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NH Rev Stat § 301:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:24 - Compensation.

    301:24 Compensation. –||An association may provide a fair remuneration for the time actually spent by its officers and directors in its service and for the service of the members of its executive committee. The bylaws may provide that no director or officer shall occupy any position in the association, on regular salary or substantially full time pay.|||Source. 1925, 33:10. PL 224:24. RL 273:24.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:25 - Membership.

    301:25 Membership. –||When a member of an association established without capital stock has paid his membership fee in full, he shall receive a certificate of membership.|||Source. 1925, 33:13. PL 224:25. RL 273:25.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:26 - Stock.

    301:26 Stock. –||No association shall issue stock to a member until it has been fully paid for. The promissory notes of the members may be accepted by the association as full or partial payment. The association shall hold the stock as security for the payment of the note; but such retention as security shall not affect the member's right to vote. Until such notes are paid in full, the corresponding stock, to the extent of unpaid balances, shall be carried on the books of the association and upon all financial statements made by the association as "capital stock issued for notes," and the notes shall be carried on such books and statements as "notes given for capital stock."|||Source. 1925, 33:13; 142:2. PL 224:26. RL 273:26.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:27 - Individual Liability.

    301:27 Individual Liability. –||No member shall be liable for the debts of the association to an amount exceeding the sum remaining unpaid on his membership fee or his subscription to the capital stock, including any unpaid balance on any promissory note given in payment therefor.|||Source. 1925, 33:13. PL 224:27. RL 273:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:28 - Voting.

    301:28 Voting. –||Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of organization, no member or stockholder shall be entitled to more than one vote, regardless of the number of shares of stock owned by him.|||Source. 1925, 33:13. PL 224:28. 1931, 10:3. RL 273:28.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:29 - Preferred Stock.

    301:29 Preferred Stock. –||Any association organized with stock may issue preferred stock, with or without the right to vote. Such stock may be sold to any person, member, or nonmember, and may be redeemable or retirable by the association on such terms and conditions as may be provided in the certificate of organization and printed on the face of the stock certificate.|||Source. 1925, 33:13. PL 224:29. RL 273:29.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:30 - Transfer of Voting Stock.

    301:30 Transfer of Voting Stock. –||The bylaws shall prohibit the transfer of stock of the association entitled to voting rights, other than preferred stock, to persons not qualified to be members of the association and such restrictions shall be printed upon every certificate of stock subject thereto.|||Source. 1925, 33:13. PL 224:30. 1929, 66:1. 1933, 73:3. RL 273:30.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:31 - Marketing.

    301:31 Marketing. –||An association and its members may make and execute marketing contracts, requiring the members to sell, for any period of time, not over 10 years, all or any specified part of their agricultural products or specified commodities exclusively to or through the association, or any facilities to be created by the association. If they contract a sale to the association, it shall be conclusively held that title to the products passes to the association upon delivery except for legally recorded chattel mortgages given for value and prior to the first day of July in any season on such products or commodities whether such mortgages are given before or after the making of such contract of sale. The contract may provide, among other things, that the association may sell or re-sell the products delivered by its members, with or without taking title thereto; and pay over to its members the re-sale price, after deducting all necessary selling, overhead and other costs and expenses, including interest or dividends on stock, not exceeding 8 percent per annum, and reserves for retiring the stock, if any; and other proper reserves; and for any other deductions.|||Source. 1925, 33:14. PL 224:31. RL 273:31.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:32 - Damages, Etc.

    301:32 Damages, Etc. –||The bylaws or the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, a specific sum to be paid by a member or stockholder 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 shall 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 in the courts of this state; and such clauses providing for liquidated damages shall be enforceable as such and shall not be regarded as penalties.|||Source. 1925, 33:15. PL 224:32. RL 273:32.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:33 - Equitable Remedies.

    301:33 Equitable Remedies. –||In the event of any such breach or threatened breach of such marketing contract by a member, the superior court may restrain by injunction further breach of the contract and may decree specific performance thereof. Pending the termination of such an action and upon filing a verified complaint showing the breach or threatened breach, and upon filing a sufficient bond, the said court may grant a temporary restraining order against the member.|||Source. 1925, 33:15. PL 224:33. RL 273:33.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:34 - Landowners' Liability.

    301:34 Landowners' Liability. –||In any action upon such marketing agreement, it shall be conclusively presumed that a landowner, landlord or lessor is able to control the delivery of products produced on his land by tenants or others, whose tenancy, possession or work on such land, or the terms of whose tenancy, possession or labor thereon, were created or changed after execution by the landowner, landlord, or lessor, of such a marketing agreement; and in such action, the foregoing remedies for nondelivery or breach shall lie and be enforceable against such landowner, landlord or lessor.|||Source. 1925, 33:15. PL 224:34. RL 273:34.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:35 - Payment in Stock.

    301:35 Payment in Stock. –||Whenever an association with preferred capital stock, shall purchase the stock or any property, or interest, it may discharge the obligation so incurred, wholly or in part, by exchanging for the acquired interest shares of its preferred capital stock to an amount which at par value would equal the fair market value of the stock or interest so purchased, as determined by the board of directors. In that case the transfer to the association of the stock or interest purchased shall be equivalent to payment in cash for the shares of stock issued.|||Source. 1925, 33:16. PL 224:35. RL 273:35.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:36 - Stock Ownership.

    301:36 Stock Ownership. –||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 preserving, drying, processing, canning, packing, storing, handling, shipping, utilizing, manufacturing, marketing, or selling the agricultural products handled by the association, or by-products thereof.|||Source. 1925, 33:20. PL 224:36. RL 273:36.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:37 - Warehousing Contracts.

    301:37 Warehousing Contracts. –||If such corporations are warehousing corporations, they may issue legal warehouse receipts of the association against the commodities delivered, 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.|||Source. 1925, 33:20. PL 224:37. RL 273:37.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:38 - Between Associations.

    301:38 Between Associations. –||An association may, upon resolution adopted by its board of directors, enter into all necessary and proper contracts and agreements and make all necessary and proper stipulations, agreements, contracts and arrangements with any other cooperative corporation, association or associations, formed in this or in any other state, for the cooperative and more economical carrying on of its business or any part thereof. Any 2 or more associations may, by agreement, unite in employing and using or may separately employ and use the same personnel, methods, means and agencies for carrying on and conducting their respective businesses.|||Source. 1925, 33:21. PL 224:38. RL 273:38.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:39 - Commissioner of Agriculture, Markets, and Food, Duties and Powers.

    301:39 Commissioner of Agriculture, Markets, and Food, Duties and Powers. –||The commissioner of agriculture, markets, and food may by general or specific order prescribe such comprehensive systems of accounting for such associations as will provide information for rendering adequate reports and may require any such association to render reports, in form indicated by him, which shall state the nature and volume of business, resources, liabilities, profits, losses, and any other facts bearing upon the financial condition of the association. The commissioner may investigate the management of any such association and may make the facts, relating to said management, available to the members or stockholders of the association. He may give assistance in the organization, or reorganization, of cooperative associations and may, by general or specific order, require any such association doing business in this state or in the process of organization to file with the department a report of its promotion and organization expenses. He may require any such association to file with the department a certified copy of its bylaws and a certified copy of any marketing contract or agreement between the association and its members or patrons.|||Source. 1927, 34:1-4. RL 273:40. 1945, 73:1. RSA 301:39. 1995, 130:5, eff. July 23, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:40 - Annual Reports.

    301:40 Annual Reports. –||Each association formed under this chapter shall prepare and submit to its annual meeting an annual report containing the name of the association, its principal place of business; a general statement of its business operations during the fiscal year, showing the amount of capital stock paid for and the number of stockholders, if a stock association, or the number of members and amount of membership fees received, if a nonstock association; the total expenses of operation; the amount of its assets and indebtedness or liabilities.|||Source. 1925, 33:17. PL 224:39. RL 273:39.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:41 - Forfeiture of Charter for Default.

    301:41 Forfeiture of Charter for Default. –||If any such association shall neglect or refuse to render to the commissioner of agriculture, markets, and food any report required by him under the provisions of RSA 301:39, the charter of such association shall be liable to forfeiture, and it shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture, markets, and food to enforce such forfeiture by appropriate proceedings.|||Source. 1945, 73:2. RSA 301:41. 1995, 130:5, eff. July 23, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:42 - Forbearance.

    301:42 Forbearance. –||The commissioner of agriculture, markets, and food may forbear or discontinue such proceedings at any time, upon being satisfied that the delinquency was not willful and upon the rendering by the association of such reports as he may deem necessary.|||Source. 1945, 73:2. 1995, 130:5, eff. July 23, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:43 - Use of Cooperative as Name.

    301:43 Use of Cooperative as Name. –||No person, firm, corporation or association, hereafter organized or hereafter undertaking to do business in this state, as a farmers' marketing association for the sale of farm products, shall be entitled to use the word "cooperative" as part of its corporate or other business name or title, unless it has complied with the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1925, 33:19. PL 224:40. RL 273:41.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:44 - Foreign Associations.

    301:44 Foreign Associations. –||Any corporation or association organized under generally similar laws of another state shall be allowed to carry on any proper activities, operations and functions in this state upon compliance with the general regulations applicable to foreign corporations desiring to do business in this state, and all contracts which could be made by any association incorporated hereunder, made by or with such association shall be legal and valid and enforceable in this state with all of the remedies set forth in this chapter.|||Source. 1925, 33:22. PL 224:41. RL 273:42.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:45 - Adoption of Provisions.

    301:45 Adoption of Provisions. –||Any corporation or association, organized under previously existing statutes, may, by a majority vote of its directors be brought under the provisions of this chapter by limiting its membership and adopting the other restrictions as provided herein. It shall make out in duplicate a statement signed and sworn to by a majority of its directors to the effect that the corporation or association has, by a majority vote of the directors, decided to accept the benefits and be bound by the provisions of this chapter and has authorized all changes accordingly. Articles of incorporation shall be filed as required in RSA 301:4, except that they shall be signed by the members of the then board of directors. The filing fee shall be the same as for filing an amendment to the certificate of organization.|||Source. 1925, 33:23. PL 224:42. RL 273:43.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:46 - Existing Contracts.

    301:46 Existing Contracts. –||When any association shall be hereafter incorporated hereunder, all contracts heretofore made, by or on behalf of the same, in anticipation of such incorporation; whether such contracts be made by or in the name of some corporation organized elsewhere or otherwise, shall have the same validity as if made after the passage hereof.|||Source. 1925, 33:23. PL 224:43. RL 273:44.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:47 - Interference With Contracts, Etc.

    301:47 Interference With Contracts, Etc. –||Any person or any corporation whose officers or employees knowingly induce or attempt to induce any member or stockholder of an association organized hereunder, or organized under similar statutes of other states, with similar restrictions and rights and operating in this state under due authority, to breach his marketing contract with the association, or who maliciously and knowingly spreads false reports about the finances or management or activity thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Any person shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of $500 for each such offense.|||Source. 1925, 33:24. PL 224:44. RL 273:45. RSA 301:47. 1973, 529:64, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:48 - Interference by Warehousemen.

    301:48 Interference by Warehousemen. –||Any person, firm or corporation conducting a warehouse within this state who solicits or persuades or knowingly permits any member of any association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association by accepting or receiving such member's products for sale or for auction or for display for sale, contrary to the terms of any marketing agreement of which said person or any member of the said firm or any active officer or manager of the said corporation has knowledge or notice, shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of $500 for each such offense; and such association may apply to the superior court for an injunction against such warehouseman to prevent further breaches and a multiplicity of actions thereon. In addition said warehouseman shall pay to the association a reasonable attorney's fee and all costs involved in any such litigation or proceeding at law.|||Source. 1925, 33:25. PL 224:45. RL 273:46.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:49 - Contracts Legal.

    301:49 Contracts Legal. –||No association organized hereunder and complying with the terms hereof shall be deemed to be a conspiracy or a combination in restraint of trade or an illegal monopoly or an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily; and the marketing contracts and agreements between the association and its members and any agreements authorized in this chapter shall not be deemed illegal as such or in unlawful restraint of trade or as part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an improper or illegal purpose.|||Source. 1925, 33:26. PL 224:46. RL 273:47.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:50 - Annual Fee.

    301:50 Annual Fee. –||Each association organized hereunder shall pay an annual fee of $25 only, in lieu of all franchise, license, or corporation taxes, or taxes or charges upon reserves held by it for members.|||Source. 1925, 33:29; 142:5. PL 224:47. RL 273:48. 2004, 248:24, eff. July 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 301:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Corporations, Associations, and Proprietors of Common Lands|Title 301 - Cooperative Marketing and Rural Electrification Associations|Section 301:51 - Provisions Applicable.

    301:51 Provisions Applicable. –||The appropriate provisions of this title and all powers and rights thereunder shall apply to the associations organized hereunder, except where such provisions are in conflict with or inconsistent with the express provisions hereof. But provisions which are in conflict herewith shall not apply to the associations herein provided for.|||Source. 1925, 33:28. PL 224:48. RL 273:49.|