3.2-3223 - Marketing agreements not deemed monopolistic or in restraint of trade.
§ 3.2-3223. Marketing agreements not deemed monopolistic or in restraint oftrade.
The making of marketing agreements between producers' cooperative marketingassociations and distributors and producer-distributors under the provisionsof this chapter shall not be deemed a combination in restraint of trade or anillegal monopoly; or an attempt to lessen competition or fix pricesarbitrarily, nor shall the marketing contract or agreements between theassociation and the distributors and producer-distributors, or any agreementsauthorized in this chapter, be considered illegal or in restraint of trade.
(Code 1950, § 3-382; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-461; 2008, c. 860.)