1997 Minnesota Statutes

     35.14 Livestock detectives from other states. 

    Any person commissioned by the governor, or the livestock 
 commission, or any other proper authority of another state may 
 act as a livestock detective in this state in accordance with 
 Minnesota law upon paying a fee of $5 and filing with the 
 department of agriculture: 

    (1) a commission or a certified copy of it; 

    (2) a bond to the state in the penal sum of $2,000, 
 approved by the commissioner of agriculture and conditioned for 
 the payment of all damages resulting to any person from any 
 wrongful seizure of property or other unlawful act within the 
 state by the person or by any of the person's deputies; and 

    (3) a stipulation that service upon the commissioner of 
 agriculture of any summons, order, notice, or process in a civil 
 action upon the bond is sufficient service upon the person or 
 the person's deputies.  

    The commissioner of agriculture shall issue certificates to 
 the person and no more than three of the person's deputies for 
 whose acts the person is responsible, authorizing the holder to 
 perform the duties in this section while the commission is in 
 force.  Each certificate holder may seize and hold any animal 
 which the person knows or has reason to believe has strayed or 
 been stolen from the state by which the commission issued.  

    HIST: (5408) RL s 2167; 1933 c 303; 1984 c 618 s 1; 1985 c 265 
 art 1 s 1