California Code, Financial Code - FIN § 21050

(a) Any corporation organized for the purpose of securing credit from any federal intermediate credit bank organized and existing pursuant to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “Agricultural Credits Act of 1923.”  1

(b) Any nonprofit cooperative corporation or association with or without capital stock, organized or existing pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 54001) of Division 20 of the Food and Agricultural Code.

(c) Any person, corporation, association, syndicate, joint stock company, or partnership, engaged exclusively in the business of marketing agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, dairy, livestock, poultry, and bee products on a cooperative nonprofit basis.