§ 7-56-102 — Legislative declaration

(1) The general assembly finds and
declares that:

(a) The cooperative form of doing business provides an efficient and
effective method for persons to market their goods and services and to obtain
services and supplies and it is in the best interests of the people of the state of
Colorado to promote, foster, and encourage the utilization of cooperatives in
appropriate instances;

(b) The cooperative marketing law of the state of Colorado has provided for
the promotion, fostering, and encouragement of the intelligent and orderly
marketing of agricultural products through cooperation; has eliminated speculation
and waste; has made distribution of agricultural products between producer and
consumer more efficient; has stabilized the marketing of agricultural products; and
has provided for the organization and incorporation of cooperative marketing
associations for the marketing of such products, all as contemplated at the time of
the original adoption of the cooperative marketing law;

(c) It is in the best interests of the people of the state of Colorado to
preserve the provisions of the cooperative marketing law as it has been in force and
interpreted in the state and to continue the provisions thereof for agriculture, but
also to expand the provisions of the law to provide greater direction and flexibility
in its provisions and to enable all types of industries and enterprises to avail
themselves of the benefits of the cooperative form of doing business in accordance
with the provisions of this article;

(d) It is in the best interests of the people of the state of Colorado to allow
those cooperatives that have been formed under or are subject to other articles of
this title, such as article 55, to remain under said article or to elect to come under
this article.

Legislative History

Source: L. 96: Entire article R&RE, p. 478, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2003: (1)(d) amended, p. 2219, � 66, effective July 1, 2004.