2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 7 - Corporations and Associations
Associations
Article 56 - Cooperatives
Part 5 - Powers and Purposes: Application of Other Laws
§ 7-56-503. Remedies for breach of marketing or purchasing contract
(1) The bylaws or the marketing or purchasing contracts of an agricultural cooperative may fix as liquidated damages specific sums to be paid by a member to the cooperative upon the breach by the member of any provision of the marketing or purchasing contract regarding the sale, purchase, receipt, or delivery or withholding of products or other goods and may further provide that the member will pay all costs, premiums for bonds, expenses, and fees if any action is brought upon the contract by the cooperative. All such provisions shall be valid and enforceable in the courts of this state, and clauses providing for liquidated damages shall be enforceable as such and shall not be regarded as penalties.
(2) In the event of any breach or threatened breach of a marketing or purchasing contract by a member, the cooperative shall be entitled to an injunction to prevent the further breach of the contract and to a decree of specific performance of the contract. Pending the adjudication of the action and upon filing a sufficient bond and verified complaint showing the breach or threatened breach, the cooperative shall be entitled to a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the member.
(3) In any action upon a marketing contract, it shall be conclusively presumed that a landowner, landlord, or lessor is able to control the delivery of products or other goods produced on such landowner's, landlord's, or lessor's land by tenants or others whose tenancy or possession or work on such land or the terms of whose tenancy or possession or labor on such land was created or changed after execution by the landowner, landlord, or lessor of such marketing contract. The remedies provided in this section for nondelivery or breach shall lie and be enforceable against such landowner, landlord, or lessor in any such action upon a marketing contract.
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