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2023 Tennessee Code
Title 43 - AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE (§§ 43-1-101 — 43-40-105)
Chapter 16 - COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS (§§ 43-16-101 — 43-16-148)
- Section 43-16-101 - Short title
- Section 43-16-102 - Purpose of chapter
- Section 43-16-103 - Chapter definitions
- Section 43-16-104 - Nonprofit cooperative association - Persons entitled to form
- Section 43-16-105 - Activities in which authorized to engage
- Section 43-16-106 - Preliminary inquiry as to probable success
- Section 43-16-107 - Recognition that farmers need special instruction data in marketing their products
- Section 43-16-108 - Powers of incorporated association
- Section 43-16-109 - Members - Qualifications
- Section 43-16-110 - Articles of incorporation - Preparing and filing - Contents
- Section 43-16-111 - Capital stock - Articles specifying division into preferred and common stock
- Section 43-16-112 - Articles to be signed, acknowledged, and filed - Prima facie evidence of incorporation
- Section 43-16-113 - Amendment of articles of incorporation
- Section 43-16-114 - Code of bylaws - Provisions
- Section 43-16-115 - Regular and special meetings - Notice - Provisions as to notice
- Section 43-16-116 - Management by directors - District directors - Bylaw provisions as to selection and qualifications
- Section 43-16-117 - Remuneration of officers, directors, and committeemen
- Section 43-16-118 - Directors not to be interested in contracts for profit - Directors occupying positions in association
- Section 43-16-119 - Executive committee and its functions
- Section 43-16-120 - Vacancies in board of directors - Filling
- Section 43-16-121 - Officers elected by directors - Treasurer
- Section 43-16-122 - Bonds - Of whom required
- Section 43-16-123 - Certificate of membership
- Section 43-16-124 - Stock - Issuance upon payment - Voting right unaffected where held as security
- Section 43-16-125 - Liability of members for debts
- Section 43-16-126 - Member or stockholder entitled to only one vote
- Section 43-16-127 - Preferred stock - Redemption or retirement
- Section 43-16-128 - Common stock not to be transferred to persons not engaged in agricultural production
- Section 43-16-129 - Purchase of its common stock by association
- Section 43-16-130 - Removal of officers or directors
- Section 43-16-131 - Procedure for removal of directors elected in a district
- Section 43-16-132 - Referendum of policy matters upon demand to entire membership
- Section 43-16-133 - Marketing contracts with association
- Section 43-16-134 - Provisions of marketing contracts - Liquidated damages - Injunction against breach
- Section 43-16-135 - Purchase of property with preferred stock
- Section 43-16-136 - [Repealed]
- Section 43-16-137 - Conflicting laws do not apply
- Section 43-16-138 - Exemptions of agricultural products apply, though in possession of association
- Section 43-16-139 - Association may be interested in other like associations
- Section 43-16-140 - Warehousing corporations issuing warehouse receipts to association or its members - Discrimination prohibited
- Section 43-16-141 - Association may contract with other cooperative associations
- Section 43-16-142 - Associations of other states upon compliance with laws as to foreign corporations doing business in this state
- Section 43-16-143 - Marketing contracts do not constitute conspiracy, combination, illegal monopoly, or unlawful restraint of trade
- Section 43-16-144 - General corporation laws applicable - Exception
- Section 43-16-145 - Annual fee in lieu of other taxes - Exception
- Section 43-16-146 - [Repealed]
- Section 43-16-147 - Combinations of existing corporations into associations - Amendment of charters
- Section 43-16-148 - Corporations organized as subsidiaries of agricultural cooperative associations exempt from privilege taxes
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