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.
(Ga. L. 1921, p. 139, § 2; Code 1933, § 65-202.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALA 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.