(1) A corporation shall notify shareholders of the date, time and place of each annual and special shareholders’ meeting not earlier than 60 days nor less than 10 days before the meeting date. Unless this chapter or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, the corporation is required to give notice only to shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 60.214

  • Articles of incorporation: means the articles described in ORS § 60. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including by hand, mail, commercial delivery and, in accordance with ORS § 60. See Oregon Statutes 60.001
  • Record date: means the date established under this chapter on which a corporation determines the identity of the corporation's shareholders and their shareholdings for purposes of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 60.001

(2) Unless required by this chapter or the articles of incorporation, notice of an annual meeting need not include a description of the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

(3) Notice of a special meeting must include a description of the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

(4) If not otherwise fixed under ORS § 60.207 or 60.221, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at an annual or special shareholders’ meeting is the day before the first notice is mailed or otherwise transmitted for delivery to shareholders in accordance with ORS § 60.034.

(5) Unless the bylaws require otherwise, if an annual or special shareholders’ meeting is adjourned to a different date, time or place, notice need not be given of the new date, time or place if the new date, time or place is announced at the meeting before adjournment. If a new record date for the adjourned meeting is or must be fixed under ORS § 60.221, however, notice of the adjourned meeting must be given under this section to persons who are shareholders as of the new record date. [1987 c.52 § 53; 1989 c.1040 § 16; 1991 c.883 § 4; 2003 c.80 § 6]