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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58171</law_id><section_number>13.1-902</section_number><catch_line>Dissolution by directors and members</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-900</reference><reference>13.1-904</reference><reference>13.1-907</reference><reference>56-231.21</reference><reference>56-503</reference><reference>6.2-1345</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="13">Dissolution</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Where there are <span class="dictionary">members</span> having voting rights, a <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> may propose dissolution for submission to the <span class="dictionary">members</span>. <a id="paragraph-213148" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#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 adopted: <a id="paragraph-213149" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> shall recommend dissolution to the <span class="dictionary">members</span> unless the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> determines that because of <span class="dictionary">conflict of interests</span> or other special circumstances it should make no recommendation and communicates the basis for its determination to the <span class="dictionary">members</span>; and <a id="paragraph-213150" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#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">members</span> entitled to vote shall approve the proposal to dissolve as provided in subsection E. <a id="paragraph-213151" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> may condition its submission of the proposal for dissolution on any basis. <a id="paragraph-213152" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall notify each <span class="dictionary">member</span> entitled to vote of the proposed <span class="dictionary">members</span>&#x2019; meeting in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Notice of meeting" href="/13.1-842/">13.1-842</a>. The notice shall also <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-213153" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> Unless the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span>, acting pursuant to subsection C, requires a greater vote, dissolution to be authorized shall have been approved by more than two-thirds of all the votes cast on the proposal to dissolve at a meeting at which a quorum exists. 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-213154" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-902/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-248; 1956, c. 428; 1985, c. 522; 2007, c. 925.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
