                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ASSOCIATIONS ARE NOT IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE (§ 13.1-331)

a. No association complying with the terms hereof shall be deemed to be a
conspiracy, or a combination in restraint of trade, or an illegal monopoly; or
be deemed to have been formed for the purpose of lessening competition or fixing
prices arbitrarily, nor shall the contracts between the association and its
members, or any agreements authorized in this Act, be construed as an unlawful
restraint of trade, or as a part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an
improper or illegal purpose or act.

b. An association may acquire, exchange, interpret and disseminate to its
members, to other cooperative associations, and otherwise, past, present and
prospective crop, market, statistical, economic and other similar information
relating to the business of the association, either directly or through an agent
created or selected by it or by other associations acting in conjunction with
it.

c. An association may advise its members in respect to the adjustment of their
current and prospective production of agricultural commodities and its relation
to the prospective volume of consumption, selling prices and existing or
potential surplus, to the end that every market may be served from the most
convenient productive areas under a program of orderly marketing that will
assure adequate supplies without undue enhancement of prices or the accumulation
of any undue surplus.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 13-284; 1956, c. 428.