California Code
DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 54001. - 54001. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 54002. - 54002. “Association” means any corporation which is organized pursuant to...

Section 54003. - 54003. “Member” includes members of associations without capital stock and...

Section 54004. - 54004. “Product” includes any horticultural, viticultural, aquacultural, forestry, dairy, livestock,...

ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

Section 54031. - 54031. The purpose of this chapter is to do all...

Section 54032. - 54032. The following are all here recognized: (a) Agriculture is...

Section 54033. - 54033. Associations which are organized pursuant to this chapter are...

Section 54034. - 54034. Any provisions of law which are in conflict with...

Section 54035. - 54035. Any exemption under any existing law which applies to...

Section 54036. - 54036. A person, firm, corporation, or association, that is hereafter...

Section 54037. - 54037. Any corporation or association which is organized pursuant to...

Section 54038. - 54038. Any association which is organized pursuant to this chapter...

Section 54039. - 54039. The marketing contracts and agreements between an association which...

Section 54040. - 54040. The General Corporation Law (Division 1 (commencing with Section...

Section 54041. - 54041. (a) Subject to subdivision (c), Chapter 7 (commencing with...

Section 54042. - 54042. (a) An association organized pursuant to this chapter may...

ARTICLE 3 - Purposes

Section 54061. - 54061. Three or more natural persons, a majority of whom...

ARTICLE 4 - Articles of Incorporation

Section 54081. - 54081. The articles of incorporation of the association shall show...

Section 54082. - 54082. Articles of incorporation shall be signed, acknowledged, and filed...

Section 54083. - 54083. The articles of incorporation of any association may be...

ARTICLE 5 - Bylaws

Section 54111. - 54111. Each association shall, within 30 days after its incorporation,...

Section 54112. - 54112. The bylaws may prescribe the time, place, and manner...

Section 54113. - 54113. The bylaws may prescribe the number of stockholders or...

Section 54114. - 54114. The bylaws may prescribe the right of members or...

Section 54115. - 54115. The bylaws may prescribe the number of directors which...

Section 54116. - 54116. (a) The bylaws may prescribe the qualifications, compensation, duties,...

Section 54117. - 54117. The bylaws may prescribe penalties for violations of the...

Section 54118. - 54118. The bylaws may prescribe the amount of entrance, organization,...

Section 54119. - 54119. The bylaws may prescribe the amount which each member...

Section 54120. - 54120. The bylaws may prescribe the amount of any dividends...

Section 54121. - 54121. The bylaws may prescribe the number and qualification of...

Section 54122. - 54122. The bylaws may prescribe the manner of determining the...

ARTICLE 6 - Directors and Management

Section 54141. - 54141. The affairs of the association shall be managed by...

Section 54142. - 54142. The bylaws may provide that the territory in which...

Section 54143. - 54143. The bylaws may provide that primary elections shall be...

Section 54144. - 54144. The bylaws may provide that the territory in which...

Section 54145. - 54145. The bylaws may provide that one or more directors...

Section 54146. - 54146. The bylaws may provide for an executive committee and...

Section 54147. - 54147. An association may provide a fair remuneration for the...

Section 54148. - 54148. If a vacancy on the board of directors occurs...

Section 54149. - 54149. The directors shall elect a president, one or more...

Section 54150. - 54150. Any member may bring charges against an officer or...

ARTICLE 7 - Powers

Section 54171. - 54171. An association may engage in any activity in connection...

Section 54172. - 54172. An association may borrow without limitation as to amount...

Section 54173. - 54173. An association may act as the agent or representative...

Section 54174. - 54174. An association may purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, own,...

Section 54175. - 54175. An association may establish reserves and invest the funds...

Section 54176. - 54176. An association may buy, hold, and exercise all privileges...

Section 54177. - 54177. An association may levy assessments in the manner and...

Section 54178. - 54178. An association may do each and every thing which...

Section 54179. - 54179. An association may use or employ any of its...

Section 54180. - 54180. An association may organize, form, operate, own, control, have...

Section 54181. - 54181. Any association may, upon resolution adopted by its board...

Section 54182. - 54182. (a) Any association organized and operating pursuant to this...

ARTICLE 8 - Financial Provisions

Section 54201. - 54201. An association is not subject in any manner to...

Section 54202. - 54202. If an association issues nonpar value stock, the issuance...

Section 54203. - 54203. If an association with preferred shares of stock purchases...

Section 54204. - 54204. The board of directors of every association shall cause...

ARTICLE 9 - Members

Section 54231. - 54231. Under the terms and conditions which are prescribed in...

Section 54232. - 54232. If a member of a nonstock association is other...

Section 54233. - 54233. Any association may become a member or stockholder of...

Section 54234. - 54234. If a member of an association which is established...

Section 54235. - 54235. An association shall not issue a certificate for stock...

Section 54236. - 54236. An association, in its bylaws, may limit the amount...

Section 54237. - 54237. The bylaws shall prohibit the transfer of the common...

Section 54238. - 54238. The association may, at any time, as specified in...

Section 54239. - 54239. A member or stockholder is not liable for the...

ARTICLE 10 - Marketing Contracts

Section 54261. - 54261. The association and its members may make and execute...

Section 54262. - 54262. The contract may provide that the association may sell...

Section 54263. - 54263. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Civil Code, a contract...

Section 54264. - 54264. The bylaws or the marketing contract may fix, as...

Section 54265. - 54265. If there is a breach or threatened breach of...

Section 54266. - 54266. In any action upon such marketing agreements, it shall...

ARTICLE 11 - Reorganization of Corporations Organized Pursuant to Other Laws

Section 54291. - 54291. A corporation that is organized or existing pursuant to...

Section 54292. - 54292. Articles of incorporation shall be deemed to conform to...

Section 54293. - 54293. If the amended articles conform, as provided in Section...

Section 54294. - 54294. This article applies retrospectively as well as prospectively, and...