Texas Agriculture Code

§ 52.085 — VOTING

AG § 52.085Title 4. AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS · Ch. 52. COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS · Art. F. MEMBERS

Statute text

(a)Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a member of a marketing association is entitled to one vote.

(b)A marketing association may provide in its articles of incorporation or bylaws for a member association or group to have more than one vote if the association providing for the vote:

(1)is organized primarily for the production, cultivation, and care of citrus groves or for processing and marketing citrus products and:

(A)has its principal office in a county that has at least 500 acres of land planted in citrus groves; and

(B)includes as members one or more associations or groups organized on a cooperative basis; or

(2)is organized primarily for the harvesting, preserving, drying, processing, canning, storing, handling, shipping, marketing, selling, or use of grain or grain-related products.

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Legislative history

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1110, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 419, Sec. 1.11, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 339, Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 1999.