2020 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 49 - Electric Cooperatives
Section 33-49-440. Voting.
A member is entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting. Voting must be in person. For meetings that include the election of cooperative trustees, polling locations must be open for a minimum of four hours.
When at least one of the races for cooperative trustee is contested prior to the annual meeting, each cooperative must provide a method by which members of the cooperative may cast a ballot in an election for trustees on a day other than, and before, the annual meeting day. The method for this alternative early voting should allow for voting by cooperative members from the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and should include reasonable accommodations for elderly, disabled, or infirmed members as permitted by this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 12-1034; 1952 Code Section 12-1034; 1942 Code Section 8555-98; 1939 (41) 240; 1989 Act No. 75, Section 1; 2019 Act No. 56 (H.3145), Section 5.B, eff August 1, 2020.
Editor's Note
2019 Act No. 56, Section 16, provides as follows:
"SECTION 16. Where the provisions of new or revised 1976 Code sections or subsections contained in this act conflict with provisions of the bylaws of an electric cooperative, the provisions of this act control and the cooperative, as permitted by Section 33-49-280, shall amend and conform its bylaw provisions accordingly."
Effect of Amendment
2019 Act No. 56, Section 5.B, rewrote the section, requiring polling locations to be open for a minimum of four hours and permitting early voting for meetings at which trustees are to be elected.
