Sec. 33-704. Shareholders' list for meeting.
Sec. 33-704. Shareholders' list for meeting. (a) After fixing a record date for a
meeting, a corporation shall prepare an alphabetical list of the names of all its shareholders who are entitled to notice of a shareholders' meeting. The list shall be arranged by
voting group, and within each voting group by class or series of shares, and show the
address of and number of shares held by each shareholder.
(b) The shareholders' list shall be available for inspection by any shareholder, beginning two business days after notice of the meeting is given for which the list was
prepared and continuing through the meeting, at the corporation's principal office or at
a place identified in the meeting notice in the city where the meeting will be held. A
shareholder, his agent or attorney is entitled on written demand to inspect and, subject
to the requirements of subsection (c) of section 33-946, to copy the list, during regular
business hours and at his expense, during the period it is available for inspection.
(c) The corporation shall make the shareholders' list available at the meeting, and
any shareholder, his agent or attorney is entitled to inspect the list at any time during
the meeting or any adjournment.
(d) If the corporation refuses to allow a shareholder or his agent or attorney to inspect
the shareholders' list before or at the meeting, or copy the list as permitted by subsection
(b) of this section, the superior court for the judicial district where a corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office, is located, on application of the
shareholder, may summarily order the inspection or copying at the corporation's expense
and may postpone the meeting for which the list was prepared until the inspection or
copying is complete.
(e) Refusal or failure to prepare or make available the shareholders' list does not
affect the validity of action taken at the meeting.
(P.A. 94-186, S. 63, 215.)
History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997.
Annotations to former section 33-333:
Subsec. (a):
Where plaintiffs sought names and addresses of shareholders in order to communicate with them regarding defendants'
labor relations, court is unable to find plaintiffs' purpose is not proper under this section or that it is inimical to the interest
of the corporation or its shareholders and whether or not that purpose contemplated unfair labor practices, breach of contract
or the commission of a tort is irrelevant to the statutory issues. 26 CS 138, 139. Right of inspection depends on record
ownership and extends to a registered shareholder acting for the beneficial owner of shares. Id., 141.
Subsec. (c):
Cited. 26 CS 136, 137.