2005 Minnesota Statutes

     395.22 Penalty for violation. 

    Any person who shall, contrary to the provisions of 
 sections 395.14 to 395.24, sell, transfer, take, or carry away, 
 or in any manner dispose of, the seed or feed, or any part 
 thereof, furnished by the county under sections 395.14 to 395.24 
 or shall use or dispose of such seed or feed, or any part 
 thereof, for any other purpose than that of planting or sowing 
 with same as stated in the application and contract, or shall 
 sell, transfer, take, or carry away, or in any manner dispose 
 of, the crop or any part thereof, produced from the sowing or 
 planting of such seed, before the same is paid for, is guilty of 
 a misdemeanor and shall pay all the costs of prosecution, and 
 whoever under any of the provisions of sections 395.14 to 395.24 
 shall be found guilty of false swearing shall be deemed to have 
 committed perjury and shall upon conviction suffer the pains and 
 penalties of that crime.  Upon the recording of the contract in 
 the office of the county recorder, and the sowing of the seed 
 obtained therefor, the title and right of possession to the 
 growing crop and to the grain produced from the seed shall be in 
 the county which shall have furnished the seed until the debt 
 incurred for such seed or feed, shall have been paid, and any 
 seizure thereof or interference therewith except by the 
 applicant and those in the applicant's employ, for the purpose 
 of harvesting, threshing, and marketing the same to pay such 
 debt, shall be deemed a conversion thereof and treble damages 
 may be recovered against the person so converting the same by 
 the county furnishing such seed and feed. 

    HIST: (748) 1917 c 21 s 9; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 2005 c 
 4 s 102; 2005 c 10 art 3 s 20