- The corporation shall, at least 10 days in advance of any stockholder meeting, make a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote thereat; if the record date is less than 10 days before the meeting, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date. Stockholders shall appear in alphabetical order with their address and the number of shares registered in their name; email or other electronic contact information is not required.
Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder for any purpose germane to the meeting for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting:
- on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the access information is provided with the notice of the meeting, or
- during ordinary business hours, at the corporation’s principal place of business.
It shall also be available to any stockholder during the entire meeting at the place of such meeting or, if the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote communication, on a reasonably accessible electronic network (access information shall be provided with the notice of the meeting).
If the corporation makes the list available on an electronic network, it may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to its stockholders.
- A stockholder may apply to the Court of Chancery for an order to compel the corporation to permit examination of the list. The burden of proof shall be on the corporation to establish that the stockholder seeks examination for a purpose not germane to the meeting. “The Court may summarily order the corporation to permit examination of the list upon such conditions as the Court may deem appropriate, and may make such additional orders as may be appropriate, including, without limitation, postponing the meeting or voiding the results of the meeting.”
- “For purposes of this chapter, ‘stock ledger’ means one or more records administered by or on behalf of the corporation in which the names of all of the corporation’s stockholders of record, the address and number of shares registered in the name of each such stockholder, and all issuances and transfers of stock of the corporation are recorded in accordance with § 224 of this title. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled by this section to examine the list required by this section or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.”