CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5726

Chapter 252, Laws of 2003

58th Legislature
2003 Regular Session



COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS--DIRECTORS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/03

Passed by the Senate March 19, 2003
  YEAS 49   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 14, 2003
  YEAS 93   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5726 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

MILTON H. DOUMIT JR.
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Secretary
Approved May 12, 2003.








GARY LOCKE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 12, 2003 - 4:31 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5726
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Passed Legislature - 2003 Regular Session
State of Washington58th Legislature2003 Regular Session

By Senators Morton, Rasmussen, Brandland, Parlette, Swecker and Jacobsen

Read first time 02/07/2003.   Referred to Committee on Commerce & Trade.



     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.


         Passed by the Senate March 19, 2003.
         Passed by the House April 14, 2003.
         Approved by the Governor May 12, 2003.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 12, 2003.