149. Only the proportion of the operating surplus or surplus earnings equal to the proportion of business done by the members or the auxiliary members, as the case may be, with the cooperative or with a business corporation or partnership in which the cooperative holds shares or other securities, may be allotted to members and auxiliary members. Such operating surplus or surplus earnings shall be allotted in the form of rebates.
1982, c. 26, s. 149; 1995, c. 67, s. 92; 2009, c. 52, s. 559.