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TN Code § 43-16-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-134. Provisions of Marketing Contracts — Liquidated Damages — Injunction Against Breach

  The bylaws or the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, specific sums to be paid by the member or stockholder to the association upon the breach by the member or stockholder of any provision of the marketing contract regarding the sale or delivery or withholding of products, and may further provide that the member will pay all costs, premiums for bonds, expenses, and fees, in case any action is brought upon the contract by the association. Any such provisions shall be valid and enforceable in the courts of this state. Such clauses providing for liquidated damages shall be enforceable as such and shall not be regarded as penalties.   In the event of any such breach or threatened breach of the marketing contract by a member, the association shall be entitled to an injunction to prevent the further breach of the contract and to a decree of specific performance thereof. Pending the adjudication of such an action and upon filing a verified complaint showing the breach or threatened breach, and upon filing a sufficient bond, the association shall be entitled to a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the member.
TN Code § 43-16-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-135. Purchase of Property With Preferred Stock

 Whenever an association, organized under this chapter with preferred capital stock, purchases the stock or any property, or any interest in any property of any person, it may discharge the obligations so incurred, wholly or in part, by exchanging for the acquired interest, shares of its preferred capital stock to an amount that 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.
TN Code § 43-16-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-137. Conflicting Laws Do Not Apply

 Any law that is in conflict with this chapter shall be construed as not applying to the associations provided for in this chapter.
TN Code § 43-16-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-138. Exemptions of Agricultural Products Apply, Though in Possession of Association

 Any exemptions whatsoever under all existing laws applying to agricultural products in the possession or under the control of the individual producer shall apply similarly and completely to such products delivered by its former members in the possession or under the control of the association.
TN Code § 43-16-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-139. Association May Be Interested in Other Like Associations

 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 of the agricultural products handled by the association or the by-products of such products.
TN Code § 43-16-140 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-140. Warehousing Corporations Issuing Warehouse Receipts to Association or Its Members — Discrimination Prohibited

 If those corporations are warehousing corporations, they may issue legal warehouse receipts to the association against the commodities delivered by it or to any other person, and the legal warehouse receipts shall be considered as adequate collateral to the extent of the usual and current value of the commodity represented by the receipts. In case the 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.
TN Code § 43-16-141 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-141. Association May Contract With Other Cooperative Associations

  Any 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, and 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 or parts of its business.   Any two (2) or more associations may, by agreement between them, 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.
TN Code § 43-16-142 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-142. Associations of Other States Upon Compliance With Laws as to Foreign Corporations Doing Business in This State

 Any corporation or association organized under generally similar laws of another state shall be allowed to carry on any proper activities, operations or functions in this state upon compliance with the general regulations applicable to foreign corporations desiring to do business in this state, and the payment into the office of the secretary of state the same fees that are required to be paid under title 48, chapter 1, part 13 [repealed], and by paying all other taxes that other foreign corporations are required to pay in Tennessee, and all contracts that could be made by any association, incorporated under this chapter, 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.
TN Code § 43-16-143 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-143. Marketing Contracts Do Not Constitute Conspiracy, Combination, Illegal Monopoly, or Unlawful Restraint of Trade

 No association organized under this chapter and complying with the terms of this chapter 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; nor shall the marketing contracts and agreements between the association and its members or any agreements authorized in this chapter be considered illegal as such or in unlawful restraint of trade or as part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an improper or illegal purpose.
TN Code § 43-16-144 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-144. General Corporation Laws Applicable — Exception

 The general corporation laws and all powers and rights under those laws apply to the associations organized under this chapter, except where such provisions are in conflict or inconsistent with the express provisions of this chapter.
TN Code § 43-16-145 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-145. Annual Fee in Lieu of Other Taxes — Exception

 Each association organized under this chapter shall pay an annual fee of ten dollars ($10.00) only, in lieu of all franchise, license, corporation or other privilege taxes, or taxes or charges upon reserves held by it for members; provided, that if any association organized under this chapter sells to persons other than its own members any product or merchandise other than unmanufactured tobacco, livestock, poultry products, dairy products or any other farm products, such association shall be liable for any privilege tax with respect to such transactions or method of doing business imposed under the laws of Tennessee, other than franchise and excise taxes and corporation filing fees or charges upon reserves held by it for members.
TN Code § 43-16-147 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-147. Combinations of Existing Corporations Into Associations — Amendment of Charters

 Corporations not for profit, of this class, previously organized under the general incorporation laws or laws later enacted, are empowered to combine into associations upon such terms as may be provided and agreed upon, or by one corporation becoming a member of the other. Further, preexisting charters of the corporations are amended, under the power reserved to the general assembly, so as to bring same into conformity with this law, thus granting them the powers and imposing upon them the duties and liabilities set forth in this chapter.
TN Code § 43-16-148 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 16 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|§ 43-16-148. Corporations Organized as Subsidiaries of Agricultural Cooperative Associations Exempt From Privilege Taxes

 All corporations organized as subsidiaries and controlled by any agricultural cooperative association formed in accordance with the laws of this state shall not be considered corporations organized for profit and doing business in Tennessee, or subject to any privilege tax levied by any law as a tax for the privilege of doing business for profit in Tennessee, it being the legislative intent to exempt by this section all such subsidiary corporations controlled by agricultural cooperative associations, where any and all profits earned by such subsidiary corporations are paid over to or expended for the benefit of the agricultural cooperative associations, with the result that the activities carried on by the corporations eventually promote and benefit the agricultural interests of this state.
TN Code § 43-17-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 17 - Marketing of Pecans|§ 43-17-101. Purchasers of Pecans for Resale to Keep Records — Open to Inspection — Exception

  Any person purchasing pecans for the purpose of resale or processing from anyone selling pecans shall keep a well-bound book, in which that person shall promptly enter in ink the name and place of residence of all persons from whom that person buys pecans, followed by the date of purchase, number of pounds bought, the amounts paid, and how the payment was made, whether in cash or by check, whether they were owned or raised, or purchased by the seller, and on whose land the pecan trees were located when gathered. The entries are to be made in chronological order from day to day as the business is transacted. This book shall at all times be open to inspection by the police or other officers, or any person who may desire to see it, and shall be in good faith kept and preserved by dealers for convenient inspection.   This chapter shall not apply to purchase of pecans by retail merchants from wholesale distributors for sale at retail.
TN Code § 43-17-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 17 - Marketing of Pecans|§ 43-17-102. Written Permission of Landowner to Sell — When to Be Shown

 Any person offering pecans for sale that the person did not raise or own without purchasing, or on whose lands the pecans were not grown, shall be required by the buyer or dealer in the pecans, before such buyer or dealer buys them, to show a written permission to sell them from the party owning the land on which the pecans were grown, unless the party offering the pecans for sale is a bona fide owner of the land, and the dealer may require proper identification of the person offering pecans for sale.
TN Code § 43-17-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 17 - Marketing of Pecans|§ 43-17-103. Penalty for Violations

 A violation of any of the provisions of § 43-17-101 or § 43-17-102 is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-17-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 17 - Marketing of Pecans|§ 43-17-104. Special Right of Action in Owner of Pecans Sold Without Consent

 In addition to the punishment provided in § 43-17-103, and either before or after, and with or without, criminal prosecution as provided for in § 43-17-103, the owner of any pecans that are sold by another without the owner's consent can maintain and recover of any person buying the pecans, who fails to comply with §§ 43-17-101 and 43-17-102, a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250), to be recovered by a civil suit in any court having jurisdiction of the amount in this state. That amount is to be recovered by the owner of any pecans, sold to any person without the owner's consent, where the buyer does not keep and permit to be inspected the record of the purchase, as provided in this chapter.
TN Code § 43-17-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 17 - Marketing of Pecans|§ 43-17-105. Tenant's Possession or Sale Prima Facie Evidence of Landlord's Title — Burden of Proof of Transfer

  Possession and/or sale of pecans by any tenant of a landowner shall constitute prima facie evidence that such pecans are the property of such landowner and the burden of proof of transfer of ownership of the pecans shall rest with the tenant and/or purchaser from the tenant.   Any purchaser from a tenant or the immediate vendee of a tenant shall be liable to the landlord for the value of the pecans as in other cases of conversion, if the purchaser or vendee did not receive title.
TN Code § 43-18-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-101. Record to Be Made of Purchases of Seed Cotton, Loose or Unbaled Cotton, or Cotton Seed

 Any person purchasing cotton seed or seed cotton from anyone selling cotton seed or seed cotton in bags or baskets or any other cotton not baled shall keep a book in which that person shall keep a record of all cotton and cotton seed bought, and shall promptly enter the name and residence of all persons from whom the person buys cotton or cotton seed, followed by date of purchase, number of pounds bought, the amount paid for cotton of each kind, how the payment was made, whether by cash or check, whether it was raised or purchased by the seller, on whose farm raised, whether seller is renter or sharecropper, if mortgaged or otherwise encumbered and to whom. The entries are to be made in chronological order from day to day as the business is transacted. This book shall at all times be open to inspection of the police or other officers, or any person who may desire to see the book, and shall be in good faith kept and preserved by such dealers for convenient inspection.
TN Code § 43-18-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-102. Written Permission to Sell Required — Exception

 Any person offering seed cotton for sale that the person did not personally raise, or on whose farm the cotton was not raised, shall be required by the buyer or dealer in the cotton to show a written permission from the party raising the cotton to sell it before buying, unless the party offering the cotton for sale is a bona fide owner of the cotton, and the dealer may require proper identification of the person offering it for sale.
TN Code § 43-18-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-103. Violation of § 43-18-101 or § 43-18-102 a Misdemeanor — Penalty

 A violation of any of the provisions of § 43-18-101 or § 43-18-102 is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-18-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-104. Penalty Recoverable by Owner From Purchaser Not Keeping the Required Record or Not Permitting Inspection Thereof

 In addition to the punishment provided in § 43-18-103, and either before or after, with or without criminal prosecution above provided for, the owner of any loose cotton or ginned cotton that is unbaled, that is sold by another without the owner's consent, can maintain and recover of any person buying such cotton who fails to comply with § 43-18-101 and § 43-18-102, a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250), to be recovered by civil suit in any court having jurisdiction of the amount in this state. That amount is to be recovered by the owner of any cotton of the character described, sold to any person by any other than the owner without such owner's consent, where the buyer does not keep and permit to be inspected the record of the purchase provided for in this section and §§ 43-18-101 — 43-18-103.
TN Code § 43-18-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-105. Persons Other Than Producers or Dealers Buying or Selling Lint Cotton Under Two Hundred Fifty Pounds — Penalty

  It is unlawful for any person who is not a grower or producer of cotton, or who is not engaged in the business of buying and selling cotton, to buy, sell or offer for sale, or possess for purposes of sale, any loose lint cotton or ginned cotton that is not in bales, in quantities less than two hundred fifty pounds (250 lbs.).   Any violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-18-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-106. Additional Penalty Recoverable in Qui Tam Action

 In addition to the punishment provided in § 43-18-105, and either before or after, with or without criminal prosecution, any person in interest can recover in such person's own name of any person buying loose or ginned cotton that is not baled, contrary to § 43-18-105, a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250), to be recovered by civil suit in any court having jurisdiction of that amount.
TN Code § 43-18-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-107. Packages for Domestic or Surgical Use Exempt

 Sections 43-18-105 and 43-18-106 do not apply to the buying and selling of specially prepared packages of cotton, handled and sold by druggists and merchants for domestic and surgical use and purposes.
TN Code § 43-18-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-108. Hauling Unbaled Cotton Between Sunset and Sunrise, Where There Is a Lien, or Undivided Interest Unlawful — Exception — Penalty

  It is unlawful for any person to haul or carry over any highway any cotton in the seed or ginned, but not baled, on which there is a lien, mortgage, contract for supplies and merchandise, or an undivided interest, between the hours of sunset of any one (1) day and sunrise of the succeeding day; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any person or persons hauling cotton to the gin for the purpose of ginning it, or from their farms to their houses or barns; and provided, further, that this section shall not apply where the beneficiary of the lien consents in writing to the hauling.   Any person violating this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-18-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 18 - Sale of Cotton|§ 43-18-109. Liability of Owner of Gin or Tobacco Establishment for Sale of Product Containing Foreign Objects

 If any person sells or otherwise disposes of cotton or tobacco fraudulently packed with wood, iron, rocks, dirt or other substance, the person at whose gin or establishment the cotton or tobacco was put up is deemed guilty of negligence, and shall, upon suit on behalf of any subsequent purchaser of the cotton or tobacco, pay double the value of the cotton or tobacco as damages, and also the cost of reshipping the cotton or tobacco from the market where the fraud was detected.
TN Code § 43-22-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 22 - Farm Bureau|§ 43-22-101. Use of Words “Farm Bureau” Restricted to Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

 The use of the words “farm bureau” by any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other business enterprise doing business in the state of Tennessee, except by the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, or its subsidiaries, or affiliate associations, is unlawful.
TN Code § 43-22-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 22 - Farm Bureau|§ 43-22-102. Other Uses of Words “Farm Bureau” Unlawful — Exception

 The use of the words “farm bureau,” either preceded by or followed by the name of any state, county, or town, or by any word designating a product, service, activity, or enterprise in the state of Tennessee, is unlawful; provided, that this shall not limit nor affect the right of the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, or any of its affiliate associations, to the free use of such words.
TN Code § 43-22-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 22 - Farm Bureau|§ 43-22-103. Federation's Permission to Use Words — Methods of Exercising

 The Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation may authorize its affiliate or associate organizations, services, or activities to use the words “farm bureau” by resolution duly adopted and spread upon the minutes of its board of directors, a certified copy of which shall be filed with the secretary of state before these words shall be used by any other than the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation.
TN Code § 43-22-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 22 - Farm Bureau|§ 43-22-104. Penalty for Violation

 Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-24-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 24 - Tennessee Community Gardening Act|§ 43-24-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Community Gardening Act.”
TN Code § 43-24-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 24 - Tennessee Community Gardening Act|§ 43-24-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Community garden” means a piece of real property, either on vacant public land or on private land, cultivated by residents of a neighborhood or community, or members of a homeowners or condominium owners association for the purpose of providing the following for the use of residents of the neighborhood or community, or members of the homeowners or condominium owners association:  Vegetables, nuts, herbs, fruit, or flowers, whether by means of cultivating annual, biennial or perennial plants, or trees; and   Honey and honey byproducts, through the placement and use of beehives;     “Grand-mentoring” means collaborative projects between persons sixty (60) years of age or older and students in kindergarten through twelfth (K-12) grade;   “Local government” means any municipality, county or metropolitan government;   “Use” means, when applied to gardening and beekeeping, to make use of, without conveyance of title or any other ownership; and   “Vacant public land” means any land owned by a local government that is not in use for public purposes.