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NH Rev Stat § 296:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 296 - Dividend-Paying Corporations|Section 296:43 - Recovery From Corporation.

    296:43 Recovery From Corporation. –||Any officer of a corporation, who shall have paid a debt or liability of the corporation for which he is made liable by the provisions of this subdivision, may recover the amount so paid in a bill against the corporation; but he shall have no claim against the stockholders individually therefor.|||Source. RS 141:30. CS 149:30. GS 135:21. GL 149:21. PS 150:22. PL 228:15. RL 277:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:1 - Franchises.

    299:1 Franchises. –||A corporation which may lawfully mortgage its property may also include its franchises in such mortgage.|||Source. 1905, 61:1. PL 230:1. RL 279:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:2 - After-Acquired Property.

    299:2 After-Acquired Property. –||Except as otherwise provided, corporate mortgage security for bonded or other indebtedness may include after-acquired property of the following classes: Real estate, franchises, fixtures, machinery and rolling stock.|||Source. 1901, 66:1. 1905, 111:1. PL 230:2. RSA 299:2. 1959, 247:2, eff. July 1, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:3 - Effect.

    299:3 Effect. –||Such mortgage of after-acquired property shall not affect any builders' or other lien.|||Source. 1901, 66:1. 1905, 111:1. PL 230:3. RL 279:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:4 - Foreclosure Sales; Franchises.

    299:4 Foreclosure Sales;  Franchises. –||The foreclosure of a mortgage of any corporation organized under the laws of this state shall inure to the benefit of the holders of bonds, coupons and other claims secured thereby, and whenever the franchises of the corporation are included in the mortgage with power of sale and foreclosure is made by decree of court, and the property, rights and franchises are sold thereunder, the purchasers of the property, rights and franchises of such corporation, their successors and assigns, shall be a corporation as of the date of foreclosure for all purposes, and they are vested with all the rights, powers, privileges, duties and liabilities of the original corporation under its charter or the general law.|||Source. 1895, 52:1. PL 230:4. RL 279:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:5 - Conveyance by Trustee.

    299:5 Conveyance by Trustee. –||The trustee under such mortgage may, by auction sale, convey to said purchaser or to said new corporation all the right, title and interest under the mortgage and by virtue of the foreclosure thereof, and thereupon said trustees shall be discharged.|||Source. 1895, 52:1. PL 230:5. RL 279:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:6 - First Meeting.

    299:6 First Meeting. –||The new corporation may call its first meeting in the manner provided for calling the first meeting of the original corporation, or any such purchaser may call the same by publication in some newspaper published in the city of Concord.|||Source. 1895, 52:2. PL 230:6. RL 279:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 299:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 299 - Corporate Mortgages and Reorganization After Foreclosure|Section 299:7 - Powers.

    299:7 Powers. –||It may use the old corporate name, or adopt a new one, by which it shall thereafter be known; may issue capital stock, as the directors may determine, in an amount not exceeding the purchase price at the foreclosure sale; shall file a certificate with the secretary of state, signed by its treasurer and a majority of its directors, setting forth the sale under foreclosure proceedings, the amount of capital as fixed at the first meeting and the corporate name adopted.|||Source. 1895, 52:2. PL 230:7. RL 279:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:1 - Definitions.

    301:1 Definitions. –||Terms used in this chapter have the following meaning:||I. Agricultural products includes horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, live stock, poultry, bee, and any farm products.||II. Member includes actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock.||III. Association means any corporation organized under this chapter.||IV. Person includes individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, and associations.||V. Associations organized hereunder shall be deemed nonprofit.|||Source. 1925, 33:1. PL 224:1. RL 273:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:2 - Incorporators.

    301:2 Incorporators. –||Five or more persons, a majority of whom are residents of this state, engaged in the production of agricultural products, may form a nonprofit, cooperative association, with or without capital stock, under the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1925, 33:2. PL 224:2. RL 273:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:4 - Organization Certificate.

    301:4 Organization Certificate. –||Before commencing business, the president, treasurer, and a majority of the directors shall prepare and file a certificate of organization, setting forth:||I. The name of the association.||II. The purposes for which it is formed.||III. The place where its principal business will be transacted.||IV. The number, names, and addresses of the directors thereof, and their term of office.||V. The name and residence of the clerk.||VI. If organized without capital stock, the voting privileges of members if otherwise than one vote to each member, whether the property rights and interests of the members are equal, and, if unequal, the general rules applicable to all members by which the property rights and interests, respectively, of each member shall be determined and fixed, and provision for the admission of new members who shall be entitled to share in the property of the association in accordance with such general rules. This provision or paragraph of the certificate of organization shall not be altered, amended, or replaced except by the written consent or vote representing 3/4 of the members.||VII. If organized with capital stock, the amount of such stock, the number of shares into which it is divided, and whether such stock be with or without nominal or par value; if such stock be with nominal or par value, the par value thereof and if such stock be without nominal or par value, every share of such stock shall be equal to every other such share except as may be provided in the vote authorizing the issue thereof; the voting privileges of stockholders, if otherwise than one vote to each stockholder, and the consideration for which capital stock is issued in accordance with the provisions of RSA 293-A.||VIII. The capital stock may be divided into preferred and one or more classes of common stock. If so divided, the certificate of organization shall contain a statement of the number of shares of stock to which preference is granted, the number of shares of stock to which no preference is granted, and the nature and definite extent of the preference and privileges granted to each.||IX. The certificate shall be subscribed by the president and a majority of the directors and sworn to by them; and shall, after being approved by the attorney general or assistant attorney general, be filed with the secretary of state. A certified copy shall also be filed with the commissioner of agriculture, markets, and food.||X. When so filed the said certificate of organization, or a certified copy thereof, shall be received in the courts of the state as prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein and of the due incorporation of such association.|||Source. 1925, 33:6; 142:3. PL 224:4. 1931, 10:1, 2. 1939, 93:1. RL 273:4. RSA 301:4. 1995, 130:5. 2004, 248:21, eff. July 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:5 - Amendments to Certificate.

    301:5 Amendments to Certificate. –||An association may amend its certificate of organization by the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members voting thereon at any regular meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, or if the association permits its members to vote on the basis of patronage, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members and of 2/3 of the patronage, voting thereon. A written or printed notice of the proposed amendment and of the time and place of holding such meetings shall be delivered to each member, or mailed to his last known address as shown by the books of the association, at least 30 days prior to any such meetings. No amendment affecting the preferential rights of any outstanding stock shall be adopted until the written consent of the holders of 2/3 of the outstanding preference shares has been obtained. Amendments to the certificate of organization, when so adopted, shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section.|||Source. 1925, 33:7. PL 224:5. RL 273:5. 1945, 150:1, eff. May 9, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:6 - Fees for Filing.

    301:6 Fees for Filing. –||For filing a certificate of organization, an association shall pay $25 to the secretary of state; and for filing an amendment thereto, $25.|||Source. 1925, 33:30. PL 224:6. RL 273:6. 1949, 265:2. 2004, 248:22, eff. July 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:7 - Qualifications.

    301:7 Qualifications. –||Under the terms and conditions prescribed in its bylaws, an association may admit as members, or issue common stock to, only cooperative marketing associations or persons engaged in the production of the agricultural products to be handled by or through the association, including the lessees and tenants of land used therefor and any lessors and landlords who receive any part of the agricultural products produced on the leased premises or of the sale price of such products as rent, or persons engaged in the production of agricultural products who purchase or hire from such association supplies, machinery or equipment for use in connection with the production or marketing of agricultural products.|||Source. 1925, 33:5. PL 224:7. 1933, 73:2. RL 273:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:8 - Associations.

    301:8 Associations. –||An association organized hereunder may become a member or stockholder of any other association or associations so organized.|||Source. 1925, 33:5. PL 224:8. RL 273:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:9 - Representation.

    301:9 Representation. –||If a member of a nonstock association be other than a natural person, such member may be represented by any individual, associate, officer, manager or member thereof, duly authorized in writing.|||Source. 1925, 33:5. PL 224:9. RL 273:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:10 - Adoption.

    301:10 Adoption. –||Each association shall, within 30 days after its organization, adopt for its government and management, a code of bylaws, not inconsistent with the powers granted hereby. A majority vote of the members or stockholders, or their written assent, is necessary to adopt such bylaws.|||Source. 1925, 33:8. PL 224:10. RL 273:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:11 - Subject Matter.

    301:11 Subject Matter. –||Each association may provide in its bylaws for any or all of the following matters:||I. The time, place and manner of calling and conducting its meetings.||II. The number of stockholders or members constituting a quorum.||III. The right of members or stockholders to vote by representation or by mail or by both; and the conditions, manner, form, and effect of such votes.||IV. The number of directors constituting a quorum.||V. The qualifications, compensation, duties and term of office of directors and officers; the time of their election and the mode and manner of giving notice thereof.||VI. Reasonable penalties for violations of the bylaws.||VII. The amount of entrance, organization and membership fees, if any; the manner of collecting the same; and the purposes for which they may be used.||VIII. The amount which each member or stockholder shall be required to pay annually or from time to time, if at all, to carry on the business of the association; the charges, if any, to be paid by each member or stockholder for services rendered by the association to him and the time of payment and manner of collection; and the marketing contract between the association and its members or stockholders, which every member or stockholder may be required to sign.||IX. The number and qualification of members or stockholders of the association and the conditions precedent to membership or ownership of common stock; the method, time and manner of permitting members to withdraw or the holders of common stock to transfer their stock; the manner of assignment and transfer of the interest of members and of the shares of common stock; the conditions upon which and time when a membership shall cease; the automatic suspension of the rights of a member when he ceases to be eligible to membership; the manner and effect of the expulsion of a member; the manner of determining the value of a member's interest and provision for its purchase by the association upon the death or withdrawal of a member or stockholder, or upon the expulsion of a member or forfeiture of his membership, or, at the option of the association, the purchase at a price fixed by conclusive appraisal by a board of appraisers. But in no case shall it be provided that the value or price of the stock shall be determined by any board on which the association shall have any greater voice than the member or his representative.|||Source. 1925, 33:8; 142:1. PL 224:11. RL 273:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:12 - Regular.

    301:12 Regular. –||In its bylaws each association shall provide for one or more regular meetings annually.|||Source. 1925, 33:9. PL 224:12. RL 273:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:13 - Special.

    301:13 Special. –||The board of directors shall have the right to call a special meeting at any time; and they shall call one upon the petition of not less than 10 percent of the members or stockholders, stating the specific business to be brought before the association.|||Source. 1925, 33:9. PL 224:13. RL 273:13.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:14 - Notice.

    301:14 Notice. –||Notice of each meeting, together with a statement of the purposes thereof, shall be mailed to each member at least 10 days prior to the meeting; provided, that the bylaws may require instead that such notice may be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation, published at the principal place of business of the association.|||Source. 1925, 33:9. PL 224:14. RL 273:14.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:15 - Number; Qualifications.

    301:15 Number;  Qualifications. –||The business of the association shall be managed by a board of not less than 5 directors, elected by the members or stockholders from their own number.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:15. RL 273:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:16 - Election.

    301:16 Election. –||The bylaws may provide that the territory in which the association has members shall be divided into districts and that the directors shall be elected according to such districts, either directly or by district delegates elected by the members in that district, and in such case the bylaws shall specify the number of directors to be elected by each district, and the manner and method of reapportioning the directors and of redistricting the territory covered by the association.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:16. RL 273:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:17 - Primaries.

    301:17 Primaries. –||The bylaws may provide that primary elections shall be held in each district, to elect the directors apportioned to such districts, and that the result of all such primary elections may be ratified by the next regular meeting of the association or may be deemed the act of the association.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:17. RL 273:17.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:18 - Nonmember Directors.

    301:18 Nonmember Directors. –||The bylaws may provide that one or more directors may be appointed by any public official or commission or by the other directors selected by the members or their delegates. Such directors shall represent primarily the interest of the general public in such associations and need not be members or stockholders of the association, but shall have the same powers and rights as other directors. Such directors shall not number more than 1/5 of the entire board.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:18. RL 273:18.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:19 - Vacancies.

    301:19 Vacancies. –||When a vacancy on the board of directors occurs other than by expiration of term, the remaining members of the board, by a majority vote, shall fill the vacancy, unless the bylaws provide for an election of directors by districts, and in such a case the board of directors shall immediately call a special meeting of the members, or stockholders, to fill the vacancy, in the district where it exists.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:19. RL 273:19.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:20 - Directors' Contracts.

    301:20 Directors' Contracts. –||No director, during the term of his office, shall be a party to a contract for profit with the association differing in any way from the business relations accorded each member or holder of common stock of the association or others, or upon terms differing from those generally current in that district.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:20. RL 273:20.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:21 - Executive Committee.

    301:21 Executive Committee. –||The bylaws may provide for an executive committee and may allot to such committee all the functions and powers of the board of directors, subject to the general direction and control of that board.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:21. RL 273:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:22 - Election; Powers.

    301:22 Election;  Powers. –||The directors shall elect from their number a president and one or more vice-presidents. They shall also elect a secretary, who shall be the clerk of the corporation, and a treasurer, who need not be directors or members of the association; and they may combine the 2 latter offices and designate the combined office as that of secretary-treasurer, or unite both functions and titles in one person. The treasurer may be a bank or any depository, and as such, shall not be considered as an officer, but as a function, of the board of directors, and in such case, the secretary shall perform the usual accounting duties of the treasurer, except that the funds shall be deposited only as and where authorized by the board of directors.|||Source. 1925, 33:11. PL 224:22. RL 273:22.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:23 - Bonds.

    301:23 Bonds. –||Each officer, employee and agent handling funds or negotiable instruments or property of or for any association shall give to the association a bond, satisfactory to the board of directors, for the faithful performance of his duties and obligations.|||Source. 1925, 33:12. PL 224:23. RL 273:23.|