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2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 77 - Workers' Cooperative Corporations
7703 - Corporations.
§ 7703. Corporations. (a) Members and purpose.--Corporations, productive and distributive, may be incorporated under this chapter, upon compliance with its requirements, by five or more farmers, mechanics, laborers or other persons who have incorporated themselves together by written articles under section 7704 (relating to articles of incorporation) for the purpose of carrying on agricultural, horticultural, mining, quarrying, building, mechanical, manufacturing or commercial business; for the purpose of manufacturing, cultivating, raising, trading or dealing in goods, wares, merchandise, chattels, grains, vegetables, roots, fruits and other produce or animals; or for the purpose of buying, selling, holding, leasing or improving lands, tenements or buildings. (b) Name.-- (1) The corporation may adopt any corporate name to indicate its cooperative character as long as the name has not been previously adopted. (2) The two last words of the name shall be "cooperative corporation," but it shall be unlawful to use in the name either the words "society" or "company." A violation of this paragraph by a corporation formed under this chapter renders each member personally liable for all debts of the corporation. (c) Business office.--A corporation must have a regular business office. (Dec. 19, 1990, P.L.834, No.198, eff. imd.) 1990 Amendment. Act 198 renumbered section 7702 to section 7703 and renumbered former section 7703 to section 7704 and amended subsec. (a), retroactive to June 19, 1989.
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