2018 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
CHAPTER 7 - SHAREHOLDERS
Section 33-7-105. Notice of meeting.
(a) A corporation shall notify shareholders of the date, time, and place of each annual and special shareholders' meeting no fewer than ten nor more than sixty days before the meeting date. Unless Chapters 1 through 20 of this Title or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, the corporation is required to give notice only to shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting.
(b) Unless Chapters 1 through 20 of this Title or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, notice of an annual meeting need not include a description of the purpose for which the meeting is called.
(c) Notice of a special meeting must include a description of the purpose for which the meeting is called.
(d) If not otherwise fixed under Section 33-7-103 or 33-7-107, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at an annual or special shareholders' meeting is the close of business on the day before the first notice is delivered to shareholders.
(e) Unless the bylaws require otherwise, if an annual or special shareholders' meeting is adjourned to a different date, time, or place, notice need not be given of the new date, time, or place if the new date, time, and place is announced at the meeting before adjournment. If a new record date for the adjourned meeting is or must be fixed under Section 33-7-107, however, notice of the adjourned meeting must be given under this section to persons who are shareholders as of the new record date.
HISTORY: Derived from 1976 Code Section 33-11-40 [1962 Code Section 12-16.4; 1952 Code Sections 12-251 to 12-253; 1942 Code Sections 7679, 7680; 1932 Code Sections 7679, 7680; Civ. C. '22 Sections 4253, 4254; Civ. C. '12 Sections 2786, 2787; Civ. C. '02 Sections 1845, 1846; R. S. 1502; 1901 (21) 811; 1962 (52) 1996; 1963 (53) 327; 1981 Act No. 146, Section 2; Repealed, 1988 Act No. 444, Section 2]; 1988 Act No. 444, Section 2.
