O.C.G.A. § 2-10-83 (2019)
Persons who may form cooperative association
Five or more persons engaged in the production of agricultural products may form a nonprofit, cooperative association, with or without capital stock, under this article.
History
Ga. L. 1921, p. 139, § 2; Code 1933, § 65-202.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Hall v. Georgia Milk Producers Confederation, 61 Ga. App. 676, 7 S.E.2d 330 (1940). OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL A group of county fishermen cannot, under the Cooperative Marketing Act, establish a cooperative market for handling marine fishery resources. 1972 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U72-118. Cooperatives of small to mid-sized hardwood sawmills. - Small to mid-sized hardwood sawmills producing
hardwood cants (timber prior to being cut into lumber) and rough green lumber could, as producers of an agricultural product, form a cooperative under the Cooperative Marketing Act, O.C.G.A. § 2-10-80 et seq. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 89-4.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Cooperative Associations, §§ 1, 15, 20.
C.J.S. - 3 C.J.S., Agriculture, § 169 et seq.
ALR. - Cooperative marketing of farm products by producers’ association, 25 A.L.R. 1113; 33 A.L.R. 247; 47 A.L.R. 936;
77 A.L.R. 405; 98 A.L.R. 1406; 12 A.L.R.2d 130.