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WY Stat § 17-10-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-115 - Apportionment of Net Profits by Directors of Corporation With Capital Stock.

17-10-115. Apportionment of net profits by directors of corporation with capital stock.| (a) The directors in any cooperative association organized under this article may set aside a portion of net income to create or maintain a capital reserve as they see fit or may set aside none, in their discretion. In addition to a capital reserve, the board may:  (i) Set aside an amount not to exceed five percent (5%) of the annual net income of the cooperative association for:  (A) Promoting and encouraging cooperative organization;  (B) Promotion, education or research activities which are beneficial to the cooperative, its members and products; and  (C) Any other endeavor or effort which the board deems is in the best interests of the cooperative or its members.  (ii) Establish and accumulate reserves for new buildings, machinery and equipment depreciation, losses and other purposes.  (b) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 144, § 4.
WY Stat § 17-10-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-117 - Sales Contracts With Members.

17-10-117. Sales contracts with members.| Any association organized under this act, as agent to sell the products of members or purchase supplies for members may operate upon a nonprofit basis by contracting to pay the members, for products sold by said members to or through the association, the resale price minus a uniform charge to cover the expenses involved in the handling of said products; there shall also be set aside for a reserve fund a small percentage of the sale price, said percentage to be fixed by the bylaws; resale price to be the actual resale price to be based upon the average price during any period for products of the same type and quality; the uniform charges for expenses to be specified in the contract or made otherwise ascertainable or left for determination by the directors.
WY Stat § 17-10-118 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-118 - Liability of Directors Upon Payment of Dividends or Appointment When Corporation Insolvent; Exception.

17-10-118. Liability of directors upon payment of dividends or appointment when corporation insolvent; exception.| If the directors of any corporation organized under this act shall declare and pay any dividend or apportionment of earnings or profits to members or nonmembers when the corporation is insolvent or when it would be rendered insolvent by such payment, such directors shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts of the corporation then existing and for all such debts thereafter incurred while they shall respectively continue in office. Any director may relieve himself from such liability at any time before the time fixed for the payment of such dividend or apportionment by filing a certificate in writing of his objection with the secretary of the corporation, and with the county clerk of the county in which the principal office is located.
WY Stat § 17-10-119 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-119 - Preparation and Disposition of Financial Statement.

17-10-119. Preparation and disposition of financial statement.| At the time of each dividend or apportionment of profits, and at least once in every year, the directors shall cause to be prepared a statement showing the financial condition of the corporation. This statement shall be in such form as shall fully exhibit the assets and liabilities of the corporation; its earnings and profits, purchases and sales, expenses and outlays, for the period covered by such dividend, apportionment of earnings, or yearly statement, and this statement, shall be in such form that good understanding of the financial condition of said company may be obtained from such statement. The directors shall cause one (1) copy of this statement to be mailed to each member or stockholder of the corporation and one (1) copy to be kept on file with the secretary where the same may be examined by any member of the corporation at all reasonable times.
WY Stat § 17-10-121 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-121 - Marketing Contracts Generally.

17-10-121. Marketing contracts generally.| (a) The association and its members may make and execute marketing contracts, requiring the members to sell, for a period of time, not over ten (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. The contract may provide that the association may sell or resell the products of its members, with or without taking title thereto, and pay over to its members the resale price, after deducting all necessary selling, overhead, and other costs and expenses, if any; and other proper reserves; and in interest not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum upon common stock.  (b) The bylaws of the marketing contract may fix, as liquidated damages, specified sums to be paid by the 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 will pay all costs, premiums for bonds, expenses or fees in case any action is brought upon the contract by the association; and any such provision shall be valid and enforceable in the courts of this state.  (c) In the event of any such breach or threatened breach of such 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 certified 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.
WY Stat § 17-10-122 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-122 - Inducing Breach of Marketing Contract or Spreading False Reports of Finances or Management; Penalty.

17-10-122. Inducing breach of marketing contract or spreading false reports of finances or management; penalty.| Any person who, or any corporation whose officers or employees knowingly induces or attempts to induce any member or stockholder of an association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association, or who maliciously and knowingly spreads false reports about the finances or management thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), for each such offense and shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each such offense; provided, that this section shall not apply to a bona fide creditor of such association, or the agent or attorney of any such bona fide creditor, endeavoring to make collections of the indebtedness.
WY Stat § 17-10-123 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-123 - Legality of Associations.

17-10-123. Legality of associations.| No association organized hereunder shall be deemed to be a combination in restraint of trade or an illegal monopoly; or an attempt to lessen competition or fix prices arbitrarily, nor shall the marketing contracts or agreements between the association and its members, or any agreements authorized in this act be considered illegal or in restraint of trade.
WY Stat § 17-10-124 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-124 - Applicability of Conflicting Laws.

17-10-124. Applicability of conflicting laws.| Any provisions of law which are in conflict with this act shall not be construed as applying to the associations herein provided for.
WY Stat § 17-10-125 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-125 - Applicability of General Corporation Laws.

17-10-125. Applicability of general corporation laws.| The provisions of the general corporation laws of this state, 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 of this act.
WY Stat § 17-10-126 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 1 - In General|Section 17-10-126 - Agricultural Product Marketing Contract.

17-10-126. Agricultural product marketing contract.| A cooperative organized under the provisions of this article and its patron members or patrons may make and execute a marketing contract under W.S. 17-10-214.
WY Stat § 17-10-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-201 - Title.

17-10-201. Title.| This act may be cited as the "Wyoming Processing Cooperative law."
WY Stat § 17-10-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-203 - Filing Fee; Rules and Regulations; Annual Reports and License Taxes.

17-10-203. Filing fee; rules and regulations; annual reports and license taxes.| (a) Unless otherwise provided, the filing fee for documents filed under this article with the secretary of state shall be subject to the provisions of W.S. 17-16-122. The secretary of state shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article.  (b) The provisions of W.S. 17-16-1630 regarding the filing of reports, license taxes and records shall apply to cooperatives formed under this article.
WY Stat § 17-10-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-204 - Registered Agent; Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent.

17-10-204. Registered agent; change of registered office or registered agent.| (a) Each cooperative shall have and continuously maintain in this state:  (i) A registered office as provided in W.S. 17-28-101 through 17-28-111;  (ii) A registered agent as provided in W.S. 17-28-101 through 17-28-111.  (b) Repealed by Laws 2008, Ch. 90, § 3.  (c) Repealed by Laws 2008, Ch. 90, § 3.  (d) Repealed by Laws 2008, Ch. 90, § 3  (e) If any cooperative has failed for thirty (30) days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state, or has failed for thirty (30) days after change of its registered office or registered agent to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change it shall be deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges acquired under the laws thereof and the forfeiture shall be made effective in the following manner. The secretary of state shall provide by first class mail or by electronic means a notice of its failure to comply with aforesaid provisions. Unless compliance is made within thirty (30) days of mailing or electronic submission of the notice, the cooperative shall be deemed defunct and to have forfeited its certificate of organization acquired under the laws of this state. Provided, that any defunct cooperative may at any time within two (2) years after the forfeiture of its certificate, in the manner herein provided, be revived and reinstated, by filing the necessary statement under this act and paying a reinstatement fee established by the secretary of state by rule, together with a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00). The reinstatement fee shall not exceed the costs of providing the reinstatement service. The cooperative shall retain its registered name during the two (2) year reinstatement period under this section.  (f) The provisions of W.S. 17-28-101 through 17-28-111 shall apply to all cooperatives.
WY Stat § 17-10-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-205 - Organizational Purpose.

17-10-205. Organizational purpose.| A cooperative may be formed and organized on a cooperative plan as provided under this article to market, process, or otherwise change the form or marketability of crops, livestock and other agricultural products, including manufacturing and further processing of those products and other purposes that are necessary or convenient to facilitate the production or marketing of agricultural products by patron members and other purposes that are related to the business of the cooperative.
WY Stat § 17-10-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-206 - Organizers.

17-10-206. Organizers.| A cooperative may be organized by one (1) or more organizers who shall be adult natural persons, who may act for themselves as individuals or as the agents of other entities. The organizers forming the cooperative need not be members of the cooperative.
WY Stat § 17-10-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-207 - Cooperative Name.

17-10-207. Cooperative name.| (a) The name of a cooperative shall distinguish the cooperative upon the records in the office of the secretary of state from the name of a domestic business entity or a foreign business entity, authorized or registered to do business in this state or a name the right to which is, at the time of organization, reserved or provided for by law.  (b) The cooperative name shall be reserved for the cooperative during its existence.
WY Stat § 17-10-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-209 - Amendment of Articles.

17-10-209. Amendment of articles.| (a) The articles of a cooperative shall be amended as follows:  (i) The board by majority vote shall pass a resolution stating the text of the proposed amendment. The text of the proposed amendment and an attached mail ballot, if the board has provided for a mail ballot in the resolution or alternative method approved by the board and stated in the resolution, shall be mailed or distributed with a regular or special meeting notice to each member. The notice shall designate the time and place of the meeting for the proposed amendment to be considered and voted on;  (ii) If a quorum of the members is registered as being present or represented by alternative vote at the meeting, the proposed amendment is adopted:  (A) If approved by a majority of the votes cast; or  (B) For a cooperative with articles or bylaws requiring more than majority approval or other conditions for approval, the amendment is approved by a proportion of the votes cast or a number of total members as required by the articles or bylaws and the conditions for approval in the articles or bylaws have been satisfied.  (b) After an amendment has been adopted by the members, the amendment shall be signed by the chair, vice-chair, records officer, or assistant records officer and a copy of the amendment filed in the office of the secretary of state.  (c) A certificate shall be prepared stating:  (i) The vote and meeting of the board adopting a resolution of the proposed amendment;  (ii) The notice given to members of the meeting at which the amendment was adopted;  (iii) The quorum registered at the meeting; and  (iv) The vote cast adopting the amendment.  (d) The certificate shall be signed by the chair, vice-chair, records officer or financial officer and filed with the records of the cooperative.  (e) A majority of directors may amend the articles if the cooperative does not have any members with voting rights.
WY Stat § 17-10-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-210 - Amendment of Organizational Documents to Be Governed by This Article.

17-10-210. Amendment of organizational documents to be governed by this article.| (a) A business entity organized and doing business under other statutes of this state or under the laws of other states that has or will conduct business as a cooperative may become subject to this article by amending its organizational documents to conform to the requirements of articles of organization under this article.  (b) A business entity organized under other statutes of this state may amend its articles in the manner provided under the statute that it is governed by for the adoption of amendments to comply with the provisions of this article and file the amended articles with the secretary of state to be a cooperative governed under this article. The status of the business entity under the other statutes terminates with the filing of articles to be governed under this article.  (c) A business entity organized under laws of other states shall amend its organizational documents in the manner required by the laws of the state where it was organized to comply with the provisions of this article. After the organizational documents are amended, the business entity shall file a certified copy of the organizational documents as amended with the secretary of state to comply with the provisions of this article with the fees and requirements prescribed for filing articles. After filing, the business entity is a cooperative in this state organized under and subject to the provisions of this article.
WY Stat § 17-10-211 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-211 - Existence.

17-10-211. Existence.| (a) The existence of a cooperative shall begin when the articles are filed with the secretary of state.  (b) A cooperative shall have a perpetual duration unless the cooperative provides for a limited period of duration in the articles of organization.
WY Stat § 17-10-212 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-212 - Bylaws.

17-10-212. Bylaws.| (a) A cooperative shall have bylaws governing the cooperative's business affairs, structure, the qualifications, classification, rights and obligations of members, and the classifications, allocations and distributions of membership interests.  (b) The bylaws of a cooperative may be adopted or amended by the directors as provided in subsection (c) of this section, or at a regular or special members' meeting if:  (i) The notice of the meeting contains a statement that the bylaws or restated bylaws will be voted upon and copies are included with the notice, or copies are available upon request from the cooperative and summary statement of the proposed bylaws or amendment is included with the notice;  (ii) A quorum is registered as being present or represented by mail or alternative voting method if the mail or alternative voting method is authorized by the board; and  (iii) The bylaws or amendment is approved by a majority vote cast, or for a cooperative with articles or bylaws requiring more than majority approval or other conditions for approval, the bylaws or amendment is approved by a proportion of the vote cast or a number of the total members as required by the articles or bylaws and the conditions for approval in the articles or bylaws have been satisfied.  (c) Until the next annual or special members' meeting, the majority of directors may adopt and amend bylaws for the cooperative that are consistent with subsection (d) of this section which may be further amended or repealed by the members at an annual or special members' meeting.  (d) Bylaws may contain any provision relating to the management or regulation of the affairs of the cooperative that are not inconsistent with law or the articles, and shall include the following:  (i) The number of directors, and the qualifications, manner of election, powers, duties, and compensation, if any, of directors;  (ii) The qualifications of members and any limitations on their number;  (iii) The manner of admission, withdrawal, suspensions, and expulsion of members;  (iv) Generally the governance rights, financial rights, assignability of governance and financial rights, and other rights, privileges and obligations of members and their membership interests, which may be further described in member control agreements.
WY Stat § 17-10-215 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-215 - Board Governs Cooperative.

17-10-215. Board governs cooperative.| A cooperative shall be governed by its board.
WY Stat § 17-10-216 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 10 - Cooperative Marketing Associations|Article 2 - Processing Cooperative|Section 17-10-216 - Number of Directors.

17-10-216. Number of directors.| The board shall have not less than three (3) directors.