The superior court shall have power, by compliance with this part, to create cooperatives, to approve amendments to articles of incorporation of cooperatives, to approve articles of conversion and combined articles of consolidation and conversion of existing corporations proposing to become subject to this part, to approve articles of consolidation of cooperatives, to approve articles of merger of cooperatives, and to approve articles of dissolution of cooperatives. The judges of the superior court are authorized and empowered to make orders and decrees pursuant to this part in vacation at chambers in the county where the application for such order or decree is pending or in any county forming a part of the judicial circuit in which the application is pending, in the same manner and as fully and amply as the said judges could do in term time.