South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act
Section 33-46-600. Requirements for amending articles of incorporation.

A telephone cooperative may amend its articles of incorporation by complying with the following requirements:
(1) The proposed amendment must be first approved by the board of directors and must then be submitted to a vote of the members at any annual or special meeting thereof, the notice of which shall set forth the proposed amendment. The proposed amendment, with such changes as the members shall choose to make therein, must be considered approved on the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of those members voting thereon at the meeting.
(2) Upon such approval by the members, articles of amendment must be executed and acknowledged on behalf of the telephone cooperative by the directors carrying out the duties performed generally by the president or vice president and its corporate seal must be affixed thereto and attested by the director carrying out the duties of secretary. The articles of amendment shall recite in the caption that they are executed pursuant to this chapter and shall state:
(a) the name of the telephone cooperative;
(b) the address of the principal office;
(c) the date of the filing of its articles of incorporation in the Office of the Secretary of State; and
(d) the amendment to its articles of incorporation.
The officers executing the articles of amendment shall also make and annex thereto an affidavit stating that the provisions of this section were complied with. The articles of amendment and affidavit must be submitted to the Secretary of State for filing as provided in this chapter.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.

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