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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations › Section 274.270 - Soliciting breach of contract — liability.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 274
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
274.270. Soliciting breach of contract — liability. —
Any person, firm or corporation conducting a warehouse within this state who solicits or persuades or permits any member of any association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association by accepting or receiving such member's products for sale or for auction or for display for sale, contrary to the terms of any marketing agreement of which said person or any member of the said firm or any active officer or manager of the said corporation has knowledge or notice, shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of five hundred dollars for each such offense; and such association shall be entitled to an injunction against such warehouseman to prevent further breaches and a multiplicity of actions thereon. In addition, said warehouseman shall pay to the association a reasonable attorney's fee and all costs involved in any such litigation or proceedings at law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14359)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12701
(1958) Section 274.300 made the provisions of § 390.030, RSMo, which exempts trucks operated by farmers from regulation by the public service commission, applicable to farmers' cooperative to the same extent as individual farmers. State ex rel. Smithco Transport Co. v. Pub. Serv. Comm. (A.), 316 S.W.2d 6 (Mo. en banc).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations › Section 274.280 - Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 274
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
274.280. Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly. —
No association organized hereunder and complying with the terms hereof shall be deemed to be a conspiracy or a combination in restraint of trade or an illegal monopoly; or an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily nor shall the marketing contracts and agreements between the association and its members or any agreements authorized in this chapter, be considered illegal as such or in unlawful restraint of trade or as part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an improper or illegal purpose.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14360)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12702
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations › Section 274.290 - General corporation laws apply to association — exceptions.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 274
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
274.290. General corporation laws apply to association — exceptions. —
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 chapter.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14361)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12703
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations › Section 274.300 - Provisions of law in conflict not applicable — exemptions.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 274
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
274.300. Provisions of law in conflict not applicable — exemptions. —
1. Any provisions of law which are in conflict with this chapter shall be construed as not applying to the associations herein provided for.
2. Any exemptions whatsoever 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 its former members, in the possession or under the control of the association.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14351)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12693
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations › Section 274.310 - Services provided by department of agriculture to small family owned agricultural producers or processors, cooperative marketing, market development, information dissemination — annual report submitted to general assembly, when.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 274
Effective - 28 Aug 1996
274.310. Services provided by department of agriculture to small family owned agricultural producers or processors, cooperative marketing, market development, information dissemination — annual report submitted to general assembly, when. —
1. The department of agriculture shall provide assistance to persons engaged in agricultural production in the following areas:
(1) Cooperative marketing of agricultural products;
(2) Cooperative processing of agricultural products;
(3) Development of regional and niche markets for the marketing of agricultural products; and
(4) Dissemination of the most modern information and technology related to agricultural production, processing and marketing. Such assistance shall have as its primary focus the provision of assistance to small, independent family-owned or -operated agricultural producers or processors.
2. An annual report on the activities engaged in, number of persons served and evaluation of project effectiveness shall be submitted by the department of agriculture to the general assembly, no later than December 1, 1996, and each year thereafter by December first.
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(L. 1996 H.B. 1237 merged with S.B. 521)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.010 - Who may incorporate — certain restrictions — style of corporate name.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.010. Who may incorporate — certain restrictions — style of corporate name. —
1. Commodity associations, as authorized in this chapter, may be incorporated as follows: Corn growers associations, wheat growers associations, potato growers associations, apple growers associations, strawberry growers associations, cotton growers associations and melon growers associations, but no such association shall be formed for the purpose of growing or producing and marketing more than one of such commodities, and associations of growers; or producers of any other commodity or product of the soil though not herein named may be incorporated under the provisions of this chapter.
2. Every such association shall have, as a part of its corporate name, the name of the commodity in the growing, production and marketing of which its members are, or proposed to be engaged.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14377)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12719
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.020 - General corporate powers, when.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.020. General corporate powers, when. —
That any three or more citizens and residents of this state engaged in growing, cultivating and producing the same agricultural commodity may, upon application as provided in this chapter, become a body corporate, and as such shall have and exercise the following powers:
(1) To have succession by its corporate name for the period limited in its articles of agreement, not exceeding, however, the term of fifty years, and if no limit be fixed in said articles of agreement, for the term of twenty years;
(2) To sue and be sued, complain and defend in any court of law or equity;
(3) To make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure;
(4) To hold, purchase, mortgage or otherwise convey such real estate and personal estate as may be necessary and requisite for the purposes for which such association is organized and also to take and hold and convey such other property, real, personal or mixed, as shall be necessary or requisite for it to acquire in order to secure the payment of any indebtedness or liability which may be due such association;
(5) To appoint such subordinate officers, and make bylaws, for the management of its property and the regulation of its affairs;
(6) To increase or diminish, by vote of its stockholders, cast as its bylaws may direct, the number of its directors or trustees, which shall not be less than three nor more than thirty-six in number. Such changes in the number of directors or trustees shall take effect and be in force from the date on which the president or secretary of such association shall file with the secretary of state an affidavit setting forth the number of directors and trustees fixed, together with the date at which such change in number of directors or trustees was voted by the stockholders of such association.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14364)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12706
CROSS REFERENCE:
Cooperative companies, Chap. 357
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.030 - Articles of agreement, how drawn.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.030. Articles of agreement, how drawn. —
Associations may be incorporated under the provisions of this chapter, by three or more persons entering into written articles of agreement which shall set forth:
(1) The name of the association, which shall include the name of the commodity which the members thereof are engaged in growing, producing or marketing;
(2) The location of the principal office or place of business;
(3) The names and post-office addresses of the persons agreed upon as directors for the first year, not less than three of whom shall be citizens and residents of this state;
(4) The date and place of meeting of the incorporators for the purpose of adopting bylaws and the election of officers.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14365)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12707
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.040 - Certificate of incorporation to be issued — subsequent procedure.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.040. Certificate of incorporation to be issued — subsequent procedure. —
Articles of agreement for the incorporation of associations under this chapter, shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, who shall issue a certificate of incorporation thereon, which shall be filed and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds in the county in which the principal office or place of business of such association is to be located, within thirty days after issuance thereof. The corporate existence of every such association shall take effect and be in force on and after date of filing articles of agreement for record in the office of the secretary of state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14367)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12709
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.050 - Incorporation fees.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
275.050. Incorporation fees. —
At the time of filing articles of agreement for the incorporation of commodity associations, as in this chapter authorized, there shall be paid to the state director of revenue an incorporating tax of fifty dollars on the first fifty thousand dollars, or less, of the authorized capital stock of such association and five dollars for every additional ten thousand dollars, or fraction thereof, of such capital stock in excess of fifty thousand dollars, together with such recording and certificate fees as are required by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14368, A. 1949 S.B. 1099)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12710
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.060 - Officers of association.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.060. Officers of association. —
The officers of every such association shall be a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and such other officers as may be authorized by the bylaws.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14366)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12708
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.070 - Capital stock to be divided into shares — value of stock.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.070. Capital stock to be divided into shares — value of stock. —
1. That associations organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have a capital stock divided into shares having a par value, or having no par value, as the incorporators in their articles of association may determine.
2. If such shares have a par value, the par value thereof shall not be less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and if such shares have no par value, they may be issued to the incorporators and others at not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per share, as shall be determined by the incorporators in their articles of association.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14371)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12713
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.080 - Capital stock may be increased, how.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1949
275.080. Capital stock may be increased, how. —
The capital stock of every such association may be increased by the filing of an amendment to its articles of agreement, setting forth the amount of such increase and the payment of the incorporation tax and fees thereon, as required by section 275.050.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14368, A. 1949 S.B. 1099)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12710
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.090 - Stock to be paid for prior to issuance.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.090. Stock to be paid for prior to issuance. —
No share of stock having a par value shall be issued by any such association unless, and until, the par value thereof has in good faith been paid into the treasury of the association in lawful money of the United States, and no share of capital stock without par value shall be issued by any association until the value thereof, as determined in its articles of association, has in good faith been paid to the treasurer of the association in lawful money of the United States.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14372)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12714
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.100 - Members of association not individually liable.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.100. Members of association not individually liable. —
No stockholder or member of associations organized under the provisions of this chapter shall ever be individually liable by reason thereof, in any amount over or above the value of the share, or shares, owned by him, and having once paid, as in this chapter provided, for said shares, his liability with reference thereto, by reason of being or having been a member or stockholder of such association, shall in law and equity be deemed fully discharged.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14379)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12721
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.110 - Shares of stock nontransferable — exception.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.110. Shares of stock nontransferable — exception. —
The shares of stock of associations shall be nontransferable, except from the original holder thereof, his heirs, executor, administrator, or legal representative, to the association as authorized in this chapter.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14375)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12717
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.120 - Associations may purchase and retire own stock.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.120. Associations may purchase and retire own stock. —
Such associations may also have power, and they are hereby authorized to purchase and retire shares of their own stock, whether with or without par value, at a consideration not in excess of the amount for which such share, or shares, were issued in the first instance, together with interest at the rate of six percent per annum upon such shares from date of issuance thereof, less, however, the amount of dividends, if any, paid to the holder of such shares.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14374)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12716
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.130 - Authority to reissue and resell shares purchased.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.130. Authority to reissue and resell shares purchased. —
Every such association shall have power, and is hereby authorized, when it shall purchase any of its shares, to reissue and resell such shares upon the same terms and conditions as in the first instance.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14376)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12718
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.140 - Number of shares may be limited.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.140. Number of shares may be limited. —
Associations organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have power, and they are hereby authorized, to limit the number of shares which any stockholder or member of such association may have or hold.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14373)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12715
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.150 - Associations empowered to execute purposes of organization.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.150. Associations empowered to execute purposes of organization. —
That commodity corporation associations, organized under the provisions of this chapter, shall have power and they are hereby authorized to do any and all things not specifically prohibited by law, which may be necessary to fully carry out the purposes of its organization.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14382)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12724
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.160 - Associations may own and vote stock in certain related corporations.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1949
275.160. Associations may own and vote stock in certain related corporations. —
Commodity associations incorporated under the provisions of this chapter may act as trustee, and as such, or in its own right, may own and vote stock in corporations owning and operating elevators, warehouses, storage houses, factories, mills, and plants for the purpose of storing, treating, processing, or marketing the commodity in the production and marketing of which the members of such association are engaged.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 14368, 14378, A. 1949 S.B. 1099)
Prior revision: 1929 §§ 12710, 12720
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.170 - Association may borrow.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.170. Association may borrow. —
Every association organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to borrow on its own account, or as trustee, for its members, on warehouse certificates, bills of lading or other collateral, as the needs of the association or its members may require.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14369)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12711
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.180 - Association may contract for commodities.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.180. Association may contract for commodities. —
Any association organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have power, and it is hereby authorized, to contract with its members, collectively or individually, for the entire or partial output of the commodity, for the handling of which it is organized for such number of years as may be authorized by its bylaws.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14370)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12712
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.190 - May issue and sell notes — security — certain exemption.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1971
275.190. May issue and sell notes — security — certain exemption. —
Commodity associations as defined in this chapter shall have power to issue notes, payable in such amounts at such rate of interest, and payable at such times as its board of directors may authorize, and to secure the payment of said notes by depositing warehouse certificates, issued against the commodity which such association is organized to handle, then in storage in warehouses, and may sell such notes to the general public and in the sale thereof be exempt from the provisions of chapter 409 relating to domestic and foreign investment companies.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14380, A.L. 1971 S.B. 171)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12722
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.200 - Exempt from general corporation law — exceptions.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
275.200. Exempt from general corporation law — exceptions. —
That commodity associations organized under the provisions of this chapter shall be exempt from the limitations, restrictions and burdens imposed upon corporations by any law of this state pertaining to the regulation thereof, except such as are in this chapter specifically set forth.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14381)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12723
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.300 - Definitions.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1979
275.300. Definitions. —
When used in sections 275.300 to 275.370 the following terms mean:
(1)
"Agricultural commodity"
, any agriculture product that has been produced for purpose of sale or exchange except animals whose principal use could be construed as recreational, or as a pet;
(2)
"Commercial quantity"
, a quantity produced per year or other period of time which quantity is defined and determined by the commodity merchandising council concerned;
(3)
"Commodity merchandising council"
, a group representative of the commodity, hereafter referred to as the "council";
(4)
"Director"
, the director of the department of agriculture of the state of Missouri or his delegated representative;
(5)
"Handler"
, any person who engages in the selling, marketing, or distribution of any agricultural commodity on a wholesale basis, which he has purchased for resale or which he is marketing on behalf of a producer, and shall include a producer who distributes any agricultural commodity which he has produced;
(6)
"Processor"
, any person engaged in the receiving, grading, packing, canning, freezing, drying, or other methods of preparation for market of agricultural commodities produced in Missouri for sale;
(7)
"Producer"
, any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or unincorporated association engaged within this state in business of producing for market any agricultural commodity in commercial quantities.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 65 § 1, A.L. 1973 S.B. 92, A.L. 1979 S.B. 43)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.310 - Powers and purposes of councils.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
275.310. Powers and purposes of councils. —
Producers of agricultural commodities are hereby authorized to organize commodity merchandising councils to establish orderly, fair, sound and efficient markets and to maintain, develop and expand markets for agricultural commodities produced in Missouri and to increase the use and consumption of these products. The councils organized under the provisions of sections 275.300 to 275.370 and with the aid of the state may:
(1) Provide for uniform and proper preparation of agricultural commodities for market;
(2) Provide means and methods for the maintenance of present markets and for development of new or larger markets, both domestic and foreign, for agricultural commodities produced within the state;
(3) Eliminate or reduce waste in the marketing or use, or both, of agricultural commodities; and
(4) Restore and maintain adequate purchasing power for the agricultural producers of this state. Provided, however, that any commodity merchandising council organized hereunder shall not undertake to establish, promulgate or fix the price of any commodity or in any way limit the production of any commodity.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 65 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.320 - Establishment — petition, contents — membership.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1973
275.320. Establishment — petition, contents — membership. —
A representative group of not less than five percent of the producers of an agricultural commodity may petition the director for permission to establish a commodity merchandising council. This petition shall include:
(1) A statement of the area of production to be included (the area shall be statewide, except that it may be limited to a well-defined smaller area where such area is the principal commercial producer in the state of the commodity);
(2) A statement of the general purposes of the commodity merchandising council program which may include research, education, grades and standards, merchandising, publicity, sales promotion and cooperation with other state, regional and national organizations;
(3) The amount of the fee that is desired to be collected for each designated unit of commercial quantities of the commodity;
(4) The method or methods to be used in the collection of the fee;
(5) The composition, qualification, terms of office, method of nomination, election, filling unexpired terms, salaries, travel expenses, and duties of the members of the council;
(a) The council shall consist of an odd number of not less than five nor more than fifteen members of whom the majority shall be producers to be selected by producers;
(b) The director shall serve as an ex officio member of the council;
(c) The dean of the college of agriculture, university of Missouri, will serve as an ex officio member of the council;
(6) A recommendation as to what shall constitute a commercial quantity of the commodity;
(7) The method of conducting the referendum of the commodity producers either by mail or by polling place depending on the area and volume of the commodity.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 65 § 3, A.L. 1973 S.B. 92)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.340 - Hearings, how conducted.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1973
275.340. Hearings, how conducted. —
1. Every hearing held pursuant to sections 275.300 to 275.370 shall be public and a permanent record taken of all testimony received. The administrative hearing officer shall conduct the hearing and the director may make the determination from the record.
2. The director shall make and publish findings based upon the facts, testimony and evidence received at the public hearing and shall cause copies of his findings and decisions to be delivered or mailed to all parties of record appearing at the hearing, or their attorneys of record.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 65 § 4, A.L. 1973 S.B. 92)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.360 - Refund of fees, request for.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 2011
275.360. Refund of fees, request for. —
Any producer or grower may, by the use of forms provided by the director, have the fee paid and all future fees paid or collected from him pursuant to sections 275.300 to 275.370 refunded to him, provided such request for refund is in the office of the director within sixty days following the payment of such fee. Apples and rice will be exempt from this provision.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 65 § 9, A.L. 2011 H.B. 344 merged with S.B. 356)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.370 - Council, officers, duties.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
275.370. Council, officers, duties. —
1. The commodity merchandising council shall:
(1) Elect a chairman and any other officers as is considered desirable;
(2) Authorize the director with the approval of the council to expend a budgeted amount of the commodity council merchandising fund in the administration of the commodity merchandising program and in the collection of commodity merchandising fees;
(3) Perform such other duties as may be prescribed in the commodity merchandising program.
2. The director shall be guided by the advice, recommendations and assistance of the commodity merchandising council in the collection of funds, audits and refunds associated with the commodity merchandising program.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 65 §§ 6, 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.450 - Missouri aquaculture council created — department to divide state into districts, each district to elect council member — qualifications, terms, vacancies, expenses — powers and duties.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
275.450. Missouri aquaculture council created — department to divide state into districts, each district to elect council member — qualifications, terms, vacancies, expenses — powers and duties. —
1. There is hereby created the "Missouri Aquaculture Council", which shall consist of five members elected by commercial producers. The members of the council shall be citizens and residents of the state, shall have been qualified voters in the state for a period of at least one year preceding their appointment, and shall be commercial producers as defined in sections 275.452 to 275.455. The department of agriculture shall divide the state into four aquaculture districts which contain, as nearly as can be estimated by the department, an equal number of commercial producers, and one council member shall be elected from each aquaculture district. Each member shall be elected for a term of three years, except that of the members first elected, two shall be elected for a term of two years and two shall be elected for a term of three years. Vacancies in the council shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as original elections are made. The fifth member of the council shall be elected at large for a term of three years.
2. All members shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
3. The council shall:
(1) Provide a list of commercial producers of fish and fish products in this state to the department of agriculture;
(2) Administer the aquaculture marketing development fund;
(3) Elect from among their membership a president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer, whose duties shall be established in the bylaws of the council;
(4) Draft and adopt the bylaws of the council;
(5) Communicate with commercial producers in order to enhance the market development of fish and fish products in this state;
(6) Perform any other duties deemed necessary to carry out the functions described in this subsection.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 214 § 275.455)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.452 - Collection by department of agriculture of a charge per ton of fish food purchased by commercial producers, exceptions — fish food and commercial producer, defined.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
275.452. Collection by department of agriculture of a charge per ton of fish food purchased by commercial producers, exceptions — fish food and commercial producer, defined. —
In addition to any other licenses and charges imposed by law, there shall be collected by the director of the department of agriculture and paid to the director of the department of revenue for deposit in the aquaculture marketing development fund an additional charge of three dollars per ton of fish food or fraction thereof purchased by commercial producers in this state. As used in sections 275.450 to 275.455, the term
"fish food"
, means food, purchased in bulk or bag quantities, used to feed fish, whether or not such food is used for fish held for sale, and the term
"commercial producer"
means a commercial producer or seller of fish or fish products who purchases at least two thousand pounds of fish food in a calendar year, but such term shall not include the state, any state department or any political subdivision of the state. The charges shall be paid and collected pursuant to section 275.455.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 214 § 275.450 subsec. 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.454 - Aquaculture market fund established, charges collected deposited in fund — cost of collection, how paid — purpose of fund.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
275.454. Aquaculture market fund established, charges collected deposited in fund — cost of collection, how paid — purpose of fund. —
The revenue derived from the additional charge imposed by section 275.452 shall be deposited by the director of the department of revenue in the treasury to the credit of the "Aquaculture Marketing Development Fund", which is hereby created. Moneys in the fund shall be appropriated annually by the general assembly for the use and benefit of the aquaculture council, established in section 275.450, through the department of agriculture and specified in the annual appropriations of the department of agriculture for such purpose, and when so made shall be transferred by the director of the department of agriculture to the treasurer of the aquaculture council, and used for the marketing of fish and fish products in this state, and shall be appropriated and used for no other purpose, except that the aquaculture council shall reimburse the department of agriculture for expenses incurred in collecting moneys for the fund.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 214 § 275.450 subsec. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.455 - Payment of charges to be made, when — reports to be filed with director with payment, content, violation, penalty.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
275.455. Payment of charges to be made, when — reports to be filed with director with payment, content, violation, penalty. —
1. Payment of the charges provided in this section shall be made by each commercial producer in this state. Each commercial producer, on or before the fifteenth day of January, April, July, and October, shall file with the director of the department of agriculture, on forms prescribed and furnished by the director, a signed written report in duplicate, in such form as is required by the director to enable him to compute, and assure the accuracy of, the charges due on all purchases of fish food occurring during the preceding quarter. Payment of the charges in the amount disclosed by the report shall accompany the report.
2. Any commercial producer who purchases any fish food mentioned in section 275.452, unless the charge imposed by sections 275.452 to 275.455 is paid, is subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 214 § 275.450 subsecs. 3, 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.460 - Definitions.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
275.460. Definitions. —
As used in sections 275.460 to 275.468, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Commercial producer"
, an individual or legal entity in this state who has a Missouri manufacturer's license for the production of wine;
(2)
"Grape or grapes"
, grapes used for the production of wine produced by commercial producers in this state;
(3)
"Grape juice"
, grape juice used for the production of wine produced by commercial producers in this state.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1240)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.462 - Missouri wine marketing and research council, created, members, qualifications, duties.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
275.462. Missouri wine marketing and research council, created, members, qualifications, duties. —
1. There is hereby created the "Missouri Wine Marketing and Research Council" which shall consist of five members elected by commercial producers. The members of the council shall be citizens and residents of the state and shall be commercial producers. Each member shall be elected for a term of three years, except that of the members first elected, one shall be elected for a term of one year, two shall be elected for a term of two years and two shall be elected for a term of three years. Vacancies in the council shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as original elections are made.
2. All members may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
3. The council shall:
(1) Provide a list of commercial producers of wine in this state to the department of agriculture;
(2) Administer the Missouri wine marketing and research development fund;
(3) Elect from among their membership a president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer, whose duties shall be established in the bylaws of the council;
(4) Draft and adopt bylaws of the council;
(5) Communicate with commercial producers in order to enhance enology research, education and development of markets for wine produced in Missouri;
(6) Perform any other duties deemed necessary to carry out the functions described in this subsection.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1240)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.464 - Additional charge — director of agriculture's duty.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
275.464. Additional charge — director of agriculture's duty. —
In addition to any other licenses and charges imposed by chapter 311, there shall be collected by the director of the department of agriculture and paid to the director of the department of revenue for deposit in the Missouri wine marketing and research development fund an additional pro rata charge of six dollars per ton of grapes or one hundred sixty gallons of grape juice processed by commercial producers in this state, with three dollars per ton or one hundred sixty gallons being used for research and advisement of grapes and grape products. The charges shall be paid and collected pursuant to sections 275.466 to 275.468.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1240, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1348)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.466 - Additional charge — Missouri wine marketing and research development fund created — uses.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
275.466. Additional charge — Missouri wine marketing and research development fund created — uses. —
The revenue derived from the additional charge imposed by section 275.464 shall be deposited by the director of the department of revenue in the treasury to the credit of the "Missouri Wine Marketing and Research Development Fund", which is hereby created. Moneys in the fund shall be appropriated annually by the general assembly through the department of agriculture for the use and benefit of the Missouri wine marketing and research council. Such moneys shall be specified in the annual appropriations of the department of agriculture for the Missouri wine and marketing research council and shall be transferred by the director of the department of agriculture to the treasurer of the council, to be used only for enology research, education and marketing of wine produced in Missouri, except that the Missouri wine marketing and research council shall reimburse the department of agriculture for reasonable expenses incurred in collecting moneys for the fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, no portion of the fund shall be transferred to the general revenue fund.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1240)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 275 - Commodity Associations › Section 275.468 - Annual report — payment required.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 275
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
275.468. Annual report — payment required. —
Payment of the charges provided in sections 275.464 to 275.468 shall be made by each commercial producer in this state. Each commercial producer, on or before the thirty-first day of January, shall file with the director of the department of agriculture, on forms prescribed and furnished by the director, a signed written report in duplicate, in such form as is required by the director to enable the director to compute, and assure the accuracy of, the charges due on all grapes and grape juice processed during the preceding year. Payment of the charges in the amount disclosed by the report shall accompany the report.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1240)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 276 - Stockyards, Grain and Produce Exchanges › Section 276.010 - Stockyard deemed public market and subject to law.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 276
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
276.010. Stockyard deemed public market and subject to law. —
Any stockyards in the state of Missouri, maintained for the purpose of receiving cattle, hogs or sheep to be bought, sold or exchanged, is hereby declared to be a public market, and any person, firm or corporation maintaining such public market, or any person, firm or corporation buying, selling or exchanging any cattle, hogs or sheep at such public market, shall, in maintaining, or in buying, selling or exchanging at such public market, be subject to the provisions of sections 276.010 to 276.080.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14383)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12725
CROSS REFERENCE:
Corporate barn infected with contagious disease to be disinfected under direction of state veterinarian, 267.120
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 276 - Stockyards, Grain and Produce Exchanges › Section 276.020 - Associations to operate public market — rights of members.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 276
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
276.020. Associations to operate public market — rights of members. —
Persons, firms and corporations buying, selling or exchanging at such public market shall have the right to associate themselves together in an association or organization, and such association or organization may make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the government of the association or organization and for the government of its members, in relation to their buying, selling or exchanging at such public market, but it shall be unlawful for any such association or organization, or for any officer or officers thereof, to make any order, rule, regulation or bylaw limiting the right of any member of the association or organization to distribute, in whatever manner and at whatever times the member may desire, to the persons composing any partnership in which the member is financially interested or to the shareholders of any corporation or cooperative association in which such member is a shareholder, the profits of such member to the persons composing such partnership or to the shareholders of such corporation or cooperative association, in proportion to the quantity of cattle, hogs or sheep shipped to or from such member by the persons composing such partnership or the shareholders of such corporation or cooperative association, and any such order, rule, regulation or bylaw now or hereafter made, promulgated or adopted shall be invalid and void.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14384)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12726
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 276 - Stockyards, Grain and Produce Exchanges › Section 276.040 - Unlawful to discriminate.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 276
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
276.040. Unlawful to discriminate. —
It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, firm or corporation maintaining any such public market to discriminate, in any manner whatever, against any person, firm or corporation buying, selling or exchanging cattle, hogs or sheep at such public market.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14386)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12728
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals › Chapter 276 - Stockyards, Grain and Produce Exchanges › Section 276.050 - Agreement limiting distribution of profits by members prohibited.

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Chapter 276
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
276.050. Agreement limiting distribution of profits by members prohibited. —
It is hereby declared unlawful for any two or more members of any association or organization organized or maintained by persons, firms or corporations buying, selling or exchanging cattle, hogs or sheep at such public market, to enter into any arrangement, understanding or agreement which shall limit, or have the effect of limiting, any member in the exercise of the right to distribute, in such manner and at such times as the member may desire, to the persons composing any partnership in which the member is financially interested or to the shareholders of any corporation or cooperative association in which such member is a shareholder, the profits of such member to the persons composing such partnership or to the shareholders of such corporation or cooperative association, in proportion to the quantity of cattle, hogs or sheep shipped to or from such member by the persons composing such partnership or the shareholders of such corporation or cooperative association, or which arrangement, understanding or agreement shall discriminate or have the effect of discriminating or which shall cause discrimination or tend to cause discrimination against such member because such member does so distribute the profits of such member; and the fact that any arrangement, understanding or agreement is made between two or more members of such association or organization which does or tends to discriminate against or which causes or tends to cause discrimination against any member who does so distribute the member's profits shall be prima facie evidence that such arrangement, understanding or agreement was made for the purpose of discriminating or causing discrimination against such member because such member does so distribute the profits of said member.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14387)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12729