Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 2. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS · Article 7. SHAREHOLDERS · Part 1. MEETINGS
14-2-707. Record date.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
The bylaws may fix or provide the manner of fixing the record date for one or more voting groups in order to determine the shareholders entitled to notice of a shareholders’ meeting, to demand a special meeting, to vote, or to take any other action. If the bylaws do not fix or provide for fixing a record date, the board of directors of the corporation may fix a future date as the record date.#
- (b)
A record date fixed under this Code section may not be more than 70 days before the meeting or action requiring a determination of shareholders.#
- (c)
A determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a shareholders’ meeting is effective for any adjournment of the meeting unless the board of directors fixes a new record date, which it must do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting.#
- (d)
If a court orders a meeting adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting, it may provide that the original record date continues in effect or it may fix a new record date.#
History
Code 1981, § 14-2-707, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1.
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