{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-14-2-707","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 14-2-707","heading":"Record date.","body":"(a) The bylaws may fix or provide the manner of fixing the record date for one or more voting groups in order 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(b) A record date fixed under this Code section may not be more than 70 days before the meeting or action requiring a determination of shareholders.\n(c) A determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a shareholders’ meeting is effective for any adjournment of the meeting unless the board of directors fixes a new record date, which it must do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting.\n(d) If a 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 14 Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations","CHAPTER 2 Business Corporations","Article 7 Shareholders","PART 1 Meetings"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.14.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"ad7e2737bb635c6192227c8b101a03fd521b7270bdb411ac81f1f2b86c805356","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-14-2-706","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-14-2-708"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}