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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.

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

  1. (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.#

  2. (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.#

  3. (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.#

  4. (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.#

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, § 14-2-707, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1.

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Text read from t14-(v12)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, pages 170 to 171; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 f2fad2b71b39.