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Election Procedures for MCREA Board of Directors

Nomination of Directors

Nominations for the office of director shall be made by any fifteen or more members in writing over their signatures affixed to nominating petitions not earlier than sixty-five days prior to the meeting at which the election is to be held. Such nominating petitions shall be filed with the board of directors no later than forty-five days prior to the meeting at which the election is to be held.

Election by Districts

For the purpose of electing directors, the territory served by the Cooperative is hereby divided into three separate districts designated as Districts 1, 2, and 3. District No. 1 shall include all territory lying west of a north and south line drawn through the center of Range 59; District No. 2 shall include all territory lying east of a north south line drawn through the center of Range 59, extending to and including all of Range 58 and 57; District No. 3 shall include all territory lying east of the easterly boundary line of Range 57. There shall be elected from each of the aforesaid districts three directors in the manner hereinafter set forth.

Qualification and Tenure

No person shall be eligible to become or remain a director who is not a member of the Cooperative in good standing and whose principal place of residence is not located within the director district from which he or she has been nominated, elected or appointed. Further, no person shall be eligible to be nominated or elected or appointed to the office of director unless such person is a natural person who, in his or her name and capacity, shall have been a member of the Cooperative for not less than three years prior to the day of the election or appointment. Further, no member shall be eligible to become or remain a director or to hold any position of trust in the Cooperative who is in any way employed by, or financially interested in a competing enterprise, or a business selling electric energy or supplies to the Cooperative, or a business primarily engaged in selling electrical appliances, fixtures or supplies to the members of the Cooperative. When a membership is held jointly, so long as one of the joint members shall serve as a director, the other joint member or members shall be ineligible to be elected or appointed to the office of director. At each annual meeting following the year 1960, one director shall be elected by ballot from each district, by and from the members of the Cooperative, not voting by district, to serve for a term of three years or until his or her successor has been elected and has qualified. Each member shall have the right to cast one vote for each director to be elected at any annual meeting and the number of candidates to be elected from each district equal to the number of directors to be elected from each district who receive the highest number of votes shall be elected for the term hereinabove specified. The election of directors shall be done by written or printed ballot, except that election by voice vote by and from the members at the annual meeting shall be allowed to elect a director for any election district if, for that district, only one candidate has been nominated for election. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to affect, in any manner whatsoever, the validity of any action taken at any meeting of the board of directors.