New Jersey Statutes Title 4. Agriculture and Domestic Animals 4 § 13-2.1

Each agricultural cooperative association organized hereunder with or without capital stock or foreign corporations authorized to transact business under the provisions of 4:13-15 shall pay to the Secretary of Agriculture an annual fee of $10.00, in lieu of all franchise or corporation taxes which fee shall accompany a statement of eligibility to be incorporated under this act to be filed on or before March 31 annually.

Any such association shall be exempt from the provisions of the Corporation Business Tax Act  1 provided that on or before the first day of the eighteenth month following the date of filing of certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of Agriculture, said association shall have applied for or received a letter of exemption from the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury and a true copy of such application or letter of exemption is filed with the Secretary of Agriculture. Also any association incorporated hereunder or qualified under section 15 shall be exempt from the Uniform Security Law.  2

The Secretary of Agriculture shall certify to the Director of the Division of Taxation and the Secretary of State the names of all agricultural cooperative associations on or before September 1 of each year that have complied with the requirements of this section.