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HomeCorporations CodeCh. 22§ 2200 Corporate Record Violation Penalty

§ 2200 Corporate Record Violation Penalty

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§ 2200 Corporate Record Violation Penalty

This law says a company must keep shareholder records, file financial statements, and give certain advice to shareholders; if it doesn’t, the company gets fined each day it keeps ignoring the request.

Key Takeaways

  • •Companies must keep shareholder records, file financial statements, and give required advice.
  • •If they ignore a written request, they get fined $25 for each day after a 30‑day wait.
  • •The total fine can’t be more than $1,500, and the daily charge can’t exceed $250 even if there are many requests.

Example

A small corporation is asked on June 1 to give a shareholder the advice required by another law, but it never sends the advice.

The company has 30 days to fix the problem. After June 31, every day it still doesn’t send the advice it owes $25 to the shareholder, up to $1,500 total. If the shareholder sues within 90 days of the request, the money goes to the shareholder.

How to Calculate

Penalty = min( $25 × Days_of_non‑compliance , $1,500 ) (Days counted after a 30‑day grace period)

  1. Note the date the written request was received.
  2. Add 30 days – this is the grace period before any fine starts.
  3. Count each day after the grace period that the company still hasn’t done what was asked.
  4. Multiply the number of counted days by $25.
  5. If the result is more than $1,500, cap the fine at $1,500.
  6. Step 6 (special case): If the company ignored several requests on the same day, the most you can charge for that day is $250.

A shareholder sends a written request on January 1. The corporation does nothing until March 15.

Result: Penalty = $25 × 43 = $1,075 (under the $1,500 cap).

AI-generated — May contain errors. Not legal advice. Always verify source.

Official Source
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§ 2200 Corporate Record Violation Penalty

Every corporation that neglects, fails, or refuses: (a) to keep or cause to be kept or maintained the record of shareholders or books of account required by this division to be kept or maintained, (b) to prepare or cause to be prepared or submitted the financial statements required by this division to be prepared or submitted, or (c) to give any shareholder of record the advice required by subdivision (f) of Section 2115, is subject to penalty as provided in this section. The penalty shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day that the failure or refusal continues, up to a maximum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), beginning 30 days after receipt of the written request that the duty be performed from one entitled to make the request, except that, in the case of a failure to give advice required by subdivision (f) of Section 2115, the 30-day period shall run from the date of receipt of the request made pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 2115, and no additional request is required by this section. The penalty shall be paid to the shareholder or shareholders jointly making the request for performance of the duty, and damaged by the neglect, failure, or refusal, if suit therefor is commenced within 90 days after the written request is made, including any request made pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 2115; but the maximum daily penalty because of failure to comply with any number of separate requests made on any one day or for the same act shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250). (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 159, Sec. 44. Effective January 1, 2002.)

Last verified: January 10, 2026

Key Terms

corporationpenaltyshareholdersfinancial statementssubdivision (f) of Section 2115

Related Statutes

  • § 2204 Corporation Delinquency Notice
  • § 2207 Corporate Officer Fraud Liability
  • § 2201 Share Transfer Officer Penalty
  • § 2202 Penalty Addition And Reduction
  • § 2203 Foreign Corporation Unauthorized Business Penalty

References

  • Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
  • California Legislature. Corporations Code. Section 2200.
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