(a) An association may organize, form, operate, own, control, have an interest in, own stock of, or be a member of any other corporation or corporations, with or without capital stock, and engaged in qualified activities regarding the agricultural products, goods and services handled by the association, or the by-products thereof.
(b) If such corporations are warehousing corporations, they may issue legal warehouse receipts to the association against the commodities, goods and services delivered by it, or to any other person, and such legal warehouse receipts shall be considered as adequate collateral to the extent of the usual and current value of the commodity represented thereby. In case such warehouse is licensed or licensed and bonded under the laws of this or any other state or the United States, its warehouse receipt delivered to the association on commodities of the association or its members, or delivered by the association or its members, shall not be challenged or discriminated against because of ownership or control, wholly or in part, by the association.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 4. Cooperative Associations
§19-4-6. Articles of Incorporation
§19-4-7. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation
§19-4-9. General and Special Meetings
§19-4-12. Officers, Employees and Agents to Be Bonded
§19-4-13. Stock; Membership Certificate; Voting; Liability; Limitations on Transfer and Ownership
§19-4-14. Removal of Officer or Director
§19-4-17. Remedies for Breach of Contract
§19-4-18. Purchasing Property of Other Associations, Persons, Firms or Corporations
§19-4-20. Conflicting Laws Not to Apply; Exemptions
§19-4-21. Use of Term "cooperative."
§19-4-22. Interest in Other Corporations or Associations; Warehouse Receipts as Collateral
§19-4-23. Contracts and Agreements With Other Associations
§19-4-24. Rights and Remedies Apply to Similar Associations of Other States
§19-4-25. Associations Heretofore Organized May Adopt Provisions of Article
§19-4-27. Liability as to Delivery of Products in Violation of Marketing Agreements
§19-4-28. Associations to Be Deemed Not in Restraint of Trade
§19-4-29. Application of Business Corporation Laws; Nonprofit Corporation Laws