Practice question
A community group adopts bylaws, elects officers and puts cooperative on its signboard, but has not applied for CDA registration or received a certificate. It asserts full juridical personality under Article 16 solely from those private steps. No other statutory basis is alleged. Which response is correct?
- Private organization and a signboard do not replace the Article 16 certificate-issuance event
- Every signboard automatically creates the statutory cooperative
- Every election is a CDA certificate
- The group can issue its own government seal
- Registration is never relevant
Legal references
- RA 9520, Articles 3 and 16: https://cda.gov.ph/issuances/republic-act-9520/
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