{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-305.07","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 29-305.07","heading":"Record date.","body":"(a)\nThe bylaws may fix or provide the manner of fixing the record date for one or more voting groups to determine the shareholders entitled to notice of a shareholders’ meeting, to demand a special meeting, to vote, or to take any other action. If the bylaws do not fix or provide for fixing a record date, the board of directors of the corporation may fix a future date as the record date.\n\n(b)\nA record date fixed under this section shall not be more than 70 days before the meeting or action requiring a determination of shareholders.\n\n(c)\nA determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a shareholders’ meeting shall be effective for any adjournment of the meeting unless the board of directors fixes a new record date, which it shall do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting.\n\n(d)\nIf a Superior Court orders a meeting adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting, it may provide that the original record date continues in effect or it may fix a new record date.","path":["Title 29. Business Organizations. [Enacted title]","Chapter 3. Business Corporations.","Subchapter V. Shareholders.","Part A. Meetings."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/29-305.07","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"3605b4ca388de00351b6d74f6e4a5bec3c6e1b921556509332b94761b5831da6","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-305.06","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-305.08"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}