2000 Minnesota Statutes

     31.39 Assessments; inspection services; commercial 
  canneries account. 

    The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to 
 collect from each commercial cannery an assessment for 
 inspection and services furnished, and for maintaining a 
 bacteriological laboratory and employing such bacteriologists 
 and trained and qualified sanitarians as the commissioner may 
 deem necessary.  The assessment to be made on each commercial 
 cannery, for each and every packing season, shall not exceed 
 one-half cent per case on all foods packed, canned, or preserved 
 therein, nor shall the assessment in any one calendar year to 
 any one cannery exceed $3,000, and the minimum assessment to any 
 cannery in any one calendar year shall be $100.  The 
 commissioner shall provide appropriate deductions from 
 assessments for the net weight of meat, chicken, or turkey 
 ingredients which have been inspected and passed for 
 wholesomeness by the United States Department of Agriculture.  
 The commissioner may, when the commissioner deems it advisable, 
 graduate and reduce the assessment to such sum as is required to 
 furnish the inspection and laboratory services rendered.  The 
 assessment made and the license fees, penalties, and other sums 
 so collected shall be deposited in the state treasury, as other 
 departmental receipts are deposited, but shall constitute a 
 separate account to be known as the commercial canneries 
 inspection account, which is hereby created, and together with 
 moneys now remaining in said account, set aside, and 
 appropriated as a revolving fund, to meet the expense of special 
 inspection, laboratory and other services rendered, as provided 
 in sections 31.31 to 31.392.  The amount of such assessment 
 shall be due and payable on or before December 31, of each year, 
 and if not paid on or before February 15 following, shall bear 
 interest after that date at the rate of seven percent per annum, 
 and a penalty of ten percent on the amount of the assessment 
 shall also be added and collected. 

    HIST: (3843) 1921 c 495 s 55; 1923 c 379 s 1; 1925 c 385 s 1; 
 1927 c 177 s 5; 1947 c 558 s 3; 1961 c 144 art 4 s 4; 1967 c 673 
 s 3; 1971 c 339 s 21; 1975 c 412 s 19; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 254 
 art 3 s 17