Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

228.45 ISSUING BILL FOR GOODS NOT RECEIVED, CONTROLLED. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. An officer, agent, or employee of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues or helps to issue a bill knowing that all or part of the goods for which the bill is issued are not received o…

228.46 ISSUING A BILL WITH A FALSE STATEMENT IN IT. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. An officer, agent, or employee of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues or helps to issue a bill for goods knowing that the bill contains a false statement, is guilty of a crime. § Subd.…

228.47 ISSUING A DUPLICATE BILL WITH FRAUD IN MIND. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. An officer, agent, or employee of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues or helps to issue a negotiable bill for goods, knowing that another negotiable bill for some or all of the goods i…

228.48 NEGOTIATING BILL WITHOUT CLEAR TITLE TO GOODS. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. If: (1) a person ships goods without having title to the goods or with a lien or mortgage on them; (2) the person takes a negotiable bill for the goods; and (3) the person later negotiates th…

228.49 NEGOTIATING BILL FOR GOODS CARRIER DOES NOT HAVE. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. If: (1) a carrier issues a bill for goods; (2) the goods by the terms of the bill appear to have been received for transportation by the carrier; and (3) a person intending to deceive nego…

228.50 GETTING CARRIER WITHOUT GOODS TO ISSUE A BILL. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. If: (1) a person gets an officer, agent, or employee of a carrier falsely to believe that the carrier has or controls goods; (2) the person, with intent to defraud, gets the carrier to issue …

228.51 ISSUING A NONNEGOTIABLE BILL NOT SO MARKED. § Subdivision 1.Elements of crime. A person who with intent to defraud issues or helps to issue a nonnegotiable bill without putting the words "not negotiable" plainly on the face of the bill, is guilty of a crime. § Subd. 2.Pena…

230.09 RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY; USE FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. On paying reasonable compensation a person, firm, or corporation shall have the right to use the right-of-way of a railroad within the outside switches at a station or siding for any of the following purposes: (1) as a site …

230.10 PROCEDURE UPON DISAGREEMENT WITH RAILROAD. If a person, firm, or corporation (1) desires to construct, operate, or use a public elevator, warehouse, coal shed, icehouse, buying station, selling station, or weighing scales or other equipment for weighing livestock, or to us…

230.11 HEARING; ORDER. The hearing must be held pursuant to the notice. If the department finds that the complainant is entitled to it, the department may issue an order establishing the location of the site for buildings, structures, equipment, or ground space at a suitable plac…

231.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter. § Subd. 2.Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture. § Subd. 3.Compensation. "Compensation" means any remuneration, recompense, indemnification, requital, or…

231.035 INSPECTION AUTHORITY. The commissioner or the commissioner's designee may, upon presentation of appropriate credentials and during regular working hours or at other reasonable times, inspect premises including equipment and stored goods subject to and for reasons relating…

231.04 DEPARTMENT TO ENFORCE WAREHOUSE LAW. The department shall see that the provisions of the constitution and the statutes of this state affecting warehouse operators or household goods warehouse operators, the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in some other offi…

231.08 WAREHOUSE OPERATOR AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS WAREHOUSE OPERATOR REQUIREMENTS. § Subdivision 1.To furnish information. Every warehouse operator and household goods warehouse operator shall furnish all information required by the department to administer this chapter and make spec…

231.09 UNIFORM RECEIPT ISSUANCE. § Subdivision 1.Receipts. A warehouse operator receiving goods in store shall issue for the goods a receipt embodying the terms of such receipts as authorized by article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Receipts or records of storage in electroni…

231.11 SCHEDULE OF RATES; STORING HOUSEHOLD GOODS. § Subdivision 1.Filing; inspection. A household goods warehouse operator must file with the department and keep open for public inspection a printed schedule of rates and charges complying with subdivision 2. All tariffs of rates…

231.12 CHANGE OF RATES; STORING HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Unless the department otherwise orders, no household goods warehouse operator may change any rate except after ten days' notice to the department and to the public pursuant to this section. Notice must be given by filing with the d…

231.13 CHARGING MORE OR LESS THAN THE PUBLISHED RATE; STORING HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Except as specified in sections 231.11 and 231.12, no household goods warehouse operator shall have, demand, collect, or receive, a different compensation for any service rendered or for storing any ho…

231.14 DISCRIMINATION IN RATES; STORING HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Except as herein otherwise specified, no household goods warehouse operator, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof, shall, directly or indirectly, by remittance, rebate, or any device, inducement, or other means, permi…

231.15 RATES FOR STORAGE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. If the department after a hearing upon its own motion, or upon complaint finds that the rates demanded, observed, charged, or collected by a household goods warehouse operator for or in connection with any service or storage of goods, …

231.16 WAREHOUSE OPERATOR OR HOUSEHOLD GOODS WAREHOUSE OPERATOR LICENSE. A warehouse operator or household goods warehouse operator must be licensed annually by the department. The department shall prescribe the form of the written application. If the department approves the lice…

231.17 BONDS OF WAREHOUSE OPERATORS; LEGAL LIABILITY INSURANCE. Every warehouse operator applying for and receiving a license from the department under this chapter shall file with the department, acceptable to the department, a surety bond to the state of Minnesota. Bonds must b…

231.18 CLAIMS AGAINST A BOND. § Subdivision 1.Filing a claim. A depositor claiming to be damaged by the breach of an agreement to store household goods must file a claim with the department within 180 days of the date of breach. § Subd. 2.Form of claim. All claims must be in writ…

231.24 COMPLAINT THAT RATE IS UNREASONABLE; DUTY OF DEPARTMENT. Upon verified complaint of any person or of any corporation that any rates of a household goods warehouse operator are unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory, preferential, or in any way in violation of law, the depart…

231.28 FAILURE TO OBEY ORDER OR LAW. If a warehouse operator or household goods warehouse operator fails to obey any law of this state or any order of the department, the department may, upon verified petition alleging such failure, apply to the district court of the county in wh…

231.32 PROCEEDINGS IN THE NAME OF THE STATE. All acts or proceedings instituted by the department under this chapter shall be brought in the name of the state and be prosecuted by the attorney general. History: (5205) 1915 c 210 s 34; 1971 c 25 s 67

231.34 ACTION ON BOND IN THE NAME OF THE STATE. If a licensed household goods warehouse operator fails to perform a duty or violates this chapter, any person or corporation injured by such failure or violation may, with the consent of the department and the attorney general, brin…

231.36 FALSIFICATION OR DESTRUCTION OF ACCOUNTS. Any person who shall willfully make any false entry in the account or in any record or memorandum kept by a warehouse operator or household goods warehouse operator, or who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, alter, or by any other …

231.37 PENALTY FOR DIVULGING INFORMATION. Any officer or employee of the department who divulges to any person, other than a member of the department, any fact or information coming to the knowledge of the officer or employee during the course of an inspection, examination, or in…

231.375 OPENING OR ABANDONING WAREHOUSE BUILDING. No building or structure may be used as a warehouse or branch warehouse until it has been inspected and approved for warehousing purposes by the department. On ceasing to use a building or other structure, a warehouse operator mus…

231.38 PENALTY FOR TRANSACTING BUSINESS WITHOUT A LICENSE. Any person who shall transact the business of a warehouse operator or household goods warehouse operator, except for the purpose of winding up the same under the supervision of the department, without first procuring a li…

231.39 PERSONS VIOLATING ACT OR ORDER; PENALTY. Any warehouse operator or household goods warehouse operator and each person who, either individually or acting as an officer, agent, or employee of a warehouse operator or household goods warehouse operator, violates or fails to co…

232.20 GRAIN STORAGE ACT; CITATION. Sections 232.20 to 232.24 may be cited as the "Grain Storage Act." History: 1982 c 508 s 1; 2013 c 125 art 1 s 40

232.21 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. For the purpose of sections 232.20 to 232.24, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Bond. "Bond" means an acceptable obligation, running to the state as obligee, for the purpose of indemnifying…

232.22 LICENSES, BONDING CLAIMS, DISBURSEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Licenses. An application for a public grain warehouse operator's license must be filed with the commissioner and the license issued before the purchase or storage of grain may be commenced. All grain warehouses locat…

232.23 DUTIES OF PUBLIC GRAIN WAREHOUSE OPERATOR. § Subdivision 1.Discrimination prohibited. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a public grain warehouse operator must receive for storage, so far as the capacity of the grain warehouse will permit, all sound grain tendered in…

232.24 SCHEDULE OF INSPECTION, FINANCIAL REPORTS. § Subdivision 1.Schedule of examination. A licensee under sections 232.20 to 232.24 is subject to an examination annually conducted by the commissioner or the Agricultural Marketing Service of the United States Department of Agric…

237.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Generally. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the meanings given. § Subd. 2. [Renumbered subd 7] § Subd. 3.Independent telephone company. "Independent telephone company" means a telephone company organized and operating under cha…

237.011 TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOALS. The following are state goals that should be considered as the commission executes its regulatory duties with respect to telecommunication services: (1) supporting universal service; (2) maintaining just and reasonable rates; (3) encouraging econ…

237.012 BROADBAND GOALS. § Subdivision 1.Universal access and high-speed goal. It is a state goal that: (1) no later than 2022, all Minnesota businesses and homes have access to high-speed broadband that provides minimum download speeds of at least 25 megabits per second and mini…

237.02 GENERAL AUTHORITY OF DEPARTMENT AND COMMISSION; DEFINITIONS. The Department of Commerce and the Public Utilities Commission are hereby vested with the same jurisdiction and supervisory power over telephone and telecommunications companies doing business in this state as th…

237.025 COMPETITIVE MARKET REGULATION. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, a "competitive service provider" means: (1) a wireless voice service provider; or (2) any other provider of local voice service who owns a substantial proport…

237.03 SCOPE OF LAW. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all the provisions of Revised Laws 1905, chapter 28, and acts amendatory thereof applying to railroad and express companies, shall insofar as the same are applicable apply also to telephone companies. History: (52…

237.035 TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER EXEMPTION. (a) Telecommunications carriers are subject to regulation under this chapter only to the extent required under paragraphs (b) to (e). (b) Telecommunications carriers shall comply with sections 237.121 and 237.74. (c) Telecommunication…

237.036 COIN-OPERATED OR PUBLIC PAY TELEPHONES. (a) Neither commission approval nor a commission certificate is required to: (1) site a coin-operated or public pay telephone in the state; or (2) implement changes in service, services offered, rates, or location regarding a coin-o…

237.04 WIRE CROSSING OR PARALLELING UTILITY LINE; RULES. (a) The department, upon the complaint of any person, railroad, municipal utility, cooperative electric association, telephone company, telecommunications carrier, cable company, fiber optic carrier, or other public utility…