Section 6-06-07 - Membership in credit union1. The membership of a credit union consists of the incorporators and such other persons as may be elected to membership. Each member shall subscribe to and pay the initial installment on at least one share in the credit union and pay the entrance fee as provided by the bylaws of the credit union. Organizations, incorporated or otherwise, composed principally of the same general group as the credit union membership may be members of the credit union.2. Credit union membership is limited to groups having a common bond of occupation or association or to groups residing within a geographic area that does not extend beyond a seventy-five-mile [120.70-kilometer] radius of the home office of the credit union. Except as provided by this section, an office of a credit union that has a field of membership defined by geography may not be located more than seventy-five miles [120.70 kilometers] from the credit union main office. The restrictions on location and field of membership under this section do not apply to a credit union office location or field of membership approved by the board before January 1, 2005. In the event of a merger between credit unions with different geographic fields of membership, the surviving credit union may expand the field of membership to include the geographic field of membership of the merged credit union. After December 31, 2004, a credit union may not establish and operate a new branch office that is outside the credit union's field of membership. A branch office may not expand the geographic field of membership of a credit union.3. The board shall adopt a procedure through which all interested persons, including banking institutions and credit unions, are afforded reasonable opportunity to submit data, views, or arguments, orally or in writing; to obtain a hearing; and to intervene as a party to a proceeding concerning a proposed application for a credit union to expand the credit union's field of membership.