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title: O.C.G.A. § 14-3-820. Meetings of directors.
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# O.C.G.A. § 14-3-820. Meetings of directors.

(a) A board of directors may hold regular or special meetings in or out of this state. If the time and place of a directors’ meeting is fixed by the bylaws or the board, the meeting shall be a regular meeting. All other directors’ meetings shall be special meetings.

(b) Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws provide otherwise, the chair of the board or the chief executive officer, or at least 20 percent of the directors then in office, may call and deliver notice of a special meeting of the board of directors.

(c) Unless the articles or bylaws provide otherwise, a board may permit any or all directors to participate in a regular or special meeting by, or conduct the meeting through the use of, any means of communication by which all directors participating may simultaneously hear each other during the meeting. A director participating in a meeting by this means is deemed to be present in person at the meeting.

## History

Code 1981, § 14-3-820, 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, added the second and third sentences in subsection (a); added present subsection (b); and redesignated former subsection (b) as present subsection (c).