(a) A corporation, except a corporation required by law to file financial reports with the Banking Commissioner, the Insurance Commissioner or the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, shall furnish its shareholders annual financial statements, which may be consolidated or combined statements of the corporation and one or more of its subsidiaries, as appropriate, that include a balance sheet as of the end of the fiscal year, an income statement for that year, and a statement of changes in shareholders' equity for the year unless that information appears elsewhere in the financial statements. If financial statements are prepared for the corporation on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles, the annual financial statements must also be prepared on that basis.

(b) If the annual financial statements are reported upon by a public accountant, his report must accompany them. If not, the statements must be accompanied by a statement of the president or the person responsible for the corporation's accounting records: (1) Stating his reasonable belief whether the statements were prepared on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles and, if not, describing the basis of preparation; and (2) describing any respects in which the statements were not prepared on a basis of accounting consistent with the statements prepared for the preceding year.

(c) Such corporation shall deliver the annual financial statements to each shareholder within one hundred twenty days after the close of each fiscal year. Thereafter, on written request from a shareholder to whom the statements were not delivered, the corporation shall deliver to such shareholder the latest financial statements. Any delivery of financial statements by electronic transmission permitted by this section must be in a manner authorized by the shareholder. A public corporation may fulfill its responsibilities under this subsection by delivering the specified financial statements, or otherwise making them available, in any manner permitted by the applicable rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

(P.A. 94-186, S. 202, 215; P.A. 03-84, S. 22; P.A. 09-55, S. 30; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 03-84 changed “Commissioner of Banking” to “Banking Commissioner” in Subsec. (a), effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 09-55 amended Subsec. (c) to replace “mail” and “mailed” with “deliver” and “delivered”, add requirement that delivery by electronic transmission be in a manner authorized by the shareholder, add provision re public corporation may fulfill its responsibilities by delivering or making available the financial statements in a manner permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and make technical changes; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.