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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61075</law_id><section_number>13.1-905</section_number><catch_line>Revocation of dissolution</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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> A <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> may revoke its dissolution at any time prior to the effective date of its certificate of termination of corporate existence. <a id="paragraph-223298" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> <span class="dictionary">Revocation</span> of dissolution shall be authorized in the same manner as the dissolution was authorized unless, where <span class="dictionary">members</span> have votes, that authorization permitted <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> by action by the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> alone, in which event the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> may revoke the dissolution without <span class="dictionary">member</span> action. <a id="paragraph-223299" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> After the <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of dissolution is authorized, the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> may revoke the dissolution by filing with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> articles of <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of dissolution that set forth: <a id="paragraph-223300" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The name of the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>; <a id="paragraph-223301" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#C1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The effective date of the dissolution that was revoked; <a id="paragraph-223302" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#C2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The date that the <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of dissolution was authorized; <a id="paragraph-223303" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#C3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> revoked a dissolution authorized by the <span class="dictionary">members</span>, a statement that <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> was permitted by action by the <span class="dictionary">board of directors</span> alone pursuant to that authorization; and <a id="paragraph-223304" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#C4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> If <span class="dictionary">member</span> action was required to revoke the dissolution, the information required by subdivision 3 of subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Articles of dissolution" href="/13.1-904/">13.1-904</a>. <a id="paragraph-223305" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#C5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> finds that the articles of <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of dissolution comply with the requirements of <span class="dictionary">law</span> and that all required fees have been paid, it shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a certificate of <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of dissolution. <a id="paragraph-223306" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> When the <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of dissolution is effective, it relates back to and takes effect as of the effective date of the dissolution and the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> resumes carrying on its business as if dissolution had never occurred. <a id="paragraph-223307" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-905/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-251; 1956, c. 428; 1985, c. 522.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
