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Chapter 10 - Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act (13.1-801 thru 13.1-946)

• 13.1-801 - Short title.
• 13.1-802 - Reservation of power to amend or repeal.
• 13.1-803 - Definitions.
• 13.1-804 - Filing requirements.
• 13.1-804.1 - Filing with the Commission pursuant to reorganization.
• 13.1-805 - Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documents.
• 13.1-806 - Effective time and date of document.
• 13.1-807 - Correcting filed articles.
• 13.1-808 - Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document.
• 13.1-809 - Certificate of good standing.
• 13.1-810 - Notices and other communications.
• 13.1-810.1 - Number of members.
• 13.1-811 - Penalty for signing false documents.
• 13.1-812 - Unlawful to transact or offer to transact business as a corporation unless authorized.
• 13.1-813 - Hearing and finality of Commission action; injunctions.
• 13.1-814 - Shares of stock and dividends prohibited.
• 13.1-814.1 - Special provisions for community associations.
• 13.1-815 - Fees to be collected by Commission; payment of fees prerequisite to Commission action; exceptions.
• 13.1-815.1 - Charter and entrance fees for corporations.
• 13.1-816 - Fees for filing documents or issuing certificates.
• 13.1-817 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-818 - Incorporators.
• 13.1-819 - Articles of incorporation.
• 13.1-820 - Issuance of certificate of incorporation.
• 13.1-821 - Liability for preincorporation transactions.
• 13.1-822 - Organization of corporation.
• 13.1-823 - Bylaws.
• 13.1-824 - Emergency bylaws.
• 13.1-825 - Purposes.
• 13.1-826 - General powers.
• 13.1-827 - Emergency powers.
• 13.1-828 - Ultra vires.
• 13.1-829 - Corporate name.
• 13.1-830 - Reserved name.
• 13.1-831 - Registered name.
• 13.1-832 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-833 - Registered office and registered agent.
• 13.1-834 - Change of registered office or registered agent.
• 13.1-835 - Resignation of registered agent.
• 13.1-836 - Service on corporation.
• 13.1-837 - Members.
• 13.1-838 - Annual meeting.
• 13.1-839 - Special meeting.
• 13.1-840 - Court-ordered meeting.
• 13.1-841 - Corporate action without meeting.
• 13.1-842 - Notice of meeting.
• 13.1-843 - Waiver of notice.
• 13.1-844 - Record date.
• 13.1-844.1 - Conduct of the meeting.
• 13.1-844.2 - Remote participation in annual and special meetings.
• 13.1-845 - Members' list for meeting.
• 13.1-846 - Voting entitlement of members.
• 13.1-847 - Proxies.
• 13.1-847.1 - Voting procedures and inspectors of elections.
• 13.1-848 - Corporation's acceptance of votes.
• 13.1-849 - Quorum and voting requirements for voting groups.
• 13.1-850 - Action by single and multiple voting groups.
• 13.1-851 - Change in quorum or voting requirements.
• 13.1-852 - Voting for directors; cumulative voting.
• 13.1-852.1 - Member or director agreements.
• 13.1-852.2 - Voting agreements.
• 13.1-853 - Requirement for and duties of board of directors.
• 13.1-854 - Qualification of directors.
• 13.1-855 - Number and election of directors.
• 13.1-856 - Election of directors by certain classes of members.
• 13.1-857 - Terms of directors generally.
• 13.1-858 - Staggered terms of directors.
• 13.1-859 - Resignation of directors.
• 13.1-860 - Removal of directors.
• 13.1-861 - Judicial review of elections.
• 13.1-862 - Vacancy on board of directors.
• 13.1-863 - Compensation of directors.
• 13.1-864 - Meetings of the board of directors.
• 13.1-865 - Action without meeting of board of directors.
• 13.1-866 - Notice of board of directors' meetings.
• 13.1-867 - Waiver of notice by director.
• 13.1-868 - Quorum and voting by directors.
• 13.1-869 - Committees.
• 13.1-870 - General standards of conduct for directors.
• 13.1-870.1 - Limitation on liability of officers and directors; exception.
• 13.1-870.2 - Limitation on liability of officers and directors; additional exception.
• 13.1-871 - Director conflict of interests.
• 13.1-871.1 - Business opportunities.
• 13.1-872 - Required officers.
• 13.1-873 - Duties of officers.
• 13.1-874 - Resignation and removal of officers.
• 13.1-875 - Definitions.
• 13.1-876 - Authority to indemnify.
• 13.1-877 - Mandatory indemnification.
• 13.1-878 - Advance for expenses.
• 13.1-879 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-879.1 - Court orders for advances, reimbursement or indemnification.
• 13.1-880 - Determination and authorization of indemnification.
• 13.1-881 - Indemnification of officers.
• 13.1-882 - Insurance.
• 13.1-883 - Application of article.
• 13.1-884 - Authority to amend articles of incorporation.
• 13.1-885 - Amendment of articles of incorporation by directors.
• 13.1-886 - Amendment of articles of incorporation by directors and members.
• 13.1-887 - Voting on amendments by voting groups.
• 13.1-887.1 - Amendment prior to organization.
• 13.1-888 - Articles of amendment.
• 13.1-889 - Restated articles of incorporation.
• 13.1-890 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-891 - Effect of amendment of articles of incorporation.
• 13.1-892 - Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or members.
• 13.1-893 - Bylaw provisions increasing quorum or voting requirements for directors.
• 13.1-893.1 - Definitions.
• 13.1-894 - Merger.
• 13.1-895 - Action on plan of merger.
• 13.1-896 - Articles of merger.
• 13.1-897 - Effect of merger.
• 13.1-897.1 - Abandonment of a merger.
• 13.1-898 - , .1
• 13.1-898.2 - Domestication.
• 13.1-898.3 - Action on plan of domestication by a domestic corporation.
• 13.1-898.4 - Articles of domestication.
• 13.1-898.5 - Surrender of articles of incorporation upon domestication.
• 13.1-898.6 - Effect of domestication.
• 13.1-898.7 - Abandonment of domestication.
• 13.1-899 - Sale of assets in regular course of business.
• 13.1-900 - Sale of assets other than in regular course of business.
• 13.1-901 - Sale of certain real property by incorporated educational institutions.
• 13.1-902 - Dissolution by directors and members.
• 13.1-903 - Dissolution by directors.
• 13.1-904 - Articles of dissolution.
• 13.1-905 - Revocation of dissolution.
• 13.1-906 - Effect of dissolution.
• 13.1-907 - Distribution and plan of distribution of assets.
• 13.1-908 - Known claims against dissolved corporation.
• 13.1-908.1 - Other claims against dissolved corporation.
• 13.1-908.2 - Court proceedings.
• 13.1-908.3 - Director duties.
• 13.1-909 - Grounds for judicial dissolution.
• 13.1-910 - Receivership or custodianship.
• 13.1-911 - Decree of dissolution.
• 13.1-912 - Articles of termination of corporate existence.
• 13.1-913 - Termination of corporate existence by incorporators or initial directors.
• 13.1-914 - Automatic termination of corporate existence.
• 13.1-915 - Involuntary termination of corporate existence.
• 13.1-916 - Reinstatement of a corporation that has ceased to exist.
• 13.1-917 - Survival of remedy after termination of corporate existence.
• 13.1-918 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-919 - Authority to transact business required.
• 13.1-920 - Consequences of transacting business without authority.
• 13.1-921 - Application for certificate of authority.
• 13.1-922 - Amended certificate of authority.
• 13.1-923 - Effect of certificate of authority.
• 13.1-924 - Corporate name of foreign corporation.
• 13.1-925 - Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation.
• 13.1-926 - Change of registered office or registered agent of a foreign corporation.
• 13.1-927 - Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporation.
• 13.1-928 - Service of process on foreign corporation.
• 13.1-928.1 - Merger of foreign corporation authorized to transact business in Commonwealth.
• 13.1-928.2 - Entity conversion of foreign corporation authorized to transact business in Commonwealth.
• 13.1-929 - Withdrawal of foreign corporation.
• 13.1-930 - Automatic revocation of certificate of authority.
• 13.1-931 - Revocation of certificate of authority by Commission.
• 13.1-931.1 - Reentry of foreign corporation whose certificate of authority has been surrendered or revoked.
• 13.1-932 - Corporate records.
• 13.1-933 - Inspection of records by members.
• 13.1-934 - Scope of inspection right.
• 13.1-935 - Court-ordered inspection.
• 13.1-935.1 - Inspection of records by directors.
• 13.1-936 - Annual report of domestic and foreign corporations.
• 13.1-936.1 - Annual registration fees to be paid by domestic and foreign corporations; penalty for failure to pay timely.
• 13.1-936.2 - Collection of unpaid bills for registration fees.
• 13.1-937 - Application to existing corporations.
• 13.1-938 - Application to certain social, patriotic and benevolent societies incorporated before year 1900; reports by such societies.
• 13.1-939 - Saving provision.
• 13.1-940 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-941 - Description unavailable
• 13.1-941.01 - Conversion to a domestic stock corporation.
• 13.1-942 - Articles of amendment.
• 13.1-943 - Fees.
• 13.1-944 - Controlling law and continuity.
• 13.1-945 - Property title records.
• 13.1-946 - through 13.1-980