2013 Mississippi Code
Title 79 - CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS
Chapter 19 - AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS
§ 79-19-9 - Powers

Each association incorporated hereunder shall have the following powers:

(a) To engage in any activity in connection with the growing, breeding, marketing, selling, or buying, or utilization of live stock and poultry of every description and the byproducts thereof, or with the marketing, selling, harvesting, preserving, drying, processing, manufacturing, canning, packing, grading, storing, handling, or utilization of any agricultural product produced or delivered to it by its members; or the manufacturing or marketing of the byproducts thereof; or in connection with the purchase, hiring, or use by its members of supplies, machinery, or equipment; or in the financing of any such activities; or in any one or more of the activities specified in this section. No association shall handle the agricultural products of any nonmember, except as necessary and incidental to the handling of the products of members, and in any such case the value of products of nonmembers so handled shall not exceed the value of the products handled by the association for its members.

(b) To borrow money and to make advances to members.

(c) To act as the agent or representative of any member or members in any of the above mentioned activities.

(d) To purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold, own, and exercise all rights of ownership in, and to sell, transfer, or pledge, or guarantee the payment of dividends or interest on, or the retirement or redemption of shares of the capital stock or bonds of any corporation or association engaged in any related activity, or in the warehousing or handling or marketing of any of the products handled by the association.

(e) To establish reserves and to invest the funds thereof in bonds or such other property as may be provided in the bylaws.

(f) To buy, hold, and exercise all privileges of ownership over such real or personal property as may be necessary or convenient for the conducting and operation of any of the business of the association, or incidental thereto.

(g) To do each and every thing necessary, suitable, or proper for the accomplishment of any one of the purposes, or the attainment of any one or more of the objects herein enumerated, or conducive to or expedient for the interest or benefit of the association; and to contract accordingly; and in addition to exercise and possess all powers, rights, and privileges necessary or incidental to the purposes for which the association is organized, or to the activities in which it is engaged; and to do any such thing anywhere.

(h) To sue and be sued, and prosecute and be prosecuted to judgment and suit before any court; to contract and be contracted with.