RCW 23.78.070
Net earnings or losses—Apportionment, distribution, and payment.
(1) The net earnings or losses of an employee cooperative shall be apportioned and distributed at the times and in the manner as the articles of incorporation or bylaws shall specify. Net earnings declared as patronage allocations with respect to a period of time, and paid or credited to members, shall be apportioned among the members in accordance with the ratio which each member's patronage during the period involved bears to total patronage by all members during that period.
(2) The apportionment, distribution, and payment of net earnings required by subsection (1) of this section may be in cash, credits, written notices of allocation, or capital stock issued by the employee cooperative.
[ 1987 c 457 § 8.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)
Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.
23.78.020 - Election by corporation to be governed as an employee cooperative—Laws governing.
23.78.030 - Revocation of election.
23.78.050 - Members—Membership shares.
23.78.060 - Right to vote—Power to amend or repeal bylaws—Right to amend articles of incorporation.
23.78.070 - Net earnings or losses—Apportionment, distribution, and payment.
23.78.090 - Internal capital account cooperatives.
23.78.100 - Provision for conversion of shares and accounts—Limitations upon merger.