2022 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 49 - Electric Cooperatives
Section 33-49-615. Disclosure of compensation and benefits.

(A) The board of trustees must disclose at a location accessible and visible to the cooperative membership on its website by May fifteenth of each year, all compensation or benefits by category paid to or provided for board members during the previous calendar year. For purposes of this section, categories include, but are not limited to:

(1) daily per diem amount;

(2) total per diem compensation for attendance at regular meetings of the board of trustees;

(3) total per diem compensation for attendance at special meetings of the board, including board of trustee committee meetings;

(4) total per diem compensation for attendance at meetings of cooperative service organizations;

(5) total per diem compensation for trustee training and certification;

(6) total expenses paid or reimbursed, including mileage, subsistence, entertainment or travel expenses paid in conjunction with subsection (A)(2) through (5);

(7) the total value of and a description of any other fringe benefits provided; and

(8) the total value of and a description of any goods or services required to be disclosed by Section 33-49-630(C)(3).

(B) The provisions of this section first apply to the 2019 calendar year with the unaudited disclosures required by this section to be made no later than May 15, 2020.

HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 56 (H.3145), Section 7, eff May 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."