A. Each limited liability company shall, at its discretion, either (i) keep at its principal office or (ii) provide each member access as an electronic record, as defined in § 13.1-603, on a network or system to the following:
1. A current list of the full name and last known business address of each member, in alphabetical order;
2. A copy of the articles of organization and the certificate of organization, and all articles of amendment and certificates of amendment thereto;
3. Copies of the limited liability company's federal, state and local income tax returns and reports, if any, for the three most recent years;
4. Copies of any then-effective written operating agreement and of any financial statements of the limited liability company for the three most recent years; and
5. Unless contained in a written operating agreement, a writing setting out:
a. The amount of cash and a description and statement of the agreed value of the other property or services contributed by each member and which each member has agreed to contribute;
b. The times at which or events on the happening of which any additional contributions agreed to be made by each member are to be made;
c. Any right of a member to receive, or of the limited liability company to make, distributions to a member which include a return of all or any part of the member's contribution; and
d. Any events upon the happening of which the limited liability company is to be dissolved and its affairs wound up.
B. Each member has the right, upon reasonable request, to:
1. Inspect and copy any of the limited liability company records required to be maintained by this section; and
2. Obtain from the manager or managers, or if the limited liability company has no manager or managers, from any member or other person with access to such information, from time to time upon reasonable demand (i) true and full information regarding the state of the business and financial condition of the limited liability company, (ii) promptly after becoming available, a copy of the limited liability company's federal, state and local income tax returns for each year, and (iii) other information regarding the affairs of the limited liability company, except to the extent the information demanded is unreasonable or otherwise improper under the circumstances.
C. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections A and B, the rights of a member to obtain information as provided in such subsections may be restricted in writing in an original operating agreement or any subsequent written amendment to an operating agreement approved or adopted by all of the members and in compliance with any applicable requirements of the operating agreement.
1991, c. 168; 1992, c. 574; 2001, c. 548; 2002, c. 288; 2016, c. 287.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 12 - Virginia Limited Liability Company Act
§ 13.1-1001. Reservation of power to amend or repeal
§ 13.1-1003. Filing requirements
§ 13.1-1003.1. Filings with the Commission pursuant to reorganization
§ 13.1-1004. Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documents
§ 13.1-1006. Penalty for signing false documents
§ 13.1-1011. Articles of organization
§ 13.1-1011.1. Articles of correction
§ 13.1-1014. Amendment of articles of organization
§ 13.1-1014.1. Restatement of articles of organization
§ 13.1-1015. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1016. Change of registered office or registered agent
§ 13.1-1017. Resignation of registered agent
§ 13.1-1018. Service on limited liability company
§ 13.1-1018.1. Change of principal office
§ 13.1-1019. Liability to third parties
§ 13.1-1020. Parties to actions
§ 13.1-1021. Limited liability company property
§ 13.1-1021.1. Agency of members and managers
§ 13.1-1022. Management of limited liability company
§ 13.1-1023. Operating agreement
§ 13.1-1023.1. Remedies for breach of operating agreement by member or manager
§ 13.1-1024. Management of a limited liability company by a manager or managers
§ 13.1-1024.1. General standards of conduct for a manager
§ 13.1-1025. Limitation of liability of members and managers; exception
§ 13.1-1026. Business transactions of members or managers with the limited liability company
§ 13.1-1028. Information and records
§ 13.1-1029. Sharing of profits and losses
§ 13.1-1030. Sharing of distributions
§ 13.1-1031. Interim distributions
§ 13.1-1032. Resignation of member
§ 13.1-1034. Distribution in kind
§ 13.1-1035. Restrictions on making distribution
§ 13.1-1036. Liability upon wrongful distribution
§ 13.1-1037. Right to distribution
§ 13.1-1038. Nature of interest in limited liability company
§ 13.1-1038.1. Admission of members
§ 13.1-1039. Assignment of interest
§ 13.1-1040. Right of assignee to become member
§ 13.1-1040.1. Events causing member's dissociation
§ 13.1-1040.2. Effect of a member's dissociation
§ 13.1-1041.1. Member's transferable interest subject to charging order
§ 13.1-1042. Right of action; standing; condition precedent; stay of proceeding
§ 13.1-1046. Dissolution; generally
§ 13.1-1047. Judicial dissolution
§ 13.1-1047.1. Waiver of cancellation
§ 13.1-1049. Distribution of assets upon dissolution
§ 13.1-1049.1. Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 13.1-1049.2. Other claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 13.1-1049.3. Court proceedings
§ 13.1-1050. Articles of cancellation
§ 13.1-1050.2. Automatic cancellation of limited liability company existence
§ 13.1-1050.3. Involuntary cancellation of limited liability company existence
§ 13.1-1050.4. Reinstatement of a limited liability company that has ceased to exist
§ 13.1-1050.5. Survival of remedy after cancellation of existence
§ 13.1-1051. Authority to transact business required; governing law
§ 13.1-1052. Application for certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1054. Name of foreign limited liability company
§ 13.1-1055. Amendments; amended applications for registration
§ 13.1-1056. Voluntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.1. Automatic cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.2. Involuntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.3. Reinstatement of a certificate of registration that has been canceled
§ 13.1-1057. Transaction of business without registration
§ 13.1-1058. Actions by Attorney General
§ 13.1-1059. Transactions not constituting doing business
§ 13.1-1064. Penalty for failure to timely pay annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1066. Collection of unpaid bills for annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1067. Property title records
§ 13.1-1071. Action on a plan of merger
§ 13.1-1072. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1073.1. Abandonment of merger
§ 13.1-1076. Action on plan of domestication by a domestic limited liability company
§ 13.1-1077. Articles of domestication
§ 13.1-1078. Surrender of articles of organization upon domestication
§ 13.1-1079. Effect of domestication
§ 13.1-1080. Abandonment of domestication
§ 13.1-1082. Entity conversion
§ 13.1-1083. Plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1084. Action on plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1085. Articles of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1086. Effect of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1087. Abandonment of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1089. Nature of protected series
§ 13.1-1090. Powers and duration of protected series
§ 13.1-1092. Relation of operating agreement, this article, and the other articles of this chapter
§ 13.1-1093. Additional limitations on operating agreement
§ 13.1-1095. Protected series designation; amendment
§ 13.1-1097. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1098. Service of process, notice, or demand
§ 13.1-1099. Effectiveness of notice
§ 13.1-1099.1. Annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1099.2. Associated assets
§ 13.1-1099.3. Associated members
§ 13.1-1099.4. Protected series membership interests
§ 13.1-1099.7. Limitations on liability
§ 13.1-1099.8. Claim seeking to disregard limitation of liability
§ 13.1-1099.9. Remedies of judgment creditor of associated member or protected series assignee
§ 13.1-1099.10. Enforcement of claim against non-associated asset
§ 13.1-1099.11. Events causing dissolution of protected series
§ 13.1-1099.12. Winding up dissolved protected series; voluntary cancellation
§ 13.1-1099.14. Protected series may not be party to entity transaction
§ 13.1-1099.16. Merger authorized; parties restricted
§ 13.1-1099.17. Plan of merger
§ 13.1-1099.18. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1099.19. Effect of merger
§ 13.1-1099.20. Application of § 13.1-1099.10 after merger
§ 13.1-1099.25. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 13.1-1099.26. Effect on certain actions
§ 13.1-1099.27. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act