Section 79-4-7.01 - Annual meeting(a) Unless directors are elected by written consent in lieu of an annual meeting as permitted by Section 79-4-7.04, a corporation shall hold a meeting of shareholders annually at a time stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws; provided, however, that if a corporation's articles of incorporation authorize shareholders to cumulate their votes when electing directors pursuant to Section 79-4-7.28, directors may not be elected by less than unanimous written consent.(b) Annual shareholders' meetings may be held in or out of this state at the place stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws or, unless prohibited by the corporation's bylaws, the corporation may elect to hold such meeting by electronic transmission or other means of remote communication, or a combination thereof. If no place is stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws, annual meetings shall be held at the corporation's principal office by electronic transmission or other means of remote communication, or by a combination thereof.(c) The failure to hold an annual meeting at the time stated in or fixed in accordance with a corporation's bylaws does not affect the validity of any corporate action.(d) For purposes of this section and the other sections of this Article 7 of the Mississippi Business Corporation Act, "remote communication" means communication via electronic communication, conference telephone, videoconference, the internet, or such other means by which persons not physically present in the same location may communicate with each other on a substantially concurrent basis.Laws, 1987, ch. 486, § 7.01; Laws, 2007, ch. 361, § 4, eff. 7/1/2007.Amended by Laws, 2021, ch. 369, SB 2626,§ 1, eff. 3/17/2021.