The articles of incorporation, executed and acknowledged in accordance with Code Section 46-5-67, shall be presented, by application signed by two of the persons who signed the articles of incorporation, to the superior court of the county in which the principal office of the cooperative is to be located, or to the judge of the superior court of that county in vacation, or in the event that the judge of the superior court of said county is absent from the circuit, disqualified, or for illness or other reason cannot act in the premises, then to any judge of the superior court of this state. The application shall be accompanied by a certificate of the Secretary of State declaring that the name of the proposed cooperative is not the name of any other then existing corporation registered in the records of the Secretary of State, and by such affidavits as may be required by applicable provisions of this part.
History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 9.
Structure Georgia Code
Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation
Part 3 - Rural Telephone Cooperatives
§ 46-5-61. Declaration of Purpose
§ 46-5-63. Powers of Cooperatives Generally
§ 46-5-64.1. Venue Determinations
§ 46-5-65. Names of Cooperatives
§ 46-5-70. Filing of Articles With Clerk of Court
§ 46-5-71. Submittal to Clerk of Publisher’s Affidavit
§ 46-5-73. Duty of Clerk to Deliver to Applicants Certified Copies of Articles and of Order Thereon
§ 46-5-74. Filing of Copies of Articles and Order With Secretary of State; Payment of Fee
§ 46-5-75. Certificate of Secretary of State
§ 46-5-77. Time of Corporate Existence of Cooperative
§ 46-5-78. Bylaws of Cooperative Generally
§ 46-5-80. Meetings of Members — Generally
§ 46-5-81. Meetings of Members — Waiver of Notice
§ 46-5-84. Officers of Cooperative
§ 46-5-85. Amendment of Articles of Incorporation
§ 46-5-86. Change of Location of Principal Office
§ 46-5-87. Consolidation of Cooperatives
§ 46-5-88. Merger of Cooperatives
§ 46-5-89. Effect of Consolidation or Merger
§ 46-5-91. Dissolution of Cooperatives
§ 46-5-92.1. Payment of Revenues; Priority of Payments
§ 46-5-94. Liability of Members and Shareholders for Debts of Cooperative
§ 46-5-96. Construction Standards
§ 46-5-97. Limitation of Actions
§ 46-5-98. Taking of Acknowledgments by Officers, Trustees, Members, or Shareholders of Cooperatives
§ 46-5-101. Annual License Fee; Exemption of Cooperatives From Taxation
§ 46-5-103. Jurisdiction of Commission