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SC Code § 33-45-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-100. Organization and election of directors.

 When not less than fifty per cent of the proposed capital stock shall have been subscribed by bona fide subscribers the board of incorporators shall call all the subscribers together. At such meeting of the subscribers, if a majority of them shall be present in person or by proxy, the subscribers shall proceed to the organization of the association by the election from themselves of a board of directors not less than five nor more than nine in number, each subscriber having one vote and no more.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-810; 1952 Code Section 12-810; 1942 Code Section 8142; 1932 Code Section 8142; Civ. C. '22 Section 4336; 1915 (29) 235; 1938 (40) 1665.
SC Code § 33-45-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-110. Management of affairs of corporation; removal of directors or officers.

 This board of directors shall manage the affairs of the association for such term of office as the bylaws may prescribe and until their successors shall have been elected and shall have qualified and entered upon the discharge of their duties. But a majority of the stockholders at a meeting legally called according to the bylaws of the association may remove any director or officer for cause and fill the vacancy and thereupon the director or officer so removed shall cease to be a director or officer of the association.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-811; 1952 Code Section 12-811; 1942 Code Section 8142; 1932 Code Section 8142; Civ. C. '22 Section 4336; 1915 (29) 235; 1938 (40) 1665.
SC Code § 33-45-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-120. Officers.

 The officers of every such association shall be a president, a secretary and a treasurer or a secretary-treasurer combined, who shall be elected annually by the directors. Each of said officers must be a director of the association. The treasurer or secretary-treasurer shall give such bond as the board of directors may require.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-812; 1952 Code Section 12-812; 1942 Code Section 8142; 1932 Code Section 8142; Civ. C. '22 Section 4336; 1915 (29) 235; 1938 (40) 1665.
SC Code § 33-45-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-130. Calls for payment of subscriptions.

 The board of directors shall call for the payment of the subscriptions to the capital either in whole or in such installments as it may see fit.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-813; 1952 Code Section 12-813; 1942 Code Section 8142; 1932 Code Section 8142; Civ. C. '22 Section 4336; 1915 (29) 235; 1938 (40) 1665.
SC Code § 33-45-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-140. Issuance of certificate of charter; recordation.

 Upon the payment to the treasurer or the secretary-treasurer of the association of at least twenty per cent of the aggregate amount of the capital subscribed payable in money and also upon the delivery of at least twenty per cent of the property subscribed to the aggregate amount of the capital stock or upon its delivery being secured by such obligations of the subscribers as the board of directors may approve, the board of directors shall, over their own signatures, certify to the Secretary of State that all the requirements for the formation of the corporation have been complied with. Upon the filing of this return by the directors and the payment of the required fee for filing such return and upon the receipt of the charter fee as now provided by law the Secretary of State shall issue to the board of incorporators a certificate of charter authorizing the association to commence business under the name and for the purposes indicated in the written declaration. The certificate of charter granted by the Secretary of State shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds or the clerk for the county in which such association shall have a business office. The board of incorporators shall turn over to the proper officers of the association all subscriptions, lists or other papers which they have taken as incorporators and all such papers shall be as valid as if taken and made by the corporation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-814; 1952 Code Section 12-814; 1942 Code Section 8143; 1932 Code Section 8143; Civ. C. '22 Section 4337; 1915 (29) 235.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 33-45-145 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-145. Amendment of articles of incorporation.

 A cooperative may amend its articles of incorporation by complying with the following requirements:  (1) The proposed amendment shall be first approved by the board of directors and shall then be submitted to a vote of the members at any annual or special meeting thereof. Notice of the proposed amendments shall be mailed to each member not less than ten days prior to the meeting at which it shall be voted upon. The proposed amendment, with such changes as the members shall choose to make therein, shall be deemed to be approved on the affirmative vote of not less than two thirds of those members voting thereon at such annual or special meeting.  (2) Upon such approval by the members, articles of amendment shall be executed and acknowledged on behalf of the cooperative by its president or vice-president and its corporate seal shall be affixed thereto and attested by its secretary. The articles of amendment shall recite in the caption that they are executed pursuant to this chapter and shall state  (a) the name of the cooperative,  (b) the address of its principal office,  (c) the date of the filing of its articles of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State and  (d) the amendment to its articles of incorporation.  The president or vice-president executing such articles of amendment shall also make and annex thereto an affidavit stating that the provisions of this section were duly complied with. Such articles of amendment and affidavit shall be submitted to the Secretary of State for filing as provided in this chapter.  As used in this section "articles of incorporation" also means "certificate of charter" as used elsewhere in this chapter.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 48.
SC Code § 33-45-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-150. Powers of association.

 Each association created under this chapter may conduct any agricultural, dairy, mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical business on the cooperative plan and may buy, sell and deal in the products of any other cooperative company organized under the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-815; 1952 Code Section 12-815; 1942 Code Section 8144; 1932 Code Section 8144; Civ. C. '22 Section 4338; 1915 (29) 235.
SC Code § 33-45-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-160. Investment in other cooperative.

 At any regular meeting or at any duly called special meeting at which at least a majority of all its stockholders shall be present an association organized under this chapter may, by a majority vote of those present, authorize the investment of its reserve fund or any part thereof or of not to exceed twenty-five per cent of its capital in the capital stock of any other cooperative association.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-816; 1952 Code Section 12-816; 1942 Code Section 8145; 1932 Code Section 8145; Civ. C. '22 Section 4339; 1915 (29) 235.
SC Code § 33-45-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-170. Membership in cotton cooperative.

 A person shall become a member of a cotton cooperative association organized or domesticated under the laws of this State only when the membership contract shall be in duplicate, shall state the time of the duration of such contract and shall be signed both by the member and the association. The signature of any person on a draft or check containing conditions which purport to make a person a member of a cotton cooperative association as a prerequisite to obtaining money on any draft or check given to him for any cotton which he has sold or pledged to any cotton cooperative association shall not be construed as making such person a member of the association, even though he has signed or endorsed the check or draft. Any person violating any of the terms of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not less than thirty days and not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. Each violation of any provision of this section shall be deemed a separate offense.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-817; 1952 Code Section 12-817; 1942 Code Section 8149-1; 1937 (40) 540.
SC Code § 33-45-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-180. Apportionment of earnings.

 The directors of each association organized under this chapter, subject to revisions by the association at any general or duly called special meeting, shall apportion the earnings of the business in the following manner:  (1) They shall declare and pay dividends on the paid-up capital stock not exceeding six per cent per annum, such dividends to be paid at such time as the bylaws shall prescribe;  (2) They shall set aside annually not less than ten per cent of the net profits of the association for a reserve fund until there is accumulated in said reserve fund an amount not less than thirty per cent of the paid-up capital stock;  (3) They shall appropriate five per cent of the net profits for an educational fund to be used in teaching cooperation; and  (4) The remainder of such net profits shall be applied as a uniform dividend, as follows  (a) one half of such uniform dividend upon the amount of purchases of shareholders and upon the wages of employees and  (b) one half of such uniform dividend to nonshareholders on the amount of their purchases from and through the association, which may be credited to the account of such nonshareholder on account of the capital stock of the association.  But in productive associations, such as creameries, canneries, elevators, factories and the like, such dividends shall be on the raw material delivered instead of on goods purchased.  In case the association is both a selling and a productive concern the dividend may be on both raw material delivered and on goods purchased by patrons.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-818; 1952 Code Section 12-818; 1942 Code Section 8146; 1932 Code Section 8146; Civ. C. '22 Section 4340; 1915 (29) 235.
SC Code § 33-45-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-190. Annual report to Commissioner of Agriculture.

 Every association organized under the terms of this chapter shall, annually on or before the first day of January each year, make a report to the Commissioner of Agriculture. Such report shall contain:  (1) The name of the association;  (2) Its principal place of business; and  (3) Generally a statement as to its business showing  (a) total amount of business transacted,  (b) amount of capital stock subscribed for and paid in,  (c) number and names of stockholders,  (d) total expenses of operation,  (e) amount of indebtedness or liabilities and  (f) its profits and losses.  This annual report to the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be for his confidential information.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-819; 1952 Code Section 12-819; 1942 Code Section 8147; 1932 Code Section 8147; Civ. C. '22 Section 4341; 1915 (29) 235; 1936 (39) 1615; 1941 (42) 119.
SC Code § 33-45-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 45 - Cooperative Associations Generally|Section 33-45-200. Other associations may accept benefits of chapter.

 All cooperative corporations, associations or companies which were organized and doing business under the corporation statutes of this State or had attempted so to organize and so to do business prior to March 21, 1915 shall have the benefit of all the provisions of this chapter and shall be bound thereby on filing with the Secretary of State a written declaration signed and sworn to by the president and secretary to the effect that such cooperative company or association has, by a majority vote of its stockholders, decided to accept the benefits of, and to be bound by, the provisions of this chapter. No association organized under this chapter shall be required to do or to perform anything not specially required herein in order to become a corporation or to continue its business as such.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-820; 1952 Code Section 12-820; 1942 Code Section 8148; 1932 Code Section 8148; Civ. C. '22 Section 4342; 1915 (29) 235.
SC Code § 33-46-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Telephone Cooperative Act".  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-20. Definitions.

 In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:  (1) "Person" means any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision, or agency thereof, or any body politic.  (2) "Member" means each incorporator of a cooperative and each person admitted to and retaining membership therein and includes a husband and wife admitted to joint membership.  (3) "Articles of incorporation" means the articles of conversion of a corporation converted to a telephone cooperative pursuant to Article 8 of this chapter.  (4) "Telephone cooperative" means a corporation which is financed, now or formerly, in whole or in part by the Department of Agriculture made under the provisions of the Rural Electric Act of 1936, Title 26, Section 922 of the United States Code, and acts amendatory thereto for the purposes of owning or operating in this State equipment or facilities for the transmission of intelligence through a communication service system including, but not limited to, telephone services, mobile radio, and cable television on a cooperative basis as is tax exempt pursuant to Internal Revenue Service Code 501(c)(12) or an association of like corporations exempt from tax pursuant to 501(c)(6), or operated under a cooperative basis pursuant to Subchapter T of the Internal Revenue Code and originally incorporated pursuant to Title 33, Chapter 45 of the South Carolina Code of Laws or this chapter.  (5) "Telephone service" means the providing of communication service including, but not limited to, the transmission of voice, sounds, signals, pictures, writing, or signs of all kinds through the use of electricity or the electromagnetic spectrum between the transmitting and receiving apparatus, together with any communication services requiring band-width capacity, community antenna, and cable television services and including all lines, wires, radio, lights, electromagnetic impulse and all facilities, systems, or other means used in the rendition of such services, but not including message telegram service or radio broadcasting services or facilities within the meaning of Section 3(o) of the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47 USC Section 153(o)).  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-30. Notice of meeting; waiver.

 Whenever any notice is required to be given under the provisions of this chapter or under the provisions of the articles of incorporation or bylaws of a telephone cooperative, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person entitled to such notice, must be deemed equivalent to such notice. If a person entitled to notice of a meeting attends such meeting, the attendance constitutes a waiver of notice of the meeting, except in cases where the attendance is for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting was not lawfully called or convened. If the articles of incorporation or bylaws prescribe notice requirements not inconsistent with this section or other provisions of this chapter, those requirements govern. Notice may be in such forms as prescribed by Section 33-1-410(b). Written notice is effective when mailed, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed to members or officers as shown in the records of the telephone cooperative. Oral notice is effective when communicated in a comprehensive manner.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-40. Subject to jurisdiction of Public Service Commission; rights and privileges.

 Telephone cooperatives transacting business in this State pursuant to this chapter are subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission of this State for such portions of their activities as are regulated by Title 58, Chapter 9 and have all rights and privileges granted a telephone utility as defined by Section 58-9-10(6).  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-50. Title 35 not applicable to indebtedness.

 The provisions of Chapter 1 of Title 35 do not apply to any note, bond, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by a telephone cooperative transacting business pursuant to this chapter, to the United States of America, any agency or instrumentality thereof, or to any mortgage or deed of trust excluded to secure the same. The provisions of that title do not apply to the issuance of shares or membership certificates by any telephone cooperative.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-60. Construction of chapter.

 This chapter must be construed liberally. The enumeration of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, or thing must not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-70. No repeal of provisions by implication.

 The provisions of this chapter are not intended to be repealed by implication. Should they be in conflict with other provisions of the Code of Laws, the provisions of this chapter prevail.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-80. Subject to tax laws for cooperatives.

 Each telephone cooperative transacting business in the State is subject to the tax laws as written or thereafter amended for cooperatives organized pursuant to Title 33, Chapter 45.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-90. Filing of articles of incorporation, amendments, consolidations, mergers, conversions, or dissolutions and certificates of elections.

 Articles of incorporation, amendments, consolidations, mergers, conversions, or dissolutions and certificates of election to dissolve and affidavits of compliance, as the case may be, when executed and acknowledged and accompanied by such affidavits as may be required by the provisions of this chapter, must be presented to the Secretary of State for filing in the records of that office. If the Secretary of State's office finds that the articles presented conform to the requirements of this chapter, it shall, upon payment of fees as prescribed in Section 33-1-220, file the articles so presented in the records of the office, and, upon such filing, the incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion, or dissolution provided for therein is in effect.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-100. Rights, privileges, and responsibilities.

 Telephone cooperatives transacting business in the State have such rights, privileges, and responsibilities as specified in Sections 33-1-240, 33-1-250, 33-1-260, 33-1-270, and 33-1-280.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-210. Purpose.

 Telephone cooperative nonprofit membership corporations may be organized under this chapter for the purpose of rendering communication and information services and for such other and further acquisitions, construction, and extensions as may be reasonably necessary and expedient for the proper control and operation of said communication and/or information system.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.
SC Code § 33-46-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 46 - Telephone Cooperative Act|Section 33-46-220. Organization.

 Five or more natural persons or two or more telephone cooperatives may organize a telephone cooperative in the manner hereinafter provided.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 392, Section 1.