Title 10, Corporations and Associations

(a) The registered agent of a cooperative is an agent of the cooperative upon whom process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the cooperative may be served. (b) When a cooperative fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in the state, or when…

(a) Service on the commissioner is made by delivering to and leaving with the commissioner, or with a clerk having charge of the corporation department of the commissioner's office, duplicate copies of the process, notice, or demand. The commissioner shall immediately have one co…

Nothing in AS 10.25.500 and 10.25.510 limits or affects the right to serve process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on a cooperative in any other manner permitted by law.

(a) The commissioner shall establish by regulation and charge and collect fees for (1) filing articles of incorporation; (2) filing articles of amendment; (3) filing articles of consolidation or merger; (4) filing articles of conversion; (5) filing certificate of election to diss…

(a) Cooperatives under this chapter shall apply for a business license and pay the initial license fee as provided by the Alaska Business License Act (AS 43.70), as amended. (b) Before March 1 of each year, (1) each telephone cooperative shall pay to the state, instead of state a…

The telephone cooperative gross revenue tax shall be computed as follows: (1) one percent of gross revenue for cooperatives that have furnished telephone service to consumers for less than five years as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year; (2) two percent of gross reven…

(a) The electric cooperative tax shall be computed as follows: (1) one-fourth mill per kilowatt hour for cooperatives that have furnished electric energy and power to consumers for less than five years as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year; (2) one-half mill per kilowa…

Gross revenue of a telephone cooperative includes all revenue earned from local and toll services.

The proceeds of the telephone cooperative gross revenue tax and the electric cooperative tax, less the amount expended by the state in their collection, shall be refunded to an organized borough or a city of any class incorporated under state law, in the proportion that the reven…

The inventory and fixtures of a business operated by a cooperative incidental to the furnishing of central station electric service, including, without limitation, appliance stores or departments, are not exempt from ad valorem taxes. The inventory and accounts of these businesse…

A telephone cooperative organized or doing business under this chapter, hereafter designated as applicant, may require a person furnishing telephone service to the public in the state, hereafter designated as company, to interconnect its lines, facilities or systems with, or othe…

If a cooperative has filed defective articles of incorporation, or has failed to do all things necessary to perfect its corporate organization, it may file corrected articles of incorporation, or amend the original articles, and do and perform all acts and things necessary for th…

Cooperative, nonprofit, membership corporations may be organized under this chapter for the purpose of supplying electric energy or telephone or related telecommunications service and promoting and extending the use of these services.

This chapter applies to all nonprofit cooperatives organized under any other law of the state for the purpose of supplying electric energy and power, or telephone or related telecommunications service, to its members, or for the purpose of promoting and extending the use of elect…

This chapter is complete in itself and is controlling. The provisions of any other law of the state relating to the organization of a corporation, except as provided in this chapter, do not apply to a cooperative organized under this chapter. The enumeration of an object, purpose…

In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development; (2) “cooperative” means a corporation organized under this chapter or that becomes subject to this chapter in the manner provided in this chapter; (3) “person” means a nat…

This chapter may be cited as the Electric and Telephone Cooperative Act.