{"data":{"id":"us/15-u.s.c.-13b","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"15 U.S.C. § 13b","heading":"Cooperative association; return of net earnings or surplus","body":"Nothing in this Act shall prevent a cooperative association from returning to its members, producers, or consumers the whole, or any part of, the net earnings or surplus resulting from its trading operations, in proportion to their purchases or sales from, to, or through the association.","path":["Title 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE","CHAPTER 1—MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc15@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:39Z","sha256":"748bbd0e098419f46f16e0b897ed8631d814da2186ae6f4caf5b8affe0100b7c","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/15-u.s.c.-13a","next":"us/15-u.s.c.-13c"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}