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GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
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Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION |
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Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE |
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Article 2. TELEPHONE SERVICE |
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Part 3. RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVES |
| § 46-5-60. Short title |
| § 46-5-61. Declaration of purpose |
| § 46-5-62. Definitions |
| § 46-5-63. Powers of cooperatives generally |
| § 46-5-64. Power of superior court to create cooperatives, to approve amendments to their articles of incorporation, conversion, consolidation, merger, or dissolution |
| § 46-5-65. Names of cooperatives |
| § 46-5-66. Incorporators |
| § 46-5-67. Contents of articles of incorporation; signing and acknowledgment; recitation of purpose and powers; statements regarding issuance of nonvoting shares of stock |
| § 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 |
| § 46-5-69. Approval of articles by judicial order; application as constituting charter of cooperative |
| § 46-5-70. Filing of articles with clerk of court |
| § 46-5-71. Submittal to clerk of publisher's affidavit |
| § 46-5-72. Time of advertisement of articles; appearance of advertisements prior to granting of charter |
| § 46-5-73. Duty of clerk to deliver to applicants certified copies of articles and of order thereon |
| § 46-5-74. Filing of copies of articles and order with Secretary of State; payment of fee |
| § 46-5-75. Certificate of Secretary of State |
| § 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 |
| § 46-5-77. Time of corporate existence of cooperative |
| § 46-5-78. Bylaws of cooperative generally |
| § 46-5-79. Qualifications for membership in cooperative; certificate of membership; share certificates; payment for shares of stock |
| § 46-5-80. Meetings of members -- Generally |
| § 46-5-81. Meetings of members -- Waiver of notice |
| § 46-5-82. Board of directors |
| § 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 |
| § 46-5-84. Officers of cooperative |
| § 46-5-85. Amendment of articles of incorporation |
| § 46-5-86. Change of location of principal office |
| § 46-5-87. Consolidation of cooperatives |
| § 46-5-88. Merger of cooperatives |
| § 46-5-89. Effect of consolidation or merger |
| § 46-5-90. Conversion of telephone corporation into a cooperative; consolidation of telephone corporations into a cooperative |
| § 46-5-91. Dissolution of cooperatives |
| § 46-5-92. Operation of cooperatives on nonprofit basis; contents of bylaws and of contracts with members and patrons regarding nonprofit operation |
| § 46-5-94. Liability of members and shareholders for debts of cooperative |
| § 46-5-95. Effect of recordation of mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument of real and personal property of cooperative |
| § 46-5-96. Construction standards |
| § 46-5-97. Limitation of actions |
| § 46-5-98. Taking of acknowledgments by officers, trustees, members, or shareholders of cooperatives |
| § 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 |
| § 46-5-100. Fees |
| § 46-5-101. Annual license fee; exemption of cooperatives from taxation |
| § 46-5-102. Interconnection of lines, facilities, or systems of cooperatives and other telephone companies |
| § 46-5-103. Jurisdiction of commission |
| § 46-5-104. Applicability of Chapter 5 of Title 10 |
| § 46-5-105. Construction of part |