The private property of the members of a cooperative shall be exempt from execution for the debts of the cooperative, and no member shall be liable or responsible for any debts of the cooperative. A cooperative shall not be liable to its members for any outage of service or voltage fluctuation resulting from acts of God, such as lightning or windstorm, or from occurrences that may reasonably be expected to happen in the normal course of utility business, such as equipment failures. In any claim for property damage alleging negligence of the cooperative, the member shall prove by the testimony of a witness expert in the operation of utility businesses that the action or inaction of the cooperative alleged to have caused the property damage is not normal in the operations of a utility business.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.
Chapter 6 - Electric Cooperatives.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 37-6-2 - Organization and Purpose.
Section 37-6-3 - Enumerated Powers.
Section 37-6-5 - Incorporators.
Section 37-6-6 - Articles of Incorporation - Generally.
Section 37-6-7 - Articles of Incorporation - Amendment.
Section 37-6-9 - Qualifications for Membership; Meetings; Voting.
Section 37-6-10 - Board of Trustees.
Section 37-6-11 - Voting Districts.
Section 37-6-13 - Consolidation Generally.
Section 37-6-14 - Merger Generally.
Section 37-6-15 - Effect of Consolidation or Merger.
Section 37-6-16 - Conversion of Existing Corporation Into Cooperative.
Section 37-6-18 - Dissolution.
Section 37-6-19 - Filing of Articles.
Section 37-6-20 - Disposition of Excess Revenues.
Section 37-6-22 - Nonliability of Members for Debts of Cooperative.
Section 37-6-24 - Waiver of Notice.
Section 37-6-25 - Acknowledgment of Instruments.
Section 37-6-26 - Foreign Corporations.
Section 37-6-28 - Bonds or Other Indebtedness - Consent of Department of Finance.
Section 37-6-27 - Exemption From Jurisdiction of Public Service Commission.
Section 37-6-29 - Bonds or Other Indebtedness - Exemption From Provisions of Securities Law.