CHAPTER 300

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 13-245 of the Code of 1950 re-
lating to the use of the word cooperative in corporate name.
(H 459]

Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 13-245 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 13-245. No corporation or association organized or do-
ing business for profit in this State after January thirteenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty shall be entitled to use the term
“cooperative” as part of its corporate or other business name
or title, unless it has complied with the provisions of this chapter
or of chapter 15 of this title or chapter 9 of Title 56 or of any
other statute providing for cooperative corporations or assocta-
tions now existing or hereafter enacted; and any corporation or
association violating the provisions of this section may be
enjoined from doing business under such name at the instance
of any stockholder or member of any corporation or association
legally organized * under any law giving it the right to use the
word cooperative as a part of its corporate or business name.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from passage.