35-16-311. Meetings -- voting -- proxies. At the organization meeting or any meeting of the stockholders or members of a corporation or district organized under the provisions hereof, each member and each unit of membership in acres, production, or other evidence of membership shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy. Corporate action at such meeting shall be determined by a majority of the membership and a majority of the acres, production, or units of membership, as may have been adopted. Any group of members of a subdivision or subdistrict of the corporation or district as may be defined and designated by the board of directors or bylaws shall, at a subdivision or subdistrict meeting called for the purpose, elect a delegate or proxy to represent all of the membership in the subdivision or subdistrict at any such meeting. Where any subdivision or subdistrict fails to elect such delegate, any individual member may give proxy, provided no person shall be entitled to act as proxy who is not himself a member of the corporation or district and a resident agricultural or horticultural freeholder in the state of Montana for not less than 3 years immediately preceding such meeting.

     History: En. Sec. 8, Art. 2, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6413, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6413, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-317.