1. Each corporation shall have the power to enter into all contracts deemed advisable with members or others requiring them to market their products or by-products thereof, to or through the association, by which contract it may:

(a) Act as sole agent for the member.

(b) Purchase the products or by-products thereof.

(c) Pool the products so handled by it.

(d) Enjoin a breach or threatened breach of the contract.

2. If members of an association contract to sell to the association, it shall be conclusively held that title to the products or by-products thereof passes absolutely and unreservedly, except for recorded liens, to the association upon delivery or at any time before if specified in the contract.

3. If members of an association in their contracts appoint the association as sole agent to sell or otherwise handle their products or by-products thereof, it shall be conclusively held that only the association has the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the products or by-products mentioned in the contracts of such members.

4. A contract to sell to an association, or an appointment of an association as sole agent by a member of such association, shall constitute full authority without further title to sell or resell the products or by-products thereof mentioned in the contract and to pay over to its members the proceeds of such sale after deducting all necessary selling expense, overhead and other costs and expenses, including interest on preferred stock, deductions for retiring such stock, if any, reserves, if any, and dividends or common stock or certificates of interest, if any, not to exceed 8 percent per annum.

[Part 5:236:1921; A 1933, 264; 1941, 329; 1931 NCL § 1579]