Fla. Stat. § 425.02: Purpose.

Cooperative, nonprofit, membership corporations may be organized under this chapter for the purpose of supplying electric energy and promoting and extending the use thereof in rural areas. Corporations organized under this chapter and corporations which become subject to this chapter in the manner hereinafter provided are hereinafter referred to as “cooperatives.”

History.—s. 2, ch. 19138, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 6494(45).