1. Every association formed under NRS 81.170 to 81.270, inclusive, must, within 40 days after it so becomes an association, adopt a code of bylaws for the government and management of the association, not inconsistent with NRS 81.170 to 81.270, inclusive. A majority of all the associates is necessary to the adoption of bylaws, and the bylaws must be written in a book and signed by the members adopting them.

2. The bylaws cannot be amended or modified except by the vote of a majority of all the members after notice of the proposed amendment is given as the bylaws may provide.

3. The bylaws must provide for the amount of the indebtedness which the association may incur.

4. The association may, by its code of bylaws, provide for:

(a) The time, place and manner of calling and conducting its meetings.

(b) The number of directors, the time of their election, their term of office, the mode and manner of their removal, the mode and manner of filling vacancies in the board caused by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, and the power and authority of directors, and how many thereof are necessary to the exercise of the powers of the directors or of any officer.

(c) The number of the officers, if any, other than the directors, and their term of office, the mode of removal, and the method of filling a vacancy.

(d) The mode and manner of conducting business.

(e) The mode and manner of conducting elections, and may provide for voting by ballots forwarded by mail or otherwise, but the method must secure the secrecy of the ballot.

(f) The mode and manner of succession of membership, and the qualifications of membership, and on what conditions, and when membership ceases, and the mode and manner of expulsion or refusal of a member, but an expelled or refused member is entitled to have a board of arbitration consisting of three persons, one selected by the board of directors, one by the expelled or refused member, and a third by the other two, appraise his or her interest in the association in either money, property or labor, as the directors choose, and to have the money, property or labor so awarded him or her paid or delivered, or performed within 40 days after expulsion or refusal.

(g) The amount of any membership fee, and the dues, installments or labor which each member is required to pay or perform, if any, and the manner of collection or enforcement, and for forfeiture or sale of a member’s interest for nonpayment or nonperformance.

(h) The method, time and manner of permitting the withdrawal of a member, if at all, and how the member’s interest must be ascertained, either in money or property, and within what time it must be paid or delivered to the member.

(i) The mode and manner of ascertaining the interest of a member at his or her death, if his or her legal representatives or none of them desire to succeed to the membership, and whether the value of the deceased member’s interest must be paid to his or her legal representatives in money, property or labor, and within what time it must be paid, delivered or performed, but a withdrawing member or the legal representative of a deceased member has the right to a board of arbitration the same as is provided for expelled or refused members.

(j) Such other things as may be proper to carry out the purpose for which the association was formed.

[Part 2:60:1901; RL § 1250; NCL § 1585] + [4:60:1901; A 1941, 326; 1931 NCL § 1587] — (NRS A 1991, 1250; 2003, 3119)