The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 618
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS

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F.S. 618.27

618.27 Use of term “cooperative.”—

(1) No person doing business in this state, shall be entitled to use the word “cooperative” as part of its corporate or other business name or title unless it has complied with the provisions of this chapter.

(2) Any person now organized and existing or doing business in this state, and embodying the word “cooperative” as part of its corporate or other business name or title, and which is not organized in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, shall eliminate the word “cooperative” from its said corporate or other business name or title.

History.—s. 20, ch. 9300, 1923; CGL 6485; s. 20, ch. 14675, 1931; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945.

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Amendments to 618.27

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 618.27

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 618.27.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UNITED STATES v. KARAEIN, 660 F. App'x 388 (6th Cir. 2016)

. . . record reveals that the store redeemed only negligible amounts in 2001 (e.g., $170.99 in May 2001, $618.27 . . .

In M. MOEHRING,, 485 B.R. 571 (Bankr. S.D. Ohio 2013)

. . . The proof of claim [3-3] also shows that the Moehr-ings accumulated $618.27 in late charges [Movant Exhibit . . .