(a) No capital stock other than membership shares shall be given voting power in an employee cooperative, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the power to amend or repeal bylaws of an employee cooperative shall be vested in the members only.
(c) Amendments adversely affecting the rights of members may not be adopted without the vote of the members, except that the protection of this subsection may be extended to stockholders in the case of employee cooperative corporations that have not elected to operate as an internal capital account cooperative.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.
Chapter 11 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.
Section 10A-11-1.01 - Short Title.
Section 10A-11-1.02 - Definitions.
Section 10A-11-1.03 - Election as Employee Cooperative.
Section 10A-11-1.04 - Revocation.
Section 10A-11-1.05 - Corporate Name.
Section 10A-11-1.06 - Members; Membership Shares; Rights and Responsibilities.
Section 10A-11-1.07 - Directors and Officers.
Section 10A-11-1.08 - Voting Power; Amendment or Repeal of Bylaws; Protection of Stockholders.
Section 10A-11-1.09 - Apportionment, etc., of Net Earnings or Losses.
Section 10A-11-1.10 - Internal Capital Accounts.
Section 10A-11-1.11 - Internal Capital Account Cooperatives.
Section 10A-11-1.12 - Conversion of Membership Shares, etc.; Merger of Employee Cooperatives.