the address of the initial registered office, if a statement of change described in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Change of registered office or registered agent" href="/13.1-834/">13.1-834</a> is on file with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>; <a id="paragraph-213288" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-885/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> To add, delete, or change a geographic attribution for the name; or <a id="paragraph-213289" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-885/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> To make any other change expressly permitted by this Act to be made without <span class="dictionary">member</span> action. <a id="paragraph-213290" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-885/#B4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-236; 1956, c. 428; 1964, c. 580; 1985, c. 522; 2007, c. 925; 2015, c. 623.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
