Wisconsin Code § 180.0703

Court-ordered meeting
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(1) The circuit court
for the county where a corporation’s principal office or, if none in
this state, its registered office is located may, after notice to the
corporation and an opportunity to be heard, order a meeting to be
held on petition of a shareholder of the corporation who satisfies
any of the following:
(a) Is entitled to participate in an annual meeting, if an annual
meeting was not held within the earlier of 6 months after the end
of the corporation’s fiscal year or 15 months after its last annual
meeting and the corporation is required to hold an annual meeting under s. 180.0701 (1).
(b) Signed a demand for a special meeting valid under s.
180.0702, if the corporation failed to do any of the following:

1. Give notice of the special meeting within 30 days after the
date that the demand was delivered to the corporation.
2. Hold the special meeting in accordance with the notice.
(2) The court may fix the time and place of the meeting or determine that the meeting shall be held solely by means of remote
communication as authorized under s. 180.0709 and require that
the meeting be called and conducted in accordance with the corporation’s articles of incorporation and bylaws in so far as possible, except that the court may do all of the following:
(a) Fix the quorum required for specific matters to be considered at the meeting or direct that the votes represented at the
meeting constitute a quorum for action on those matters.
(b) Enter other orders necessary to accomplish the purpose of
the meeting.

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