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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1303
this sub-title, except that any foreign corporation, organized,
under and complying with the co-operative law of the State of
such corporation's creation, shall be entitled to use the term
"co-operative" in this State provided that said corporation has
complied with the laws of this State applicable to other foreign
corporations in so far as those laws are applicable to said cor-
poration, and provided, further, that said corporation is doing
business upon a cooperative basis, as defined in section 419 (b)
of this Article.
b. Every association organized under this sub-title shall use
the term '' co-operative'' as part of its corporate name or affixed
thereto.
c. Every corporation or association in existence at the
time of the passage of this act which is affected by any pro-
vision hereof, shall have until. July 1st, 1923, to comply with
sucii provisions, and any such corporation or association, which
is required by any provision of this sub-title to file an amend-
ment to its articles of incorporation, shall have until said date
to file such an amendment.
d. Any person who violates sub-section (a) of this section
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment; and any corporation which
violates said sub-section shall have its right to do business in
the State revoked in a proceeding brought in the Circuit Court
of the county where its office is located or in the Circuit Court
of Baltimore City if its office is located therein.
e. Any association organized under this sub-title which shall
violate any provision of said sub-title or of the General Corpora-
tion Law applicable to such association shall have its right to do
business in this State revoked in a proceeding brought in the
circuit court of the county where its office is located or in the
Circuit Court of Baltimore City if its office is located therein;
and any foreign corporation admitted to do business in this State
upon the conditions specified in this section which shall commit
a breach of any such condition after its admission to business in
this State, shall have its license to do business in this State re-
voked in a proceeding brought in the Circuit Court of the coun-
ty where its office is located or in the Circuit Court of Baltimore
City, if its office is located therein.
Approved April 26, 1927.
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