Section 10-201 - Discrimination against producers of agricultural products due to membership in marketing association prohibited. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-201. Discrimination against producers of agricultural products due to membership in marketing association prohibited.
 

No buyer, handler, distributor, dealer, or agent, who purchases or contracts to purchase, from a producer field and livestock products produced on a farm may: 

(1) Use duress against, coerce, or boycott any producer of raw agricultural products in the exercise of his right to join and belong to a cooperative agricultural marketing association; or 

(2) Discriminate against a producer of raw agricultural products, solely by reason of the producer's membership in or marketing contract with a cooperative agricultural marketing association. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 66C, § 60A; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 6, § 1.]