Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations
Section 274.210 - Marketing contracts — enforcement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949
274.210. Marketing contracts — enforcement. — 1. The bylaws or the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, specific sums to be paid by the members to the association upon the breach by him of any provision of the marketing contract regarding the sale or delivery or withholding of products; and may further provide that the member will pay all costs, premiums for bonds, expenses and fees, in case any action is brought upon the contract by the association; and any such provisions shall be valid and enforceable as such and shall not be regarded as penalties.
2. In event of any such breach or threatened breach of such marketing contract by a member, the association shall be entitled to an injunction to prevent the further breach of the contract and to a decree of specific performance thereof. Pending the adjudication of such an action and upon filing a verified complaint showing the breach or threatened breach, and upon filing a sufficient bond, the association shall be entitled to a temporary restraining order against the member.
3. In any action upon such marketing agreement, it shall be conclusively presumed that landowner or landlord or lessor is able to control the delivery of products produced on his land by tenants or others, whose tenancy or possession or work on such land or the terms of whose tenancy or possession or labor thereon were created or changed after execution by the landowner or landlord or lessor, of such a marketing agreement; and in such actions the foregoing remedies for nondelivery or breach shall lie and be enforceable against such a landowner, landlord or lessor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14349, A. 1949 S.B. 1098)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12691

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals

Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations

Section 274.010 - Title of law.

Section 274.020 - Definitions.

Section 274.030 - Nonprofit cooperative associations — purposes — owners or operators of a family farm or family farm corporation may engage in production of livestock.

Section 274.040 - Members — qualifications — proxies — joint associations.

Section 274.050 - Membership certificate — liabilities — voting rights.

Section 274.060 - Powers of associations.

Section 274.070 - Articles of incorporation.

Section 274.080 - Articles of incorporation may be amended.

Section 274.090 - Bylaws of association.

Section 274.100 - Meetings of association.

Section 274.110 - Directors to manage affairs of association.

Section 274.120 - Officers elected by directors.

Section 274.130 - Officers and employees to give bonds.

Section 274.140 - Charges made in writing — removals, how made.

Section 274.150 - Decisions by directors referred to members, how.

Section 274.160 - Annual reports — contents.

Section 274.170 - Fee for filing incorporation papers — amendments.

Section 274.180 - Fees paid in lieu of other license or tax.

Section 274.190 - Previously organized associations may use provisions of this chapter — procedure.

Section 274.200 - Marketing contracts — provisions.

Section 274.210 - Marketing contracts — enforcement.

Section 274.220 - Membership in other corporations — functions.

Section 274.230 - Two or more associations may act jointly.

Section 274.240 - Association of other state may do business in state, when.

Section 274.250 - Use of words "nonprofit cooperative" prohibited.

Section 274.260 - Efforts to break contract a misdemeanor.

Section 274.270 - Soliciting breach of contract — liability.

Section 274.280 - Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly.

Section 274.290 - General corporation laws apply to association — exceptions.

Section 274.300 - Provisions of law in conflict not applicable — exemptions.

Section 274.310 - Services provided by department of agriculture to small family owned agricultural producers or processors, cooperative marketing, market development, information dissemination — annual report submitted to general assembly, when.