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Rural Electric Cooperative Act

New Mexico · Electric, Gas and Water Utilities · §§ 62-15-1 to 62-15-9.2 · 41 sections

Overview

The Rural Electric Cooperative Act provides a framework for organizing and operating member-owned nonprofit cooperatives that supply electric power and related services, principally to rural areas. It sets out the mechanics of corporate life for these cooperatives — incorporation, articles and bylaws, membership and voting, a governing board of trustees and officers, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion of existing corporations, and dissolution — along with rules on their powers, subsidiary activities, mortgages and property, refunds to members, limits on member liability for cooperative debts, fees, taxation, and the treatment of out-of-state cooperatives. In some enactments the act also carries renewable energy provisions, including portfolio standards, renewable energy certificates, and energy efficiency requirements administered with regulatory oversight.

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