2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 62 - Electric, Gas and Water Utilities
Section 15 Rural Electric Cooperatives
Section 62-15-10 Voting districts.

62-15-10. Voting districts.

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Rural Electric Cooperative Act, the bylaws may provide that the territory in which a cooperative supplies electric energy to its members shall be divided into two or more voting districts and that, in respect of each such voting district:

(1) a designated number of trustees shall be elected by the members residing in that district;

(2) a designated number of delegates shall be elected by the members residing in that district; or

(3) both trustees and delegates shall be elected by the members residing in that district.

B. The bylaws shall prescribe the manner in which voting districts, and the members, delegates and trustees thereof, if any, elected therefrom, shall function. The bylaws shall also set forth the powers of the delegates, which may include the power to elect trustees. No delegate at any meeting shall vote by proxy or by mail.

C. Voting by members at voting district meetings shall be in person, unless otherwise provided in the bylaws. The bylaws shall prescribe the conditions under which voting by mail shall be exercised.

History: Laws 1939, ch. 47, 10; 1941 Comp., 48-410; 1953 Comp., 45-4-10; 2011, ch. 38, 1.