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514.53 Submerged logs to be scaled, marked; commissioner's duty; fee.

Every person who shall engage in raising or floating submerged, buried, or sunken logs or timber shall cause all logs and other timber raised or floated by that person to be scaled at time of such raising or floating by the commissioner of natural resources, and shall place on each log and piece of timber so raised a suitable log mark, which mark shall only be used on logs or timber so raised or floated. The commissioner of natural resources shall attend in person or by deputy at the raising and floating of such logs or timber, and promptly scale the same, recording the size, kind, and all marks on each piece thereof. For such service said commissioner of natural resources shall receive in addition to all fees now allowed by law the further sum of $5 for each day's attendance under the provisions of sections 514.40 to 514.58, and such fees shall be paid by the person so employing the commissioner and shall be taken and held to be a part of the cost of raising and floating such logs and timber. No such work shall be performed within the limits of any operating boom company organized under the laws of this state, except under the supervision and direction of some representative of the boom company within whose limits such work is being carried on.

HIST: (8542) RL s 3535b; 1907 c 428 s 1; 1967 c 568 s 1 subd 9; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1992 c 464 art 2 s 7

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