COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE IN FLORIDA 123


 CHAPTER IX

 Florida Statutes on Cooperatives


 Chapter 618
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS


Definitions
Who may orgaunle associ-
atiton -
Prehllumary investigation.
Articles of ilicolporiltion;
fees
Amendment of articles of
Incorporation.
Purposes of incorporation.
Powers of corporations,
Corporations may mortgage
farm supplies, etc..
By-law,
Mlellbcisliip of crorpiation.
liow meeting called.
Directors. election.
Officers, oI'etion
Removal of officers and di-
rectors
Capital stock and member
ship, etc.
Refereudiian upon certain

Marketma contracts.


61S18 Remedies f o breach ot
 nlarkeltiig contract
618.19 Contracts and agreements
 with other like associations.
61820 Purchase of interest in like
 corpol iaons.
61821 Corporations not in re-
 straint of trade
61i8.22 Adoption of piovisions of
 this chaptci by prior cor-
 porations
61823 Quo warrant to test va-
 lid tv of corporation.
618.24 Application of general cor
 portion laws.
61825 Dissolution,
61826 Conditions undei which
 foreign similar corporation
 may do business in tis
 state
618 27 Use of trim "Cooperateo"
61828 Thin chapter not to affect
 cerlanim law


 618.01 Definitions.-Tn construing this chapter, whlei the context
pcimits, the wold, phrase or teim:

 (1) "Agricultural products" shall include horticultural, viticultural, of-
estrh, dairy, liv stock, poultry, bee and any farm products;
 (2) "Member shall in hlde actual members of associations without
capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with
capital stock,
 (3) "Association" means any corporation organized as a cooperative
issciaton, for the mutual benefit of its inCm hers either as producers of
agricultural products or as non-plofit cooperative organizations of producers
of agricultural products, or both, and in which the return n the stock or
membership capital i limited to an amount not to cxccrd ceigh t per cent
per annum, and in which during any fiscal year theieof the value of busi-
nesi done with mnorinmbelli shall not ececd the business done with nem-
bers during the same period.

 (4) Associations organized hereundel shall be deemed nonprofitt," ln-
aslmuch as they are not organized to make profit for themselves, as such,
ol for their members, as such, but only for their members as producers.