Idaho Code § 26-2102: Purpose.

The purpose of this chapter is to allow groups of persons with a common bond as provided in this chapter to form private nonprofit cooperative corporations to be known as credit unions, to provide an opportunity for its members to use and control their own money in order to improve their economic and social condition, to promote thrift at a reasonable rate of return and provide a source of credit at fair and reasonable rates of interest to those persons included in the common bond.