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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 3. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS · Article 7. MEETINGS OF MEMBERS · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

14-3-703. Court-ordered meetings.

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

  1. (a)

    The superior court may summarily order a meeting to be held:#

    1. (1)

      On application of any member or other person entitled to participate in an annual meeting, or, in the case of a charitable corporation, the Attorney General, if an annual meeting was not held within the earlier of six months after the end of a fiscal year of the corporation or 15 months after its last annual meeting;#

    2. (2)

      On application of any member or other person entitled to participate in a regular meeting, or, in the case of a charitable corporation, the Attorney General, if a regular meeting is not held within 30 days after the date it was required to be held; or#

    3. (3)

      On application of a member who signed a demand for a special meeting valid under Code Section 14-3-702, a person or persons entitled to call a special meeting, or, in the case of a charitable corporation, the Attorney General, if:#

      1. (A)

        Notice of the special meeting was not given within 30 days after the date the demand was delivered to a corporate officer; or#

      2. (B)

        The special meeting was not held in accordance with the notice.#

  2. (b)

    After notice to the corporation, the court may fix the time and place of the meeting, specify a record date for determining members entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting, prescribe the form and content of the meeting notice, fix the quorum required for specific matters to be considered at the meeting (or direct that the votes represented at the meeting constitute a quorum for action on those matters), and enter other orders necessary to accomplish the purpose or purposes of the meeting.#

  3. (c)

    If the court orders a meeting, it may also order the corporation to pay the member’s or other person’s costs (including reasonable attorney’s fees) incurred to obtain the order.#

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, § 14-3-703, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, effective July 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, in subsection (a), substituted “case of a charitable corporation, the Attorney General” for “case of a corporation described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 14-3-1302, the Attorney General” in paragraphs (a)(1), (a)(2), and (a)(3) and deleted “or” at the end of paragraph (a)(1); inserted a comma following “on those matters)” near the end of subsection (b); and, in subsection (c), substituted “reasonable attorney’s fees” for “reasonable counsel fees”.

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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 84 to 85; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b004123363dc.