Section effective August 1, 2020. See, also, Section 33-49-620 effective until August 1, 2020.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the bylaws may provide that the territory in which a cooperative supplies electric energy to its members shall be divided into two or more voting districts and that, in respect of each voting district:
(1) a designated number of trustees must be elected by the members residing therein;
(2) a designated number of delegates must be elected by the members; or
(3) both trustees and delegates must be elected by the members.
The bylaws shall prescribe the manner in which such voting districts, the members of them and the delegates and trustees, if any, elected from them shall function and the powers of the delegates, which may include the power to elect trustees. A member at a voting district meeting and a delegate at a meeting shall vote in person, at the meeting or an alternative early voting site.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-1042; 1952 Code Section 12-1042; 1942 Code Section 8555-100; 1939 (41) 240; 2019 Act No. 56 (H.3145), Section 5.C, eff August 1, 2020.
Editor's Note
2019 Act No. 56, Section 16, provides as follows:
"SECTION 16. Where the provisions of new or revised 1976 Code sections or subsections contained in this act conflict with provisions of the bylaws of an electric cooperative, the provisions of this act control and the cooperative, as permitted by Section 33-49-280, shall amend and conform its bylaw provisions accordingly."
Effect of Amendment
2019 Act No. 56, Section 5.C, rewrote the section, providing the procedures for early voting.
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