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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-197. - Certificate of incorporation.

Section 33-197 is repealed, provided the repeal of said section shall not affect any right accrued or established, or any liability or penalty incurred, under the provisions of said section prior to January 1, 1961.
(1949 Rev., S. 5306; 1959, P.A. 617, S. 113.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-198. - Evidence of corporate existence.

The provisions of subsection (b) of section 33-637 shall apply to any corporation formed under this chapter.
(1949 Rev., S. 5307; P.A. 96-271, S. 167, 254.)
History: P.A. 96-271 replaced reference to Sec. 33-289 with Sec. 33-637, effective January 1, 1997.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-199. - Powers.

When its certificate of incorporation has been approved and recorded, the corporation shall have all powers conferred upon corporations by section 33-647 and shall have the same power to mortgage or pledge its real and personal estate and to issue promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness as have corporations having capital stock. Any such corporation may purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, own, sell, transfer or pledge, or guarantee the payment of dividends or interest on, or the retirement or redemption of, shares of the capital stock or bonds of any association or corporation engaged in the warehousing, handling or marketing of any of the products handled by the corporation; establish reserves and invest the funds thereof in such manner as it deems advisable or as may be provided in the bylaws; and exercise all powers, rights and privileges necessary or incidental to the purposes for which the corporation is formed or to the activities in which it is engaged.
(1949 Rev., S. 5308; P.A. 96-271, S. 168, 254.)
History: P.A. 96-271 replaced reference to Sec. 33-291 with Sec. 33-647, effective January 1, 1997.
Assessment on members for financing surplus milk held within statutory authority of milk producers association. 122 C. 482.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-200 to 33-204. - Sections 33-200 to 33-204, inclusive, are repealed, provided the repeal of any of said sections shall not affect any right accrued or established, or any liability or penalty incurred, under the provisions of such section prior to January 1, 1961.

(1949 Rev., S. 5309–5313; 1959, P.A. 617, S. 113.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-205. - Members.

Any such corporation may admit as members only persons engaged in the production of agricultural products, including the lessees or tenants of land used for the production of such products, and any lessors or landlords who receive as rent all or any part of such products raised on the leased premises. If a member is other than a natural person, it may be represented by any of its officers, members or representatives, authorized in writing. Any corporation organized under this chapter may admit as members similar corporations organized under this chapter or chapter 595 or the laws of any other state and any such corporation may become a member of any other similar corporation organized under this chapter or chapter 595 or the laws of any other state.
(1949 Rev., S. 5314; 1967, P.A. 148, S. 1.)
History: 1967 act authorized recognition of corporations organized under laws of any other state.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-206. - Merger of cooperative associations and cooperative marketing corporations.

Agricultural cooperative associations and cooperative marketing corporations incorporated or organized under any statute of this state may merge or consolidate with any other similar corporation or association organized under the laws of this or any other state. Any such merger or consolidation may be effected in accordance with the general provisions of law providing for the merger or consolidation of other corporations so far as applicable, in a manner reasonably analogous to that set forth in such provisions. The effect and the rights, duties and liabilities arising from any such merger or consolidation shall be the same as that arising from a merger or consolidation of other corporations.
(1949 Rev., S. 5315; 1967, P.A. 148, S. 2.)
History: 1967 act authorized merger or consolidation with similar corporations organized under laws of any other state and deleted provision whereby members take action as is required of stockholders in effecting merger or consolidation and specified that value of stock of dissenting member considered equivalent to the amount he would have received on distribution of assets if association or corporation had been dissolved.
See Sec. 33-1155 et seq. re merger of nonstock corporations.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-207. - Report: Statement of enrolled members.

Corporations organized and transacting business under the provisions of this chapter shall, in addition to the statements required by section 33-1243, include a statement as to the number of enrolled members in such corporation.
(1949 Rev., S. 5316; 1959, P.A. 617, S. 112; P.A. 96-256, S. 189, 209.)
History: 1959 act substituted reference to Sec. 33-435 for reference to Sec. 33-148, repealed by same act; P.A. 96-256 replaced reference to Sec. 33-435 with Sec. 33-1243, effective January 1, 1997.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-208 to 33-210. - Sections 33-208 to 33-210, inclusive, are repealed, provided the repeal of any of said sections shall not affect any right accrued or established, or any liability or penalty incurred, under the provisions of such section prior to January 1, 1961.

(1949 Rev., S. 5317–5319; 1959, P.A. 617, S. 113.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-211. - Changes in certificate of incorporation.

Any such corporation may at any time amend its certificate of incorporation by a three-fourths vote of its members present and voting at a meeting of the corporation called to consider such amendment or, if the vote upon such amendment is by mail, by a three-fourths vote of those members who have returned ballots, and shall cause a certificate, attested by its president and secretary, setting forth the fact that such vote has been passed and stating the subject matter of such amendment, to be filed, approved and recorded in the same manner as the original certificate of incorporation.
(1949 Rev., S. 5320.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-212. - Marketing contract.

Any such corporation may enter into marketing contracts with its members requiring the members to sell for any period of time, not over ten years, all or any part of their agricultural products or commodities exclusively to or through the corporation or any agency designated by the corporation. If such contract provides for a sale to the corporation, title to such products shall pass absolutely, except for recorded liens, to the corporation on delivery or, if expressly so agreed in such contract, at any time specified therein. Any such contract may provide for sale by the corporation with or without taking title to such property, and may provide that the corporation shall pay to the member the resale price after the deduction of necessary expenses, including interest or dividends on stock of any subsidiary corporation formed to enable the corporation to carry out its purposes, reserves for retiring or redeeming any such stock and any other necessary reserves or deductions.
(1949 Rev., S. 5321.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-213. - Remedies for breach of contract.

The bylaws of any such corporation, or such marketing contract, may fix as liquidated damages specific sums to be paid by any member upon the breach of any provision of such marketing contract, and such liquidated damages shall be valid and enforceable in the courts of this state; and any such corporation shall be entitled to a preliminary or permanent injunction against any member for any breach or threatened breach of the provisions of such marketing contract as to sale or delivery of products, and to a decree of specific performance thereof, provided no preliminary or temporary injunction shall be issued without bond, except for cause shown. In any action by the corporation against any member upon a marketing contract, if such member is a land owner, landlord or lessor, it shall be prima facie presumed that he is able to control the delivery of the products of his land produced by tenants or others if the tenancy has been created or changed or if the work or possession of such tenants or others has begun after the land owner, landlord or lessor executed his marketing agreement; and in any such action the foregoing remedies for nondelivery or breach shall lie and be enforceable against such land owner, landlord or lessor.
(1949 Rev., S. 5322.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-215. - Receivership. Dissolution.

Any such corporation shall be subject to the provisions of the general corporation law with reference to receiverships, provided no application for a receivership of any corporation organized under this chapter shall be brought by less than one-twentieth in number of the members of such corporation. Any such corporation shall be subject to the same provisions as to voluntary dissolution as are other corporations without capital stock.
(1949 Rev., S. 5324.)
See chapter 602, part XI re dissolution and winding up of nonstock corporations.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-216. - Franchise fee.

Upon the filing with the Secretary of the State of the certificate of incorporation or an amended certificate, the corporation shall pay to the secretary a franchise fee of fifty dollars, except that, where the certificate of incorporation or amendment specifically limits the business to be done by the corporation to the purchase and selling or supplying to its members of surplus materials, including federal materials, machinery and demountable housing units or other machinery, equipment or supplies, the franchise fee payable by such corporation to said secretary shall be twenty dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 5325.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 596 - Cooperative Marketing Corporations › Section 33-217. - Annual license fee.

Any such corporation shall pay, during January of each year, to the Secretary of the State, a license fee of fifty dollars. If such fee is not paid on or before February first, a penalty of fifty dollars shall be added thereto, and such fee, together with such penalty, shall thereafter bear interest at the rate of nine per cent per annum. The Attorney General shall have power to collect such fee, penalty and interest thereon in the same manner as provided in section 12-28; provided the Attorney General may, upon such terms as he may prescribe, remit, either in whole or in part, the amount of such fees, penalty and interest thereon, when, in his opinion, it would be inequitable to enforce collection thereof.
(1949 Rev., S. 5326; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 90, 117.)
History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 changed license fee from $5 per each 100 members to a flat $50 and raised penalty from $10 to $50.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-218. - Definitions.

“Cooperative” means any corporation organized under this chapter or which becomes subject to this chapter in the manner hereinafter provided, and “person” means any natural person, firm, association, limited liability company, corporation, municipal corporation, municipal utility, business trust or partnership.
(1949 Rev., S. 5327; P.A. 73-644, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 122, 189.)
History: P.A. 73-644 included municipal corporations and municipal utilities in definition of “person”; P.A. 95-79 redefined “cooperative” to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-220. - Name.

The name of a cooperative shall include the words “Electric” and “Cooperative”, and the abbreviation “Inc.”, unless, in an affidavit made by its president or vice president and filed with the Secretary of the State, or in an affidavit made by a person signing articles of incorporation which relate to such cooperative and filed, together with any such articles, with the Secretary of the State, it appears that the cooperative desires to do business in another state and is or would be precluded therefrom by reason of the inclusion of such words or either thereof in its name. The name of a cooperative shall be distinct from the name of any other cooperative or corporation organized under the laws of, or authorized to do business in, this state. Only a cooperative or corporation doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter shall use both the words “Electric” and “Cooperative” in its name.
(1949 Rev., S. 5330.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-223. - Articles of incorporation.

Articles of incorporation of a cooperative shall recite that they are executed pursuant to this chapter and shall state: (1) The name of the cooperative; (2) the address of its principal office; (3) the names and addresses of the incorporators; and (4) the names and addresses of its trustees; and may contain any provisions not inconsistent with this chapter deemed necessary or advisable for the conduct of its business. Such articles shall be signed by each incorporator and acknowledged by at least two of the incorporators. It shall not be necessary to recite in the articles of incorporation of a cooperative the purpose for which it is organized or any of its corporate powers.
(1949 Rev., S. 5332.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-224. - Bylaws.

The board of trustees shall adopt the first bylaws of a cooperative to be adopted following incorporation. Thereafter the members shall adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws by the affirmative vote of a majority of those members voting thereon at a meeting of the members. The bylaws shall set forth the rights and duties of members and trustees and may contain other provisions for the regulation and management of the affairs of the cooperative not inconsistent with this chapter or with its articles of incorporation.
(1949 Rev., S. 5333.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-225. - Members.

Each incorporator of a cooperative shall be a member thereof, but no other person may become a member thereof unless such other person agrees to use electric energy or other services furnished by the cooperative when they are made available through its facilities. Any member of a cooperative who agrees to use electric energy shall cease to be a member if he does not use electric energy supplied by the cooperative within six months after it has been made available to him or if electric energy is not made available to him by the cooperative within two years after he becomes a member, or within such lesser period as the bylaws of the cooperative may provide. A husband and wife may hold a joint membership in a cooperative. Membership in a cooperative shall not be transferable, except as provided in the bylaws. The bylaws may prescribe additional qualifications and limitations in respect of membership.
(1949 Rev., S. 5334.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-226. - Meetings of members.

(a) An annual meeting of the members of a cooperative shall be held at such time and place as is provided in the bylaws.
(b) Special meetings of the members shall be called by the president, by the board of trustees, by any three trustees or by not less than ten per cent of the members.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, written or printed notice stating the time and place of each meeting of the members and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given to each member, either personally or by mail, not less than ten days nor more than twenty-five days before the date of the meeting. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the United States mail with postage prepaid addressed to the member at his address as it appears on the records of the cooperative.
(d) Unless the bylaws prescribe the presence of a greater percentage or number of the members for a quorum, a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of the members of a cooperative having not more than one thousand members shall be five per cent of all members, present in person, and of a cooperative having more than one thousand members shall be fifty members, present in person. If less than a quorum is present at any meeting, a majority of those present in person may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.
(e) Each member shall be entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of the members. Voting shall be in person, but, if the bylaws so provide, may also be by proxy or by mail or both. If the bylaws provide for voting by proxy or by mail, they shall also prescribe the conditions under which such voting shall be permitted. No person shall vote as proxy for more than three members at any meeting of the members.
(1949 Rev., S. 5335.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-227. - Waiver of notice.

Any person entitled to notice of a meeting may waive such notice in writing either before or after such meeting. If any such person attends such meeting, such attendance shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, unless such person participates therein solely to object to the transaction of any business because the meeting has not been legally called or convened.
(1949 Rev., S. 5336.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-228. - Board of trustees.

(a) The business of a cooperative shall be managed by a board of not less than five trustees, each of whom shall be a member of the cooperative. The bylaws shall prescribe the number of trustees, their qualifications, other than those prescribed in this chapter, and the manner of holding meetings of the board of trustees and of electing successors to trustees who resign, die or otherwise are incapable of acting. The bylaws may also provide for the removal of trustees from office and for the election of their successors. Trustees shall not receive any salaries for their services as trustees and, except in emergencies, shall not be employed by the cooperative in any capacity involving compensation without the approval of the members. The bylaws may provide that a fixed fee and expenses of attendance may be allowed to each trustee for attendance at each meeting of the board of trustees.
(b) The trustees of a cooperative named in any articles of incorporation shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the members and until their successors are elected and have qualified. At each annual meeting or, in case of failure to hold the annual meeting as specified in the bylaws, at a special meeting called for that purpose, the members shall elect trustees to hold office until the next annual meeting of the members, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. Each trustee shall hold office for the term for which he is elected and until his successor is elected and has qualified.
(c) Instead of electing all the trustees annually, the bylaws may provide that half of them, or a number as near thereto as possible, shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of the members and that the remaining trustees shall be elected to serve until the second succeeding annual meeting. Thereafter, as trustees' terms expire, the members shall elect their successors to serve until the second succeeding annual meeting after their election.
(d) A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum.
(e) If a husband and wife hold a joint membership in a cooperative, either one, but not both, may be elected a trustee.
(f) The board of trustees may exercise all of the powers of a cooperative not conferred upon the members by this chapter or its articles of incorporation or bylaws.
(1949 Rev., S. 5337.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-229. - Officers.

The officers of a cooperative shall consist of a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, who shall be elected annually by and from the board of trustees. When a person holding any such office ceases to be a trustee he shall cease to hold such office. The offices of secretary and of treasurer may be held by the same person. The board of trustees may also elect or appoint such other officers, agents or employees as it deems necessary or advisable and shall prescribe their powers and duties. Any officer may be removed from office and his successor elected in the manner prescribed in the bylaws.
(1949 Rev., S. 5338.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-230. - Amendment of articles of incorporation.

A cooperative may amend its articles of incorporation by complying with the following requirements: The proposed amendment shall be presented to a meeting of the members, the notice of which shall set forth or have attached thereto the proposed amendment. If the proposed amendment, with any changes, is approved by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of those members voting thereon at such meeting, articles of amendment shall be executed and acknowledged on behalf of the cooperative by its president or vice president and its seal shall be affixed thereto and attested by its secretary. The articles of amendment shall recite that they are executed pursuant to this chapter and shall state: (1) The name of the cooperative; (2) the address of its principal office; and (3) the amendment to its articles of incorporation. The president or vice president executing such articles of amendment shall make and annex thereto an affidavit stating that the provisions of this section in respect of the amendment set forth in such articles were complied with.
(1949 Rev., S. 5339.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-231. - Change of location of principal office.

A cooperative may, upon authorization of its board of trustees or its members, change the location of its principal office by filing a certificate reciting such change of principal office, executed and acknowledged by its president or vice president under its seal attested by its secretary, in the office of the Secretary of the State.
(1949 Rev., S. 5340.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-233. - Filing of articles.

Articles of incorporation, amendment or dissolution, when executed and acknowledged and accompanied by such affidavits as may be required by applicable provisions of this chapter, shall be presented to the Secretary of the State for filing in the records of his office. If the Secretary of the State finds that the articles presented conform to the requirements of this chapter, he shall, upon the payment of the fees as provided in section 33-234, file such articles in the records of his office and upon such filing the incorporation, amendment or dissolution provided for therein shall be in effect. The provisions of this section shall also apply to certificates of election to dissolve and affidavits executed in connection therewith pursuant to subsection (b) of section 33-232.
(1949 Rev., S. 5342.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-234. - Fees.

The Secretary of the State shall charge and collect the fees set forth in section 33-617, for the filing of articles or certificates provided for in this chapter.
(1949 Rev., S. 5348; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 91, 117; P.A. 96-271, S. 169, 254.)
History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 deleted all existing language and established that the fees charged and collected by the secretary of the state shall be those set forth in Sec. 33-304; P.A. 96-271 replaced reference to Sec. 33-304 with Sec. 33-617, effective January 1, 1997.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-235. - Refunds to members.

Revenues of a cooperative for any fiscal year in excess of the amount thereof necessary (a) to defray the expenses of the operation and maintenance of the facilities of the cooperative during such fiscal year, (b) to pay interest and principal obligations of the cooperative coming due in such fiscal year, (c) to finance, or to provide a reserve for the financing of, the construction or acquisition by the cooperative of additional facilities to the extent determined by the board of trustees, (d) to provide a reasonable reserve for working capital and (e) to provide a reserve for the payment of indebtedness of the cooperative in an amount not less than the total of the interest and principal payments in respect thereof required to be made during the next-following fiscal year, shall, unless otherwise determined by a vote of the members, be distributed by the cooperative to its members and to other persons to whom the cooperative supplies electric energy or other services, as patronage refunds prorated in accordance with the patronage of the cooperative by the respective members and such other persons, paid for during such fiscal year; provided such distribution shall not be made to any such other person until he has become a member of the cooperative. If such other person does not become a member of the cooperative within one year after the amount of his distributive share or accumulated distributive shares equal the membership fee required by the bylaws of the cooperative or, if no membership fee is required, within two years after the declaration of any such patronage refund, he shall cease to be entitled to such share or shares, which shall, in such case, be disposed of as determined by a vote of the members. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the payment by a cooperative of all or any part of its indebtedness prior to the date when the same becomes due.
(1949 Rev., S. 5343.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-236. - Disposition of property.

(a) The board of trustees of a cooperative shall have full power and authority, without authorization by the members thereof, to authorize the execution and delivery of a mortgage or mortgages or a deed or deeds of trust of, or the pledging or encumbering of, any or all of the property, assets, rights, privileges, licenses, franchises and permits of the cooperative, whether acquired or to be acquired, and wherever situated, as well as the revenues and income therefrom, all upon such terms and conditions as the board of trustees determines, to secure any indebtedness of the cooperative to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof.
(b) A cooperative may not otherwise sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of or encumber all or a substantial portion of its property unless such sale, mortgage, lease or other disposition or encumbrance is authorized by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of all the members of the cooperative.
(1949 Rev., S. 5344.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-238. - Recordation of mortgages; effect thereof.

Any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument executed by a cooperative doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter, which affects real and personal property and which is recorded in the real property records in any town in which such property is located or is to be located, shall have the same force and effect as if the mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument were also recorded, filed or indexed as provided by law in the proper office in such town as a mortgage of personal property. All after-acquired property of such cooperative described or referred to as being mortgaged or pledged in any such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument shall become subject to the lien thereof immediately upon the acquisition of such property by such cooperative, whether or not such property was in existence at the time of the execution of such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument. Recordation of any such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument shall constitute notice and otherwise have the same effect with respect to such after-acquired property as it has under the laws relating to recordation, with respect to property owned by such cooperative at the time of the execution of such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument and therein described or referred to as being mortgaged or pledged thereby. The lien upon personal property of any such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument shall, after recordation thereof, continue in existence and of record for the period of time specified therein without the refiling thereof or the filing of any renewal certificate, affidavit or other supplemental information required by the laws relating to the renewal, maintenance or extension of liens upon personal property.
(1949 Rev., S. 5346.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-239. - Trustees, officers or members may take acknowledgments.

No person authorized to take acknowledgments under the laws of this state shall be disqualified from taking acknowledgments of instruments executed in favor of a cooperative or to which it is a party, by reason of being an officer, trustee or member of such cooperative.
(1949 Rev., S. 5347.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-240. - License fee. Exemption from excise and income taxes.

Each cooperative doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter shall pay annually, on or before July first, to the Secretary of the State, a fee of twenty-five dollars, but shall be exempt from all other excise and income taxes.
(1949 Rev., S. 5349; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 92, 117.)
History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 raised fee from $10 to $25.
The legislature has wide discretion in the classification of property for taxation and in granting exemptions. 142 C. 483.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-240a. - Liability for taxation, when.

Notwithstanding section 33-240, an electric cooperative organized under this chapter, one or more cooperators of which is a public service company, municipality, municipal utility or municipal electric energy cooperative, shall be subject to the tax imposed under chapter 212.
(P.A. 73-644, S. 3; P.A. 81-439, S. 10, 14.)
History: P.A. 81-439 subjected cooperatives to tax under chapter 212 if any cooperator is a public service company or municipal electric energy cooperative.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-241. - Exemption from jurisdiction of Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

Cooperatives doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter shall be exempt from the jurisdiction and control of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of this state, except as to the construction and maintenance of electric transmission and distribution lines, provided no standards in excess of standards prescribed in the National Electric Safety Code shall be required by said authority.
(1949 Rev., S. 5350; P.A. 75-486, S. 61, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 231, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority, effective December 1, 1975; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 created independent department of public utility control and abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act › Section 33-242. - Securities act exemption.

The provisions of chapter 651 shall not apply to any note, bond or other evidence of indebtedness issued by any cooperative doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter, to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or to any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument executed to secure the same. The provisions of said chapter shall not apply to the issuance of membership certificates by any cooperative.
(1949 Rev., S. 5351.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-243 to 33-264. - Religious corporations and societies: General provisions.

Sections 33-243 to 33-264, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5352–5373; 1963, P.A. 67; 78; February, 1965, P.A. 572, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 314, S. 14.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264a. - Formation of religious corporation or society.

Three or more persons uniting for public worship may form a corporation or a voluntary association. Such a corporation shall be called a religious corporation and such a voluntary association shall be called a religious society. Nothing contained in the provisions of this part shall prohibit the formation for the purpose of public or private worship of a corporation, association or other organization of any kind under part II of this chapter or under any other law of this state.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 1.)
Former statute cited. 151 C. 517.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264c. - Powers.

(a) A religious society or a religious corporation formed under section 33-264a and any corporation or voluntary association formed under part II of this chapter may hold, manage, acquire, purchase, sell, convey and have and exercise any rights of ownership in real and personal property for the use and support of public worship or for any ecclesiastical, missionary, charitable or educational purpose. Grants, donations, devises and bequests of real and personal property may be received and held in trust or otherwise for such purposes.
(b) A religious society may, in its charter or by bylaw or otherwise, adopt provisions relative to its membership, affairs and government.
(c) A religious corporation may, in its charter or by bylaw or otherwise, adopt provisions relative to its membership, affairs and government and shall have in addition to those powers granted in this part all the powers enumerated in section 33-1036. A corporation which is organized under any other law of this state and which is formed for public worship shall have, in addition to all other powers conferred by law, the powers conferred on religious corporations under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
(d) A member of a religious society or of a religious corporation shall not be liable for any obligation to the creditors of such religious society or religious corporation.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 3; P.A. 96-256, S. 190, 209.)
History: P.A. 96-256 amended Subsec. (c) to replace reference to Sec. 33-428 with Sec. 33-1036, effective January 1, 1997.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264d. - Change from religious society to corporation.

(a) Any religious society may become a religious corporation, when its purpose to do so is determined by a vote of two-thirds of those members present at a meeting warned and held for that purpose or by such other vote, but not less than a majority of members present and voting, as may be provided by the charter or bylaws, by filing, in the office of the Secretary of the State, such certificate, in proper form executed, as shall be prescribed by said secretary.
(b) A person who, at the date of the organization of such corporation, is a member of such religious society shall become a member of such religious corporation, unless within a reasonable time he notifies the clerk or similar officer of either the religious society or of the religious corporation that he has elected not to become a member of the religious corporation.
(c) Upon filing with the Secretary of the State as provided in this section, the separate existence of the religious society shall cease and thereupon all property, real and personal, and all debts due on whatever account, and all other choses in action, and all and every other interest, of or belonging to or due to the religious society shall be taken to and transferred to and vested in the religious corporation without further act and deed. The religious corporation shall thenceforth be responsible and liable for all the liabilities, obligations and penalties of the religious society; any claim existing or action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending by or against any such religious society may be prosecuted as if such incorporation had not taken place, or the religious corporation may be substituted in its place; and any judgment rendered against the religious society may be enforced against the religious corporation. Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon property of the religious society shall be impaired by the incorporation of such religious society.
(d) Each unvested gift or legacy to a religious society which, pursuant to the provisions of this section has ceased to exist, shall inure to and vest in the religious corporation which has taken its place.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 4.)
Cited. 224 C. 797.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264e. - Dissolution.

A religious society or religious corporation formed under the provisions of this part may by a vote of two-thirds of those members present at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose be dissolved. After all of its liabilities and obligations have been paid, satisfied and discharged, or adequate provision made therefor, the assets of such religious society or religious corporation shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions of its charter or bylaws or, if no such provision is made, then in accordance with the vote of its members but only to another religious society, religious corporation or other organization formed for public worship or for ecclesiastical, missionary, charitable or educational purposes, provided property held pursuant to the provisions of section 47-2 shall continue to be held for such purposes and, where the rules and regulations of the denomination with which such religious society or religious corporation is affiliated provide to the contrary, such assets shall be distributed in accordance with such rules, regulations and ordinances. No property of a religious society or religious corporation shall be distributed to its members.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264g. - Receipt of funds by ecclesiastical societies, cemetery associations and library associations.

Any ecclesiastical society which is not a religious society as defined in section 33-264a or which is not an ecclesiastical society under part II of this chapter and any cemetery association or library association organized for mutual or public benefit and not for the purpose of deriving financial profit from the operations thereof, shall have the power to receive and hold funds in any amount derived by gift or devise, provided the uses of any such fund and of the income therefrom are, by the terms of such gift or devise, limited to the purposes for which such ecclesiastical society, cemetery association or library association was organized.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 7.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264h. - Conveyances by ecclesiastical societies to religious societies and corporations.

Any ecclesiastical society which is not a religious society within the meaning of section 33-264a and which is associated with such a religious society or with a religious corporation may, by a two-thirds vote of its members present and voting at a meeting warned and held for that purpose, transfer and convey to such religious society or religious corporation all the property and estate of such ecclesiastical society and all trust funds held by it, to be held by such religious society or religious corporation under and upon the same uses and trusts upon which the same had been previously held by such ecclesiastical society. The religious society or religious corporation accepting such transfer shall thereupon become primarily liable for all the then existing debts and obligations of the transferring ecclesiastical society, and such debts and obligations shall be a first lien upon the property so transferred, except such of it as has been held in trust. Each unvested gift or legacy to an ecclesiastical society which, pursuant to the provisions of section 33-264i, has ceased to exist, shall inure to and vest in the religious society or religious corporation which has taken its place.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264i. - Dissolution of ecclesiastical society.

Any ecclesiastical society within the meaning of section 33-264g, which votes under the provisions of section 33-264h to transfer and convey to a duly organized religious society or religious corporation all its property and estate and the trust funds held by it, may after notice, at the same or a subsequent meeting of such ecclesiastical society, by a two-thirds vote of its members present, vote to dissolve its organization. If any such ecclesiastical society so votes, it shall be dissolved upon making proper conveyance of its property as provided by this part.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 9.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264j. - Status of societies established prior to October 1, 1969.

(a) Each religious society established as a voluntary association under part I of this chapter prior to October 1, 1969, shall be a religious society within the meaning of section 33-264a and shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities thereof without further filing with the Secretary of the State. Each church and each religious society formed for public worship and established as a corporation under said part I of this chapter prior to October 1, 1969, shall be a religious corporation within the meaning of section 33-264a and shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities thereof without further filing with said office.
(b) Nothing in this part shall be construed as limiting or restricting the rights, powers, privileges, immunities or the practices of any church or religious society established or incorporated prior to October 1, 1969, under this chapter or under any other law or special charter of this state; nor as requiring any such church or religious society to alter or change any rule of discipline, custom or usage in respect to its policy or government; nor as interfering with the lawful acquisition, purchase, use, management, conveyance, sale or other disposition of any property, real or personal, owned or held on said date for public religious worship or otherwise by any such church or religious society; nor as interfering with the lawful receipt of any grants, donations or funds, in trust or otherwise, for any charitable, educational or ecclesiastical purposes, including but not limited to public religious worship or missionary purposes, by any such church or religious society; nor as interfering with the rights of any such church or religious society; to have succession by its corporate name for the time stated in its articles of association or of incorporation and, when no time is stated, perpetually; to sue and be sued and complain and defend in any court; to have and use a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; to elect in such manner as it may determine all necessary officers and to define their duties and obligations; and to make reasonable bylaws for its government, the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs and the management of property, including the holding, purchasing, selling or conveying of such property, real or personal, which it may have taken in payment of or as security for debts due to it.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 10, 11.)
History: (Revisor's note: In 2003 references in Subsecs. (a) and (b) to “chapter 598” and “said chapter” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “this chapter”.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-264l. - Prior rights and liabilities unaffected.

This part and the repeal of part I shall not impair or affect any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, duty, obligation, penalty, judgment or punishment incurred, prior to October 1, 1969, but the same may be enjoyed, asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same extent as if this part and said repeal had not been passed.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 13.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 33 - Corporations › Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies › Section 33-265. - Legal status and powers.

All ecclesiastical societies in this state, in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, shall be known in the law as parishes as well as ecclesiastical societies, and shall have power to receive and hold by gift, grant or purchase all property, real or personal, that has been or may be conveyed to them for maintaining religious worship according to the doctrine, discipline and worship of said church, and for the support of the educational and charitable institutions of the same, and shall have and exercise all the ordinary powers of bodies corporate.
(1949 Rev., S. 5374.)
Bequest to wardens and vestry is valid. 22 C. 132. A parish is a corporation; its rector is its agent and it can take a bequest for the benefit of the poor. 57 C. 275. Relation between church in this state and church in general; trust for its general purposes; is a charity which church cannot release. 67 C. 554. Bequest in trust for erection of a chapel considered and upheld. 74 C. 586. Cited. 224 C. 797.