Florida Statutes Title XXXVI Chapter 618 - Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Associations

• 618.01 - Definitions.
  In construing this chapter, where the context permits, the word, phrase, or term:(1) “Agricultural products” shall include aquacultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, aquatic, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee,...
• 618.02 - Who May Organize Association.
  Three or more persons engaged in the production of any agricultural products, or three or more associations, may form a nonprofit cooperative association under the...
• 618.03 - Preliminary Investigation.
  Every group of persons contemplating the organization of an association under this chapter is urged to communicate with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,...
• 618.04 - Articles Of Incorporation; Fees.
  Each association organized under this chapter shall prepare and file articles of incorporation setting forth:(1) The name of the association, which may or may not include...
• 618.05 - Amendment Of Articles Of Incorporation.
  The articles of incorporation may be altered or amended at any regular meeting or any special meeting called for the purpose. An amendment must first...
• 618.06 - Purposes Of Incorporation.
  An association may be organized under this chapter for the purpose of engaging in any cooperative activity in connection with the producing, marketing, or selling...
• 618.07 - Powers Of Corporations.
  Except as the same may be limited in its articles of incorporation, each association organized under this chapter shall have the following powers:(1) To engage in...
• 618.08 - Corporations May Mortgage Farm Supplies.
  A mortgage, executed by a cooperative association, may cover its stock of farm supplies, changing in specifics, which stock mortgagor is permitted to retain in...
• 618.09 - Bylaws.
  Each association incorporated under this chapter shall adopt for its government and management, a code of bylaws not inconsistent with the powers granted by this...
• 618.10 - Membership Of Corporation.
  (1) Under the terms and conditions prescribed in the bylaws adopted by it, an association may admit as members, or issue common stock only to persons...
• 618.11 - How Meetings Called.
  In its bylaws each association shall provide for one or more regular meetings annually. The board of directors shall have the right to call a...
• 618.12 - Directors; Election.
  (1) The affairs of the association shall be managed by a board of not less than three directors, to be elected by the members or stockholders,...
• 618.13 - Officers; Election.
  The directors shall elect from their number a president and one or more vice presidents. They shall also elect a secretary, a treasurer, and such...
• 618.14 - Removal Of Officers And Directors.
  (1) Any member may bring charges against an officer or director by filing them in writing with the secretary of the association, together with a petition...
• 618.15 - Capital Stock And Membership.
  (1) When a member of an association organized without capital stock has paid his or her membership fee in full the member shall receive a certificate...
• 618.16 - Referendum Upon Certain Motions.
  Upon demand of one-third of the entire board of directors made immediately and so recorded at the same meeting at which the original motion was...
• 618.17 - Marketing Contracts.
  The association and its members may make and execute marketing contracts requiring the members to sell, for any period of time, all or any specified...
• 618.18 - Remedies For Breach Of Marketing Contract.
  (1) The bylaws and the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, specific sums to be paid by the member or stockholder of the association upon...
• 618.19 - Contracts And Agreements With Other Like Associations.
  Any association may, upon resolution adopted by its board of directors, enter into all necessary and proper contracts and agreements and make all necessary and...
• 618.20 - Purchase Of Interest In Like Corporations.
  (1) An association may organize, form, operate, own, control, have an interest in, own stock of, or be a member of any other association or corporation,...
• 618.21 - Corporations Not In Restraint Of Trade.
  No association as defined in this chapter while engaged in any of the activities specified in s. 618.20 shall be deemed to be a conspiracy,...
• 618.22 - Adoption Of Provisions Of This Chapter By Prior Corporations.
  Any corporation or association, organized under previously existing statutes, may, by a majority vote of its stockholders or members, be brought under the provisions of...
• 618.221 - Conversion Into A Corporation For Profit.
  Any association incorporated under or that has adopted the provisions of this chapter, may, by a majority vote of its stockholders or members be brought...
• 618.23 - Quo Warranto To Test Validity Of Corporation.
  The right of an association claiming to be organized and incorporated and carrying on its business under this chapter to do and to continue its...
• 618.24 - Application Of General Corporation Laws.
  The provisions of the laws of this state with respect to corporations for profit and all powers and rights thereunder shall apply to associations organized...
• 618.25 - Dissolution.
  (1) Any association incorporated under or adopting the provisions of this chapter may be dissolved and its affairs wound up voluntarily by a petition signed by...
• 618.26 - Conditions Under Which Foreign Similar Corporation May Do Business In This State.
  Any cooperative association with or without capital stock as defined in this chapter heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of another state shall be...
• 618.27 - Use Of Term “cooperative.”
  (1) No person doing business in this state, shall be entitled to use the word “cooperative” as part of its corporate or other business name or...
• 618.28 - This Chapter Not To Affect Certain Laws.
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to affect, limit, or in anywise interfere with the rights, powers, or privileges of any corporation...

Last modified: September 23, 2016