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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 13.1 - Corporations
Chapter 10 - Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 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
Article 2. Fees
- § 13.1-815. Fees to be collected by Commission; payment of fees prerequisite to Commission action; exceptions
- § 13.1-815.1. Charter and entrance fees for corporations
- § 13.1-816. Fees for filing documents or issuing certificates
- § 13.1-817. Repealed
Article 3. Formation of Corporations
- § 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
Article 4. Purposes and Powers
- § 13.1-825. Purposes
- § 13.1-826. General powers
- § 13.1-827. Emergency powers
- § 13.1-828. Ultra vires
Article 5. Name
- § 13.1-829. Corporate name
- § 13.1-830. Reserved name
- § 13.1-831. Registered name
- § 13.1-832. Repealed
Article 6. Office and Agent
- § 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
Article 7. Members and Meetings
- § 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
Article 7.1. Member or Director Agreements
Article 8. Directors and Officers
- § 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
Article 9. Indemnification
- § 13.1-875. Definitions
- § 13.1-876. Authority to indemnify
- § 13.1-877. Mandatory indemnification
- § 13.1-878. Advance for expenses
- § 13.1-879. Repealed
- § 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
Article 10. Amendment of Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
- § 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. Repealed
- § 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
Article 11. Merger
- § 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. Repealed
Article 11.1. Domestication
- § 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
Article 12. Sale of Assets
- § 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
Article 13. Dissolution
- § 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. Repealed
Article 14. Foreign Corporations
- § 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. Involuntary revocation of certificate of authority
- § 13.1-931.1. Reinstatement of foreign corporation whose certificate of authority has been withdrawn or revoked
Article 15. Records and Reports
- § 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 pay timely
- § 13.1-936.2. Collection of unpaid bills for registration fees
Article 16. Transition Provisions
- § 13.1-937. Application to existing corporations
- § 13.1-938. Application to certain social, patriotic and benevolent societies incorporated before year 1900; reports by such societies
- § 13.1-939. Saving provision
- § 13.1-940. Repealed
- § 13.1-941. Repealed
Article 17. Conversion to a Stock Corporation
- § 13.1-941.01. Conversion to a domestic stock corporation
- § 13.1-942. Articles of restatement
- § 13.1-943. Fees
- § 13.1-944. Effect of conversion
Article 17.1. Conversion to a Limited Liability Company
- § 13.1-944.1. Definitions
- § 13.1-944.2. Entity conversion
- § 13.1-944.3. Plan of entity conversion
- § 13.1-944.4. Action on plan of entity conversion
- § 13.1-944.5. Articles of entity conversion
- § 13.1-944.6. Effect of entity conversion
- § 13.1-944.7. Abandonment of entity conversion
Article 18. Miscellaneous Provisions
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