S-24 - Act respecting cooperative agricultural associations

Section 19 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

19. (1)  The general meeting shall consist of all shareholder-producers. When, however, the members of a cooperative association exceed one hundred shareholder-producers, the board of directors may, for the purpose of reducing the number of members of a general meeting, pass a by-law by which the territory of the association shall be so divided that each such division shall elect one or more delegates. Such delegates shall represent their division at the general meeting and shall be entitled to as many votes as there are shareholder-producers in the said division.

(2)  A general meeting shall be held every year on the date and at the place fixed by the by-laws of the association or, in the absence of such provisions, in the month of January on the date and at the place determined by the directors.

(3)  The general meeting shall elect the members of the board of directors and an auditor. All such persons shall remain in office until their successors are elected at the next annual general meeting.

It shall also, if necessary, establish a list of persons from which the board of directors shall designate, in the order fixed in the list, the delegate or delegates and the substitute or substitutes to the annual general meeting or any special general meeting of the Société coopérative fédérée des agriculteurs de la province de Québec, in conformity with the act governing the said Société.

The annual general meeting or a special general meeting may, however, delegate to the board of directors the power to designate such delegate or delegates, or such substitute or substitutes.

For the choice of the delegates and substitutes to the annual general meeting or to any special general meeting of the Société coopérative fédérée des agriculteurs de la province de Québec held during the year 1978, the board of directors of each association affiliated with the Société is authorized to designate itself the delegate or delegates and the substitute or substitutes.

(4)  The terms of office of the members of the board of directors may be increased to two or three years, by by-law. In that case, the members of the board of directors shall be partly replaced by rotation every year as determined in the said by-law.

(5)  For the purpose of electing directors, the general meeting, by by-law, may divide the territory of the association, assign to each division one or more directors and determine how each shall be nominated and elected.

(6)  The first meeting may be called at any time by two of the members of the association, by means of a notice deposited in the post-office of the locality where the principal place of business is situated, enclosed in an envelope post-paid and addressed to each shareholder-producer at least eight days before such meeting.

(7)  Every director of a farmers’ club, agricultural society, breeding syndicate, society for the manufacture of dairy products or other cooperative society, which is a member of a cooperative association, may be appointed a director of such cooperative association and shall remain in office until the election of his successor, even if he ceases to be a director of his society.

(8)  The president, or, failing him, the vice-president of an agricultural society, a farmers’ club, a breeding syndicate, a society for the manufacture of dairy products or other cooperative society, which is a shareholder, may represent such association at general meetings of shareholders of the cooperative association, and vote in the name of the association which he represents.

(9)  General meetings shall afterwards be called by the president or, failing him, by the vice-president, by a post-paid letter sent to those who should form part thereof, at least eight days before the day fixed for the meeting.

R. S. 1964, c. 124, s. 19; 1977, c. 37, s. 1.