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TN Code § 43-32-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 1 - Commodity Dealer and Warehouse Law|§ 43-32-110. Use of Price Later Contracts — Rules and Regulations

 The commissioner may regulate the use of price later contracts by the promulgation of any rule or regulation the commissioner may deem necessary.
TN Code § 43-32-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-201. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Commodity Producer Indemnity Law.”
TN Code § 43-32-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-202. Purpose — Tennessee Grain Indemnity Fund

 It is the purpose of this part to promote the state's welfare by improving the economic stability of agriculture. It is declared to be in the public interest and highly advantageous to the agricultural economy of the state that producers of grain be permitted, by referendum, to levy upon themselves an assessment of one cent (1¢) per bushel on soybeans and one-half cent (½¢) per bushel on all other grain, and provide for the collection of the assessment for the purpose of financing or contributing to the financing of the Tennessee grain indemnity fund, which is created as a separate fund within the department of agriculture to protect commodity producers in the event of the financial failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman, and to ensure the existence of adequate funds so the commodity producers and claimants may be compensated for losses occasioned by the failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman.
TN Code § 43-32-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-203. Referendum of Producers — Procedure

  Any qualified producer organization may make application to the commissioner requesting a referendum of producers on forms prescribed by the commissioner for the purpose of determining whether an assessment of the amount specified in § 43-32-202 can be levied, collected and disbursed under this part.   Within thirty (30) days of receipt of an application requesting a referendum, the commissioner shall make a determination of whether or not the petitioner is a qualified producer organization and, upon this determination, shall set a date for the referendum, which shall not be more than sixty (60) days after receipt of the application, and shall publish by any reasonable means, the date of the referendum, the polling places and the hours they will be open, the amount of the proposed assessment, and the date the assessment shall begin, if adopted.    Any referendum held under this part shall be conducted statewide, under the control and direction of the commissioner. The polling place in each county shall be the offices of the University of Tennessee agriculture extension service. All ballots shall be provided at the polling place. All voting shall be by secret ballot.    Each person seeking to vote in the referendum shall be required to file an affidavit stating that the person is a producer as defined in this chapter. Upon signing an affidavit, that person shall be eligible to vote. The question to be decided in the referendum shall be in the following form:  Shall the producers of  assess themselves at the rate of  cents per  of  sold, and use the funds so collected by the department of agriculture solely to finance the Tennessee grain indemnity fund in order to protect commodity producers in the event of the financial failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman?    The affirmative vote of the majority of the number of votes cast adopts the proposed assessment.     Within ten (10) days after the referendum, the commissioner shall canvass the votes and publicly announce the result of the referendum.
TN Code § 43-32-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-205. Applicability — Department Powers

  Every commodity dealer or warehouseman required to be licensed by the department, except for commodity dealers who are incidental grain dealers, unsecured, shall be subject to this part.   The department shall be empowered to enter into a cooperative agreement with any commodity warehouse licensed under the United States Warehouse Act or with any federal agency to accomplish the purposes of this part.
TN Code § 43-32-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-207. Assessment — Suspension — Reinstatement

  The assessment shall continue on grain until the Tennessee grain indemnity fund is more than three million dollars ($3,000,000). If and when the fund is more than three million dollars ($3,000,000), the commissioner shall temporarily suspend the assessment. At such time the amount in the fund drops below three million dollars ($3,000,000), the commissioner may reinstitute the assessment; however, the assessment shall not exceed the assessment rate established by this chapter. Adjustments to the assessment can be made only once annually. At such time the fund has utilized funds from the revenue fluctuation reserve fund in accordance with § 43-32-209, and if, in the opinion of the commissioner, the assessment will not pay the state back, the commissioner may institute a mandatory assessment. This mandatory assessment shall be in effect only for as long as it takes to repay the revenue fluctuation reserve fund, and shall not be applicable to producers who were ineligible to receive benefits from the Tennessee grain indemnity fund at the time of the claim that resulted in the obligation to the revenue fluctuation reserve fund.   Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part, any assessment initiated after July 1, 2011, shall continue until the balance of the fund is ten million dollars ($10,000,000), at which time the assessment shall be temporarily suspended. Assessments thereafter shall be reinstated when the fund balance is less than eight million dollars ($8,000,000).
TN Code § 43-32-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-208. Assessments — Collection — Fund Management

 All assessments collected by the department pursuant to this part shall be in a separate fund and shall be used solely to carry out the purposes of this chapter. These funds may be invested and reinvested at the discretion of the state treasurer, and the interest from these investments shall be deposited to the credit of the fund and shall be available for the same purposes as all other money deposited in the Tennessee grain indemnity fund. The moneys in the Tennessee grain indemnity fund shall not be available for any purpose other than the payment of claims and for the administration of this chapter.
TN Code § 43-32-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-209. Access to Reserve Funds

 In the event that the amount in the Tennessee grain indemnity fund is insufficient to pay the approved claims from that fund, the commissioner of agriculture, with the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration and the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly, shall have access to the revenue fluctuation reserve fund for an amount sufficient to satisfy the unpaid claims. This access shall not exceed a maximum amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000). The state shall be reimbursed, with interest, at the rate paid on ninety-day United States treasury bills, for any amounts paid under this section upon replenishment of the fund from the assessments on the appropriate commodity made pursuant to this part.
TN Code § 43-32-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-210. Compensation of Claimants

  Within ninety (90) days of the commissioner's approval of a valid claim, the department shall, in accordance with this section, compensate from the Tennessee grain indemnity fund any claimant who has incurred a financial loss due to a failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman.  Any claimant who has incurred a financial loss due to a failure of a commodity dealer shall be entitled to be compensated for eighty-five percent (85%) of a valid claim, to a maximum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), with moneys from the Tennessee grain indemnity fund. To the maximum extent that funds are or may be made available for such purpose, the remaining balance of the claims shall be paid by the department from the assets and other security of the failed dealer.   Any claimant who has incurred a financial loss due to the failure of a warehouseman and who has surrendered a warehouse receipt for payment or holds a warehouse receipt and cannot receive value shall be compensated for one hundred percent (100%) of the claim.     To the extent that the balance of the grain indemnity fund increases as a result of § 43-32-207(b), the maximum amount per claimant set forth in subsection (a) shall be adjusted proportionately, so that the maximum amount per claimant shall be maintained at three and one-third percent (31/3%) of the balance of the grain indemnity fund at the time of a failure of a commodity dealer.
TN Code § 43-32-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-211. Commission — Duties

 The commissioner, upon determining that a commodity dealer or warehouseman has defaulted payment or failed, has the duty under this part, in addition to any other duties granted to the commissioner by law, to:   Request the transfer of moneys from the Tennessee grain indemnity fund when necessary for the purpose of compensating claimants in accordance with § 43-32-210;   Hold in trust any assets of a failed commodity dealer or warehouseman for the purposes of repayment of the Tennessee grain indemnity fund moneys used to pay claimants; any repayment to the appropriate indemnity fund shall not exceed the principal amount paid to claimants; and   In the event that the amount in the Tennessee grain indemnity fund is insufficient to pay all valid claims in accordance with § 43-32-210, pay valid claims based on a pro rata share of available funds.
TN Code § 43-32-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-212. Department of Agriculture — Duties

 The department has the duty under this chapter to:   Collect and deposit all fees and assessments authorized under this part into the Tennessee grain indemnity fund for investment by the fund;   Transfer, at the discretion of the commissioner, any moneys from the department to the Tennessee grain indemnity fund for investment;   Subrogate all the rights of the claimant. The claimant shall assign all rights, title and interest in any judgment to the department;   Initiate any action it may deem necessary to compel the commodity dealer or warehouseman against whom an awarded claim arose to repay the Tennessee grain indemnity fund; and   Initiate any action it may deem necessary to compel the claimant whose claim arose due to a failure to participate in any legal proceeding in relation to that claim.
TN Code § 43-32-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 32 - Commodity Warehouses, Dealers and Producers|Part 2 - Commodity Producer Indemnity Law|§ 43-32-213. Rules

 In accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, the commissioner shall promulgate such rules as may be necessary to effectively and efficiently administer and enforce this chapter.
TN Code § 43-38-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law.”
TN Code § 43-38-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-102. Reservation of Power to Amend or Repeal

 The general assembly has the power to amend or repeal all or part of this chapter at any time and all domestic cooperatives subject to this chapter shall be governed by the amendment or repeal.
TN Code § 43-38-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-104. Notice

  Notice under this chapter shall be in writing, except that oral notice is effective if it is reasonable under the circumstances and not prohibited by the articles or bylaws.   Notice may be communicated in person, by telephone, telegraph, teletype, or other form of wire or wireless communication, or by mail or private carrier. If these forms of personal notice are impracticable, notice may be communicated by a newspaper of general circulation in the area where published, or by radio, television, or other form of public broadcast communication.   Written notice by a domestic cooperative to its members, if in a comprehensible form, is effective when mailed, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed to the member's address shown in the cooperative's current record of members.   Written notice to a domestic cooperative may be addressed to its registered agent at its registered office or to the cooperative or its secretary at its principal office shown in its most recent annual report.   Except as provided in subsection (c), written notice, if in a comprehensible form, is effective at the earliest of the following:  When received;   Five (5) days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed correctly addressed and with first class postage affixed;   On the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee; or   Twenty (20) days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark if mailed correctly addressed, and with other than first class, registered or certified postage affixed.     Oral notice is effective when communicated if communicated in a comprehensible manner.   If this chapter prescribes notice requirements for particular circumstances, those requirements govern. If the articles or bylaws prescribe notice requirements not inconsistent with this section or other provisions of this chapter, those requirements govern.
TN Code § 43-38-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-106. Reservation of Cooperative Name With Secretary of State

  A person may reserve the exclusive use of a cooperative name, including an assumed cooperative name, by delivering an application to the secretary of state for filing. The application must set forth the name and address of the applicant and the name proposed to be reserved. If the secretary of state finds that the cooperative name applied for meets the requirements of § 43-38-105 and is available, the secretary of state shall reserve the name for the applicant's exclusive use for a four-month period. Upon the expiration of the four-month period, the same or any other party may apply to reserve the same name.   The owner of a reserved cooperative name, including an assumed cooperative name, may transfer the reservation to another person by delivering to the secretary of state a notice of the transfer signed by the owner that states the name and address of the transferee.   The reservation of a specific name may be cancelled by filing with the secretary of state a notice, executed by the applicant or transferee, specifying the name reservation to be cancelled and the name and address of the applicant or transferee.
TN Code § 43-38-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-107. Registered Office and Registered Agent

  Each cooperative shall have and continuously maintain in this state:  A registered office, which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business;   A registered agent, which agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic or foreign business entity authorized to transact business in the state having a business office identical with the registered office.     If a registered agent resigns or is unable to perform the agent's duties, the domestic cooperative shall promptly designate another registered agent to the end that it shall at all times have a registered agent in this state.
TN Code § 43-38-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-108. Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent

  A cooperative may change its registered office or agent, or both, upon filing in the office of the secretary of state a statement of change setting forth:  The name of the cooperative;   If the address of its current registered office is to be changed, the address to which the registered office is to be changed, and the zip code for the office, and the county in which the office is located;   If its current registered agent is to be changed, the name of its new registered agent; and   That the address of its registered office and the address of the business office of its registered agent, as changed, will be identical.     If a registered agent changes the street address of the registered agent's business office, the registered agent may change the street address of the registered office of any cooperative for which that registered agent is the registered agent by notifying the cooperative in writing of the change, either manually or in facsimile, and delivering to the secretary of state for filing a statement that companies with the requirement of subsection (a) and states that the cooperative has been notified of the change. The statement shall be signed and delivered to the secretary of state. If the secretary of state finds that the statement conforms to this chapter, the secretary of state shall file the statement in the secretary of state's office, and upon filing the change of address of the registered office or the appointment of a new registered agent or both, as the case may be is effective.
TN Code § 43-38-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-109. Resignation of Registered Agent

  Any registered agent of a cooperative may resign as the registered agent's agency appointment by signing and filing with the secretary of state an original statement of resignation accompanied by the registered agent's certification that the registered agent has mailed a copy of the original statement of resignation to the principal office by certified mail.   The agency appointment is terminated, and the registered office discontinued, if so provided, on the date on which the statement is filed by the secretary of state.
TN Code § 43-38-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-110. Service on Cooperative

  A domestic cooperative's registered agent is the cooperative's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the cooperative.   Whenever a domestic cooperative fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, or whenever its registered agent cannot be found with reasonable diligence, then the secretary of state shall be an agent of such cooperative on whom any such process, notice or demand may be served.   This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of service on a domestic cooperative.
TN Code § 43-38-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-112. Fees and Taxes

 Cooperatives created pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the same fees and taxed in the same manner as nonprofit cooperative associations established pursuant to chapter 16 of this title.
TN Code § 43-38-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-115. Unclaimed Property

  A cooperative may, in lieu of paying or delivering to the state the unclaimed property specified in its report of unclaimed property, distribute the unclaimed property to a corporation or organization that is exempt from taxation. A cooperative making the election to distribute unclaimed property shall file with the secretary of state:  A verified written explanation of the proof of claim of an owner establishing a right to receive the abandoned property;   Any error in the presumption of abandonment;   The name, address, and exemption number of the corporation or organization to which the property was or is to be distributed; and   The approximate date of distribution.     This section does not alter the procedure provided by law for cooperatives to report unclaimed property to the state and the requirement that claims of owners are made to the cooperatives for a period following the publication of lists of abandoned property.   The right of an owner to unclaimed property held by a cooperative is extinguished when the property is disbursed by the cooperative to a tax-exempt organization in accordance with this section.
TN Code § 43-38-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 38 - Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-38-116. Challenge of Cooperative Action

  Except as provided in subsection (b), the validity of a cooperative's action may not be challenged on the ground that the cooperative lacks or lacked the power to act.   A cooperative power to act may be challenged in a proceeding by:  A member against the cooperative to enjoin the act;   The cooperative directly, derivatively, or through a receiver, trustee, or other legal representative, against an incumbent or former director, officer, employee or agent of the cooperative; or   The attorney general and reporter under § 43-38-1017.     In a member's proceeding under subdivision (b)(1) to enjoin an unauthorized cooperative act, the court may enjoin or set aside the act, if equitable and if all affected persons are parties to the proceeding, and may award damages for loss, other than anticipated profits, suffered by the cooperative or another party because of enjoining the unauthorized act.