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18J.09 CREDITING OF PENALTIES, FEES, AND COSTS. Penalties, cost reimbursements, fees, and other money collected under this chapter must be deposited into the state treasury and credited to the appropriate nursery and phytosanitary, industrial hemp, or seed account. History: 2003 …

18J.10 CIVIL PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.General penalty. Except as provided in subdivision 2, a person who violates this chapter or an order, standard, stipulation, agreement, or schedule of compliance of the commissioner is subject to a civil penalty of up to $7,500 per day of v…

18J.11 CRIMINAL PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.General violation. Except as provided in subdivisions 2, 3, and 4, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the person violates this chapter or an order, standard, stipulation, agreement, or schedule of compliance of the commissioner. § Su…

18K.01 SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be referred to as the "Industrial Hemp Development Act." History: 1Sp2015 c 4 art 2 s 38

18K.02 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter. § Subd. 1a.Applicant. "Applicant" means an individual who submits an application for a license as required under this chapter. If the applicant is an entity, applicant means the owne…

18K.03 AGRICULTURAL CROP; POSSESSION AUTHORIZED. § Subdivision 1.Industrial hemp. Industrial hemp is an agricultural crop in this state. A person may possess, transport, process, sell, or buy industrial hemp that is grown pursuant to this chapter or lawfully grown in another stat…

18K.04 LICENSING. § Subdivision 1.Requirement; issuance; presumption. (a) A person must obtain a license from the commissioner before (1) growing industrial hemp, (2) processing industrial hemp, or (3) researching industrial hemp. (b) To obtain a license under paragraph (a), a pe…

18K.06 RULEMAKING. (a) The commissioner may adopt or amend rules governing the production, testing, processing, and licensing of industrial hemp using the procedure in section 14.386, paragraph (a). Section 14.386, paragraph (b), does not apply to rules adopted or amended under t…

18K.07 FEES. Fees collected under this chapter must be credited to the industrial hemp account, which is hereby established in the agricultural fund in the state treasury. Interest earned in the account accrues to the account. Funds in the industrial hemp account are annually app…

18K.08 DEFENSE FOR POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA. It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for the possession of marijuana under chapter 152 if: (1) the defendant possesses industrial hemp grown pursuant to this chapter; or (2) the defendant has a valid controlled substance regist…

89.51 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.341] 89.51 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. For the purposes of sections 89.51 to 89.64, the terms described in this section have the meanings ascribed to them. § Subd. 2.Person. "Person" shall include any individual, firm, partnership, cor…

89.52 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.351] 89.52 SURVEYS AND INVESTIGATIONS. The commissioner shall make surveys and investigations to determine the presence of infestations of forest pests or shade tree pests. For this purpose, duly designated representatives of the commissioner may ente…

89.53 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.361] 89.53 CONTROL OF FOREST PESTS AND SHADE TREE PESTS. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner's duties; notice of control measures. Whenever the commissioner finds that an area in the state is infested or threatened to be infested with forest pests or shade t…

89.54 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.371] 89.54 ZONES OF INFESTATION; ESTABLISHMENT. Upon the decision by the commissioner that the establishment of a zone of infestation is necessary, the commissioner shall make a written order establishing the zone, and upon making the order, the zone …

89.55 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.381] 89.55 INFESTATION CONTROL; COSTS. Upon the establishment of the zone of infestation, the commissioner may apply measures of infestation prevention and control on public and private forest and other lands within an infected zone and to any trees, …

89.56 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.391] 89.56 EXPENSES. § Subdivision 1.Statement of expenses; cost to owners. At the end of each fiscal year and upon completion of the infestation control measures in any zone of infestation, the commissioner shall prepare a certified statement of expe…

89.57 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.401] 89.57 DISSOLUTION OF INFESTATION ZONE. Whenever the commissioner shall determine that forest pest or shade tree pest control work within an established zone of infestation is no longer necessary or feasible, the commissioner shall dissolve the zo…

89.58 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.411] 89.58 FOREST PEST AND SHADE TREE PEST CONTROL ACCOUNT. All money collected under the provisions of sections 89.51 to 89.64, together with such money as may be appropriated by the legislature or allocated by the Legislative Advisory Commission for…

89.59 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.421] 89.59 COOPERATION. The commissioner may cooperate with the United States or agencies thereof, other agencies of the state, county or municipal governments, agencies of neighboring states, or other public or private organizations or individuals an…

89.60 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.422] 89.60 COMMISSIONER'S AUTHORITY. The commissioner is authorized to employ personnel in accordance with the laws of this state, to procure necessary equipment, supplies, and service, to enter into contracts, to provide funds to any agency of the Un…

89.61 MS 1957 [Renumbered 18.423] 89.61 ACT SUPPLEMENTAL. Provisions of sections 89.51 to 89.64 are supplementary to and not to be construed to repeal existing legislation. History: 1955 c 676 s 11; 2007 c 57 art 1 s 71

21.001 DEFINITION. § Subdivision 1.Scope. Except where the context otherwise indicates, for the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture…

21.111 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. When used in sections 21.111 to 21.122 the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to them. § Subd. 2.Inspected. "Inspected" means that the potato plants are examined in the field and that the harvested potatoes pr…

21.112 COMMISSIONER, DUTIES; SEED POTATOES. § Subdivision 1.Duties, employees. The commissioner shall provide the means and direct the work for the inspection, certification, promotion of quality, and creation of demand and sale of seed potatoes. The commissioner may enter into c…

21.113 CERTIFICATES OF INSPECTION. (a) The commissioner shall issue certificates of inspection only when seed potatoes have been inspected while growing in the field and again after being harvested. (b) For seed potatoes produced in a lab, the commissioner shall issue certificate…

21.115 FEES; SEED POTATO INSPECTION ACCOUNT. The commissioner shall fix the fees for all inspections and certifications in such amounts as from time to time may be found necessary to pay the expenses of carrying out and enforcing the purposes of sections 21.111 to 21.122, with a …

21.116 EXPENSES. All necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of sections 21.111 to 21.122 and the compensation of officers, inspectors, and employees appointed, designated, or employed by the commissioner, as provided in such sections, together with their neces…

21.117 APPLICATIONS FOR INSPECTIONS; WITHDRAWALS. (a) Any person may make application to the commissioner for inspection or certification of seed potatoes growing or to be grown. Upon receiving such application and the required fee and such other information as may be required, t…

21.118 RULES. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to promulgate reasonable rules for carrying out the purposes and enforcing the provisions of sections 21.111 to 21.122. History: 1951 c 465 s 9; 1985 c 248 s 70

21.119 USE OF CERTAIN TERMS FORBIDDEN; EXCEPTIONS. It shall be unlawful to use or employ the term "certified" or the term "inspected," or any term or terms conveying a meaning substantially equivalent to the meaning of either of these terms, either orally or in writing, printing,…

21.1195 MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR PLANTING. Seed potatoes may not be planted in the state in lots of ten or more acres unless the seed meets the minimum disease standards prescribed by the commissioner. Seed potatoes may meet the standards by being certified in accordance with this c…

21.1196 RESTRICTED SEED POTATO GROWING AREA. § Subdivision 1.Definition. (a) "Restricted seed potato growing area" means Clearwater, Kittson, Koochiching, and Roseau Counties; the portions of Marshall and Pennington Counties that lie east of United States Highway No. 59; the port…

21.121 VIOLATIONS; REPORTS, PROSECUTIONS. It shall be the duty of every prosecuting officer, to whom the commissioner shall report any violation of sections 21.111 to 21.122, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts without delay for th…

21.122 PENALTIES. Any person violating any provision of sections 21.111 to 21.121 or any rule promulgated by the commissioner thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction for a first offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $1,000…

21.71 CITATION, MINNESOTA SCREENINGS ACT. Sections 21.71 to 21.78 may be cited as the "Minnesota Screenings Act." History: 1959 c 172 s 1

21.72 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. As used in sections 21.73 to 21.78, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1] § Subd. 3.Vendor. "Vendor" means any person who sells any weed-seed infested agricultural seeds and …

21.73 PROHIBITED ACTS. § Subdivision 1.Infested feed grain; screenings. It is unlawful for any person to feed or to sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale, or transport, to the consumer, for feeding purposes, any weed-seed infested agricultural seeds and grains, or screenings, …

21.74 EXCEPTIONS. The provisions of section 21.73 shall not apply to: (1) agricultural seeds and grains, or screenings, not intended for feeding purposes; (2) weed-seed infested agricultural seeds and grains, or screenings, being transported upon any public highway to or from a c…

21.75 POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER. § Subdivision 1.Enforcement; rulemaking. The commissioner must enforce sections 21.71 to 21.78. The commissioner must: (1) sample, inspect, make analysis of, and test weed-seed infested agricultural seeds and grains, or screenings, transpo…

21.76 INJUNCTION; BOND. When in the performance of duties the commissioner applies to any court for a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of sections 21.71 to 21.78, or any rules thereunder, said i…

21.77 SEIZURE. Any lot or amount of weed-seed infested agricultural seeds and grains, or screenings, not in compliance with the provisions of sections 21.71 to 21.78, is subject to seizure on complaint of the commissioner to a court of competent jurisdiction in the locality in wh…

21.78 VIOLATIONS; ENFORCEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Misdemeanor. Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 21.71 to 21.78, or any of the rules promulgated by the commissioner thereunder, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § Subd. 2.Duty to prosecute. It is the duty of every pros…

21.80 MINNESOTA SEED LAW. Sections 21.80 to 21.92 may be cited as the "Minnesota Seed Law." History: 1983 c 293 s 39

21.81 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The terms used in sections 21.80 to 21.92 have the meanings given them in this section. § Subd. 1a.Address. "Address" means the complete primary mailing address of the labeler or the person or firm selling seed. A complete address include…

21.82 LABEL REQUIREMENTS; AGRICULTURAL, VEGETABLE, FLOWER, OR WILDFLOWER SEEDS. § Subdivision 1.Form. Each container of agricultural, vegetable, flower, or wildflower seed which is offered for sale for sowing purposes must bear or have attached in a conspicuous place a plainly wr…

21.83 LABEL REQUIREMENTS; TREE OR SHRUB SEEDS. § Subdivision 1.Form. Each container of tree or shrub seed which is offered for sale for sowing purposes shall bear or have attached in a conspicuous place a plainly written or printed label or tag in the English language giving the …