Code of Virginia
Chapter 9.1 - Utility Consumer Services Cooperatives and Utility Aggregation Cooperatives
§ 56-231.19. Filing articles of incorporation; effect thereof; other provisions of law applicable

The natural persons executing the articles of incorporation shall be residents of the territory in which the principal operations of the cooperative are to be conducted who intend to use utility services to be furnished by the cooperative. The articles of incorporation shall be subscribed by at least five such persons and acknowledged by them before an officer authorized by the law of this Commonwealth to take and certify acknowledgments of deeds and conveyances. When so acknowledged the articles shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 (§ 13.1-618 et seq.) of Chapter 9 or Article 3 (§ 13.1-818 et seq.) of Chapter 10 of Title 13.1. When so filed the articles of incorporation, or certified copies thereof, shall be received in all the courts of this Commonwealth and elsewhere as prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein, and of the due incorporation of such cooperative. All of the provisions of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act (§ 13.1-601 et seq.), and the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act (§ 13.1-801 et seq.), insofar as not inconsistent with this article are hereby made applicable to such stock and nonstock cooperatives, respectively; provided, however, that subsections D through G of § 13.1-620 and subdivision 1 of § 13.1-825 shall not apply to any affiliate or subsidiary of a cooperative. When the charter is filed in the office of the State Corporation Commission, the proposed cooperative described therein, under its designated name, shall be and constitute a body corporate, and, with respect to its providing regulated utility services, with all of the applicable powers provided for in § 56-49. A cooperative formed prior to July 1, 1999, need not have a registered office or registered agent. A stock or nonstock cooperative formed thereafter shall comply with § 13.1-634 or § 13.1-833, respectively.
1999, c. 874.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 56 - Public Service Companies

Chapter 9.1 - Utility Consumer Services Cooperatives and Utility Aggregation Cooperatives

§ 56-231.15. Definitions

§ 56-231.16. Organization; purpose

§ 56-231.17. Articles of incorporation

§ 56-231.18. Name of other corporations not to include term "electric cooperative" or "utility consumer services cooperative."

§ 56-231.19. Filing articles of incorporation; effect thereof; other provisions of law applicable

§ 56-231.20. Repealed

§ 56-231.21. Dissolution and termination of cooperatives

§ 56-231.22. Charter amendments

§ 56-231.23. General powers granted

§ 56-231.24. Power to dispose of property

§ 56-231.25. Power to issue obligations

§ 56-231.26. Covenants in connection with obligations

§ 56-231.27. Power to purchase its own obligations

§ 56-231.28. Board of directors of cooperatives

§ 56-231.29. Powers of board of directors

§ 56-231.30. Rights and liabilities of members

§ 56-231.31. Payment of certain patronage capital to spouse or next of kin of deceased person

§ 56-231.31:1. Donation of certain patronage capital to the cooperative

§ 56-231.32. Service to members

§ 56-231.33. Adequate service; rates

§ 56-231.34. Regulation by Commission

§ 56-231.34:1. Separation of regulated and unregulated businesses

§ 56-231.34:2. Right of action; violation of rules or regulations

§ 56-231.35. Charter fees, etc.

§ 56-231.36. Construction of article; conflicting laws

§ 56-231.37. How article cited

§ 56-231.38. Definitions

§ 56-231.39. Organization and purpose

§ 56-231.40. Names

§ 56-231.41. Articles of incorporation

§ 56-231.42. Bylaws

§ 56-231.43. Powers

§ 56-231.44. Board of directors

§ 56-231.45. Officers

§ 56-231.46. Members

§ 56-231.47. Adoption of article

§ 56-231.48. Applicability of other laws

§ 56-231.49. Restructuring costs

§ 56-231.50. Regulation by State Corporation Commission

§ 56-231.50:1. Separation of regulated and unregulated businesses

§ 56-231.50:2. Right of action; violation of rules or regulations

§ 56-231.51. Construction of article and conflicting laws

§ 56-231.52. Citation to article