SECTION 5 – MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CONNECTION FEE

Fifth, RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. will act as a RESPONSIBLE STEWARD OF THE ENVIRONMENT by providing electric power and other services in a fashion that protects the special beauty of its service area, avoids environmental degradation and recognizes that this non-profit, consumer-owned cooperative organization is an integral part of a united and living community.

Sixth, RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., knowing that its future and that of rural America lies within the youth, will assist and support the youth of the service area of the Cooperative in their education so as to equip them to understand and make appropriate decisions affecting their individual lives and the lives of others.

PURPOSES OF RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.

1.The primary purposes of Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., Lindsay, Oklahoma are:

2.To make electrical and/or other energy available to its members at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and good management and promoting and extending the use thereof.

3.To engage in a business permitted under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)12.

4.To operate the Corporation as a non-profit cooperative for the benefit of its members.

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