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Law No. 9.170 providing for the State Policy on Cooperatives within the State of Maranhão.

Country/Territory
Brazil
Territorial subdivision
Maranhão
Document type
Legislation
Date
2010
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development
Keyword
Financial agricultural measures Cooperative/producer organization Subsidy/incentive Fiscal and market measures Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Agricultural development Capacity building Institution Basic legislation
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Law, consisting 15 articles divided into five Chapters, establishes the State Policy on Cooperatives within the State of Maranhão. The objectives of the State Policy of Cooperatives are: to create instruments and mechanisms that stimulate the growth of cooperative activities; to provide educational and technical assistance to cooperatives based in the State of Maranhão, in partnership with OCEMA - Union and Organization of Cooperatives of the State of Maranhão; to establish incentives for the constitution, maintenance, promotion and development of the cooperative system of the State; to support technically and operationally cooperatives in the State, promoting the development of the State Cooperative System in partnership with OCEMA and legally constituted representative federations; to stimulate the cooperative form of social, economic and cultural organization in the various branches of action, based on the general principles of society and current legislation; to stimulate the inclusion of cooperative study in school; to create mechanisms for sorting and qualifying informality for the implementation of new cooperative societies, giving institutional support exclusively to OCEMA and to representative and legally federations entitled to carry out the development of these activities; to spread government policies in favour of state cooperative societies; to organize and keep updated the general register of cooperative societies of the State through information to be provided by the State Commercial Board and the Union and Organization of Cooperatives of the State of Maranhão - OCEMA and other federations, on all records of Constitution and modification of cooperative societies.

Full text
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