California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

• Section 54031.
  The purpose of this chapter is to do all of the following:(a) Promote, foster, and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation.(b) Eliminate...
• Section 54032.
  The following are all here recognized:(a) Agriculture is characterized by individual production in contrast to the group or factory system that characterizes other forms of individual...
• Section 54033.
  Associations which are organized pursuant to this chapter are “nonprofit,” since they are not organized to make profit for themselves, as such, or for their...
• Section 54034.
  Any provisions of law which are in conflict with this chapter do not apply to any association which is provided for in this chapter.(Enacted by...
• Section 54035.
  Any exemption under any existing law which applies to any agricultural product in the possession, or under the control, of the individual producer, shall apply...
• Section 54036.
  A person, firm, corporation, or association, that is hereafter organized or doing business in this state, may not use the word “cooperative” as part of...
• Section 54037.
  Any corporation or association which is organized pursuant to previously existing statutes for the purpose of cooperatively marketing products as defined in this chapter or...
• Section 54038.
  Any association which is organized pursuant to this chapter is not any of the following:(a) A conspiracy, a combination in restraint of trade, or an illegal...
• Section 54039.
  The marketing contracts and agreements between an association which is organized pursuant to this chapter and its members and any agreements authorized in this chapter...
• Section 54040.
  The General Corporation Law (Division 1 (commencing with Section 100) of Title 1 of the Corporations Code) as added by Chapter 682 of the Statutes...
• Section 54041.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (c), Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 1500) of Title 10 of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure does not apply...
• Section 54042.
  (a) An association organized pursuant to this chapter may request the board of supervisors of the county in which the association’s principal place of business is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018