1997 Minnesota Statutes

     32.19 Reports; contents not to be divulged, penalty.  

    Every person, owner, or operator required by section 32.18 
 to maintain daily records on milk, cream, butterfat and other 
 dairy products shall, within 90 days following the close of each 
 fiscal year and at such other times as the commissioner may fix 
 or require, by rules adopted as required by law, make and file 
 with the commissioner, on blank forms prepared by the 
 commissioner, itemized and verified reports of all business 
 transacted by the commissioner, as set out in section 32.18, 
 during the preceding fiscal year.  Such reports shall contain 
 such further information as, from time to time, may be required 
 by the commissioner.  A duplicate copy thereof shall be retained 
 by such person, owner, or operator in files, which shall be 
 subject to examination by the commissioner at any time.  It 
 shall be unlawful for the commissioner, or any public official 
 or employee to divulge or otherwise make known in any manner any 
 particulars set forth or disclosed in any report or return 
 required by this section, or any information concerning the 
 business transacted by any such person, owner or operator so 
 reporting, acquired from records, officers or employees while 
 examining or inspecting any books or records kept and maintained 
 as required by section 32.18, except as such information is 
 required or authorized to be disclosed in a judicial proceeding 
 by order of the district court.  Except as last stated and with 
 the authority there required, any person violating the provision 
 of this section establishing the confidential character of such 
 information and the reports or returns required to be made and 
 filed with the commissioner shall be guilty of a gross 
 misdemeanor.  

    Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the 
 commissioner from publishing statistics so classified as not to 
 disclose the identity of particular returns or reports or any 
 item or entry therein contained.  

    HIST: (3873-3) 1927 c 169 s 3; 1947 c 290 s 1; 1955 c 660 s 2; 
 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444