MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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per centum of the number of its members, provided,

however, that the furnishing by a cooperative of electric

cold storage or processing plant service shall not be

deemed to be distributing, selling, supplying or
disposing of electric energy;

(e)   To assist persons to whom electric energy is or
will be supplied by the cooperative in wiring their
premises and in acquiring and installing electrical and
plumbing appliances, equipment, fixtures and apparatus by
the financing thereof, or otherwise, and in connection
therewith to wire, or cause to be wired, such premises,
and to purchase, acquire, lease as lessor or lessee,
sell, distribute, install and repair such electric and
plumbing appliances, equipment, fixtures and apparatus;

(f)   To assist persons to whom electric energy is or
will be supplied by the cooperative in constructing,
equipping, maintaining and operating electric cold
storage or processing plants, by the financing thereof or
otherwise;

(g)   To construct, purchase, lease as lessee, or
otherwise acquire, and to equip, maintain, and operate,
and to sell, assign, convey, lease as lessor, mortgage,
pledge, or otherwise dispose of or encumber, electric
transmission and distribution lines or systems, electric
generating plants, electric cold storage or processing
plants, lands, buildings, structures, dams, plants and
equipment, and any other real or personal property,
tangible or intangible, which shall be deemed necessary,
convenient or appropriate to accomplish the purpose for
which the cooperative is organized;

(h) To purchase, lease as lessee, or otherwise
acquire, and to use, and exercise and to sell, assign,
convey, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or
encumber, franchises, rights, privileges, licenses and
easements;

(i) To borrow money and otherwise contract
indebtedness, and to issue notes, bonds, and other
evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment
thereof by mortgage, pledge, or deed of trust of, or any
other encumbrance upon, any or all of its then owned or
after—acquired real or personal property, assets,
franchises, revenues or income;

(j) To construct, maintain and operate electric
transmission and distribution lines along, upon, under
and across publicly owned lands and public thoroughfares,
including, without limitation, all roads, highways,
streets, alleys, bridges and causeways, after first
securing the proper assent of the municipal authorities
of the city or town, or of the county commissioners OR
COUNTY COUNCIL of the county in which such electric lines
are proposed to be constructed, under such reasonable and
proper regulations and conditions as may be prescribed in