§ 17-4669 — Excess revenues, distribution to members

Kansas § 17-4669

• Jurisdiction: Kansas
• Ch. 17: CORPORATIONS
• Art. 46: ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, NONPROFIT, MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS

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(a) Except as otherwise determined by a vote of the members of the cooperative, revenues of a cooperative for any fiscal year in excess of the following shall be distributed by the cooperative to its members in accordance with the bylaws of the cooperative:
(1) Amounts necessary to defray the expenses of operation and maintenance of facilities of the cooperative during such fiscal year;
(2) amounts necessary to pay interest and principal obligations of the cooperative coming due in such fiscal year;
(3) amounts necessary to finance, or to provide a reserve for the financing of, the construction or acquisition by the cooperative of additional facilities to the extent determined by the board of directors;
(4) amounts necessary to provide a reasonable reserve for working capital;
(5) amounts necessary to provide a reserve for the payment of indebtedness of the cooperative in an amount not less than the total of the interest and principal payments in respect thereof required to be made during the next following fiscal year.
(b) Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the payment by a cooperative of all or any part of its indebtedness prior to the date when the same shall become due.

Legislative History

L. 2003, ch. 81, § 19; July 1.