IMPOUNDING OF EQUIPMENT.

103I.711 IMPOUNDING OF EQUIPMENT. § Subdivision 1.Impoundment. The commissioner may apply to district court for a warrant authorizing seizure and impoundment of all drilling machines or hoists owned or used by a person. The court shall issue an impoundment order upon the commissioner's showing that a person is constructing, repairing, or sealing wells or borings or installing pumps or pumping equipment or excavating holes for installing elevator borings without a license as required under this chapter. A sheriff on receipt of the warrant must seize and impound all drilling machines and hoists owned or used by the person. A person from whom equipment is seized under this subdivision may file an action in district court for the purpose of establishing that the equipment was wrongfully seized. § Subd. 2.Release. The equipment must remain in the custody of the sheriff until the equipment is released under the order of a court or until the commissioner orders the sheriff to release the equipment. History: 1989 c 326 art 3 s 46; 1991 c 355 s 50; 1Sp2017 c 6 art 10 s 53