2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.703 - COURT-ORDERED MEETING.

        490.703  COURT-ORDERED MEETING.
         1.  The district court of the county where a corporation's
      principal office, or, if none in this state, its registered office,
      is located may summarily order a meeting to be held either:
         a.  On application of any shareholder of the corporation
      entitled to participate in an annual meeting if an annual meeting was
      not held within the earlier of six months after the end of the
      corporation's fiscal year or fifteen months after its last annual
      meeting.
         b.  On application of a shareholder who signed a demand for a
      special meeting valid under section 490.702 if either:
         (1)  Notice of the special meeting was not given within thirty
      days after the date the demand was delivered to the corporation's
      secretary.
         (2)  The special meeting was not held in accordance with the
      notice.
         2.  The court may fix the time and place of the meeting, ascertain
      the shares entitled to participate in the meeting, specify a record
      date for ascertaining shareholders 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.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 288, §55
         Referred to in § 490.702, 490.704, 490.705, 534.504

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