Law No. 9.170 providing for the State Policy on Cooperatives within the State of Maranhão. Pays/Territoire Brésil Sous-division territoriale Maranhão Type du document Législation Date 2010 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Agriculture et développement rural Mot clé Mesures financières agricoles Coopérative/organisation de producteurs Subvention/incitation Mesures fiscales et de marché Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives Développement agricole Renforcement des capacités Institution Législation de base Aire géographique Amazone, Amériques, Amérique latine et Caraïbes, Atlantique Nord, Amérique du Sud, Atlantique Sud Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Résumé 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. Texte intégral Portugais Site web www.leigeral.com.br