BILL REQ. #:  H-1180.1 



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HOUSE BILL 1772
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State of Washington58th Legislature2003 Regular Session

By Representatives Hunt, Schoesler, Linville, Armstrong, Sump, Newhouse, Mastin, Delvin, Grant, Eickmeyer, Mielke and Rockefeller

Read first time 02/10/2003.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to eligibility to be a director of a cooperative association; and amending RCW 23.86.080.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 23.86.080 and 1989 c 307 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Associations shall be managed by a board of not less than three directors (which may be referred to as "trustees"). The directors shall be elected by ((and from)) the members of the association at such time, in such manner, and for such term of office as the bylaws may prescribe, and shall hold office during the term for which they were elected and until their successors are elected and qualified.
     (2) Except as provided in RCW 23.86.087, any vacancy occurring in the board of directors, and any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors, may be filled by the board of directors unless the articles of incorporation or the bylaws provide that a vacancy or directorship so created shall be filled in some other manner. A director elected or appointed to fill a vacancy shall be elected or appointed for the unexpired term of the predecessor in office.

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