2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 300 - 319B Corporations
Chapter 308A Cooperatives
Section 308A.641 VOTING IN COOPERATIVES CONSTITUTED ENTIRELY OR PARTIALLY OF OTHER COOPERATIVES OR ASSOCIATIONS.

308A.641 VOTING IN COOPERATIVES CONSTITUTED ENTIRELY OR PARTIALLY
OF OTHER COOPERATIVES OR ASSOCIATIONS.
Subdivision 1. Voting by members that are cooperatives or associations. A cooperative
that is constituted entirely or partially of other cooperatives or associations may authorize by the
articles or the bylaws for affiliated cooperative members to have an additional vote for:
(1) a stipulated amount of business transacted between the member cooperative and the
cooperative central organization;
(2) a stipulated number of members in the member cooperative;
(3) a certain stipulated amount of equity allocated to or held by the member cooperative in
the cooperative central organization; or
(4) a combination of methods in clauses (1) to (3).
Subd. 2. Voting by members who are not cooperatives or associations. A cooperative that
is constituted partially of other cooperatives or associations and partially of members who are not
cooperatives or associations, and that has its members who are not cooperatives or associations
organized into local units of members, may, by the articles or the bylaws, authorize the delegates
elected by its members who are not cooperatives or associations, and who are organized into local
units of members, to have an additional vote for:
(1) a stipulated amount of business transacted between the members in the voting units
and the cooperative;
(2) a certain stipulated amount of equity allocated to or held by the members of the voting
units in the cooperative; or
(3) a combination of methods in clauses (1) and (2).
History: 1989 c 144 art 1 s 35; 1989 c 356 s 3; 1995 c 150 s 3