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title: O.C.G.A. § 2-10-111. Use of word ‘‘cooperative’’ in business name.
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# O.C.G.A. § 2-10-111. Use of word ‘‘cooperative’’ in business name.

No person, firm, corporation, or association organized or doing business in this state as a cooperative association to market agricultural products shall be entitled to use the word ‘‘cooperative’’ as part of its corporate or other business name or title unless it has complied with this article or Ga. L. 1920, p. 125, Sections 1 through 13.

## History

Ga. L. 1921, p. 139, § 19; Code 1933, § 65-224.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 1920, p. 125, §§ 1-13, referred to in this Code section, was codified at Code 1933, Ch. 1, T. 65, but was repealed by Ga. L. 1952, p. 157, § 1. Ga. L. 1952, p. 157, § 2, provided that cooperative corporations formed under the 1920 Act should continue to be governed thereby until or unless they are reincorporated but that the charters of such corporations should not be renewed.