§ 54-158 — Cooperative associations may form subsidiaries

North Carolina § 54-158

• Jurisdiction: North Carolina
• Ch. 54: Cooperative Organizations
• Art. 21: Powers, Duties, and Liabilities
• Subch. v: marketing associations

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Nothing in this Subchapter shall prevent an association organizing, forming, operating, owning, controlling, having an interest in, owning stock of, or being a member of any other corporation (hereinafter referred to as a subsidiary corporation) from including or having included in the charter or bylaws of such subsidiary corporation provisions for the control or management of said subsidiary corporation by such association to such extent as shall by votes of the board of directors of such association, and the majority of the stockholders of such subsidiary corporation, be declared to be for the best interests of said association and said subsidiary corporation respectively. Such provisions may be so included in any such charter or bylaws and may by way of illustration, but not of limitation, include the following:
(1) Representation of said association on the board of directors or other governing body of said subsidiary corporation, upon such terms as may be deemed advisable.
(2) Ownership by an association of an interest or interests in a subsidiary corporation represented by stock of any class thereof, or otherwise, to such extent and upon such terms, and with such voting power, as may be deemed advisable.
(3) Participation by said association in the profits of such subsidiary corporation to such extent and upon such terms as shall be deemed advisable.

Legislative History

(1933, c. 350, s. 1.)