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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84047</law_id><section_number>13.1-309.1</section_number><catch_line>Foreign cooperatives</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Cooperative Associations</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Cooperative Associations Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>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 <span class="dictionary">laws</span> relating to foreign corporations doing business in the Commonwealth. The foreign cooperative shall deliver to the Commission the documents required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Application for certificate of authority" href="/13.1-759/">13.1-759</a> if a stock cooperative, or by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Application for certificate of authority" href="/13.1-921/">13.1-921</a> if a nonstock cooperative along with a copy of the cooperative&#x2019;s bylaws. Upon such compliance, the foreign cooperative shall have all the rights and <span class="dictionary">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 <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> of such company.</p></section></text><history>1992, c. 653; 1994, c. 217.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
