35-18-313. Voting districts. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the bylaws may provide that the territory in which a cooperative supplies electric energy or telephone service to its members shall be divided into two or more voting districts and that in respect to each such voting district:
     (a) a designated number of trustees shall be elected by the members residing therein;
     (b) a designated number of delegates shall be elected by the members residing therein; or
     (c) both such trustees and delegates shall be elected by such members.
     (2) In any such case the bylaws shall prescribe the manner in which such voting districts and the members thereof and the delegates and trustees, if any, elected therefrom shall function and the powers of the delegates, which may include the power to elect trustees.
     (3) No member at any voting district meeting and no delegate at any meeting shall vote by proxy or by mail.

     History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 172, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 80, L. 1957; R.C.M. 1947, 14-510.