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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="2-313" title_number="2" title_name="Corporations in General -- Formation, Organization, and Operation" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Capital Accounts, Dividends, and Retirement of Shares">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The president or, if provided in the bylaws, some other executive officer of each corporation shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, annually a full and correct statement of the affairs of the corporation, to include a balance sheet and a financial statement of operations for the preceding fiscal year.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the statement of affairs shall be submitted at the annual meeting of stockholders and, within 20 days after the meeting:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Placed on file at the corporation’s principal office or at any other office or agency specified in the bylaws of the corporation, in written form; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Otherwise maintained by or on behalf of the corporation in any other form that complies with § 2–114 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a corporation is not required to hold an annual meeting of stockholders under a charter or bylaw provision adopted in accordance with § 2–501 of this title, within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year, the statement of affairs shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Placed on file at the corporation’s principal office or at any other office or agency specified in the bylaws of the corporation in written form; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Otherwise maintained by or on behalf of the corporation in any other form that complies with § 2–114 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
