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Ala. Code § 37-6-2 (2026)

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Cooperative, nonprofit membership corporations may be organized under this chapter for the purpose of supplying electric energy and promoting and extending the use thereof, for the purpose of promoting and extending the use of water and water systems and sanitary sewer systems and for the purpose of providing to its members and other persons services solely for the reception of television programming through the use of television program decryption equipment and subscriber owned, leased or rented satellite dishes, but such equipment shall not be utilized for the bi-directional transmission of voice, data or other signal. A cooperative providing television reception services shall enter into pole attachment agreements with cable television companies permitting cable television companies to attach their lines to the cooperative’s poles at prevailing market rates.

Cooperatives heretofore organized under this chapter may, in addition to the purposes for which they were organized engage in any of the activities authorized or described in the preceding paragraph of this section, whether or not the bylaws of the cooperative provide for such activity.

(Acts 1939, No. 231, p. 371; Code 1940, T. 18, §32; Acts 1977, No. 577, p. 764, §1; Acts 1987, No. 87-787, p. 1541, §1.)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2003–2017 · leading case: Pamela Caver v. Cent. Alabama Elec. Coop., 845 F.3d 1135 (11th Cir. 2017).
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Pamela Caver v. Cent. Alabama Elec. Coop., 845 F.3d 1135 (11th Cir. 2017). · cites it 2× “” Ala. Code § 37-6-2 . Other states approved similar legislation, and by 1968 there were “nearly 1,000 rural electric cooperatives which own and operate electric systems financed by the United States, *1139 acting through REA, pursuant to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.”
S. Pine Elec. Co-op. v. Burch, 878 So. 2d 1120 (Ala. 2003). · cites it 2× “Southern Pine is a "[c]ooperative, nonprofit membership corporation[]," as defined by Ala.Code 1975, § 37-6-2, "organized under [Ala.”
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