(a) To cancel its certificate of authority, a foreign cooperative must deliver to the Secretary of State for filing a notice of cancellation. The certificate is canceled when the notice becomes effective under Section 23 of this act.¹

(b) A foreign cooperative transacting business in this state may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it has a certificate of authority.

(c) The failure of a foreign cooperative to have a certificate of authority does not impair the validity of a contract or act of the foreign cooperative or prevent the foreign cooperative from defending an action or proceeding in this state.

(d) A member of a foreign cooperative is not liable for the obligations of the foreign cooperative solely by reason of the foreign cooperative's having transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority.

(e) If a foreign cooperative transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority or cancels its certificate, it appoints the Secretary of State as its agent for service of process for an action arising out of the transaction of business in this state.