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21. Conflicting laws not to apply. — Any provisions of law which are in con- 
flict with this act shall not be construed as applying to the associations herein 
provided for. 
Any exemptions under any and all existing laws applying to agricultural 
products in the possession or under the control of the individual producer, 
shall apply similarly and completely to such products delivered by its farmer 
members, in the possession or under the control of the association. 
22. Limitations of the use of term " cooperative." — No person, firm, corpora- 
tion, or association, hereafter organized or doing business in this State, shall 
be entitled to use the word " cooperative " as part of its corporate or other 
business name or title for producers' cooperative marketing activities, unless 
it has complied with the provisions of this act. 
Any person, firm, corporation, or association now organized and existing, 
or doing a producers' cooperative marketing business in this State and em- 
bodying the word " cooperative " as part of its corporate or other business 
name or title, and which is not organized in compliance with the provisions of 
this act, must, within six months from the date at which this act goes into 
effect, eliminate the word " cooperative " from its said corporate or other 
business name or title. 
23. Interest in other corporations or associations. — An association may or- 
ganize, form, operate, own, control, have an interest in, own stock of, or be 
a member of any other corporation or corporations, with or without capital 
stock, and engaged in preserving, drying, processing, canning, packing, stor- 
ing, handling, shipping, utilizing, manufacturing, marketing, or selling of the 
agricultural products handled by the association, or the by-products thereof. 
If such corporations are warehousing corporations, they may issue legal 
warehouse receipts to the association against the commodities delivered by 
it, or to any other person and such legal warehouse receipts shall be con- 
sidered as adequate collateral to the extent of the usual and current value 
of the commodity represented thereby. In case such warehouse is licensed 
or licensed and bonded under the laws of this State or the United States, its 
warehouse receipt delivered to the association on commodities of the asso- 
ciation or its members, or delivered by the association or its members, shall 
not be challenged or discriminated against because of ownership or control, 
wholly or in part, by the association. 
24. Contracts and agreements with other associations. — Any association 
may, upon resolution adopted by its board of directors, enter into all neces- 
sary and proper contracts and agreements and make all necessary and proper 
stipulations, agreements and contracts, and arrangements with any other co- 
operative corporation, association or associations, formed in this or in any 
other State, for the cooperative and more economical , carrying on of its 
business or any part or parts thereof. Any two or more associations may, by 
agreement between them, unite in employing and using or may separately 
employ and use the same personnel, methods, means, and agencies for carry- 
ing on and conducting their respective businesses. 
25. Associations heretofore organized may adopt the provisions of this act. — ■ 
Any corporation or association, organized under previously existing statutes, 
may, by a majority vote of its stockholders or members, be brought under 
the provisions of this act by limiting its membership and adopting the other 
restrictions as provided herein. It shall make out in duplicate a statement 
signed and sworn to by its directors to the effect that the corporation or as- 
sociation has, by a majority vote of its stockholders or members, decided to 
accept the benefits and be bound by the provisions of this act and has authorized 
all changes accordingly. Articles of incorporation shall be filed as required 
in section 8, except that they shall be signed by the members of the then 
board of directors. The filing fee shall be the same as for filing an amend- 
ment to articles of incorporation. 
(a) Where any association may be incorporated under this act, all con- 
tracts heretofore made by or on behalf of same by the promoters thereof in 
anticipation of such association becoming incorporated under the laws of this 
State, whether such contracts be made by or in the name of some corporation 
organized elsewhere and when same would have been valid if entered into 
subsequent to the passage of this act, are hereby validated as if made after the 
passage of this act. 
26. Misdemeanor to induce breach of marketing contract of cooperative asso- 
ciation; spreading false reports about the finances or management thereof. — 
