ARTICLE VI. 



Membership 



Section 1. Qualifications for Membership. Members shall be limited 

 to persons, firms, partnership, corporations or association, including 

 other cooperative marketing associations, engaged in the production 

 of perishable agricultural commodities handled by the Association, 

 who have executed the marketing contract and have met such other con- 

 ditions as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors. 



Section 2. Application for Membership. Each person who has signed 

 the Articles of Incorporation shall automatically be entitled to a 

 membership for himself or for the corporation, partnership, or associ- 

 ation which he represents. Any other person eligible for and desiring 

 admission for membership shall file an application for admission in 

 such form and containing such information as the Board of Directors 

 shall prescribe. 



Section 3. Acceptance of Application. The Board of Directors shall 

 receive applications for membership, and refer such applications to 

 the membership at a meeting thereof duly and regularly called. Affir- 

 mative vote by three-fourths (3/4th) of the membership shall be re- 

 quired for acceptance of a new member. 



Section 4. Representative Membership. If a member of the Association 

 be other than a natural person, such person may be represented, from 

 time to time, by any associate, officer, manager, or other designated 

 agent, duly authorized in writing so to act who, while so acting in 

 such representative capacity, shall be entitled to have and to exercise 

 all rights, privileges, and authority of membership in Association, 

 including the right to hold any office, including that of Director. 



Section 5. Membership Certificates. The Association shall issue 

 certificates of membership to each member upon admission to member- 

 ship in such form and containing such provisions as the Board from 

 time to time may determine. 



Section 6. Membership Incapable of Transfer. No certificate of mem- 

 bership can or shall be assigned, either voluntarily or involuntarily 

 or by operation of law, nor can any membership or membership rights 

 or property rights of a member in Association be assigned, transferred, 

 alienated, or encumbered in any manner, or by any means whatsoever. 



Any purported or attempted assignment, transfer, alienation, or en- 

 cumbrance of either the certificate of membership, or of the member- 

 ship, or membership or property rights shall be wholly void and confer 

 no rights upon the purported assignee, transferee or claimant, unless 

 and until such transfer has been unanimously approved by all then 

 existing members. 



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