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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 3. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS · Article 16. RECORDS AND REPORTS · Part 2. REPORTS

14-3-1620. Furnishing financial statements to members.

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

  1. (a)

    A corporation upon request in writing or by electronic transmission from a member shall furnish that member its latest prepared annual financial statements, which may be consolidated or combined statements of the corporation and one or more of its subsidiaries or affiliates, in reasonable detail as appropriate, that include a balance sheet as of the end of the fiscal year and statement of operations for that year. If financial statements are prepared for the corporation on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles, the annual financial statements must also be prepared on that basis.#

  2. (b)

    If annual financial statements are reported upon by a public accountant, the accountant’s report must accompany them. If not, the statements must be accompanied by the statement of the chief executive officer or the person responsible for the corporation’s financial accounting records:#

    1. (1)

      Stating the chief executive officer’s or other person’s reasonable belief as to whether the statements were prepared on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles and, if not, describing the basis of preparation; and#

    2. (2)

      Describing any respects in which the statements were not prepared on a basis of accounting consistent with the statements prepared for the preceding year.#

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, § 14-3-1620, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 508, § 63; Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, effective July 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, substituted “chief executive officer” for “president” in the beginning of subsection (b) and substituted “chief executive officer’s” for “president’s” in paragraph (b)(1).

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

Text read from t14-(v12)-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 217 to 218; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b004123363dc.