Va. Code Ann. tit. 13.1, ch. 9

Va. Code Ann. tit. 13.1, ch. 9
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section13.1-601. Short titlesection13.1-602. Reservation of power to amend or repealsection13.1-603. Definitionssection13.1-604. Filing requirementssection13.1-604.1. Filings with the Commission pursuant to reorganizationsection13.1-605. Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documentssection13.1-606. Effective time and date of documentsection13.1-607. Correcting filed articlessection13.1-608. Evidentiary effect of copy of filed documentsection13.1-609. Certificate of good standingsection13.1-610. Notices and other communicationssection13.1-610.1. Householdingsection13.1-611. Number of shareholderssection13.1-612. Penalty for signing false documentsection13.1-613. Unlawful to transact or offer to transact business as a corporation unless authorizedsection13.1-614. Hearing and finality of Commission action; injunctionssection13.1-614.1. Definitionssection13.1-614.2. Defective corporate actionssection13.1-614.3. Ratification of defective corporate actionssection13.1-614.4. Action of ratificationsection13.1-614.5. Noticesection13.1-614.6. Effect of ratificationsection13.1-614.7. Filingssection13.1-614.8. Commission proceedings regarding validity of corporate actionssection13.1-615. Fees to be collected by Commission; application of payment; payment of fees prerequisite to Commission action; exceptionssection13.1-615.1. Charter and entrance fees for corporationssection13.1-616. Fees for filing documents or issuing certificatessection13.1-617. Repealedsection13.1-618. Incorporatorssection13.1-619. Articles of incorporationsection13.1-620. Special kinds of businesssection13.1-621. Issuance of certificate of incorporationsection13.1-622. Liability for preincorporation transactionssection13.1-623. Organization of corporationsection13.1-624. Bylawssection13.1-625. Emergency bylawssection13.1-626. Purposessection13.1-627. General powerssection13.1-628. Emergency powerssection13.1-629. Lack of power to actsection13.1-630. Corporate namesection13.1-631. Reserved namesection13.1-632. Registered namesection13.1-633. Repealedsection13.1-634. Registered office and registered agentsection13.1-635. Change of registered office or registered agentsection13.1-636. Resignation of registered agentsection13.1-637. Service on corporationsection13.1-638. Authorized sharessection13.1-639. Terms of class or series determined by board of directorssection13.1-640. Issued and outstanding sharessection13.1-641. Fractional sharessection13.1-642. Subscription for shares before incorporationsection13.1-643. Issuance of sharessection13.1-644. Liability of shareholders and otherssection13.1-645. Share dividendssection13.1-646. Share rights, options, warrants, and other awardssection13.1-647. Form and content of certificates evidencing sharessection13.1-648. Shares without certificatessection13.1-649. Restriction on transfer of shares and other securitiessection13.1-650. Expense of issuesection13.1-651. Shareholders' preemptive rightssection13.1-652. Corporation's acquisition of its own sharessection13.1-653. Distributions to shareholderssection13.1-654. Annual meetingsection13.1-655. Special meetingsection13.1-656. Court-ordered meetingsection13.1-657. Action without meetingsection13.1-658. Notice of meetingsection13.1-659. Waiver of noticesection13.1-660. Record date for meetingsection13.1-660.1. Conduct of the meetingsection13.1-660.2. Remote participation in shareholders' meetingssection13.1-661. Shareholders' list for meetingsection13.1-662. Voting entitlement of sharessection13.1-663. Proxiessection13.1-664. Shares held by intermediaries and nomineessection13.1-664.1. Inspectors of electionsection13.1-665. Corporation's acceptance of votessection13.1-666. Quorum and voting requirements for voting groupssection13.1-667. Action by single and multiple voting groupssection13.1-668. Modifying quorum or voting requirementssection13.1-669. Voting for directors; cumulative votingsection13.1-669.1. Judicial determination of corporate offices and review of elections and shareholder votessection13.1-670. Voting trustssection13.1-671. Voting agreementssection13.1-671.1. Shareholder agreementssection13.1-672. Repealedsection13.1-672.1. Standing; condition precedent; stay of proceedingssection13.1-672.2. Discontinuance or settlementsection13.1-672.3. Foreign corporationssection13.1-672.4. Dismissalsection13.1-672.5. Payment of and security for expensessection13.1-672.6. Shareholder action to appoint a custodian or receiver for a public corporationsection13.1-672.7. Shareholder definedsection13.1-673. Requirement for and duties of board of directorssection13.1-674. Qualifications for directors or for nominees for directorsection13.1-675. Number and election of directorssection13.1-676. Election of directors by certain classes or series of sharessection13.1-677. Terms of directors generallysection13.1-678. Staggered terms for directorssection13.1-679. Resignation of directorssection13.1-680. Removal of directors by shareholderssection13.1-681. Repealedsection13.1-681.1. Removal of directors by judicial proceedingsection13.1-682. Vacancy on board of directorssection13.1-683. Compensation of directorssection13.1-684. Meetings of the board of directorssection13.1-685. Action without meeting of board of directorssection13.1-686. Notice of board of directors' meetingssection13.1-687. Waiver of notice by directorsection13.1-688. Quorum and voting by directorssection13.1-689. Committeessection13.1-689.1. Submission of matters for a shareholder votesection13.1-690. General standards of conduct for directorsection13.1-690.1. Director of open-end management investment company deemed disinterestedsection13.1-691. Interested directors and officerssection13.1-691.1. Business opportunitiessection13.1-692. Liability for unlawful distributionssection13.1-692.1. Limitation on liability of officers and directors; exceptionsection13.1-693. Required officerssection13.1-694. Duties of officerssection13.1-695. Resignation and removal of officerssection13.1-696. Definitionssection13.1-697. Authority to indemnifysection13.1-698. Mandatory indemnificationsection13.1-699. Advance for expensessection13.1-700. Repealedsection13.1-700.1. Court orders for advance, reimbursement, or indemnificationsection13.1-701. Determination and authorization of indemnificationsection13.1-702. Advance for expenses and indemnification for officerssection13.1-703. Insurancesection13.1-704. Application of articlesection13.1-705. Authority to amend articles of incorporationsection13.1-706. Amendment of articles of incorporation by the board of directorssection13.1-707. Amendment of articles of incorporation by the board of directors and shareholderssection13.1-708. Voting on amendments by voting groupssection13.1-709. Amendment of articles of incorporation by incorporatorssection13.1-710. Articles of amendmentsection13.1-711. Restated articles of incorporationsection13.1-712. Repealedsection13.1-712.1. Abandonment of amendment or restatement of articles of incorporationsection13.1-713. Effect of amendment of articles of incorporationsection13.1-714. Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or shareholderssection13.1-715. Bylaw provisions increasing quorum or voting requirements for the board of directorssection13.1-715.1. Definitionssection13.1-716. Mergersection13.1-717. Share exchangesection13.1-718. Action on a plan of merger or share exchangesection13.1-719. Merger between parent and subsidiary or between subsidiariessection13.1-719.1. Formation of a holding companysection13.1-720. Articles of merger or share exchangesection13.1-721. Effect of merger or share exchangesection13.1-721.1. Abandonment of a merger or share exchangesection13.1-722. Repealedsection13.1-722.1:1. Definitionssection13.1-722.2. Domesticationsection13.1-722.3. Action on a plan of domestication of a domestic corporationsection13.1-722.4. Repealedsection13.1-722.5. Articles of domestication; effectivenesssection13.1-722.6. Amendment of plan of domestication; abandonmentsection13.1-722.7. Repealedsection13.1-722.7:1. Effect of domesticationsection13.1-722.8. Definitionssection13.1-722.9. Conversionsection13.1-722.10. Plan of conversionsection13.1-722.11. Action on plan of conversionsection13.1-722.12. Articles of conversion; effectivenesssection13.1-722.12:1. Amendment of plan of conversion; abandonmentsection13.1-722.13. Effect of conversionsection13.1-722.14. Repealedsection13.1-723. Disposition of assets not requiring shareholder approvalsection13.1-724. Shareholder approval of certain dispositionssection13.1-725. Definitionssection13.1-725.1. Affiliated transactionssection13.1-726. Voting requirements for affiliated transactionssection13.1-726.1. Determination by disinterested directorssection13.1-727. Exceptionssection13.1-727.1. Nonexclusivitysection13.1-728. Repealedsection13.1-728.1. Definitionssection13.1-728.2. Applicationsection13.1-728.3. Voting rightssection13.1-728.4. Control share acquisition statementsection13.1-728.5. Meeting of shareholderssection13.1-728.6. Notice to shareholderssection13.1-728.7. Redemptionsection13.1-728.8. Appraisal rightssection13.1-728.9. Nonexclusivitysection13.1-729. Definitionssection13.1-730. Right to appraisalsection13.1-731. Assertion of rights by nominees and beneficial ownerssection13.1-732. Notice of appraisal rightssection13.1-733. Notice of intent to demand paymentsection13.1-734. Appraisal notice and formsection13.1-735. Repealedsection13.1-735.1. Perfection of rights; right to withdrawsection13.1-736. Repealedsection13.1-737. Paymentsection13.1-738. After-acquired sharessection13.1-739. Procedure if shareholder dissatisfied with payment or offersection13.1-740. Court actionsection13.1-741. Court costs and counsel feessection13.1-741.1. Limitations on other remedies for fundamental transactionssection13.1-741.2. Dissolution; generallysection13.1-742. Dissolution by directors and shareholderssection13.1-743. Articles of dissolutionsection13.1-744. Revocation of dissolutionsection13.1-745. Effect of dissolutionsection13.1-746. Known claims against dissolved corporationsection13.1-746.1. Other claims against dissolved corporationsection13.1-746.2. Court proceedingssection13.1-746.3. Director dutiessection13.1-747. Grounds for judicial dissolutionsection13.1-748. Receivership or custodianshipsection13.1-749. Decree of dissolutionsection13.1-749.1. Election to purchase in lieu of dissolutionsection13.1-750. Articles of termination of corporate existencesection13.1-751. Termination of corporate existence by incorporators or initial directorssection13.1-752. Automatic termination of corporate existencesection13.1-753. Involuntary termination of corporate existencesection13.1-754. Reinstatement of a corporation that has ceased to existsection13.1-755. Survival of remedy after termination of corporate existencesection13.1-756. Repealedsection13.1-757. Authority to transact business requiredsection13.1-758. Consequences of transacting business without authoritysection13.1-759. Application for certificate of authoritysection13.1-760. Amended certificate of authoritysection13.1-761. Effect of certificate of authoritysection13.1-762. Corporate name of foreign corporationsection13.1-763. Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporationsection13.1-764. Change of registered office or registered agent of a foreign corporationsection13.1-765. Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporationsection13.1-766. Service of process on foreign corporationsection13.1-766.1. Merger of foreign corporation authorized to transact business in Commonwealthsection13.1-766.2. Conversion of foreign corporation authorized to transact business in Commonwealthsection13.1-767. Withdrawal of foreign corporationsection13.1-768. Automatic revocation of certificate of authoritysection13.1-768.1. Repealedsection13.1-769. Involuntary revocation of certificate of authoritysection13.1-769.1. Reinstatement of a foreign corporation's certificate of authority that has been withdrawn or revokedsection13.1-770. Corporate recordssection13.1-771. Inspection of records by shareholderssection13.1-772. Scope of inspection rightsection13.1-773. Court-ordered inspectionsection13.1-773.1. Inspection of records by directorssection13.1-774. Financial statements for shareholderssection13.1-775. Annual report of domestic and foreign corporationssection13.1-775.1. Annual registration fees to be paid by domestic and foreign corporations; penalty for failure to pay timelysection13.1-775.2. Collection of unpaid bills for registration feessection13.1-776. Definitionssection13.1-777. Institution of proceeding to determine shareholderssection13.1-778. Application to existing corporationssection13.1-779. Savings provisionsection13.1-780. Repealedsection13.1-781. Property title recordssection13.1-782. Definitionssection13.1-783. Application and effect of articlesection13.1-784. Formation of benefit corporationssection13.1-785. Election of status after formationsection13.1-786. Termination of statussection13.1-787. Corporate purposessection13.1-788. Standard of conduct for directorssection13.1-789. Limitation upon liability of officerssection13.1-790. Right of actionsection13.1-791. Annual benefit report
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