Sec. 52.005.  ASSOCIATIONS NOT IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE.  (a)  A marketing association is not a combination in restraint of trade or an illegal monopoly.
(b)  Organizing under this chapter is not an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily.
(c)  Marketing contracts or agreements authorized by this chapter are not illegal or in restraint of trade.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1103, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.