Georgia Code
Article 2 - Telephone Service
Part 3 - Rural Telephone Cooperatives

§ 46-5-60. Short Title - This part may be cited as the “Rural Telephone Cooperative...

§ 46-5-61. Declaration of Purpose - Cooperative nonprofit corporations may be organized under this part for...

§ 46-5-62. Definitions - As used in this part, the term: (.1) “Broadband affiliate”...

§ 46-5-63. Powers of Cooperatives Generally - A cooperative shall have power: (4.1) To furnish, improve, and...

§ 46-5-64. Power of Superior Court to Create Cooperatives, to Approve Amendments to Their Articles of Incorporation, Conversion, Consolidation, Merger, or Dissolution - The superior court shall have power, by compliance with this...

§ 46-5-64.1. Venue Determinations - History. Code 1981, § 46-5-64.1 , enacted by Ga. L....

§ 46-5-65. Names of Cooperatives - it shall appear that the cooperative desires to do business...

§ 46-5-66. Incorporators - Five or more persons, including cooperatives, may organize a cooperative...

§ 46-5-67. Contents of Articles of Incorporation; Signing and Acknowledgment; Recitation of Purpose and Powers; Statements Regarding Issuance of Nonvoting Shares of Stock - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 8.

§ 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 - The articles of incorporation, executed and acknowledged in accordance with...

§ 46-5-69. Approval of Articles by Judicial Order; Application as Constituting Charter of Cooperative - Upon presentation of the articles of incorporation to the superior...

§ 46-5-70. Filing of Articles With Clerk of Court - The applicants shall file the application, including the articles of...

§ 46-5-71. Submittal to Clerk of Publisher’s Affidavit - The applicants shall submit to the clerk, along with the...

§ 46-5-72. Time of Advertisement of Articles; Appearance of Advertisements Prior to Granting of Charter - The first of said advertisements shall appear within one week...

§ 46-5-73. Duty of Clerk to Deliver to Applicants Certified Copies of Articles and of Order Thereon - Upon the filing of the articles of incorporation and the...

§ 46-5-74. Filing of Copies of Articles and Order With Secretary of State; Payment of Fee - Upon receiving the two certified copies of the articles of...

§ 46-5-75. Certificate of Secretary of State - The Secretary of State shall thereupon attach to one of...

§ 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 - Such certified copies of the charter, together with the certificate...

§ 46-5-77. Time of Corporate Existence of Cooperative - The corporate existence of the cooperative shall begin at the...

§ 46-5-78. Bylaws of Cooperative Generally - The board of directors shall adopt the first bylaws of...

§ 46-5-79. Qualifications for Membership in Cooperative; Certificate of Membership; Share Certificates; Payment for Shares of Stock - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 20.

§ 46-5-80. Meetings of Members — Generally - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 21.

§ 46-5-81. Meetings of Members — Waiver of Notice - Any person entitled to notice of a meeting may waive...

§ 46-5-82. Board of Directors - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 23.

§ 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 - The bylaws may provide for the division of the territory...

§ 46-5-84. Officers of Cooperative - The officers of a cooperative shall consist of a president,...

§ 46-5-85. Amendment of Articles of Incorporation - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 26.

§ 46-5-86. Change of Location of Principal Office - A cooperative may, upon authorization of its members or board...

§ 46-5-87. Consolidation of Cooperatives - Any two or more cooperatives (each of which is designated...

§ 46-5-88. Merger of Cooperatives - Any one or more cooperatives (each of which is designated...

§ 46-5-89. Effect of Consolidation or Merger - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 30.

§ 46-5-90. Conversion of Telephone Corporation Into a Cooperative; Consolidation of Telephone Corporations Into a Cooperative - In addition, the articles of conversion may contain any provisions,...

§ 46-5-91. Dissolution of Cooperatives - The judge shall examine into the facts, and if he...

§ 46-5-92. Operation of Cooperatives on Nonprofit Basis; Contents of Bylaws and of Contracts With Members and Patrons Regarding Nonprofit Operation - A cooperative shall be operated on a nonprofit basis for...

§ 46-5-92.1. Payment of Revenues; Priority of Payments - History. Code 1981, § 46-5-92.1 , enacted by Ga. L....

§ 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 - History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 192, § 34.

§ 46-5-94. Liability of Members and Shareholders for Debts of Cooperative - No member or shareholder shall be liable or responsible for...

§ 46-5-95. Effect of Recordation of Mortgage, Deed of Trust, or Other Instrument of Real and Personal Property of Cooperative - Any mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument executed by...

§ 46-5-96. Construction Standards - Construction of telephone lines and facilities by a cooperative shall,...

§ 46-5-97. Limitation of Actions - All rights of action accruing against any cooperative or any...

§ 46-5-98. Taking of Acknowledgments by Officers, Trustees, Members, or Shareholders of Cooperatives - No person who is authorized to take acknowledgments under the...

§ 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 - Any foreign nonprofit or cooperative corporation furnishing or authorized to...

§ 46-5-100. Fees - Each cooperative shall be charged by the Secretary of State...

§ 46-5-101. Annual License Fee; Exemption of Cooperatives From Taxation - Each cooperative and each foreign corporation doing business in this...

§ 46-5-102. Interconnection of Lines, Facilities, or Systems of Cooperatives and Other Telephone Companies - The lines, facilities, or systems of any cooperative or foreign...

§ 46-5-103. Jurisdiction of Commission - Cooperatives and foreign corporations doing business in this state pursuant...

§ 46-5-104. Applicability of Chapter 5 of Title 10 - Chapter 5 of Title 10 shall not apply to any...

§ 46-5-105. Construction of Part - This part is complete in itself and shall be controlling....