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title: O.C.G.A. § 7-1-955. First meeting.
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# O.C.G.A. § 7-1-955. First meeting.

(a) The first meeting of the corporation shall be called by a notice signed by three or more of the incorporators, stating the time, place, and purpose of the meeting, a copy of which notice shall be mailed or delivered to each incorporator at least five days before the day appointed for the meeting. Said first meeting may be held without such notice upon agreement in writing to that effect signed by all the incorporators. There shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting a copy of said notice or of such unanimous agreement of the incorporators.

(b) At such first meeting the incorporators shall organize by the choice, by ballot, of a temporary clerk; by the adoption of bylaws; by the election, by ballot, of directors; and by action upon such other matters within the powers of the corporation as the incorporators may see fit. The temporary clerk shall be sworn and shall make and attest a record of the proceedings. Four of the incorporators shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

## History

Code 1981, § 7-1-955, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 804, § 1.