2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 7 - Corporations And Associations
Article 56. Cooperatives
Editor's note: This article was numbered as article 3 of chapter 30, C.R.S. 1963. The substantive provisions of this article were repealed and reenacted in 1996, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this article prior to 1996, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated.
Law reviews: For article, "The New Colorado Cooperative Act: A Setting for a Business Structure", see 25 Colo. Law. 3 (Dec. 1996); for article, "Colorado Choice of Entity 1998", see 27 Colo. Law. 5 (June 1998); for article, "Colorado Choice of Form of Organization and Structure 2001", see 30 Colo. Law. 11 (Oct. 2001); for article, "Worker Cooperatives: Their Time Has Arrived", see 40 Colo. Law. 33 (Sept. 2011); for article, "The Long and Winding Road to Public Benefit Corporations in Colorado", see 43 Colo. Law. 39 (Jan. 2014).
- Section 7-56-101. Short title.
- Section 7-56-102. Legislative declaration.
- Section 7-56-103. Definitions.
- Section 7-56-104. Filings by the secretary of state.
- Section 7-56-105. Effective time and date of documents. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-106. Periodic and other reports.
- Section 7-56-107. Cooperative records.
- Section 7-56-201. Articles of incorporation.
- Section 7-56-202. Amendment of articles.
- Section 7-56-203. Restated articles.
- Section 7-56-204. Cooperatives desiring to relinquish provisions of this article.
- Section 7-56-205. Entities formed under other law but subject to this article.
- Section 7-56-206. Cooperative name. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-207. Use of the term "cooperative" - penalty for unlawful use. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-208. Bylaws.
- Section 7-56-209. Agricultural marketing cooperatives.
- Section 7-56-210. Renewable energy cooperatives.
- Section 7-56-301. Members.
- Section 7-56-302. Member meetings - how called - notice.
- Section 7-56-303. Members' list for meeting.
- Section 7-56-304. Quorum.
- Section 7-56-305. Member voting.
- Section 7-56-306. Reserves, distributions, and patronage refunds.
- Section 7-56-307. Inspection of cooperative records by member.
- Section 7-56-308. Scope of member's inspection right.
- Section 7-56-309. Court-ordered inspection.
- Section 7-56-401. Directors - elections - remuneration - vacancy.
- Section 7-56-402. Officers - titles - election - duties and authority - removal.
- Section 7-56-403. Procedures for meetings of the board of directors.
- Section 7-56-404. Removal of director by the membership or the board.
- Section 7-56-405. Removal of director by judicial proceeding.
- Section 7-56-406. Indemnification and personal liability of directors, officers, employees, and agents.
- Section 7-56-407. Persons to be bonded.
- Section 7-56-408. Registered office and registered agent - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-409. Registered agent - service of process.
- Section 7-56-501. Powers.
- Section 7-56-502. Marketing or purchasing contracts.
- Section 7-56-503. Remedies for breach of marketing or purchasing contract.
- Section 7-56-504. Inducing breach of marketing or purchasing contract.
- Section 7-56-505. Purchases of property or other interests.
- Section 7-56-506. Warehouse receipts - interest in warehouse entities.
- Section 7-56-507. Application of other laws.
- Section 7-56-508. Cooperatives not in restraint of trade.
- Section 7-56-509. Exemption from securities laws.
- Section 7-56-510. Renewable energy cooperatives - powers.
- Section 7-56-601. Encumbering property.
- Section 7-56-602. Merger, conversion, or consolidation or share or equity capital exchange.
- Section 7-56-603. Procedure for consolidation, share or equity capital exchange, conversion, and merger.
- Section 7-56-604. Merger of parent and subsidiary.
- Section 7-56-604.5. Statement of merger or conversion.
- Section 7-56-605. Statement of consolidation or share or equity capital exchange.
- Section 7-56-606. Effect of merger, conversion, consolidation, or share or equity capital exchange.
- Section 7-56-606.5. Merger with foreign entity.
- Section 7-56-607. Consolidation or share or equity capital exchange with foreign business.
- Section 7-56-608. Dissenters' rights - definitions.
- Section 7-56-609. Sale or other disposition of property without member approval.
- Section 7-56-610. Sale or other disposition of property requiring member approval.
- Section 7-56-701. Authorization of dissolution before issuance of memberships.
- Section 7-56-702. Authorization of dissolution after issuance of memberships.
- Section 7-56-703. Articles of dissolution.
- Section 7-56-704. Revocation of dissolution. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-705. Effect of dissolution.
- Section 7-56-706. Disposition of known claims by notification. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-707. Disposition of claims by publication. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-708. Enforcement of claims against dissolved cooperative. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-709. Service on dissolved cooperative - repeal. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-710. Grounds for administrative dissolution. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-711. Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-712. Reinstatement following administrative dissolution. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-713. Appeal from denial of reinstatement. (Repealed)
- Section 7-56-714. Grounds for judicial dissolution.
- Section 7-56-715. Procedure for judicial dissolution.
- Section 7-56-716. Receivership or custodianship.
- Section 7-56-717. Decree of dissolution.
- Section 7-56-718. Certain assignments of assets in dissolution.
Editor's note: This article was repealed and reenacted in 1996, and this part 8 was subsequently repealed and reenacted in 2003, effective July 1, 2004, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 8 prior to 2004, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note beginning on page vii in the front of this volume and the editor's note following the article heading.
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