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Chapter 421

26 sections

§421-1 Definitions for agricultural cooperative associations

§421-2 What agricultural cooperatives can do

§421-3 Who can start a farm cooperative

§421-4 Articles of incorporation

§421-5 Cooperative name use rules

§421-6 Filing and recording incorporation papers

§421-7 How to change the association's articles of incorporation

§421-8 How the association adopts and changes its bylaws

§421-9 What powers an association has

§421-10 Who can join and what members are responsible for

§421-11 Membership and stock rules for cooperatives

§421-12 How member meetings are called and noticed

§421-13 Who runs the association and how directors are chosen

§421-14 How members can remove a director

§421-15 Choosing officers for the cooperative board

§421-16 Removing an officer

§421-17 When members can vote on board decisions

§421-18 Contracts between the association and its members

§421-19 Crime for breaking a cooperative's marketing contract or spreading false reports

§421-20 Farm cooperatives are not illegal monopolies

§421-21 Voluntary dissolution

§421-21.6 How agricultural cooperatives can merge with other businesses

§421-22 Annual report filing requirements for associations

§421-23 Tax exemption filing

§421-24 Existing agricultural cooperatives are covered by this law

§421-25 When general corporation laws apply to cooperatives