Title 10 – Corporations and Associations

Chapter 19 – Not for Profit Corporations and associations, Cooperatives and Fraternal and Benevolent societies

Article 2 – Electric Cooperative Nonprofit Membership Corporations

• A. The board of directors of a cooperative, without authorization by the members of the cooperative, may authorize the execution and delivery of mortgages or deeds of trust pledging or encumbering any or all of the property, assets, rights, privileges, licenses, franchises and permits of the cooperative, whether acquired or to be acquired, and wherever situated, as well as the revenues therefrom, all upon such terms and conditions as the board of directors determines, to secure any indebtedness of the cooperative. Any such mortgages or deeds of trust shall be exempt from the mortgage recording tax.
• B. A cooperative may not sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or a substantial portion of its property unless the sale, lease or other disposition is authorized by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of those members of the cooperative present at the meeting of the members.