1999 Minnesota Statutes

     228.47 Issuing a duplicate bill with fraud in mind. 

    Subdivision 1.    Elements of crime.  An officer, agent, 
 or employee of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues or 
 helps to issue a negotiable bill for goods, knowing that another 
 negotiable bill for some or all of the goods is outstanding and 
 uncanceled, is guilty of a crime.  

    Subd. 2.    Exceptions.  Issuing bills in a set over 
 issue of documents for fungible goods and issuing substitutes 
 for lost, stolen, or destroyed documents are not violations of 
 subdivision 1.  

    Subd. 3.    Five years; $10,000.  Whoever commits the 
 crime described in subdivision 1 may be sentenced for each 
 offense to imprisonment for not more than five years or to 
 payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both. 

    HIST: (5004) 1917 c 399 s 46; 1965 c 812 s 5; 1984 c 628 art 3 
 s 11; 1988 c 469 art 4 s 1