43-16-102 - Purpose of chapter. - Tennessee Statutes

43-16-102. Purpose of chapter.

This chapter is enacted in order to promote, foster, and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products and other products of the soil, through cooperation; to eliminate speculation and waste; to make the distribution of agricultural products between producer and consumer as direct as can be efficiently done; to stabilize the marketing of agricultural products; and to provide for the organization and incorporation of cooperative marketing associations for the marketing of such products.

[Acts 1923, ch. 100, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 2534a26; Code 1932, § 3784; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-1802.]