(a) An internal capital account cooperative is a worker cooperative whose entire net book value is reflected in internal capital accounts, one for each member, and a collective reserve account, and in which no persons other than members own capital stock. In an internal capital account cooperative, each member shall have one and only one vote in any matter requiring voting by stockholders.
(b) An internal capital account cooperative shall credit the paid-in membership fee and additional paid-in capital of a member to the member's internal capital account and shall also record the apportionment of retained net earnings or net losses to the members in accordance with patronage by appropriately crediting or debiting the internal capital accounts of members. The collective reserve account in an internal capital account cooperative shall reflect any paid-in capital, net losses, and retained net earnings not allocated to individual members.
(c) In an internal capital account cooperative, the balance in all the individual internal accounts and collective reserve account, if any, shall be adjusted at the end of each accounting period so that the sum of the balances is equal to the net book value of the employee 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.