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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 13.1 CORPORATIONS.
Chapter 10 Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act (13.1-801 thru 13.1-946)
- 13.1-801 Short title
- 13.1-802 Reservation of power to amend or repeal
- 13.1-803 Definitions
- 13.1-804 Filing requirements
- 13.1-804.1 Filing with the Commission pursuant to reorganization.
- 13.1-805 Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documents
- 13.1-806 Effective time and date of document
- 13.1-807 Correcting filed articles
- 13.1-808 Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document
- 13.1-809 Certificate of good standing
- 13.1-810 Notices and other communications
- 13.1-810.1 Number of members.
- 13.1-811 Penalty for signing false documents
- 13.1-812 Unlawful to transact or offer to transact business as a corporation unless authorized
- 13.1-813 Hearing and finality of Commission action; injunctions
- 13.1-814 Shares of stock and dividends prohibited
- 13.1-814.1 Special provisions for community associations
- 13.1-815 Fees to be collected by Commission; payment of fees prerequisite to Commission action; exception...
- 13.1-815.1 Charter and entrance fees for corporations
- 13.1-816 Fees for filing documents or issuing certificates
- 13.1-817 Description unavailable
- 13.1-818 Incorporators
- 13.1-819 Articles of incorporation
- 13.1-820 Issuance of certificate of incorporation
- 13.1-821 Liability for preincorporation transactions
- 13.1-822 Organization of corporation
- 13.1-823 Bylaws
- 13.1-824 Emergency bylaws
- 13.1-825 Purposes
- 13.1-826 General powers
- 13.1-827 Emergency powers
- 13.1-828 Ultra vires
- 13.1-829 Corporate name
- 13.1-830 Reserved name
- 13.1-831 Registered name
- 13.1-832 Description unavailable
- 13.1-833 Registered office and registered agent
- 13.1-834 Change of registered office or registered agent
- 13.1-835 Resignation of registered agent
- 13.1-836 Service on corporation
- 13.1-837 Members
- 13.1-838 Annual meeting
- 13.1-839 Special meeting
- 13.1-840 Court-ordered meeting
- 13.1-841 Corporate action without meeting
- 13.1-842 Notice of meeting
- 13.1-843 Waiver of notice
- 13.1-844 Record date
- 13.1-844.1 Conduct of the meeting.
- 13.1-844.2 Remote participation in annual and special meetings.
- 13.1-845 Members' list for meeting
- 13.1-846 Voting entitlement of members
- 13.1-847 Proxies
- 13.1-847.1 Voting procedures and inspectors of elections
- 13.1-848 Corporation's acceptance of votes
- 13.1-849 Quorum and voting requirements for voting groups
- 13.1-850 Action by single and multiple voting groups
- 13.1-851 Change in quorum or voting requirements
- 13.1-852 Voting for directors; cumulative voting
- 13.1-852.1 Member or director agreements
- 13.1-852.2 Voting agreements.
- 13.1-853 Requirement for and duties of board of directors
- 13.1-854 Qualification of directors
- 13.1-855 Number and election of directors
- 13.1-856 Election of directors by certain classes of members
- 13.1-857 Terms of directors generally
- 13.1-858 Staggered terms of directors
- 13.1-859 Resignation of directors
- 13.1-860 Removal of directors
- 13.1-861 Judicial review of elections
- 13.1-862 Vacancy on board of directors
- 13.1-863 Compensation of directors
- 13.1-864 Meetings of the board of directors
- 13.1-865 Action without meeting of board of directors
- 13.1-866 Notice of board of directors' meetings
- 13.1-867 Waiver of notice by director
- 13.1-868 Quorum and voting by directors
- 13.1-869 Committees
- 13.1-870 General standards of conduct for directors
- 13.1-870.1 Limitation on liability of officers and directors; exception
- 13.1-870.2 Limitation on liability of officers and directors; additional exception
- 13.1-871 Director conflict of interests
- 13.1-871.1 Business opportunities.
- 13.1-872 Required officers
- 13.1-873 Duties of officers
- 13.1-874 Resignation and removal of officers
- 13.1-875 Definitions
- 13.1-876 Authority to indemnify
- 13.1-877 Mandatory indemnification
- 13.1-878 Advance for expenses
- 13.1-879 Description unavailable
- 13.1-879.1 Court orders for advances, reimbursement or indemnification
- 13.1-880 Determination and authorization of indemnification
- 13.1-881 Indemnification of officers
- 13.1-882 Insurance
- 13.1-883 Application of article
- 13.1-884 Authority to amend articles of incorporation
- 13.1-885 Amendment of articles of incorporation by directors
- 13.1-886 Amendment of articles of incorporation by directors and members
- 13.1-887 Voting on amendments by voting groups
- 13.1-887.1 Amendment prior to organization
- 13.1-888 Articles of amendment
- 13.1-889 Restated articles of incorporation
- 13.1-890 Description unavailable
- 13.1-891 Effect of amendment of articles of incorporation
- 13.1-892 Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or members
- 13.1-893 Bylaw provisions increasing quorum or voting requirements for directors
- 13.1-893.1 Definitions
- 13.1-894 Merger
- 13.1-895 Action on plan of merger
- 13.1-896 Articles of merger
- 13.1-897 Effect of merger
- 13.1-897.1 Abandonment of a merger.
- 13.1-898 , 13.1-898.1
- 13.1-898.2 Domestication
- 13.1-898.3 Action on plan of domestication by a domestic corporation
- 13.1-898.4 Articles of domestication
- 13.1-898.5 Surrender of articles of incorporation upon domestication
- 13.1-898.6 Effect of domestication
- 13.1-898.7 Abandonment of domestication
- 13.1-899 Sale of assets in regular course of business
- 13.1-900 Sale of assets other than in regular course of business
- 13.1-901 Sale of certain real property by incorporated educational institutions
- 13.1-902 Dissolution by directors and members
- 13.1-903 Dissolution by directors
- 13.1-904 Articles of dissolution
- 13.1-905 Revocation of dissolution
- 13.1-906 Effect of dissolution
- 13.1-907 Distribution and plan of distribution of assets
- 13.1-908 Known claims against dissolved corporation
- 13.1-908.1 Other claims against dissolved corporation.
- 13.1-908.2 Court proceedings.
- 13.1-908.3 Director duties.
- 13.1-909 Grounds for judicial dissolution
- 13.1-910 Receivership or custodianship
- 13.1-911 Decree of dissolution
- 13.1-912 Articles of termination of corporate existence
- 13.1-913 Termination of corporate existence by incorporators or initial directors
- 13.1-914 Automatic termination of corporate existence
- 13.1-915 Involuntary termination of corporate existence
- 13.1-916 Reinstatement of a corporation that has ceased to exist
- 13.1-917 Survival of remedy after termination of corporate existence
- 13.1-918 Description unavailable
- 13.1-919 Authority to transact business required
- 13.1-920 Consequences of transacting business without authority
- 13.1-921 Application for certificate of authority
- 13.1-922 Amended certificate of authority
- 13.1-923 Effect of certificate of authority
- 13.1-924 Corporate name of foreign corporation
- 13.1-925 Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation
- 13.1-926 Change of registered office or registered agent of a foreign corporation
- 13.1-927 Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation
- 13.1-928 Service of process on foreign corporation
- 13.1-928.1 Merger of foreign corporation authorized to transact business in Commonwealth
- 13.1-928.2 Entity conversion of foreign corporation authorized to transact business in Commonwealth
- 13.1-929 Withdrawal of foreign corporation
- 13.1-930 Automatic revocation of certificate of authority
- 13.1-931 Revocation of certificate of authority by Commission
- 13.1-931.1 Reentry of foreign corporation whose certificate of authority has been surrendered or revoke...
- 13.1-932 Corporate records
- 13.1-933 Inspection of records by members
- 13.1-934 Scope of inspection right
- 13.1-935 Court-ordered inspection
- 13.1-935.1 Inspection of records by directors.
- 13.1-936 Annual report of domestic and foreign corporations
- 13.1-936.1 Annual registration fees to be paid by domestic and foreign corporations; penalty for failure to pa...
- 13.1-936.2 Collection of unpaid bills for registration fees
- 13.1-937 Application to existing corporations
- 13.1-938 Application to certain social, patriotic and benevolent societies incorporated before year 1900; re...
- 13.1-939 Saving provision
- 13.1-940 Description unavailable
- 13.1-941 Description unavailable
- 13.1-941.01 Conversion to a domestic stock corporation
- 13.1-942 Articles of amendment
- 13.1-943 Fees
- 13.1-944 Controlling law and continuity
- 13.1-945 Property title records.
- 13.1-946 through 13.1-980
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