2005 Minnesota Statutes

     227.50 Issuing a receipt for goods one does not have. 

    Subdivision 1.    Elements of crime.  A warehouse 
 operator, or an officer, agent, or employee of a warehouse 
 operator, who issues or helps to issue a receipt for goods 
 knowing that the warehouse operator does not have or control the 
 goods is guilty of a crime.  

    Subd. 2.    Penalty.  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: (5159) 1913 c 161 s 50; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 
 444; 1988 c 469 art 3 s 1