Part 3 - RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVES

Section 46-5-60 - Short title
Section 46-5-61 - Declaration of purpose
Section 46-5-62 - Definitions
Section 46-5-63 - Powers of cooperatives generally
Section 46-5-64 - Power of superior court to create cooperatives, to approve amendments to their articles of incorporation, conversion, consolidation, merger, or dissolution
Section 46-5-64.1 - Venue determinations
Section 46-5-65 - Names of cooperatives
Section 46-5-66 - Incorporators
Section 46-5-67 - Contents of articles of incorporation; signing and acknowledgment; recitation of purpose and powers; statements regarding issuance of nonvoting shares of stock
Section 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
Section 46-5-69 - Approval of articles by judicial order; application as constituting charter of cooperative
Section 46-5-70 - Filing of articles with clerk of court
Section 46-5-71 - Submittal to clerk of publisher's affidavit
Section 46-5-72 - Time of advertisement of articles; appearance of advertisements prior to granting of charter
Section 46-5-73 - Duty of clerk to deliver to applicants certified copies of articles and of order thereon
Section 46-5-74 - Filing of copies of articles and order with Secretary of State; payment of fee
Section 46-5-75 - Certificate of Secretary of State
Section 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
Section 46-5-77 - Time of corporate existence of cooperative
Section 46-5-78 - Bylaws of cooperative generally
Section 46-5-79 - Qualifications for membership in cooperative; certificate of membership; share certificates; payment for shares of stock
Section 46-5-80 - Meetings of members - Generally
Section 46-5-81 - Meetings of members - Waiver of notice
Section 46-5-82 - Board of directors
Section 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
Section 46-5-84 - Officers of cooperative
Section 46-5-85 - Amendment of articles of incorporation
Section 46-5-86 - Change of location of principal office
Section 46-5-87 - Consolidation of cooperatives
Section 46-5-88 - Merger of cooperatives
Section 46-5-89 - Effect of consolidation or merger
Section 46-5-90 - Conversion of telephone corporation into a cooperative; consolidation of telephone corporations into a cooperative
Section 46-5-91 - Dissolution of cooperatives
Section 46-5-92 - Operation of cooperatives on nonprofit basis; contents of bylaws and of contracts with members and patrons regarding nonprofit operation
Section 46-5-92.1 - Payment of revenues; priority of payments
Section 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
Section 46-5-94 - Liability of members and shareholders for debts of cooperative
Section 46-5-95 - Effect of recordation of mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument of real and personal property of cooperative
Section 46-5-96 - Construction standards
Section 46-5-97 - Limitation of actions
Section 46-5-98 - Taking of acknowledgments by officers, trustees, members, or shareholders of cooperatives
Section 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
Section 46-5-100 - Fees
Section 46-5-101 - Annual license fee; exemption of cooperatives from taxation
Section 46-5-102 - Interconnection of lines, facilities, or systems of cooperatives and other telephone companies
Section 46-5-103 - Jurisdiction of commission
Section 46-5-104 - Applicability of Chapter 5 of Title 10
Section 46-5-105 - Construction of part