2021 Georgia Code
Title 2 - Agriculture
Chapter 10 - Marketing Facilities, Organizations, and Programs
Article 3 - Cooperative Marketing Associations
- § 2-10-80. Short Title
- § 2-10-81. Definitions
- § 2-10-82. When Associations Deemed Nonprofit
- § 2-10-83. Persons Who May Form Cooperative Association
- § 2-10-84. Filing of Articles of Incorporation; Contents; Subscription; Verification; Further Proceedings
- § 2-10-85. Amendment of Charter
- § 2-10-86. Adoption of Bylaws; Authorized Provisions
- § 2-10-87. Directors to Manage Association; Number; Election or Appointment; Compensation; Marketing or Purchasing Contracts With Association; Vacancies
- § 2-10-88. Election of Officers
- § 2-10-89. Removal of Officers or Directors
- § 2-10-90. Eligibility as Members or Stockholders
- § 2-10-91. Issuance of Stock or Certificate; Liability of Member; Maximum Amount of Stock Member May Own; Voting; Preferred Stock; Transfer of Stock; Purchase of Own Stock by Association
- § 2-10-92. Regular Meetings; Special Meetings Generally; Notice
- § 2-10-93. Referral of Matters to Entire Membership; Special Meetings
- § 2-10-94. Powers of Associations Generally
- § 2-10-95. Duration of Associations
- § 2-10-96. Use of Preferred Stock to Purchase Property Interest
- § 2-10-97. Transfer of Common Stock
- § 2-10-98. Joining With Other Nonprofit Cooperative Associations
- § 2-10-99. Ownership In, Control Of, or Membership in Other Corporations; Warehouse Receipts
- § 2-10-100. Contracts and Agreements Between Associations
- § 2-10-101. Marketing Contracts Authorized; Provisions; Liquidated Damages; Injunctions and Restraining Orders; Specific Performance
- § 2-10-102. Activities in Connection With Agricultural Products and Furnishing Farm Business Services Generally
- § 2-10-103. Engaging in Business for Nonmembers
- § 2-10-103.1. Power to Acquire Debt or Equity Of, Create or Own, and Control and Manage Business Entities
- § 2-10-104. Annual Reports
- § 2-10-105. License Fee; Tax Exemption
- § 2-10-106. Distribution of Excess Income, Reserves, or Surpluses
- § 2-10-107. Associations Not Deemed Monopolistic or in Restraint of Trade
- § 2-10-108. Applicability of Nonprofit Corporation Laws
- § 2-10-109. Applicability of Other Laws
- § 2-10-110. Procedure by Which Other Corporations and Associations May Come Under Article
- § 2-10-111. Use of Word "Cooperative" in Business Name
- Creation and regulation of tobacco warehousemen's associations, § 10-4-170 et seq.
Law reviews.- For article analyzing the need for reform in taxation of agricultural cooperatives, see 5 Ga. L. Rev. 529 (1971).
JUDICIAL DECISIONSCited in In re Chicken Antitrust Litig., 560 F. Supp. 963 (N.D. Ga. 1980).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Corporation required to make ad valorem tax returns.
- A corporation organized under provisions concerning cooperative marketing associations is legally required to make ad valorem tax returns. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 180.
Association's purchase and sale of beer illegal.- Purchase of beer from wholesalers and the retail selling of it by an association is not legal since there is no authorization for the sale of such beverages. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U71-68.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Cooperative Associations, § 1 et seq.
C.J.S.- 3 C.J.S., Agriculture, §§ 169 et seq., 185 et seq.
ALR.
- Legality of combination among farmers, 11 A.L.R. 1185; 130 A.L.R. 1326.
Cooperative marketing of farm products by producers' associations, 25 A.L.R. 1113; 33 A.L.R. 247; 47 A.L.R. 936; 77 A.L.R. 405; 98 A.L.R. 1406; 12 A.L.R.2d 130.
Board of trade or similar organization as affected with public interest subjecting it to state regulation, 54 A.L.R. 304.
Cooperative associations: rights in equity credits or patronage dividends, 50 A.L.R.3d 435.
