Title 79, Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships

The affairs of such incorporated association shall be conducted, controlled and managed by a board of directors of such number and with such terms of office as may be provided by the bylaws.

The bylaws may provide among other things for voting of the members by mail and for membership fees and dues, and shall provide how membership in the incorporated association may be acquired and lost.

All memberships shall be personal to the member and equal in right, and shall not be transferable, assignable, vendible, inheritable, devisable, or seizable; and each member shall have one (1) vote only.

Such incorporated association may be organized with capital stock at the option of the organizers; and it shall in that event be organized by the same method and for the same recording fee as in the case of those associations organized without capital stock, except that the artic…

Such incorporated association shall have the power to contract and be contracted with, borrow and lend money, issue notes, bonds and other obligations, and secure the payment of the same by mortgage or otherwise, contract for, own, sell, convey, pledge, mortgage, buy and otherwis…

Such incorporated association may make charges to its members and deductions from the proceeds of their products for services rendered to them for the purpose of paying the expenses of operation and the maintenance and development of such association, and for the creation and mai…

Such incorporated association may sue and be sued; and may collect, sue for and realize on claims for the purchase money of products sold by it for its members and/or nonmembers, and on claims for freight overcharges on, and for loss and damage to, shipments made by it for its me…

This chapter is supplementary of and not amendatory or in alteration of any other laws for the accomplishment of any of the purposes herein set forth, and shall apply only to organizations created and operating hereunder.

Such associations incorporated hereunder may, in carrying out their purposes, become members of and enjoy the facilities and co-operation of any federation whose members are agricultural societies, organizations or associations, whose purposes and operations are in any way promot…

Five (5) or more associations or corporations organized under this chapter, or whose purposes and operations are in any way promotive of, and not inconsistent with, the purposes of this chapter, whether incorporated hereunder or not, may organize and incorporate a federation of s…

Producers of agricultural products herein mentioned shall include individual persons, partnerships, associations and corporations who produce such products either directly or as landlords, tenants or share-croppers.

Any such federation incorporated hereunder for the purpose of carrying out the purposes of this chapter and the rendition of services to its constituent members and their members shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities herein given its constituent members as …

Agricultural products as herein defined shall include the products of field, pasture, meadow and garden, and fruits, melons, berries, nuts and vegetables, live stock, poultry and poultry products, dairy products and all other things commonly known as agricultural products.

This chapter shall be known as the “Agricultural Association Law,” and may be cited as such and may be abbreviated as “A.A.L.”

The purposes of this chapter are to promote the general welfare of agriculture; to enable producers of agricultural products whether in the State of Mississippi or not to co-operate in the productions, processing, packing, distribution, financing and marketing of agricultural pro…

Any such incorporated association shall have a distinctive name, the concluding part of which shall be “A.A.L.” in parentheses; and no organization not created under this chapter, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall use or have as a part of its name or title the letters…