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Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 37-6-1 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...
Section 37-6-2 - Organization and Purpose. - Cooperative, nonprofit membership corporations may be organized under this chapter...
Section 37-6-3 - Enumerated Powers. - A cooperative shall have the power: (1) To sue and...
Section 37-6-4 - Name. - The name of each cooperative primarily engaged in the distribution...
Section 37-6-5 - Incorporators. - Five or more natural persons or two or more cooperatives...
Section 37-6-6 - Articles of Incorporation - Generally. - The articles of incorporation of a cooperative shall recite in...
Section 37-6-7 - Articles of Incorporation - Amendment. - A cooperative may amend its articles of incorporation by complying...
Section 37-6-8 - Bylaws. - The original bylaws of a cooperative shall be adopted by...
Section 37-6-9 - Qualifications for Membership; Meetings; Voting. - (a) No person who is not an incorporator shall become...
Section 37-6-10 - Board of Trustees. - The business and affairs of a cooperative shall be managed...
Section 37-6-11 - Voting Districts. - Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the bylaws may...
Section 37-6-12 - Officers. - The officers of a cooperative shall consist of a president,...
Section 37-6-13 - Consolidation Generally. - Any two or more cooperatives, each of which is hereinafter...
Section 37-6-14 - Merger Generally. - Any one or more cooperatives, each of which is hereinafter...
Section 37-6-15 - Effect of Consolidation or Merger. - The effect of consolidation or merger shall be as follows:...
Section 37-6-16 - Conversion of Existing Corporation Into Cooperative. - Any corporation organized under the laws of this state for...
Section 37-6-18 - Dissolution. - (a) A cooperative which has not commenced business may dissolve...
Section 37-6-19 - Filing of Articles. - Articles of incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion or dissolution, as...
Section 37-6-20 - Disposition of Excess Revenues. - Revenues of a cooperative for any fiscal year in excess...
Section 37-6-21 - Sale, Lease or Encumbrance of Property; Offeror's Disclosure Statement; Invitations for Competing or Alternative Proposals; Exceptions; Effect of Violation. - A cooperative may not sell or lease all or any...
Section 37-6-22 - Nonliability of Members for Debts of Cooperative. - The private property of the members of a cooperative shall...
Section 37-6-23 - Liens. - Any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument executed by...
Section 37-6-24 - Waiver of Notice. - Whenever any notice is required to be given under the...
Section 37-6-25 - Acknowledgment of Instruments. - No person who is authorized to take acknowledgments under the...
Section 37-6-26 - Foreign Corporations. - Any corporation or association organized under generally similar laws of...
Section 37-6-28 - Bonds or Other Indebtedness - Consent of Department of Finance. - No bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of any cooperative...
Section 37-6-27 - Exemption From Jurisdiction of Public Service Commission. - Cooperatives transacting business in this state pursuant to this chapter...
Section 37-6-30 - Terminating or Declining Service Because of Indebtedness to Cooperative; When Account in Dispute. - (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms...
Section 37-6-29 - Bonds or Other Indebtedness - Exemption From Provisions of Securities Law. - The provisions of the Alabama Securities Law shall not apply...
Article 2 - Rural Telephone Service.
Section 37-6-40 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall...
Section 37-6-41 - Electric Cooperatives Empowered to Furnish Telephone Service. - Any electric cooperative presently or hereafter organized and any corporation...
Section 37-6-42 - Enumerated Powers. - (a) Any such electric cooperative shall have power: (1) To...
Section 37-6-43 - Name of Cooperative Furnishing Service. - The name of an electric cooperative which engages in the...
Section 37-6-44 - Cooperatives Possess Same Powers in Connection With Telephone Service as With Electricity. - Except as otherwise provided in this article, electric cooperatives shall...
Section 37-6-45 - Cooperatives Authorized to Supply Electrical Energy or Telephone Service or Both. - Electric cooperatives are authorized to supply to their members and...
Section 37-6-46 - Power to Furnish Telephone Service Exclusive. - The power to furnish telephone service conferred in this article...
Section 37-6-47 - Duty of Public Service Commission to Encourage Improvement and Expansion of Facilities. - It shall be the duty of the Alabama Public Service...
Section 37-6-48 - Additional Compensation for Members of Commission. - For the extra, new and additional duties imposed upon the...
Section 37-6-49 - Vesting of Certain Powers; Validation of Acts Relating to Organization. - Any cooperative organized under the provisions of this chapter prior...