Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 138-H.F.No. 1408 
           An act relating to agriculture; redefining terms in 
          the plant pest act; exempting certain nonprofit 
          organizations from the requirement for a nursery stock 
          dealer certificate; amending Minnesota Statutes 1992, 
          section 18.46, subdivision 3, and by adding a 
          subdivision; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
          Statutes, chapter 18.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 18.46, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  Nursery stock:  Nursery stock includes:  all 
hardy deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, vines, and other 
plants having a persistent woody stem; all hardy herbaceous 
perennials;, whether wild or cultivated, and parts of either of 
those thereof which are for and capable of propagation.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 18.46, is amended 
by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 3a.  [HARDY.] "Hardy" describes a plant that can 
survive the normal winters in Minnesota without artificial 
protection.  
     Sec. 3.  [18.525] [EXEMPT SALES.] 
    An organization does not need to obtain a nursery stock 
dealer certificate before offering nursery stock for sale or 
distribution if the organization: 
    (1) is a nonprofit charitable, educational, or religious 
organization; 
    (2) conducts sales or distributions of nursery stock on ten 
or fewer days in a calendar year; and 
    (3) uses the proceeds from its nursery stock sales or 
distributions for charitable, educational, or religious purposes.
    Presented to the governor May 11, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 13, 1993, 2:58 p.m.