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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 2. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS · Article 16. RECORDS AND REPORTS · Part 1. RECORDS

14-2-1603. Scope of inspection right.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A shareholder’s agent or attorney has the same inspection and copying rights as the shareholder he represents.#

  2. (b)

    The right to copy records under Code Section 14-2-1602 includes, if reasonable, the right to receive copies made by photographic, xerographic, or other means.#

  3. (c)

    The corporation may impose a reasonable charge, covering the costs of labor and material, for copies of any documents provided to the shareholder. The charge may not exceed the estimated cost of production or reproduction of the records.#

  4. (d)

    A corporation shall convert into written form without charge any record of shareholders not in written form, upon written request of a person entitled to inspect them.#

  5. (e)

    The corporation may comply with a shareholder’s demand to inspect the record of shareholders under paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of Code Section 14-2-1602 by providing him with a list of its shareholders that was compiled no earlier than the date of the shareholder’s demand.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 14-2-1603, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1.

Law reviews

For annual survey on business associations, see 61 Mercer L. Rev. 45 (2009).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t14-(v12)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, pages 570 to 571; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 f2fad2b71b39.