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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>370509</law_id><section_number>56-496</section_number><catch_line>Disposition of property</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="121" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="32" identifier="16">Telephone Cooperatives Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> may sell, lease or dispose of any of its property other than property which, in the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the <span class="dictionary">board</span>, is neither necessary nor useful in operating or maintaining the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">system</span> and which in any one year shall not exceed ten per centum in value of the value of all the property of the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>, unless authorized so to do by the votes of at least a two-thirds majority of its <span class="dictionary">members</span>; provided, however, that a <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span>: (i) may mortgage or otherwise encumber its <span class="dictionary">assets</span> by a vote of at least two-thirds of its <span class="dictionary">board</span> of directors; or (ii) may sell or transfer its <span class="dictionary">assets</span> to another <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> upon the vote of a majority of its <span class="dictionary">members</span> at any regular or special meeting if the notice of such meeting contains a copy of the terms of the proposed sale or transfer.</p></section></text><history>1950, p. 593; 1956, c. 434; 1979, c. 103.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
