87. Every union shall establish and maintain a reserve consisting of the initiation fees, if any, and of at least ten per cent of its annual operating surplus.
Such percentage of the annual operating surplus shall be reduced to five per cent when such reserve becomes greater than ten per cent of the amount represented by the savings, deposits, loans of the union and sums paid on its common shares, as computed at the end of the last fiscal year.
Such reserve shall not be divided among the members in whole or in part.
R. S. 1964, c. 293, s. 86; 1970, c. 59, s. 30.