{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-17-1601","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 17-1601","heading":"Purpose of cooperative marketing act.","body":"The purpose of the cooperative marketing act is to promote, foster and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation and to eliminate speculation and waste; make the distribution of agricultural products as direct as can be efficiently done between producer and consumer; stabilize the marketing of agricultural products; and promote the development of the most profitable and permanent system of agriculture, the most wholesome and satisfactory living conditions, the highest ideals in home and community life and a general interest in the improvement of field crops and livestock and in the business of farming and in rural life.","path":["Chapter 17.—CORPORATIONS","Article 16.—COOPERATIVE MARKETING"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_016_0001.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:10:40Z","sha256":"9d5b4c91d26e17785192fb603f535f1682d8008c8f5c9fdb5b25be8bd305d4a9","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-17-1520","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-17-1602"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}