Section 145: Prohibition of use of the word “Co-operative”
The Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960State Act of Maharashtra · Act 24 of 1961
(1) No person, other than a society registered, or deemed to be registered, under this Act, and a person or his successor in interest of any name or title under which he traded or carried on business at the date on which this Act comes into force, shall without the sanction of the State Government, function, trade or carry on business under any name or title of which the word “co-operative” or its equivalent in any Indian language, forms part.
(2) Every person contravening the provisions of the foregoing sub-section shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
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