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WA Rev Code § 22.32.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 22 - Warehousing and Deposits|Chapter 22.32 - General Penalties.|22.32.010 - Warehouse operator or carrier refusing to issue receipt.

RCW 22.32.010 Warehouse operator or carrier refusing to issue receipt.Every person or corporation, and every officer, agent and employee thereof, receiving any goods, wares or merchandise, for sale or on commission, for storage, carriage or forwarding, who, having an opportunity to inspect the same, shall fail or refuse to deliver to the owner thereof a receipt duly signed, bearing the date of issuance, describing the goods, wares or merchandise received and the quantity, quality and condition thereof, and specifying the terms and conditions upon which they are received, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 391; RRS § 2643.]
WA Rev Code § 22.32.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 22 - Warehousing and Deposits|Chapter 22.32 - General Penalties.|22.32.020 - Fictitious bill of lading and receipt.

RCW 22.32.020 Fictitious bill of lading and receipt.Every person or corporation engaged wholly or in part in the business of a common carrier or warehouse operator, and every officer, agent or employee thereof, who shall issue any bill of lading, receipt or other voucher by which it shall appear that any goods, wares or merchandise have been received by such carrier or warehouse operator, unless the same have been so received and shall be at the time actually under his or her control, or who shall issue any bill of lading, receipt or voucher containing any false statement concerning any material matter, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. But no person shall be convicted under this section for the reason that the contents of any barrel, box, case, cask or other closed vessel or package mentioned in the bill of lading, receipt or voucher did not correspond with the description thereof in such instrument, if such description corresponds substantially with the mark on the outside of such barrel, box, case, cask, vessel or package, unless it appears that the defendant knew that such marks were untrue.[ 2011 c 336 § 652; 1909 c 249 § 392; RRS § 2644. Prior: 1891 c 69 § 7; Code 1881 § 836; 1873 p 193 § 62; 1854 p 85 § 56.]
WA Rev Code § 22.32.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 22 - Warehousing and Deposits|Chapter 22.32 - General Penalties.|22.32.030 - Fraudulent tampering with or mixing goods.

RCW 22.32.030 Fraudulent tampering with or mixing goods.Every person mentioned in RCW 22.32.020, who shall fraudulently mix or tamper with any goods, wares or merchandise under his or her control, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 2011 c 336 § 653; 1909 c 249 § 393; RRS § 2645.]
WA Rev Code § 22.32.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 22 - Warehousing and Deposits|Chapter 22.32 - General Penalties.|22.32.040 - Issuance of second receipt not marked "duplicate."

RCW 22.32.040 Issuance of second receipt not marked "duplicate."Every person mentioned in RCW 22.32.020, who shall issue any second or duplicate receipt or voucher of the kind specified in said section, while a former receipt or voucher for the goods, wares or merchandise specified in such second receipt is outstanding and uncanceled, without writing across the face of the same the word "Duplicate," in a plain and legible manner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 394; RRS § 2646.]NOTES:Reviser's note: Caption for 1909 c 249 § 394 reads as follows: "SEC. 394. DUPLICATE RECEIPT."
WA Rev Code § 22.32.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 22 - Warehousing and Deposits|Chapter 22.32 - General Penalties.|22.32.050 - Delivery of goods without taking up receipt.

RCW 22.32.050 Delivery of goods without taking up receipt.Each person mentioned in RCW 22.32.020 who shall deliver to another any goods, wares or merchandise for which a bill of lading, receipt or voucher has been issued, unless such bill of lading, receipt or voucher is surrendered and canceled or a lawful and sufficient bond or undertaking is given therefor at the time of such delivery, or unless, in case of a partial delivery, a memorandum thereof is endorsed upon such bill of lading, receipt or voucher, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 395; RRS § 2647.]NOTES:Reviser's note: Caption for 1909 c 249 § 395 reads as follows: "SEC. 395. BILL OF LADING OR RECEIPT MUST BE CANCELED ON REDELIVERY OF PROPERTY."
WA Rev Code § 23.78.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.010 - Definitions.

RCW 23.78.010 Definitions.For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given:(1) "Employee cooperative" means a corporation that has elected to be governed by the provisions of this chapter.(2) "Member" means a natural person who has been accepted for membership in, and owns a membership share issued by an employee cooperative.(3) "Patronage" means the amount of work performed as a member of an employee cooperative, measured in accordance with the articles of incorporation and bylaws.(4) "Written notice of allocation" means a written instrument which discloses to a member the stated dollar amount of the member's patronage allocation, and the terms for payment of that amount by the employee cooperative.[ 1987 c 457 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.020 - Election by corporation to be governed as an employee cooperative—Laws governing.

RCW 23.78.020 Election by corporation to be governed as an employee cooperative—Laws governing.Any corporation organized under the laws of this state may elect to be governed as an employee cooperative under the provisions of this chapter, by so stating in its articles of incorporation, or articles of amendment filed in accordance with Title 23B RCW and Article 2 of chapter 23.95 RCW.A corporation so electing shall be governed by all provisions of Title 23B RCW, except RCW 23B.07.050, 23B.13.020, and chapter 23B.11 RCW, and except as otherwise provided in this chapter.[ 2015 c 176 § 9101; 1991 c 72 § 9; 1987 c 457 § 3.]NOTES:Effective date—Contingent effective date—2015 c 176: See note following RCW 23.95.100.
WA Rev Code § 23.78.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.030 - Revocation of election.

RCW 23.78.030 Revocation of election.An employee cooperative may revoke its election under this chapter by a vote of two-thirds of the members and through articles of amendment delivered to the secretary of state for filing in accordance with RCW 23B.01.200, 23B.10.060, and Article 2 of chapter 23.95 RCW.[ 2015 c 176 § 9102; 1991 c 72 § 10; 1987 c 457 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—Contingent effective date—2015 c 176: See note following RCW 23.95.100.
WA Rev Code § 23.78.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.040 - Corporate name.

RCW 23.78.040 Corporate name.An employee cooperative may include the word "cooperative" or "co-op" in its corporate name.[ 1987 c 457 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.050 - Members—Membership shares.

RCW 23.78.050 Members—Membership shares.(1) The articles of incorporation or the bylaws shall establish qualifications and the method of acceptance and termination of members. No person may be accepted as a member unless employed by the employee cooperative on a full-time or part-time basis.(2) An employee cooperative shall issue a class of voting stock designated as "membership shares." Each member shall own only one membership share, and only members may own these shares.(3) Membership shares shall be issued for a fee as determined from time to time by the directors. RCW 23B.06.040 and 23B.06.200 do not apply to such membership shares.Members of an employee cooperative shall have all the rights and responsibilities of stockholders of a corporation organized under Title 23B RCW, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.[ 1991 c 72 § 11; 1987 c 457 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.060 - Right to vote—Power to amend or repeal bylaws—Right to amend articles of incorporation.

RCW 23.78.060 Right to vote—Power to amend or repeal bylaws—Right to amend articles of incorporation.(1) No capital stock other than membership shares shall be given voting power in an employee cooperative, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, or in the articles of incorporation.(2) The power to amend or repeal bylaws of an employee cooperative shall be in the members only.(3) Except as otherwise permitted by RCW 23B.10.040, no capital stock other than membership shares shall be permitted to vote on any amendment to the articles of incorporation.[ 1991 c 72 § 12; 1987 c 457 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.070 - Net earnings or losses—Apportionment, distribution, and payment.

RCW 23.78.070 Net earnings or losses—Apportionment, distribution, and payment.(1) The net earnings or losses of an employee cooperative shall be apportioned and distributed at the times and in the manner as the articles of incorporation or bylaws shall specify. Net earnings declared as patronage allocations with respect to a period of time, and paid or credited to members, shall be apportioned among the members in accordance with the ratio which each member's patronage during the period involved bears to total patronage by all members during that period.(2) The apportionment, distribution, and payment of net earnings required by subsection (1) of this section may be in cash, credits, written notices of allocation, or capital stock issued by the employee cooperative.[ 1987 c 457 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.080 - Internal capital accounts authorized—Redemptions—Assignment of portion of retained net earnings and net losses to collective reserve account authorized.

RCW 23.78.080 Internal capital accounts authorized—Redemptions—Assignment of portion of retained net earnings and net losses to collective reserve account authorized.(1) Any employee cooperative may establish through its articles of incorporation or bylaws a system of internal capital accounts to reflect the book value and to determine the redemption price of membership shares, capital stock, and written notices of allocation.(2) The articles of incorporation or bylaws of an employee cooperative may permit the periodic redemption of written notices of allocation and capital stock, and must provide for recall and redemption of the membership share upon termination of membership in the cooperative. No redemption shall be made if redemption would result in a violation of RCW 23B.06.400.(3) The articles of incorporation or bylaws may provide for the employee cooperative to pay or credit interest on the balance in each member's internal capital account.(4) The articles of incorporation or bylaws may authorize assignment of a portion of retained net earnings and net losses to a collective reserve account. Earnings assigned to the collective reserve account may be used for any and all corporate purposes as determined by the board of directors.[ 1991 c 72 § 13; 1987 c 457 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.090 - Internal capital account cooperatives.

RCW 23.78.090 Internal capital account cooperatives.(1) An internal capital account cooperative is an employee cooperative whose entire net book value is reflected in internal capital accounts, one for each member, and a collective reserve account, and in which no persons other than members own capital stock. In an internal capital account cooperative, each member shall have one and only one vote in any matter requiring voting by stockholders.(2) An internal capital account cooperative shall credit the paid-in membership fee and additional paid-in capital of a member to the member's internal capital account, and shall also record the apportionment of retained net earnings or net losses to the members in accordance with patronage by appropriately crediting or debiting the internal capital accounts of members. The collective reserve account in an internal capital account cooperative shall reflect any paid-in capital, net losses, and retained net earnings not allocated to individual members.(3) In an internal capital account cooperative, the balances in all the individual internal capital accounts and collective reserve account, if any, shall be adjusted at the end of each accounting period so that the sum of the balances is equal to the net book value of the employee cooperative.[ 1987 c 457 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.100 - Provision for conversion of shares and accounts—Limitations upon merger.

RCW 23.78.100 Provision for conversion of shares and accounts—Limitations upon merger.(1) When any employee cooperative revokes its election in accordance with RCW 23.78.030, the articles of amendment shall provide for conversion of membership shares and internal capital accounts or their conversion to securities or other property in a manner consistent with Title 23B RCW.(2) An employee cooperative that has not revoked its election under this chapter may not merge with another corporation other than an employee cooperative. Two or more employee cooperatives may merge in accordance with RCW 23B.01.200, 23B.07.050, and chapter 23B.11 RCW.[ 1991 c 72 § 14; 1987 c 457 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 23.78.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.78 - Employee Cooperative Corporations.|23.78.900 - Short title.

RCW 23.78.900 Short title.This chapter may be cited as the employee cooperative corporations act.[ 1987 c 457 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 23.86.007 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.86 - Cooperative Associations.|23.86.007 - Definitions.

RCW 23.86.007 Definitions.Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Association" means any corporation subject to this chapter.(2) "Member" or "members" includes a member or members of an association subject to this chapter without capital stock and a shareholder or shareholders of voting common stock in an association subject to this chapter with capital stock.(3) "Articles of incorporation" means the original or restated articles of incorporation, articles of consolidation, or articles of association and all amendments including articles of merger. Corporations incorporated under this chapter with articles of association shall not be required to amend the title or references to the term "articles of association."(4) "Director," "directors," or "board of directors" includes "trustee," "trustees," or "board of trustees" respectively. Corporations incorporated under this chapter with references in their articles of association or bylaws to "trustee," "trustees," or "board of trustees" shall not be required to amend the references.(5) "Agricultural association" means an association that engages in any activity in connection with the marketing or selling of the agricultural products of its members, or with the harvesting, preserving, drying, processing, canning, packing, storing, handling, shipping, or utilization thereof, or the manufacturing or marketing of the by-products thereof; or in connection with the manufacturing, selling, or supplying to its members of machinery, equipment, or supplies, or in the financing of these activities. In the application of the definition of agricultural association, "agricultural products" includes horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, and farm products.[ 1994 c 206 § 1; 1989 c 307 § 3.]NOTES:Legislative finding—1989 c 307: "The legislature finds that since 1921 there have existed in the laws of this state two separate incorporation statutes expressly designed for corporations intending to operate as nonprofit cooperatives. The existence of two cooperative incorporation statutes has been the source of confusion, disparity of treatment, and legal and administrative ambiguities, and the rationale for having two cooperative incorporation statutes is no longer valid. These cooperative incorporation statutes have not been updated with the regularity of this state's business incorporation statutes and, as a result, are deficient in certain respects." [ 1989 c 307 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 23.86.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.86 - Cooperative Associations.|23.86.010 - Cooperative associations—Who may organize.

RCW 23.86.010 Cooperative associations—Who may organize.Any number of persons may associate themselves together as a cooperative association, society, company or exchange, with or without capital stock, for the transaction of any lawful business on the cooperative plan. For the purposes of this chapter the words "association," "company," "exchange," "society" or "union" shall be construed the same.[ 1989 c 307 § 4; 1913 c 19 § 1; RRS § 3904. Formerly RCW 23.56.010.] [1954 SLC-RO-7]NOTES:Legislative finding—1989 c 307: See note following RCW 23.86.007.Severability—1913 c 19: "If any section or part of a section of this act shall for any cause be held unconstitutional such fact shall not affect the remainder of this act." [ 1913 c 19 § 20.] This applies to RCW 23.86.010 through 23.86.190.
WA Rev Code § 23.86.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.86 - Cooperative Associations.|23.86.020 - Business authorized.

RCW 23.86.020 Business authorized.An association created under this chapter, being for mutual welfare, the words "lawful business" shall extend to every kind of lawful effort for business, agricultural, dairy, mercantile, mining, manufacturing or mechanical business, on the cooperative plan.[ 1913 c 19 § 7; RRS § 3910. Formerly RCW 23.56.020.]
WA Rev Code § 23.86.022 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.86 - Cooperative Associations.|23.86.022 - Certificate of authority as insurance company—Filing of documents.

RCW 23.86.022 Certificate of authority as insurance company—Filing of documents.For those corporations that have a certificate of authority, are applying for, or intend to apply for a certificate of authority from the insurance commissioner as an insurance company under chapter 48.05 RCW, whenever under this chapter corporate documents are required to be filed with the secretary of state, the documents shall be filed with the insurance commissioner rather than the secretary of state.[ 1998 c 23 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 23.86.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.86 - Cooperative Associations.|23.86.030 - Association name—Immunity from liability of association board members and officers.

RCW 23.86.030 Association name—Immunity from liability of association board members and officers.(1) The name of any association subject to this chapter must comply with Article 3 of chapter 23.95 RCW.(2) No corporation or association organized or doing business in this state shall be entitled to use the term "cooperative" as a part of its corporate or other business name or title, unless it: (a) Is subject to the provisions of this chapter or chapter 23.78, 23.100, or 31.12 RCW; (b) is subject to the provisions of chapter 24.06 RCW and operating on a cooperative basis; (c) is, on July 23, 1989, an organization lawfully using the term "cooperative" as part of its corporate or other business name or title; or (d) is a nonprofit corporation or association the voting members of which are corporations or associations operating on a cooperative basis. Any corporation or association violating the provisions of this section may be enjoined from doing business under such name at the instance of any member or any association subject to this chapter.(3) A member of the board of directors or an officer of any association subject to this chapter shall have the same immunity from liability as is granted in RCW 4.24.264.[ 2019 c 37 § 1403; 2015 c 176 § 9103; 1989 c 307 § 5; 1987 c 212 § 706; 1913 c 19 § 17; RRS § 3920. Formerly RCW 23.56.030.]NOTES:Uniformity of application and construction—Savings—2019 c 37: See RCW 23.100.1501 and 23.100.1503.Effective date—Contingent effective date—2015 c 176: See note following RCW 23.95.100.Legislative finding—1989 c 307: See note following RCW 23.86.007.
WA Rev Code § 23.86.055 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 23 - Corporations and Associations (Profit) (Business Corporation Act: See Title 23b Rcw)|Chapter 23.86 - Cooperative Associations.|23.86.055 - Articles—Filing.

RCW 23.86.055 Articles—Filing.(1) The articles of incorporation shall be signed by the incorporators and delivered to the secretary of state for filing in accordance with Article 2 of chapter 23.95 RCW.(2) Upon the filing of the articles of incorporation, the corporate existence shall begin, and the certificate of incorporation shall, except as against the state in a proceeding to cancel or revoke the certificate of incorporation, be conclusive evidence that all conditions precedent required to be performed by the incorporators have been complied with and that the corporation has been incorporated under this chapter.[ 2015 c 176 § 9104; 1989 c 307 § 8.]NOTES:Effective date—Contingent effective date—2015 c 176: See note following RCW 23.95.100.Legislative finding—1989 c 307: See note following RCW 23.86.007.