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Annual Meeting Date Rules In Houston

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Houston
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US-0012-CR
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Form with which the secretary of a corporation notifies all necessary parties of the date, time, and place of the annual meeting of the board of directors.


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Sec. 551.002. OPEN MEETINGS REQUIREMENT. Every regular, special, or called meeting of a governmental body shall be open to the public, except as provided by this chapter.

If an annual meeting is not conducted and/or is unable to take place due to a lack of quorum, the directors then in office generally continue to serve on the board until successors have been formally elected and qualified.

The Act. It is a misdemeanor for a member of a governing body to conspire to circumvent the Act by meeting in numbers of less than a quorum for the purpose of secret deliberations. It Page 6 -6- is punishable by a fine of between $100 and $500, one to six months in jail, or both.

When Should HOA Meeting Minutes Be Distributed? The HOA board should distribute the meeting minutes to all members within 30 days of the meeting.

All states had enacted open meetings laws by 1976 In general, most statutes require public bodies to meet and deliberate in public. Although these laws guarantee that the public and the media can attend, they do not guarantee the public's right to speak.

Open Board Meetings With the exception of some confidential topics, regular and special board meetings of property owners' associations must be open to all members. Actions that can only be taken at an open meeting are listed in Section 209.0051(h) of the Texas Property Code.

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The Open Meetings Act (Government Code, Chapter 551) provides that meetings of governmental bodies must be open to the public (except for expressly authorized executive sessions). Both state and regional agencies file notices of open meetings with the Secretary of State's office.

A public company must call an AGM each year within the period of six months beginning with the day following its accounting reference date. A private company is not required to hold an AGM, but it may choose to do so or it may have provisions in its articles of association that require it to do so.

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Annual Meeting Date Rules In Houston