Effective – 28 Aug 1949 274.210. Marketing contracts — enforcement. — 1. The bylaws or the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, specific sums to be paid by the members to the association upon the breach by him of any provision of the marketing contract regarding the sale or delivery or withholding of products; […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1996 274.220. Membership in other corporations — functions. — 1. An association may organize, form, operate, control, have an interest in, or be a member of a corporation or other entity and engage in preserving, drying, processing, canning, packing, storing, handling, shipping, utilizing, manufacturing, marketing or selling of the agricultural products […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1996 274.230. Two or more associations may act jointly. — Any association may, upon resolution adopted by its board of directors, enter into all necessary and proper contracts, and arrangements with a corporation, person or other entity, for the more economical carrying on of its business or any part or parts […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 274.240. Association of other state may do business in state, when. — Any association heretofore or hereafter organized under generally similar laws of another state shall be allowed to carry on any proper activities, operations and functions in this state upon compliance with the general regulations applicable to foreign corporations […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 274.250. Use of words “nonprofit cooperative” prohibited. — No person, firm, corporation, or association, hereafter organized or hereafter applying to do business in this state as a farmers’ marketing association for the sale of farm products, shall be entitled to use the words “nonprofit cooperative” as part of its corporate […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 274.260. Efforts to break contract a misdemeanor. — Any person or persons or any corporation whose officers or employees knowingly induce or attempt to induce any member of an association hereunder or organized under similar statutes of other states with similar restrictions and rights and operating in this state under […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 274.270. Soliciting breach of contract — liability. — Any person, firm or corporation conducting a warehouse within this state who solicits or persuades or permits any member of any association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association by accepting or receiving such member’s products for sale or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 274.280. Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly. — No association organized hereunder and complying with the terms hereof shall be deemed to be a conspiracy or a combination in restraint of trade or an illegal monopoly; or an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily nor […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 274.290. General corporation laws apply to association — exceptions. — The provisions of the general corporation laws of this state and all powers and rights thereunder, shall apply to the associations organized hereunder, except where such provisions are in conflict with or inconsistent with the express provisions of this chapter. […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 274.300. Provisions of law in conflict not applicable — exemptions. — 1. Any provisions of law which are in conflict with this chapter shall be construed as not applying to the associations herein provided for. 2. Any exemptions whatsoever under any and all existing laws applying to agricultural products in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1996 274.310. Services provided by department of agriculture to small family owned agricultural producers or processors, cooperative marketing, market development, information dissemination — annual report submitted to general assembly, when. — 1. The department of agriculture shall provide assistance to persons engaged in agricultural production in the following areas: (1) Cooperative […]
