Section 33-697 - Court-ordered meeting(a) The superior court for the judicial district where a corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office is located may summarily order a meeting to be held: (1) On application of any shareholder of the corporation entitled to participate in an annual meeting if an annual meeting was not held or action by written consent in lieu thereof did not become effective within the earlier of six months after the end of the corporation's fiscal year or fifteen months after its last annual meeting; or (2) on application of a shareholder who signed a demand for a special meeting valid under section 33-696, if:(A) Notice of the special meeting was not given within thirty days after the date the demand was delivered to the corporation's secretary; or (B) the special meeting was not held in accordance with the notice.(b) Unless the bylaws require a meeting of shareholders to be held at a place, the court may fix the time of the meeting, determine whether the meeting will be held at a place or solely by remote communication, and, if the meeting is to be held at a place, the place of the meeting, determine the shares entitled to participate in the meeting, specify a record date or dates for determining shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting, prescribe the form and content of the meeting notice, fix the quorum required for specific matters to be considered at the meeting, or direct that the votes represented at the meeting constitute a quorum for action on those matters, and enter other orders necessary to accomplish the purpose or purposes of the meeting. The court may order the meeting to be held solely by means of remote communication in compliance with section 33-703 subject to such guidelines and procedures as the court may order, including implementation of the measures specified in subsection (b) of said section.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-697
( P.A. 94-186, S. 58, 215; P.A. 09-55, S. 6; P.A. 11-147, S. 3.)
Amended by P.A. 21-0039,S. 12 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 6/14/2021.Amended by P.A. 11-0147, S. 3 of the the 2011 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2011.Amended by P.A. 09-0055, S. 6 of the the 2009 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2009.