ARTICLE 3. Types of Memberships [12420. - 12422.]

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP 3.

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Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 12420. Section 12420.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a corporation may issue memberships having different rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions, or conditions, as provided in its articles or bylaws. If the articles or bylaws authorize at least one class of voting memberships, a corporation may also authorize and issue additional classes of memberships, preferred or otherwise, that are divisible into a series or are nonvoting or both. (b) All worker-members shall have the rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions, or conditions as provided in the articles or bylaws. This membership shall not be divided into partial memberships. (c) A worker cooperative shall only make patronage distributions to the worker-member class.

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 12421. Section 12421.

Except as provided in the articles or bylaws, all memberships shall have the same rights, privileges, preferences, restrictions and conditions.

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 12422. Section 12422.

(a) Unless the corporation’s articles or bylaws so provide, memberships are not redeemable. A corporation may provide in its articles or bylaws for one or more classes or series of memberships which are redeemable, in whole or in part, for such consideration within such time or upon the happening of one or more specified events and upon the terms and conditions stated in the articles or bylaws. However, no membership shall actually be redeemed if prohibited by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12450). (b) Nothing in this section shall prevent a corporation from creating a sinking fund or similar provision for, or entering into an agreement for, the redemption or purchase of its memberships to the extent permitted by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12450).

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