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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60554</law_id><section_number>56-231.46</section_number><catch_line>Members</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9.1">Utility Consumer Services Cooperatives and Utility Aggregation Cooperatives</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Utility Aggregation Cooperatives Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> may have one or more classes of <span class="dictionary">members</span>. If the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> has more than one class of <span class="dictionary">members</span>, the designation of each class and the qualifications and rights of the <span class="dictionary">members</span> of each class shall be set forth in the bylaws of the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>. <a id="paragraph-221355" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/56-231.46/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Such <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> to its <span class="dictionary">members</span> nontransferable certificates of membership. <span class="dictionary">Members</span> shall be entitled to vote in accordance with the articles of incorporation or, if the articles of incorporation so provide, the bylaws. The liability of each <span class="dictionary">member</span> shall be limited to the unpaid portion of its membership fee or subscription to capital stock and its contractual <span class="dictionary">obligations</span> to the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>. The <span class="dictionary">equity</span> of <span class="dictionary">members</span> of a nonstock <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> shall be in proportion to the <span class="dictionary">patronage capital</span> paid such <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>. <a id="paragraph-221356" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/56-231.46/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No <span class="dictionary">person</span> shall become or remain a <span class="dictionary">member</span> unless it has complied with the terms and conditions of membership contained in the bylaws of the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>. <a id="paragraph-221357" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/56-231.46/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1999, c. 874.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
