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MT Code § 35-16-102 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 1. General|35-16-102. Errors in land description or names not to affect proceedings or jurisdiction of court

  35-16-102. Errors in land description or names not to affect proceedings or jurisdiction of court. Mere error or omission in the description of any lands or in the names of any of the holders of title or evidence of title to lands shall not operate to render invalid any proceedings hereunder or to deprive the district court of the subject matter unless such error or omission shall cause substantial injury.   History: En. Sec. 10, Art. 3, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6423, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6423, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-327.
MT Code § 35-16-103 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 1. General|35-16-103. Order of district court final -- appeal

  35-16-103. Order of district court final -- appeal. Whenever under the provisions hereof any application is permitted to be made to the district court or appeal allowed thereto, the action of the district court upon such application or appeal shall be final unless appealed from in accordance with Title 25 within 60 days from and after the date of the entry of the order or judgment.   History: En. Sec. 11, Art. 3, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6424, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6424, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-328.
MT Code § 35-16-201 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-201. Who may incorporate -- purposes of incorporation

  35-16-201. Who may incorporate -- purposes of incorporation. At any time after March 5, 1921, any 10 or more holders of title or evidence of title to agricultural, horticultural, or farm lands in this state of an aggregate value of not less than $75,000 who may desire to form a company or district for the purpose of promoting or improving the production, processing, storing, warehousing, or marketing of any or all agricultural, horticultural, or farm or dairying products of the respective petitioners therefor may incorporate themselves into an agricultural corporation or cooperative agricultural district.   History: En. Sec. 1, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6397, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6397, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-301.
MT Code § 35-16-202 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-202. Petition for incorporation -- contents and filing -- bond

  35-16-202. Petition for incorporation -- contents and filing -- bond. (1) The persons desiring to incorporate shall prepare, sign, acknowledge, and file a petition with the clerk of the district court of the county in which the lands or the greater portion of the lands included in the petition are situate, the petition to state:   (a) the name of the corporation or district proposed to be formed;   (b) the purpose for which it is to be formed;   (c) the place where its principal business is to be transacted;   (d) the number of its directors or trustees, which may not be less than three, and the names and residences of those who are selected for the first 3 months and until their successors are elected and qualified. The directors or trustees must at all times be resident freeholders in the state of Montana.   (e) the names and addresses of the petitioners applying for the incorporation or district, with a description of the lands that each owns and that are proposed to be submitted to the corporation or district and the character of the lands and their production, as well as a consent of the owners to submit the lands to the provisions of this section;   (f) the assessed valuation of the land;   (g) the term for which it is to exist, not exceeding 40 years;   (h) if shares, acres, production, or other evidences of membership are to be used, the basis for issuing them in either value, acreage, or production.   (2) In addition to provisions required in subsection (1), the petition for incorporation may also contain provisions not inconsistent with law regarding liability as set forth in 35-14-202.   (3) The petition must be accompanied by a map giving location of the lands sought to be included in the corporation or district, but nothing in this subsection may be construed as requiring the lands to be contiguous.   (4) A bond in the sum of $1,000 to be approved by the clerk, conditioned for the payment of all costs incurred in the creation of the corporation or district, must be filed with the petition.   History: En. Sec. 2, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6398, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6398, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-302; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 559, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 208, Ch. 368, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 263, Ch. 271, L. 2019.
MT Code § 35-16-203 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-203. Notice of hearing of petition

  35-16-203. Notice of hearing of petition. Upon the filing of such petition, the clerk of the district court wherein the same shall be filed shall set the same for hearing before said court at a time not less than 10 or more than 20 days from the date of filing such petition and shall cause notice of such setting to be mailed or delivered to each of the persons purporting to be signers thereon not less than 10 days before such hearing and post it in three public places in said county.   History: En. Sec. 3, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6399, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6399, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-303.
MT Code § 35-16-204 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-204. Hearing of petition -- findings of court -- issuance of certificate of incorporation -- effect of issuance

  35-16-204. Hearing of petition -- findings of court -- issuance of certificate of incorporation -- effect of issuance. (1) At the time specified in the notice of hearing, a district judge of the state of Montana shall in open court hear said petition and the evidence offered in support thereof and determine whether or not the requirements of this chapter have been complied with. If upon such hearing or adjournments thereof as the court may order, the court does find that the petition substantially complies with the requirements of this chapter and is true in all particulars, the court shall so find and in open court shall enter upon its minutes and upon said petition or attach thereto its findings and order to the effect that said petition complies with the requirements of this chapter and is true and correct in all particulars as therein set forth and its statements are supported by proper proof and that such corporation or district is entitled to be created and become a body corporate.   (2) A duly certified copy of which petition, with the court's order or any endorsements thereon, shall be filed with the secretary of state of the state of Montana who shall upon such filing issue a certificate of incorporation under the seal of the state of Montana. Duly certified copies of the petition, with the court's order or endorsements thereon, shall also be filed with the county clerk and recorder of each county in which said corporation or district shall thereafter own or hold property or have property-holding memberships.   (3) Upon the issuance of such certificate, every corporation or district organized hereunder is a quasi-public corporation for the promotion of public welfare, with all of the powers and authority of bodies corporate under the corporation laws of the state of Montana.   History: En. Sec. 4, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6400, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6400, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-304.
MT Code § 35-16-205 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-205. First meeting -- notice

  35-16-205. First meeting -- notice. Within 30 days after the issuance of a certificate of incorporation, the persons named and designated in the petition to be directors or trustees for the first 3 months shall cause a written notice to be mailed or delivered to each and every signer of the petition of a proposed first meeting of said corporation or district for the purpose of adopting a common seal, adopting bylaws, and providing for the issuance of stock or other evidences of membership of the members thereof and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before a meeting of the stockholders or members of a corporation or district formed for the purposes named in the petition.   History: En. Sec. 5, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6401, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6401, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-305.
MT Code § 35-16-206 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-206. Bylaws to be adopted at first meeting

  35-16-206. Bylaws to be adopted at first meeting. Every corporation or district formed under this chapter must, by majority action at its organization meeting after incorporation, adopt a code of bylaws for its government, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state.   History: En. Sec. 1, Art. 2, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6406, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6406, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-310.
MT Code § 35-16-207 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-207. Bylaws -- contents

  35-16-207. Bylaws -- contents. The bylaws, where no other provision is specially made, may provide for:   (1) the time, place, and manner of calling and conducting meetings of stockholders or members;   (2) the number of stockholders or members or quantity of units of membership in acres, lands, or production, as shall constitute a quorum;   (3) the mode of voting at stockholder's meetings and the method of voting by proxy, provided that the same shall not be inconsistent with any of the provisions hereof or the laws of this state;   (4) the number of directors of the corporation or district and the time of the annual election of directors and the mode and manner of giving notice thereof;   (5) the officers, the manner of their election, their duties, and tenure;   (6) the directors having the power to sell, lease, mortgage, hypothecate, or otherwise dispose of the corporate assets of the corporation or district or any part thereof, as distinguished from membership lands;   (7) the manner of creating subdivisions or subdistricts, by geographical location or otherwise, for local groups or subdivisions of the corporation or district, as may promote the objects of the corporation or district generally or the welfare of the membership in the particular subdivision or subdistrict; and may provide for local boards of directors or executive committees representing the board of directors to manage the affairs of the subdivision or subdistrict thus created, subject to the direction and approval of the board of directors of the corporation or district.   History: En. Sec. 2, Art. 2, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6407, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6407, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-311.
MT Code § 35-16-208 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-208. Bylaws -- recording and amendment

  35-16-208. Bylaws -- recording and amendment. (1) The bylaws and all amendments and additions thereto shall be recorded.   (2) The bylaws may be repealed or amended or new bylaws may be adopted at the annual meeting or at any other meeting of the members called for that purpose by the directors, by a vote representing two-thirds of the stock or other evidences of membership or by two-thirds of the members. The written assent of the holders of two-thirds of the stock or other evidences of membership or of two-thirds of the members is effective to repeal or amend a bylaw or to adopt additional bylaws. The power to repeal and amend the bylaws and to adopt new bylaws may, by a similar vote at any such meeting or by similar written assent, be delegated to the board of directors or trustees. That power, when delegated, may be revoked by a similar vote at any such meeting of the members.   History: En. Sec. 3, Art. 2, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6408, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6408, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 62, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 14-312.
MT Code § 35-16-209 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-209. Creation of subdivisions or subdistricts

  35-16-209. Creation of subdivisions or subdistricts. Any corporation or district organized under the provisions hereof shall have the power to create subdivisions or subdistricts of said corporation or district, by geographical or other location, as shall best subserve the purposes of the corporation or district or the welfare of the membership of the corporation or district residing in the proposed subdivision or subdistrict, provided any property owned or acquired by the subdivision or subdistrict thus created shall at all times be the property of the corporation or district and its members and membership lands subject to the objects, purposes, and liabilities of the corporation or district, as herein provided.   History: En. Sec. 8, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6404, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6404, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-308.
MT Code § 35-16-210 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-210. Existing associations -- reorganization under chapter

  35-16-210. Existing associations -- reorganization under chapter. (1) Any cooperative or other corporation, association, society, or group of individuals on or before March 5, 1921, associated together for purposes and objects similar to those contemplated by the provisions of this chapter desiring to come within the provisions of this chapter may, by resolution of their board of directors, direct written notice to be given to each stockholder or member of their corporation or group of individuals of the proposal to organize a corporation or district under the provisions of this chapter and request 10 or more of their members qualified as provided in this chapter to prepare and file, in the county that they select to make their principal place of business, a petition in accordance with the provisions of 35-16-202. If after petitioning not less than two-thirds of the stockholders or members of the cooperative or other corporation, association, society, or group of individuals either file with the corporation or district their written consent to the reorganization or petition to become members, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or both, the board of directors or other governing board of the existing cooperative or other corporation, association, society, or group of individuals must be authorized to, through proper officers, transfer to the new corporation or district, when organized, their corporate assets, real, personal, and mixed.   (2) Any stockholder or member of any cooperative or other corporation or society reorganized under the provisions of this section, consenting to the reorganization but not including lands in the reorganized corporation or district, is entitled to a certificate or shares of stock or other evidence of membership in the reorganized corporation or district of the par value equal to the value of the stockholder's or member's certificate or shares of stock or membership right in the previous existing cooperative or other corporation or society's assets at the time of the reorganization and is to this extent a stockholder or member. However, any stockholder or member of the corporation or group of individuals that are reorganizing may not be considered as increasing the stock of the new corporation so as to require consent of a majority of its members or stockholders to their admission.   History: En. Sec. 8, Art. 3, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6421, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6421, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-325; amd. Sec. 1323, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 35-16-211 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-211. Stockholders dissenting from reorganization of existing association -- appraisal remedy

  35-16-211. Stockholders dissenting from reorganization of existing association -- appraisal remedy. If any stockholder or member of an existing cooperative or other corporation, association, society, or group of individuals declines to consent to the transfer or refuses to become a member of the new organization, the stockholder or member shall, within 30 days after receiving written notice of the transfer of assets to the new corporation or district, serve upon the officers of the newly created corporation or district and file in the district court of the county of its principal place of business a petition praying for the net value of the stockholder's or member's equity in the cooperative or other corporation, association, society, or group of individuals in its assets, determined and valued as of the date when the property was transferred by the directors or executive officers to the new corporation or district. Upon a failure to, within the time and in the manner specified in this section, file a claim for appraisal and settlement, it is barred.   History: En. Sec. 9, Art. 3, Ch. 152. L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6422, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6422, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-326; amd. Sec. 1324, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 35-16-212 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 2. Formation|35-16-212. Association operating two or more enterprises in different parts of state -- control by delegates

  35-16-212. Association operating two or more enterprises in different parts of state -- control by delegates. (1) An agricultural association or company, either cooperative stock or nonprofit nonstock, existing on July 1, 1921, or organized under the laws of Montana after that date may own and operate two or more cooperative enterprises in different parts of the state and may exercise and possess the following powers by providing in their articles of incorporation or in their bylaws that:   (a) all powers of the association members or stockholders must be exercised by duly elected delegates at any meeting of delegates that may be called. They shall elect officers and transact business in the same manner that the association members or stockholders are empowered to do. The officers and board of directors that the delegates may elect must be known as "general officers" or "general board of directors".   (b) stockholders or members of the cooperative stock or nonprofit nonstock agricultural associations or companies must be grouped into locals in the districts that the general board of directors may from time to time direct;   (c) each local, with territorial limits as determined by the general board of directors, shall elect from among its stockholders or members one delegate and one alternate to represent the local at any meeting of the association or company. The delegate and alternate shall serve for 1 year. The alternate shall serve as delegate at all meetings where the delegate may not be in attendance.   (d) each delegate may have only one vote, regardless of the number of stockholders or members that the delegate represents.   (2) Nothing in this section limits the powers of the board of directors of any corporation.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 93, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6426, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6426, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-330; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 202, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1325, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 35-16-301 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 3. Members and Directors|35-16-301. Members and membership lands

  35-16-301. Members and membership lands. The members of a corporation or district organized hereunder shall be called "members". The lands included by such members shall be called "membership lands".   History: En. Sec. 9, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6405, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6405, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-309.
MT Code § 35-16-302 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations|Chapter 16. Agricultural Associations|Part 3. Members and Directors|35-16-302. Procedure for receiving other members

  35-16-302. Procedure for receiving other members. (1) Whenever any corporation or district has been formed under the provisions of this chapter, it is authorized and directed to permit other holders of title or evidence of title of similar or like agricultural, horticultural, or farm land within this state to become members, upon the holder of title or evidence of title, in manner and form that may be required by the laws of Montana and the rules of the corporation or district or its bylaws, applying for membership to the officers of the corporation or district by written application, duly acknowledged:   (a) containing a full, true, and correct description of the land owned by the applicant and proposed to be contained in the corporation or district;   (b) containing a statement of the applicant's desire to become a member and the applicant's consent to submit the applicant's land to the provisions of this chapter and to the administration of the corporation or district and its bylaws and to its objects and purposes; and   (c) accompanied by a map of the land owned by the applicant and proposed to be submitted to the corporation or district, its objects and purposes.   (2) If the application is in proper form and the applicant is the holder of title or evidence of title to the land described and the uses of the land as represented in the petition are similar to the uses of land already included in the corporation or district, a full, true, and correct copy of the application must be made and filed in the office of principal place of business of the corporation or district and the original application must be filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county in which the land or the greater portion of the land is located. Upon filing, the applicant is entitled to evidence of temporary membership, in shares or units of membership, in a similar manner as the original members and the land described in the petition must be construed to be a part of the corporation or district to all intents and purposes as though originally incorporated in the corporation or district. Upon the consent of a majority of the members or stockholders given in the annual meeting or at a special meeting called as provided by law for that purpose, the new member or stockholder is entitled to full membership in the corporation or district.   History: En. Sec. 6, Art. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6402, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6402, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 14-306; amd. Sec. 1326, Ch. 56, L. 2009.