Section 1: Contracts
Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, the Board, at any regularly scheduled meeting or any special meeting called for the purpose, may authorize any officer or officers, agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name and on the behalf of the Cooperative, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.
Section 2: Checks, Drafts, Etc.
Except as otherwise provided by law or in these Bylaws, all checks, drafts, or other orders for payment of money, and all notes, bonds or other evidence of indebtedness issued in the name of the Cooperative shall be signed by such officer, officers, agent or agents of the Cooperative and in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by resolution of the Board of Trustees.
Section 3: Deposits
All funds of the Cooperative shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the Cooperative in such bank or banks as the Board may select.
Section 4: Fiscal Year
The fiscal year of the Cooperative shall begin on the first day of January of each year and end on the thirty-first day of December of the same year.