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 produced by the potato plants are examined by or under the […]
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 contracts and ground leases for planting and growing potatoes outside of the state for experimental […]
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 certificates of inspection only after: (1) the seed potato lab facility and the lab’s […]
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 reasonable reserve, and shall require the same to […]
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 necessary traveling expenses, together with the traveling expenses of the members of the advisory seed potato […]
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, the commissioner shall cause such potatoes to be inspected or certified in accordance […]
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, marking, or otherwise in reference to or in connection […]
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 chapter and rules adopted by the commissioner, or under […]
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 portion of Red Lake County that lies east of United States Highway No. 59 and north […]
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 the enforcement of the penalties in such case as provided in such sections. […]
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 or by imprisonment for not less than […]
