Georgia Code
Part 3 - Rural Telephone Cooperatives
§ 46-5-82. Board of Directors

Georgia Code

Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation

Chapter 5 - Telephone Service

Article 2 - Telephone Service

Part 3 - Rural Telephone Cooperatives

§ 46-5-60. Short Title

§ 46-5-61. Declaration of Purpose

§ 46-5-62. Definitions

§ 46-5-63. Powers of Cooperatives Generally

§ 46-5-64. Power of Superior Court to Create Cooperatives, to Approve Amendments to Their Articles of Incorporation, Conversion, Consolidation, Merger, or Dissolution

§ 46-5-64.1. Venue Determinations

§ 46-5-65. Names of Cooperatives

§ 46-5-66. Incorporators

§ 46-5-67. Contents of Articles of Incorporation; Signing and Acknowledgment; Recitation of Purpose and Powers; Statements Regarding Issuance of Nonvoting Shares of Stock

§ 46-5-68. Presentation of Articles of Incorporation to Superior Court for Approval; Accompaniment of Articles by Secretary of State’s Certificate and by Required Affidavits

§ 46-5-69. Approval of Articles by Judicial Order; Application as Constituting Charter of Cooperative

§ 46-5-70. Filing of Articles With Clerk of Court

§ 46-5-71. Submittal to Clerk of Publisher’s Affidavit

§ 46-5-72. Time of Advertisement of Articles; Appearance of Advertisements Prior to Granting of Charter

§ 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

§ 46-5-76. Certified Copies of Charter and Secretary of State’s Certificate as Evidence of Incorporation of Cooperative and of Nature and Contents of Charter

§ 46-5-77. Time of Corporate Existence of Cooperative

§ 46-5-78. Bylaws of Cooperative Generally

§ 46-5-79. Qualifications for Membership in Cooperative; Certificate of Membership; Share Certificates; Payment for Shares of Stock

§ 46-5-80. Meetings of Members — Generally

§ 46-5-81. Meetings of Members — Waiver of Notice

§ 46-5-82. Board of Directors

§ 46-5-83. Division of Service Territory Into Districts; Election of District Delegates; Boundaries of Districts; Voting by Members at District Meetings and by District Delegates at Any Meeting

§ 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

§ 46-5-90. Conversion of Telephone Corporation Into a Cooperative; Consolidation of Telephone Corporations Into a Cooperative

§ 46-5-91. Dissolution of Cooperatives

§ 46-5-92. Operation of Cooperatives on Nonprofit Basis; Contents of Bylaws and of Contracts With Members and Patrons Regarding Nonprofit Operation

§ 46-5-92.1. Payment of Revenues; Priority of Payments

§ 46-5-93. Pledging or Encumbering of Property, Assets, Rights, and Privileges of Cooperative by Board of Directors to Secure Indebtedness to Federal Government; Tax Exemption for Mortgages and Deeds of Trust; Sale, Pledge, or Encumbrance of Property

§ 46-5-94. Liability of Members and Shareholders for Debts of Cooperative

§ 46-5-95. Effect of Recordation of Mortgage, Deed of Trust, or Other Instrument of Real and Personal Property 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

§ 46-5-99. Extension of Telephone Service Into State by Foreign Nonprofit or Cooperative Corporations; Secretary of State as Agent for Foreign Corporations; Rights and Powers of Foreign Corporations

§ 46-5-100. Fees

§ 46-5-101. Annual License Fee; Exemption of Cooperatives From Taxation

§ 46-5-102. Interconnection of Lines, Facilities, or Systems of Cooperatives and Other Telephone Companies

§ 46-5-103. Jurisdiction of Commission

§ 46-5-104. Applicability of Chapter 5 of Title 10

§ 46-5-105. Construction of Part