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Section 33-697 - Court-ordered meeting.

CT Gen Stat § 33-697 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) The superior court for the judicial district 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: (1) On application of any shareholder of the corporation entitled to participate in an annual meeting if an annual meeting was not held or action by written consent in lieu thereof did not become effective within the earlier of six months after the end of the corporation's fiscal year or fifteen months after its last annual meeting; or (2) on application of a shareholder who signed a demand for a special meeting valid under section 33-696, if: (A) Notice of the special meeting was not given within thirty days after the date the demand was delivered to the corporation's secretary; or (B) the special meeting was not held in accordance with the notice.

(b) The court may fix the time and place of the meeting, determine the shares entitled to participate in the meeting, specify a record date or dates for determining 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.

(P.A. 94-186, S. 58, 215; P.A. 09-55, S. 6; P.A. 11-147, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 09-55 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to authorize ordering of a meeting if action by written consent in lieu of annual meeting did not become effective within specified time period; P.A. 11-147 amended Subsec. (b) to authorize court to specify record “dates”.

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Section 33-697 - Court-ordered meeting.