{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31d-7-707","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 31D-7-707","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 section may not be more than seventy 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 one hundred twenty days after the date fixed for the original meeting.\n(d) If a court orders a meeting adjourned to a date more than one hundred twenty 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":["CHAPTER 31D. WEST VIRGINIA BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT.","ARTICLE 7. SHAREHOLDERS."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31D-7-707/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:28:05Z","sha256":"45fa9d3c9ce4934821437f876b62401b5893358753af563306400d4f39d6a9c4","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31d-7-706","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31d-7-708"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}