Section 10-14-8 Voting powers; amendment or repeal of bylaws; protection of stockholders. - Alabama Statutes

Section 10-14-8

Voting powers; 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.)