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KS Stat § 17-1623 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1623 Validity of act.

17-1623. Validity of act. If any section of this act, or acts amendatory thereto, shall be declared unconstitutional for any reason, the remainder of the act or acts amendatory thereto, shall not be affected thereby.History: L. 1921, ch. 148, § 23; R.S. 1923, 17-1623; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 20; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1625 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1625 Application and recording fee.

17-1625. Application and recording fee. At the time of filing its articles of incorporation, an association organized hereunder shall pay the fees required by subsection (a) of K.S.A. 17-7502.History: L. 1921, ch. 148, § 25; R.S. 1923, 17-1625; L. 1972, ch. 54, § 17; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1626 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1626 Conflicting laws not to apply; exemptions under existing laws to apply.

17-1626. Conflicting laws not to apply; exemptions under existing laws to apply. Any provisions of law which are in conflict with this act, or acts amendatory thereto, shall not be construed as applying to the associations herein provided for. Any exemptions under any and 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 the association's farmer members in the possession or under the control of the association.History: L. 1931, ch. 150, § 9; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 21; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1627 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1627 Limitation of use of term "co-operative."

17-1627. Limitation of use of term "co-operative." No person, firm, corporation, or association, hereafter organized or doing business in this state, shall be entitled to use the word "cooperative" as part of its corporate or other business name or title for producers' cooperative marketing activities unless it has complied with the provisions of this act, or with the provisions of article 15 of chapter 17 of the Revised Statutes of 1923, or acts amendatory thereto.History: L. 1931, ch. 150, § 10; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 22; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1628 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1628 Application of general corporation code.

17-1628. Application of general corporation code. The provisions of the general corporation code 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, or acts amendatory thereto.History: L. 1931, ch. 150, § 11; L. 1975, ch. 133, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 23; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1629 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1629 Increase of capital.

17-1629. Increase of capital. Any corporation organized under this act may increase its capital to any amount provided that such increase must be first approved by a 2/3 vote of directors and then be approved by affirmative vote of 2/3 of the outstanding shares of voting stock, or if the corporation is organized on the one person, one vote plan, then by the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the corporation's voting stockholders. In lieu of affirmative vote of 2/3 of the outstanding shares of voting stock, or if the corporation is organized on the one person, one vote plan, then in lieu of the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the corporation's voting stockholders, the capital may be increased by affirmative vote of 2/3 of the voting stockholders present and voting at any annual meeting or special meeting called for such purpose and upon written notice sent by first-class mail to every stockholder at such stockholder's last known post-office address at least 10 days prior to such meeting.History: L. 1931, ch. 150, § 12; L. 1968, ch. 379, § 3; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 24; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1630 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1630 Meetings of stockholders and directors; resident agent.

17-1630. Meetings of stockholders and directors; resident agent. In all cases where it is not otherwise provided by the bylaws, the meetings of the stockholders of every cooperative corporation organized or doing business under this act shall be held at the corporation's registered office in this state. The stockholders and directors, however, may hold their meetings and have an office or offices outside of this state or elsewhere in this state if the articles of incorporation or bylaws so provide, and every such cooperative association shall maintain a resident agent who may be either an individual or a corporation, resident of, or located in this state, in charge thereof. Service of any form of legal process on such resident agent shall be sufficient service upon the corporation.History: L. 1931, ch. 150, § 13; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 25; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1631 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1631 Dissolution for failure to carry on business; receivers.

17-1631. Dissolution for failure to carry on business; receivers. Any cooperative corporation, company or association heretofore organized under article 16, chapter 17, of the Revised Statutes of Kansas of 1923, and chapter 150 [*] of the Laws of 1931, and amendments thereto, which has for a period of three years ceased to engage, in good faith, in the primary business for which such corporation or association was organized, shall be dissolved by order of the district court having jurisdiction, on petition of the attorney general, supported by affidavit, and if the court shall find the petition is true, it shall appoint a receiver to wind up the affairs of such corporation and decree its dissolution.History: L. 1933, ch. 144, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 26; July 1.* "Chapter 150 of the Laws of 1931," see Comparative Table of Sections in the Constitutions volume for location of sections in this article.
KS Stat § 17-1632 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1632 Contracts fixing resale prices.

17-1632. Contracts fixing resale prices. Co-operative associations or corporations created under the provisions of article 16 of chapter 17 of the General Statutes of 1935, and any amendments thereto, or cooperative associations or corporations organized under similar statutes of other states and licensed to do business in the state of Kansas, are hereby empowered to enter into contracts with other cooperative associations or corporations, corporations or persons processing, handling, or selling, at wholesale or retail, the products produced by the members of such cooperative associations or corporations setting forth the minimum or maximum, or minimum and maximum resale prices at which such products may be sold by such other cooperative association or corporation, corporation or person, and to enter into contracts providing that any wholesaler purchasing, processing, handling or selling such products, upon the request of the cooperative association or corporation whose members have produced such products may refuse to sell or deliver the same to any retailer or retailers who sell or otherwise dispose of such products at prices below the resale retail prices established by such contract between such cooperative association or corporation and the wholesaler.History: L. 1937, ch. 181, § 1; March 31.
KS Stat § 17-1633 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1633 Same; restrictions.

17-1633. Same; restrictions. This act, or acts amendatory thereto, should not be construed as authorizing the fixing of prices by contract or otherwise in such a manner as to be arbitrary, unjustly discriminatory or otherwise detrimental to the public interest.History: L. 1937, ch. 181, § 2; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 27; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1634 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1634 Same; construction.

17-1634. Same; construction. No association, contract, method or act which complies with the provisions of article 16 of chapter 17 of the General Statutes of 1935, and any amendments thereto, or with this act, or acts amendatory thereto, shall be deemed a conspiracy or combination in restraint of trade or as creating an illegal monopoly.History: L. 1937, ch. 181, § 3; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 28; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1635 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1635 Same; invalidity of part.

17-1635. Same; invalidity of part. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act, or acts amendatory thereto, for any reason, shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this act, or acts amendatory thereto.History: L. 1937, ch. 181, § 4; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 29; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1636 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1636 Disposition of property, assets and good will; notice to stockholders.

17-1636. Disposition of property, assets and good will; notice to stockholders. Any cooperative association or corporation, created, organized or existing under the provisions of article 15 or article 16 of chapter 17 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and any amendments thereto, or any cooperative association or corporation organized under similar statutes of other states and licensed to do business in the state of Kansas, shall have the additional right and power to make disposition of all or substantially all of the association's or corporation's property, assets and good will, or good will, by sale, lease, exchange, or otherwise, to such individual, association, partnership, or corporation on such terms and conditions and for such consideration as the board of directors thereof may determine. Such transaction shall be authorized or approved by the vote of not less than 2/3 in number of the members or holders of voting stock or, in the case of any such association or corporation whose stockholders vote by shares, the holders of 2/3 in amount of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote, represented and voting at any meeting duly called and held for such purpose in accordance with the bylaws, and upon written notice sent by first-class mail to every member or stockholder at such member's or stockholder's last-known post-office address at least 10 days prior to such meetings. In lieu of the vote of 2/3 of the members or the vote of holders of 2/3 in amount of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote, the rights and powers granted by this section may be authorized by an association which is organized by a one person one vote plan by a vote of 2/3 of the voting members or voting stockholders present and voting at any duly called meeting when approved by the unanimous vote of the board of directors present.History: L. 1939, ch. 157, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 203, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 379, § 4; L. 1992, ch. 227, § 30; July 1.
KS Stat § 17-1639 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1639 When mergers effective; rights and liabilities to surviving association.

17-1639. When mergers effective; rights and liabilities to surviving association. No merger or consolidation shall become effective under this act until all corporate fees and taxes due to or assessable by the state have been paid by the constituent associations or corporations. Any fees or taxes which become due to or assessable by the state with respect to any such constituent, subsequent to the merger or consolidation, shall become the debt of the resulting or surviving association or corporation. When any merger or consolidation shall have become effective under this act, for all purposes of the laws of this state the separate existence of all constituent associations or corporations, or of all such constituents except the one into which the other or others of such constituents have been merged, shall cease and the constituents shall become a new association or corporation, or be merged into one of such associations or corporations, possessing all rights, privileges, powers and franchises of a public as well as of a private nature. Such associations or corporations shall be subject to all the restrictions, disabilities and duties of each of such associations or corporations so merged or consolidated. The rights, privileges, powers and franchises of each of such associations or corporations; property, real, personal and mixed; debts due to any of such constituents on whatever account; and stock subscriptions as all other things in action or belonging to each of such associations or corporations shall be vested in the association or corporation surviving or resulting from such merger or consolidation. All property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises, and every other interest shall be thereafter as effectually the property of the surviving or resulting association or corporation as such associations or corporations were of the several and respective constituents, and the title to any real estate vested by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this state, in any of such constituents, shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of this act. All rights of creditors and all liens upon this property of any of such constituents shall be preserved unimpaired, and all debts, liabilities and duties of the respective constituents shall attach to such surviving or resulting association or corporation, and may be enforced against the association or corporation to the same extent as if such debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or contracted by the association or corporation.History: L. 1991, ch. 74, § 3; May 30.
KS Stat § 17-1640 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1640 Surviving association right to issue bonds or other obligations.

17-1640. Surviving association right to issue bonds or other obligations. When two or more associations or corporations are merged or consolidated, the association or corporation surviving or resulting from the merger or consolidation may issue bonds or other obligations, negotiable or otherwise, and with or without coupons or interest certificates thereto attached, to an amount sufficient with the association's or corporation's capital stock to provide for all the payments the association or corporation will be required to make, or obligations it will be required to assume, in order to effect the merger or consolidation. For the purpose of securing the payment of any such bonds and obligations, it shall be lawful for the surviving or resulting association or corporation to mortgage the association's or corporation's corporate franchise, rights, privileges and property, real, personal or mixed. The surviving or resulting association or corporation may issue certificated or uncertificated shares of the association's or corporation's capital stock and other securities to the members of the constituent associations or corporations in exchange or payment for the original shares, in such amount as shall be necessary in accordance with the terms of the agreement of merger or consolidation in order to effect such merger or consolidation in the manner and on the terms specified in the agreement.History: L. 1991, ch. 74, § 4; May 30.
KS Stat § 17-1641 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1641 Effect of merger on pending actions.

17-1641. Effect of merger on pending actions. Any action or proceeding, whether civil, criminal or administrative, pending by or against any association or corporation which is a party to a merger or consolidation shall be prosecuted as if such merger or consolidation had not taken place, or the association or corporation surviving or resulting from such merger or consolidation may be substituted in such action or proceeding.History: L. 1991, ch. 74, § 5; May 30.
KS Stat § 17-1643 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 16 - Cooperative Marketing|17-1643 Act supplemental to cooperative marketing act.

17-1643. Act supplemental to cooperative marketing act. This act shall be part of and supplemental to the cooperative marketing act, cited at K.S.A. 17-1601 et seq., and amendments thereto.History: L. 1991, ch. 74, § 7; May 30.
KS Stat § 17-1701 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1701 Incorporation; powers and duties.

17-1701. Incorporation; powers and duties. Any religious society, military or fire company, literary, charitable or benevolent association, other than colleges, universities, academies or seminaries, or any grand or subordinate lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, or of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Independent Order of Mutual Aid, Good Templars, or any other secret benevolent association or organization, may by the consent of a majority of its members become bodies corporate under this act, by filing the charter required by this act, electing directors or trustees, and performing the things as are directed in the case of other corporations; and when so organized shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the restrictions in this act contained, for the objects named in the charter, and shall have the same power to make bylaws for the regulation of their affairs as other corporations, and shall have the power to adopt a bylaw to reduce the number of its directors or trustees to not less than three, and to incorporate with that number, and to prescribe their term of office, and to do and perform all other acts in accordance with the objects of the said lodges respectively. Such directors or trustees shall not usurp or exercise the functions of the officers in charge of the spiritual affairs of any society.History: L. 1879, ch. 89, § 1; March 13; R.S. 1923, 17-1701.
KS Stat § 17-1702 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1702 Charter.

17-1702. Charter. No religious, literary, scientific, industrial, benevolent or other society, association, company, corporation or institution, that does not have a capital stock will be required, in its charter, to make any statement of the amount of capital stock or amount of each share; but such charter, if it contains the other statements therein required, and also an estimate of the value of the goods, chattels, lands, rights and credits owned by the corporation, will be sufficient.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 123; October 31; R.S. 1923, 17-1702.
KS Stat § 17-1703 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1703 Real estate and stock of subordinate organizations.

17-1703. Real estate and stock of subordinate organizations. Any subordinate lodge, council or camp or other subordinate organization of any fraternal, benevolent, patriotic or beneficial order or association now established or organized or which may be established or organized hereafter in the state of Kansas, and which is under the control of a supreme, grand or other superior organization, may purchase, own, manage, control, improve, mortgage and dispose of such real estate, including such suitable building or buildings as may be necessary to provide suitable accommodations for the holding of its meetings and transacting of its business, and may purchase, own, manage, control and dispose of stock in a corporation which has for its purpose the building, erection, control, management or ownership of such suitable building or buildings as may be necessary to provide suitable accommodations for the holding of meetings and transacting of business of any organization or organizations as are provided for herein: Provided, That any such building or buildings as are provided for herein may be used in part for other purposes.History: L. 1899, ch. 164, § 1; L. 1909, ch. 171, § 1; R.S. 1923, 17-1703; L. 1945, ch. 158, § 1; June 28.
KS Stat § 17-1704 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1704 Same; title; transfers.

17-1704. Same; title; transfers. The title to any property the ownership of which is provided for in this act shall be vested in the lodge or other subordinate organization, and transfers of the same may be made by the trustees or managers of such organization.History: L. 1899, ch. 164, § 2; May 15; R.S. 1923, 17-1704.
KS Stat § 17-1705 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1705 Same; contracts and actions concerning real estate.

17-1705. Same; contracts and actions concerning real estate. Such subordinate organizations may contract, sue and be sued through its trustees or managers, in any matter affecting such real estate or buildings: Provided, That no judgment rendered against such organization shall have any force or effect except as against the property owned as provided herein.History: L. 1899, ch. 164, § 3; May 15; R.S. 1923, 17-1705.
KS Stat § 17-1711 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1711 Title to property of extinct Baptist societies.

17-1711. Title to property of extinct Baptist societies. That all property, both real and personal, belonging to or held in trust for any Baptist church or any Baptist religious society that has or shall become extinct, shall vest in and become the property of the Kansas Baptist Convention and its successors and assigns: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall affect the title to any Baptist church or Baptist religious society property that is held by any of the Baptist associations of the state: And provided further, That this act shall not affect the reversionary interest of any person or persons in such property or any valid lien thereon.History: L. 1911, ch. 139, § 1; May 22; R.S. 1923, 17-1711.
KS Stat § 17-1712 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 17 - Corporations|Article 17 - Religious, Charitable And Other Organizations|17-1712 Same; what society deemed extinct.

17-1712. Same; what society deemed extinct. That any Baptist church or Baptist religious society in this state which has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or services or to use its property for religious worship or services according to the tenets, usages and customs of Baptist churches in this state for the space of two consecutive years immediately prior thereto, or whose membership has so diminished in numbers or in financial strength as to render it impossible or impracticable for such church or society to maintain religious worship or services, or to protect its property from exposure to waste and delapidation, or to fulfill the purpose for which it was incorporated, shall be deemed and taken to be extinct, and may by an order of the district court of the county in which such society has been theretofore situated be so declared and thereupon dissolved, and the property of such church or society, or property which may be held in trust for such church or society, be transferred to, and the title and possession thereof vested in the said Kansas Baptist Convention.History: L. 1911, ch. 139, § 2; May 22; R.S. 1923, 17-1712.