The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s State Cooperative Statute Library offers a comprehensive, state-by-state analysis of cooperative laws. Co-op statutes currently vary significantly between states. Curated by the USDA’s Rural Business Cooperative Service and hosted by NCBA CLUSA, this expanding database represents a crucial effort to create a large succinct database of state cooperative statutes. This database was last updated October 2019.
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