Section 162.071 - Board of Directors(a) A board of at least five directors shall manage the business of a telephone cooperative. Each director must be a member of the cooperative. The bylaws must prescribe the number of directors and their qualifications other than those prescribed by this chapter.(b) The board may exercise any power of a telephone cooperative not conferred on the members by this chapter or by the cooperative's articles of incorporation or bylaws.Tex. Util. Code § 162.071
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.