Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 21 · 37 active provisions
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.
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 produced by the potato plants are examined by or under the autho…
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 contracts and ground leases for planting and growing potatoes outside of the state for…
(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 certificates of inspection only after: (1) the seed potato lab facility and the lab's…
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 reasonable reserve, and shall require the same to be paid before such inspections or…
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 necessary traveling expenses, together with the traveling expe…
(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, the commissioner shall cause such potatoes to be inspected or certified in accordance with…
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.
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, marking, or otherwise in reference to or in connection with, or in advertising or characte…
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 chapter and rules adopted by the commissioner, or under the certification program…
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 portion of Red Lake County that lies east of United States Highway No. 59 and north of Min…
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 the enforcement of the penalties in such case as provided in such sections.
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 or by imprisonment for not less than 10 days nor more tha…
Sections 21.71 to 21.78 may be cited as the "Minnesota Screenings Act."
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 grains, or screenings. Subd. 4. Sell. "Sell" when applying to w…
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, if: (1) restricted noxious weed seeds are present singly or coll…
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 cleaning or processing establishment for cleaning or proces…
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, transported, sold, or offered, or exposed for sale within this state for any purpose, at…
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 injunction, if any be granted, shall be issued without bond.
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 which the weed-seed infested agricultural seeds and grain…
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 prosecuting officer to whom the commissioner shall report any violation of se…
Sections 21.80 to 21.92 may be cited as the "Minnesota Seed Law."
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 includes the street address, post office box, or rural route, and ci…
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 written or printed label or tag in the English language giving the information required by this section. This statement mus…
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 information required by this section. This label statement shall not be modified or deni…