CLOCK-HOUR METERS; PROHIBITED ACTS.

325E.166 CLOCK-HOUR METERS; PROHIBITED ACTS. § Subdivision 1.Tampering. No person shall, with intent to defraud, knowingly tamper with, adjust, alter, change, set back, disconnect, or fail to connect the clock-hour meter of a farm tractor, or cause any of the foregoing to occur to a clock-hour meter of a farm tractor, so as to reflect fewer hours than the farm tractor has actually been in operation. § Subd. 2.Operation with disconnected or nonfunctional meter. No person shall, with intent to defraud, operate a farm tractor knowing that the clock-hour meter of the farm tractor is disconnected or nonfunctional. § Subd. 3.Tampering device. No person shall advertise for sale, sell, use, or install on any part of a farm tractor or on a clock-hour meter in a farm tractor a device that causes the clock-hour meter to register any hours of operation other than the true hours of operation that the clock-hour meter was designed to measure. § Subd. 4.Disclosure. No person shall sell or offer for sale or trade in a farm tractor with knowledge that the hours registered on the clock-hour meter have been altered so as to reflect fewer hours than the farm tractor has actually been in operation, without disclosing the fact to prospective purchasers. § Subd. 5.Conspiracy. No person shall conspire with another person to violate this section. History: 2006 c 211 s 2