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The foreign cooperative shall deliver to the Commission the documents required by \u00a7 13.1-759 if a stock cooperative, or by \u00a7 13.1-921 if a nonstock cooperative along with a copy of the cooperative’s bylaws. Upon such compliance, the foreign cooperative shall have all the rights and privileges of a domestic cooperative. No foreign cooperative association authorized to do business in this Commonwealth under the provisions of this article shall conduct any business in this Commonwealth as a public service company or exercise any privileges of such company.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":301213,"text":"A foreign cooperative whose purpose shall include one or more of the purposes recognized for domestic cooperatives under this title or any other title of the Code of Virginia shall be authorized to do business under the provisions of this chapter by complying with the laws relating to foreign corporations doing business in the Commonwealth. 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This law was first created in 1992. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 653 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1992 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1994, chapter 217<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":79232,"section_number":"13.1-759","catch_line":"Application for certificate of authority","order_by":null,"url":"\/13.1-759\/"},{"id":54503,"section_number":"13.1-921","catch_line":"Application for certificate of authority","order_by":null,"url":"\/13.1-921\/"}],"permalink":{"id":149567,"object_type":"law","relational_id":84047,"identifier":"13.1-309.1","token":"13.1\/3\/1\/13.1-309.1","url":"\/13.1-309.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/13.1-309.1\/","token":"13.1\/3\/1\/13.1-309.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Foreign cooperatives","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 13.1-309.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A foreign cooperative whose purpose shall include one or more of the purposes recognized for domestic cooperatives under this title or any other title of the Code of Virginia shall be authorized to do business under the provisions of this chapter by complying with the laws<\/span> relating to foreign corporations doing business in the Commonwealth. The foreign cooperative shall deliver to the Commission the documents required by \u00a7 13.1-759<\/a> if a stock cooperative, or by \u00a7 13.1-921<\/a> if a nonstock cooperative along with a copy of the cooperative’s bylaws. Upon such compliance, the foreign cooperative shall have all the rights and privileges<\/span> of a domestic cooperative. No foreign cooperative association authorized to do business in this Commonwealth under the provisions of this article shall conduct any business in this Commonwealth as a public service company or exercise any privileges<\/span> of such company.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nFOREIGN COOPERATIVES (\u00a7 13.1-309.1)\n\nA foreign cooperative whose purpose shall include one or more of the purposes\nrecognized for domestic cooperatives under this title or any other title of the\nCode of Virginia shall be authorized to do business under the provisions of this\nchapter by complying with the laws relating to foreign corporations doing\nbusiness in the Commonwealth. The foreign cooperative shall deliver to the\nCommission the documents required by \u00a7 13.1-759 if a stock cooperative, or by\n\u00a7 13.1-921 if a nonstock cooperative along with a copy of the\ncooperative’s bylaws. Upon such compliance, the foreign cooperative shall\nhave all the rights and privileges of a domestic cooperative. No foreign\ncooperative association authorized to do business in this Commonwealth under the\nprovisions of this article shall conduct any business in this Commonwealth as a\npublic service company or exercise any privileges of such company.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 653; 1994, c. 217.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}