78.370 - Notice to stockholders.
78.370 Notice to stockholders.
1. If under the provisions of this chapter stockholders are required or authorized to take any action at a meeting, the notice of the meeting must be in writing and signed by the president or a vice president, or the secretary or an assistant secretary, or by such other natural person or persons as the bylaws may prescribe or permit or the directors may designate.
2. The notice must state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, the time when, and the place, which may be within or without this State, where it is to be held, and the means of electronic communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxies shall be deemed to be present in person and vote.
3. A copy of the notice must be delivered personally, mailed postage prepaid or given as provided in subsection 8 to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the meeting. If mailed, it must be directed to the stockholder at his or her address as it appears upon the records of the corporation, and upon the mailing of any such notice the service thereof is complete, and the time of the notice begins to run from the date upon which the notice is deposited in the mail for transmission to the stockholder. Personal delivery of any such notice to any officer of a corporation or association, to any member of a limited-liability company managed by its members, to any manager of a limited-liability company managed by managers, to any general partner of a partnership or to any trustee of a trust constitutes delivery of the notice to the corporation, association, limited-liability company, partnership or trust.
4. The articles of incorporation or the bylaws may require that the notice be also published in one or more newspapers.
5. Notice delivered or mailed to a stockholder in accordance with the provisions of this section and the provisions, if any, of the articles of incorporation or the bylaws is sufficient, and in the event of the transfer of the stockholder’s stock after such delivery or mailing and before the holding of the meeting it is not necessary to deliver or mail notice of the meeting to the transferee.
6. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation or the bylaws, if notice is required to be given, under any provision of this chapter or the articles of incorporation or bylaws of any corporation, to any stockholder to whom:
(a) Notice of two consecutive annual meetings, and all notices of meetings or of the taking of action by written consent without a meeting to the stockholder during the period between those two consecutive annual meetings; or
(b) All, and at least two, payments sent by first-class mail of dividends or interest on securities during a 12-month period,
Ê have been mailed addressed to the stockholder at his or her address as shown on the records of the corporation and have been returned undeliverable, the giving of further notices to the stockholder is not required. Any action or meeting taken or held without notice to such a stockholder has the same effect as if the notice had been given. If any such stockholder delivers to the corporation a written notice setting forth his or her current address, the requirement that notice be given to the stockholder is reinstated. If the action taken by the corporation is such as to require the filing of a certificate under any of the other sections of this chapter, the certificate need not state that notice was not given to persons to whom notice was not required to be given pursuant to this subsection. The giving of further notices to a stockholder is still required for any notice returned as undeliverable if the notice was given by electronic transmission.
7. Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws otherwise require, and except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if a stockholders’ meeting is adjourned to another date, time or place, notice need not be given of the date, time or place of the adjourned meeting if they are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. If a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, notice of the adjourned meeting must be given to each stockholder of record as of the new record date.
8. Any notice to stockholders given by the corporation pursuant to any provision of this chapter, chapter 92A of NRS, the articles of incorporation or the bylaws is effective if given by a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given. The consent is revocable by the stockholder by written notice to the corporation. The consent is revoked if:
(a) The corporation is unable to deliver by electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the corporation in accordance with the consent; and
(b) The inability to deliver by electronic transmission becomes known to the secretary, assistant secretary, transfer agent or other agent of the corporation responsible for the giving of notice. However, the inadvertent failure to treat the inability to deliver a notice by electronic transmission as a revocation does not invalidate any meeting or other action.
9. Notice given pursuant to subsection 8 shall be deemed given if:
(a) By facsimile machine, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice;
(b) By electronic mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice;
(c) By a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of the specific posting, upon the later of:
(1) Such posting; and
(2) The giving of the separate notice; and
(d) By any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder.
Ê In the absence of fraud, an affidavit of the secretary, assistant secretary, transfer agent or other agent of the corporation that the notice has been given by a form of electronic transmission is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the affidavit.
10. As used in this section, “electronic transmission” means any form of communication not directly involving the physical transmission of paper that:
(a) Creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient of the communication; and
(b) May be directly reproduced in paper form by the recipient through an automated process.
[27:177:1925; A 1941, 110; 1931 NCL § 1626]—(NRS A 1991, 1235; 1993, 965; 1999, 1587; 2003, 3096)
NRS 78.375 Waiver of notice. Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given under the provisions of this chapter, a waiver thereof in a signed writing or by transmission of an electronic record by the person or persons entitled to the notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto.
[Part 92:177:1925; A 1929, 413; NCL § 1691]—(NRS A 2003, 3098)