Code of Alabama - Title 10A: Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code - Section 10A-11-1.08 - Voting power; amendment or repeal of bylaws; protection of stockholders

Section 10A-11-1.08 - Voting power; amendment or repeal of bylaws; protection of stockholders.

(a) No capital stock other than membership shares shall be given voting power in an employee cooperative, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the power to amend or repeal bylaws of an employee cooperative shall be vested in the members only.

(c) Amendments adversely affecting the rights of members may not be adopted without the vote of the members, except that the protection of this subsection may be extended to stockholders in the case of employee cooperative corporations that have not elected to operate as an internal capital account cooperative.

(Act 97-949, p. 524, §8; §10-14-8; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §312.)

Last modified: May 3, 2021