TITLE 1. CORPORATIONS 100-14631›DIVISION 3. CORPORATIONS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES 12000-14631›PART 2. COOPERATIVE CORPORATIONS 12200-12704›CHAPTER 3. Members 12400-12446›ARTICLE 3. Types of Memberships 12420-12422
§ 12420
California Corporations Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a corporation may issue memberships having different rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions, or conditions, as provided in its articles or bylaws. If the articles or bylaws authorize at least one class of voting memberships, a corporation may also authorize and issue additional classes of memberships, preferred or otherwise, that are divisible into a series or are nonvoting or both.
(b) All worker-members shall have the rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions, or conditions as provided in the articles or bylaws. This membership shall not be divided into partial memberships.
(c) A worker cooperative shall only make patronage distributions to the worker-member class.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 192, Sec. 16. (AB 816) Effective January 1, 2016.)
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