2000 Minnesota Statutes

     18.54 Local sales and miscellaneous. 

    Subdivision 1.    Services and fees.  The commissioner 
 may make small lot inspections or perform other necessary 
 services for which another charge is not specified.  For these 
 services the commissioner shall set a fee plus expenses that 
 will recover the cost of performing this service.  The 
 commissioner may set an additional acreage fee for inspection of 
 seed production fields for exporters in order to meet domestic 
 and foreign plant quarantine requirements. 

    Subd. 2.    Virus disease-free certification.  The 
 commissioner shall have the authority to provide special 
 services such as virus disease-free certification and other 
 similar programs.  Participation by nursery stock growers shall 
 be voluntary.  Plants offered for sale as certified virus-free 
 must be grown according to certain procedures in a manner 
 defined by the commissioner for the purpose of eliminating 
 viruses and other injurious disease or insect pests.  The 
 commissioner shall collect reasonable fees from participating 
 nursery stock growers for services and materials that are 
 necessary to conduct this type of work.  

    HIST: 1959 c 35 s 11; Ex1961 c 63 s 3; 1969 c 1148 s 3; 1975 c 
 412 s 4; 1981 c 356 s 261; 1983 c 293 s 34; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 
 254 art 3 s 9; 1996 c 305 art 3 s 3,4; 1999 c 250 art 3 s 4 

*   NOTE:  The amendment to this section by Laws 1999, chapter 
*250, article 3, section 4, is effective July 1, 2001.  Laws 
*1999, chapter 250, article 3, section 29.

*   NOTE:  Laws 1999, chapter 250, article 3, does not repeal 
*rules or fees in effect on June 30, 2001.  Laws 2000, chapter 
*488, article 12, section 23.