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WI Stat § 180.0625 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0625 - Form and content of certificates.

180.0625  Form and content of certificates. (1) At a minimum, a share certificate shall state on its face all of the following:(a) The name of the issuing corporation and that it is organized under the laws of this state.(b) The name of the person to whom issued.(c) The number and class of shares and the designation of the series, if any, that the certificate represents. (2) If the issuing corporation is authorized to issue different classes of shares or different series within a class, the front or back of each certificate shall contain any of the following:(a) A summary of the designations, relative rights, preferences and limitations applicable to each class, and the variations in rights, preferences and limitations determined for each series and the authority of the board of directors to determine variations for future series.(b) A conspicuous statement that the corporation will furnish the shareholder the information described in par. (a) on request, in writing and without charge. (3) (a) Each share certificate shall be signed either manually or in facsimile, by the officer or officers designated in the bylaws or by the board of directors.(b) The validity of a share certificate is not affected if a person who signed the certificate no longer holds office when the certificate is issued.History:  1989 a. 303.
WI Stat § 180.0626 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0626 - Shares without certificates.

180.0626  Shares without certificates. (1) Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws provide otherwise, the board of directors of a corporation may authorize the issuance of any shares of any of its classes or series without certificates. The authorization does not affect shares already represented by certificates until the certificates are surrendered to the corporation. (2) Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of shares without certificates, the corporation shall send the shareholder a written statement of the information required on share certificates by s. 180.0625 (1) and (2) and, if applicable, s. 180.0627. (3) Unless this chapter or ch. 408 expressly provides otherwise, the rights and obligations of shareholders are identical whether or not their shares are represented by certificates.History:  1989 a. 303.
WI Stat § 180.0628 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0628 - Expense of issuing shares.

180.0628  Expense of issuing shares. A corporation may pay the expense of selling or underwriting its shares, and of organizing or reorganizing the corporation, from the consideration received for shares.History:  1989 a. 303.
WI Stat § 180.0631 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0631 - Corporation's acquisition of its own shares.

180.0631  Corporation's acquisition of its own shares. (1) Treasury shares shall be considered issued shares but not outstanding shares. (2) A corporation may acquire its own shares and all shares so acquired after December 31, 1990, constitute treasury shares unless any of the following conditions exists:(a) The articles of incorporation prohibit treasury shares or prohibit the reissuance of acquired shares.(b) The board of directors, by resolution, cancels the acquired shares, in which event the shares are restored to the status of authorized but unissued shares. (3) (a) If the articles of incorporation prohibit treasury shares but do not prohibit the reissuance of acquired shares, all of its own shares acquired by the corporation shall be restored to the status of authorized but unissued shares.(b) If the articles of incorporation prohibit the reissuance of acquired shares, the number of authorized shares is reduced by the number of shares acquired by the corporation, effective upon amendment of the articles of incorporation, except in the case of an investment company that has authorized an indefinite number of shares. The board of directors may adopt articles of amendment under this paragraph without shareholder action and deliver them to the department for filing. The articles shall include all of the following information:1. The name of the corporation.2. The reduction in the number of authorized shares, itemized by class and series.3. The total number of authorized shares, itemized by class and series, remaining after reduction of the shares.4. A statement that the amendment was adopted by the board of directors and that shareholder action was not required. (4) Sections 180.0621 to 180.0628, as they apply to the issuance of shares, apply to the issuance of treasury shares. (5) Treasury shares existing on December 31, 1990, remain treasury shares until disposed of, canceled or restored to the status of authorized but unissued shares by action of the board of directors or shareholders.History:  1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 16; 1995 a. 27, 271.
WI Stat § 180.0701 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0701 - Annual meeting.

180.0701  Annual meeting. (1) Except as provided in sub. (4), a corporation shall hold a meeting of shareholders annually at a time stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws. (2) (a) Subject to par. (b), a corporation may hold the annual shareholders' meeting in or outside this state at the place stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws. Subject to par. (b), if no place is stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws, the corporation shall hold the annual meeting at its principal office.(b) A corporation's bylaws may authorize the board of directors, in its sole discretion, to determine that the annual shareholders' meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized under s. 180.0709. (3) Failure to hold an annual meeting in one or more years does not affect the validity of any corporate action. (4) If so provided in the articles of incorporation or bylaws of an investment company, the investment company is not required to hold an annual meeting of shareholders in any year in which none of the following matters is required to be acted on by the shareholders under 15 USC 80a-1 to 80a-64:(a) Election of directors.(b) Approval of the investment advisory agreement.(c) Ratification of the selection of independent certified public accountants licensed or certified under ch. 442.(d) Approval of a distribution agreement.History:  1989 a. 303; 1995 a. 271; 2001 a. 16; 2017 a. 79.
WI Stat § 180.0702 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0702 - Special meeting.

180.0702  Special meeting. (1) A corporation shall hold a special meeting of shareholders if any of the following occurs:(a) A special meeting is called by the board of directors or any person authorized by the articles of incorporation or bylaws to call a special meeting.(b) The holders of at least 10 percent of all the votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered at the proposed special meeting sign, date and deliver to the corporation one or more written demands for the meeting describing one or more purposes for which it is to be held. (2) If not otherwise fixed under s. 180.0703 (2) (b) or 180.0707, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to demand a special meeting is the date that the first shareholder signs the demand. (3) (a) Subject to par. (b), a corporation may hold a special shareholders' meeting in or outside this state at the place stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws. Subject to par. (b), if no place is stated in or fixed in accordance with the bylaws, the corporation shall hold a special meeting at its principal office.(b) A corporation's bylaws may authorize the board of directors, in its sole discretion, to determine that a special shareholders' meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized under s. 180.0709. (4) Only business within the purpose described in the meeting notice required by s. 180.0705 (2) (b) may be conducted at a special shareholders' meeting.History:  1989 a. 303; 2017 a. 79.
WI Stat § 180.0703 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0703 - Court-ordered meeting.

180.0703  Court-ordered meeting. (1) The circuit court for the county where a corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office is located may, after notice to the corporation and an opportunity to be heard, order a meeting to be held on petition of a shareholder of the corporation who satisfies any of the following:(a) Is entitled to participate in an annual meeting, if an annual meeting was not held within the earlier of 6 months after the end of the corporation's fiscal year or 15 months after its last annual meeting and the corporation is required to hold an annual meeting under s. 180.0701 (1).(b) Signed a demand for a special meeting valid under s. 180.0702, if the corporation failed to do any of the following:1. Give notice of the special meeting within 30 days after the date that the demand was delivered to the corporation.2. Hold the special meeting in accordance with the notice. (2) The court may fix the time and place of the meeting or determine that the meeting shall be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized under s. 180.0709 and require that the meeting be called and conducted in accordance with the corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws in so far as possible, except that the court may do all of the following:(a) 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.(b) Enter other orders necessary to accomplish the purpose of the meeting.History:  1989 a. 303; 2017 a. 79.
WI Stat § 180.0704 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0704 - Action without meeting.

180.0704  Action without meeting. (1) Action required or permitted by this chapter to be taken at a shareholders' meeting may be taken without a meeting in any of the following ways:(a) Without action by the board of directors, by all shareholders entitled to vote on the action.(b) If the articles of incorporation so provide, by shareholders who would be entitled to vote at a meeting those shares with voting power to cast not less than the minimum number or, in the case of voting by voting groups, numbers of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take the action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote were present and voted, except action may not be taken under this paragraph with respect to an election of directors for which shareholders may vote cumulatively under s. 180.0728. (2) Action under sub. (1) must be evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken, signed by the number of shareholders necessary to take the action under sub. (1) (a) or (b) and delivered to the corporation for inclusion in the corporate records. (3) Action taken under sub. (1) is effective when consents representing the required number of shares are delivered to the corporation, unless the consent specifies a different effective date. Within 10 days after action taken under sub. (1) (b) is effective, the corporation shall give notice of the action to shareholders who, on the record date determined under sub. (4), were entitled to vote on the action but whose shares were not represented on the written consent. The notice shall comply with s. 180.0141. (4) If not otherwise fixed under s. 180.0703 (2) (b) or 180.0707, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to take action without a meeting is the date that the first shareholder signs the consent under sub. (1). (5) A consent signed under this section has the effect of a meeting vote and may be described as such in any document. (6) If this chapter requires that notice of proposed action be given to shareholders who are not entitled to vote on the action and the action is to be taken under this section, the corporation shall give those nonvoting shareholders written notice of the proposed action at least 10 days before the action becomes effective. The notice shall comply with s. 180.0141 and shall contain or be accompanied by the same material that, under this chapter, would have been required to be sent to nonvoting shareholders in a notice of meeting at which the proposed action would have been submitted to the shareholders for action.History:  1989 a. 303.
WI Stat § 180.0705 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0705 - Notice of meeting.

180.0705  Notice of meeting. (1) A corporation shall notify shareholders of the date, time, and place, if any, of each annual and special shareholders' meeting not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days before the meeting date, unless a different time is provided by this chapter, the articles of incorporation, or the bylaws. If the board of directors has authorized participation by means of remote communication under s. 180.0709, the notice shall also describe the means of remote communication to be used. The notice shall comply with s. 180.0141. 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. (2) (a) Unless this chapter or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, notice of an annual meeting need not include a description of the purpose for which the meeting is called.(b) Notice of a special meeting shall include a description of each purpose for which the meeting is called. (3) If not otherwise fixed under s. 180.0703 (2) (b) or 180.0707, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at an annual or special shareholders' meeting is the close of business on the day before the first notice is given to shareholders. (4) (a) Unless the bylaws require otherwise and except as provided in par. (b), if an annual or special shareholders' meeting is adjourned to a different date, time, or place or will be held by a new means of remote communication, the corporation is not required to give notice of the new date, time, place, or means of remote communication if the new date, time, place, or means of remote communication is announced at the meeting before adjournment.(b) If a new record date for an adjourned meeting is or must be fixed under s. 180.0707 (3), the corporation shall give notice of the adjourned meeting under this section to persons who are shareholders as of the new record date.History:  1989 a. 303; 2017 a. 79.
WI Stat § 180.0706 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0706 - Waiver of and exemption from notice.

180.0706  Waiver of and exemption from notice. (1) A shareholder may waive any notice required by this chapter, the articles of incorporation or the bylaws at any time. The waiver shall be in writing and signed by the shareholder entitled to the notice, contain the same information that would have been required in the notice under any applicable provisions of this chapter, except that the time and place of meeting need not be stated, and be delivered to the corporation for inclusion in the corporate records. (2) A shareholder's attendance at a meeting, whether physical or remote, in person or by proxy, waives objection to all of the following:(a) Lack of notice or defective notice of the meeting, unless the shareholder at the beginning of the meeting or promptly upon arrival objects to holding the meeting or transacting business at the meeting.(b) Consideration of a particular matter at the meeting that is not within the purpose described in the meeting notice, unless the shareholder objects to considering the matter when it is presented. (3) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), any notice required to be given by a corporation to a shareholder under this chapter is not required to be given if any of the following applies:1. Notice of 2 consecutive annual meetings, and all notices of meetings during the period between these annual meetings, have been sent to the shareholder at the shareholder's address as shown on the records of the corporation and have been returned as undeliverable.2. All, but not less than 2, payments of dividends on securities during a one-year period, or 2 consecutive payments of dividends on securities during a period of more than one year, have been sent to the shareholder at the shareholder's address as shown on the records of the corporation and have been returned as undeliverable.(b) If a shareholder to whom par. (a) applies delivers to the corporation a written notice containing the shareholder's current address, then, beginning 30 days after receipt of the notice by the corporation, the requirement that notice be given to the shareholder is reinstated, until such time as par. (a) may again apply.History:  1989 a. 303; 1995 a. 400; 2005 a. 476; 2017 a. 79.
WI Stat § 180.0707 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0707 - Record date.

180.0707  Record date. (1) The bylaws may fix or provide the manner of fixing a future date as 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 may fix a future date as the record date. (2) A record date fixed under this section may not be more than 70 days before the meeting or action requiring a determination of shareholders. (3) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), 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 shall do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting.(b) If a court orders a meeting adjourned to a date more than 120 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.History:  1989 a. 303.
WI Stat § 180.0708 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0708 - Conduct of meeting.

180.0708  Conduct of meeting. Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws provide otherwise, every meeting of the shareholders shall be conducted as follows: (1) A chairperson shall preside over the meeting. The chairperson shall be appointed by the board of directors. (2) The chairperson shall determine the order of business and the time of adjournment and may establish rules for the conduct of the meeting which the chairperson believes are fair to the interests of all shareholders. (3) The chairperson shall determine and announce at the meeting the time at which the polls will close for each matter voted upon at the meeting. The polls close at the announced time, except that, if no such announcement is made, the polls close upon final adjournment of the meeting. After the polls close, no ballots, proxies, or votes or revocations or changes to ballots, proxies, or votes may be accepted.History:  2005 a. 476.
WI Stat § 180.0709 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0709 - Remote participation in shareholders' meeting.

180.0709  Remote participation in shareholders' meeting. (1) If authorized by the board of directors in its sole discretion, and subject to sub. (2) and to any guidelines and procedures adopted by the board of directors, shareholders and proxies of shareholders not physically present at a meeting of shareholders may participate in the meeting by means of remote communication. (2) If shareholders and proxies of shareholders participate in a meeting of shareholders by means of remote communication as provided in sub. (1), the participating shareholders and proxies of shareholders are deemed to be present in person and to vote at the meeting of shareholders, whether the meeting is held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication, if all of the following apply:(a) The corporation has implemented reasonable measures to verify that each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means of remote communication is a shareholder or proxy of a shareholder.(b) The corporation has implemented reasonable measures to provide shareholders and proxies of shareholders a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and to vote on matters submitted to the shareholders, including an opportunity to read or hear the proceedings of the meeting concurrently with the proceedings.(c) The corporation maintains a record of voting or action by any shareholder or proxy of a shareholder that votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication.History:  2017 a. 79.
WI Stat § 180.0720 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 180 - Business corporations.|180.0720 - Shareholders' list for meeting.

180.0720  Shareholders' list for meeting. (1) After fixing a record date for a meeting, a corporation shall prepare a list of the names of all its shareholders who are entitled to notice of a shareholders' meeting. The list shall be arranged by class or series of shares and show the address of and number of shares held by each shareholder. (2) (a) The corporation shall make the shareholders' list available for inspection by any shareholder, beginning 2 business days after notice of the meeting is given for which the list was prepared and continuing to the date of the meeting. The list shall be made available at the corporation's principal office, at a place identified in the meeting notice in the city where the meeting will be held, or on a reasonably accessible electronic network if the information required to gain access to the list is provided with the notice of the meeting.(b) A shareholder or his or her agent or attorney may, on written demand, inspect and, subject to s. 180.1602 (2) (b) 3. to 5., copy the list, during regular business hours and at his or her expense, during the period that it is available for inspection under par. (a). If the corporation determines that the list will be made available on an electronic network, the corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to shareholders of the corporation. (3) The corporation shall make the shareholders' list available at the meeting, and any shareholder or his or her agent or attorney may inspect the list at any time during the meeting or any adjournment. If the meeting is held solely by means of remote communication, the list shall be open to the examination of any shareholder during the entire time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access the list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. (4) If the corporation refuses to allow a shareholder or his or her agent or attorney to inspect the shareholders' list before or at the meeting, or to copy the list as permitted by sub. (2) (b), on petition of the shareholder, the circuit court for the county where the corporation's principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office is located may, after notice to the corporation and an opportunity to be heard, order the inspection or copying at the corporation's expense. The court may also postpone the meeting for which the list was prepared until the inspection or copying is complete. (5) Refusal or failure to prepare or make available the shareholders' list does not affect the validity of action taken at the meeting.History:  1989 a. 303; 2017 a. 79.