No mutual aid cooperative or cooperative association that is a telecommunications company as defined in section 49-21-01 may sell, transfer, or convey, within the period of any single calendar year, physical plant in excess of five percent in value of the cooperative, based upon the most recent audit of the books of the cooperative, unless consent has been obtained by vote of not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the cooperative cast at any regular or special meeting called for that purpose, after notice in writing to all the membership of the cooperative not less than twenty nor more than thirty days prior to the date of such meeting. Nothing in this section prohibits the transfer of assets in exchange for physical plant of equal monetary value to any public or private person or organization.