Tennessee § 43-16-102 - Purpose of chapter.
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§ 43-16-102. Purpose of chapter.
This chapter is enacted in order to promote, foster, and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products and other products of the soil, through cooperation; to eliminate speculation and waste; to make the distribution of agricultural products between producer and consumer as direct as can be efficiently done; to stabilize the marketing of agricultural products; and to provide for the organization and incorporation of cooperative marketing associations for the marketing of such products. Acts 1923, ch. 100, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 2534a26; Code 1932, § 3784; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-1802. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 3 Tenn. Juris., Associations and Clubs, § 5. Cited: State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Asso., 2 Tenn. App. 674, — S.W. —, 1926 Tenn. App. LEXIS 65 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1926).
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