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HomeCorporations CodeCh. 5§ 9510 Corporate Recordkeeping Requirements

§ 9510 Corporate Recordkeeping Requirements

Corporations Code·California
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§ 9510 Corporate Recordkeeping Requirements

Key Takeaways

  • •Companies must keep good records of their money, meetings, and who their members are.
  • •These records can be on paper or digital, but they must be easy to read if printed.
  • •If a company breaks these rules, they can get in trouble.

Example

A small business owner keeps all their meeting notes and money records on a computer but never prints or backs them up. The computer crashes, and all the records are lost.

The business owner broke the law because they didn’t keep records in a way that could be easily read or saved. They could get fined or face other penalties.

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

Official Source
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§ 9510 Corporate Recordkeeping Requirements

(a) Each corporation shall keep: (1) Adequate and correct books and records of account. (2) Minutes of the proceedings of its members, board and committees of the board. (3) A record of its members giving their names and addresses and the class of membership held by each. (b) Those minutes and other books and records shall be kept either in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into clearly legible tangible form or in any combination of the foregoing. When minutes and other books and records are kept in a form capable of being converted into clearly legible paper form, the clearly legible paper form into which those minutes and other books and records are converted shall be admissible in evidence, and accepted for all other purposes, to the same extent as an original paper record of the same information would have been, provided that the paper form accurately portrays the record. (Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 254, Sec. 34. Effective January 1, 2005.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

Key Terms

adequate and correct books and records of accountminutes of the proceedingsrecord of its membersclearly legible tangible form

Related Statutes

  • § 12590 Corporate Records Maintenance
  • § 8320 Corporate Recordkeeping Requirements
  • § 5516 Member Action Without Meeting
  • § 7516 Member Action Without Meeting
  • § 1500 Corporate Records Maintenance

References

  • Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
  • California Legislature. Corporations Code. Section 9510.
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