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2012 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 618 AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS Entire Chapter
SECTION 27
Use of term "cooperative."
F.S. 618.27
618.27 Use of term “cooperative.”—
(1) No person doing business in this state, shall be entitled to use the word “cooperative” as part of its corporate or other business name or title unless it has complied with the provisions of this chapter.
(2) Any person now organized and existing or doing business in this state, and embodying 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 chapter, shall eliminate the word “cooperative” from its said corporate or other business name or title.
History.—s. 20, ch. 9300, 1923; CGL 6485; s. 20, ch. 14675, 1931; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945.