1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to motor vehicles; requiring a search warrant to inspect certain farm truck 
1.3 	records; exempting certain trucks from record-keeping requirements;amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 169.872, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 169.872, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Record keeping. (a) A person who weighs goods before or after unloading 
1.8 	or a person who loads or unloads goods on the basis of liquid volume measure shall keep 
1.9 	a written record of the origin, weight, and composition of each shipment, the date of loading 
1.10 	or receipt, the name and address of the shipper, the total number of axles on the vehicle or 
1.11 	combination of vehicles, and the registration number of the power unit or some other means 
1.12 	of identification by which the shipment was transported. The record shall must be retained 
1.13 	for 14 days and shall. The record must be open to inspection and copying by a state law 
1.14 	enforcement officer or motor transport representative, except state conservation officers, 
1.15 	upon demand. No A search warrant is required to inspect or copy the record.
1.16 	(b) This subdivision does not apply to:
1.17 	(1) a person weighing goods who is not involved in the shipping, receiving, and 
1.18 	transporting of those goods,; or to
1.19 	(2) a person weighing raw and unfinished farm products transported in a single-unit 
1.20 	vehicle with not more than three axles or by a trailer towed by a farm tractor when the 
1.21 	transportation is the first haul of the product.