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tion of agricultural, viticultural, and horticultural non- 

 profit associations. The law provides that : 



"Such association shall not have a capital stock, and 

 its business shall not be carried on for profit. Any person 

 or any number of persons, in addition to the original 

 incorporators, may become members of such association, 

 upon such terms and conditions as to membership, and 

 subject to such rules and regulations as to their, and each 

 of their, contract and other rights and liabilities between 

 it and the member, as the said association shall provide 

 in its by-laws. The association shall issue a certificate 

 of membership to each member, but the said membership, 

 or the said certificate thereof, shall not be assigned by a 

 member to any other person, nor shall the assigns thereof 

 be entitled to membership in the association, or to any 

 property rights or interests therein. Nor shall a pur- 

 chaser at execution sale, or any other person who may 

 succeed by operation of law or otherwise to the property 

 interests of a member, be entitled to membership, or be- 

 come a member of the association by virtue of such trans- 

 fer. The board of directors may, however, by motion 

 duly adopted by it, consent to such assignment or transfer 

 and to the acceptance of the assignee or transferee as a 

 member of the association, but the association shall have 

 the right, by its by-laws, to provide for or against the 

 assignment of membership certificates, and also the terms 

 and conditions upon w r hich any such transfer or assign- 

 ment shall be allowed." 



The California law states that, "whether the voting 

 power and property rights and interests of each member 

 shall be equal or unequal, and if unequal the articles 



