New Jersey § 17:9a-79
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 17:9a-79, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 17:9a-79.
A. The annual meeting of the stockholders of every bank shall be held on such day
in January, February, March or April in each year as the bylaws shall provide; or,
if there be no governing bylaw, then on the fourth Tuesday in March ; or, in the case of a savings bank operating on a fiscal-year basis, the annual
meeting shall be held no later than 120 days after the closing of the fiscal year . The commissioner may require that prior notice be given to him of a change in the
date of an annual meeting, and may prescribe the form of such notice and the time
when such notice shall be given. B. Not less than 10 days prior to the date fixed for such meeting, notice of the annual
meeting shall be published once in a newspaper published and circulated in the municipality
in which the bank maintains its principal office, or, if there be no such newspaper,
then in one published in the county in which the bank maintains its principal office
or in an adjoining county, and which has general circulation in the municipality in
which the bank maintains its principal office. In addition, notice of such meeting shall be given as provided in section 81. 1 At such annual meeting, directors shall be elected and such other business may be
transacted as may properly be brought before a meeting of stockholders, except that
no business other than the election of directors shall be transacted at such meeting
unless notice of such other business shall have been given in the manner provided
by section 81. Notice of such other business need not be included in the publication of notice
required by this section. 1
N.J.S.A. § 17:9A-81.
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