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Section 325E.21

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325E.21 DEALERS IN WIRE AND CABLE; RECORDS AND REPORTS.
    Subdivision 1. Purchase or acquisition record required. Every person, firm or corporation,
including an agent, employee or representative thereof, engaging in the business of buying and
selling wire and cable commonly and customarily used by communication and electric utilities
shall keep a record, in the English language, legibly written in ink or typewriting, at the time
of each purchase or acquisition, an accurate account or description, including the weight if
customarily purchased by weight, of such wire and cable commonly and customarily used by
communication and electric utilities purchased or acquired, the date, time and place of the receipt
of the same, the name and address of the person selling or delivering the same and the number
of the driver's license of such person. Such record, as well as such wire and cable commonly
and customarily used by communication and electric utilities purchased or received, shall at all
reasonable times be open to the inspection of any sheriff or deputy sheriff of the county, or of any
police officer in any incorporated city or statutory city, in which such business may be carried on.
Such person shall not be required to furnish or keep such record of any property purchased from
merchants, manufacturers or wholesale dealers, having an established place of business, or of any
goods purchased at open sale from any bankrupt stock, but a bill of sale or other evidence of open
or legitimate purchase of such property shall be obtained and kept by such person which must be
shown upon demand to the sheriff or deputy sheriff of the county, or to any police officer in any
incorporated city or statutory city, in which such business may be carried on. The provisions of
this subdivision and of subdivision 2 shall not apply to or include any person, firm or corporation
engaged exclusively in the business of buying or selling motor vehicles, new or used, paper or
wood products, rags or furniture, secondhand machinery.
    Subd. 2. Sheriff's copy of record required. It shall be the duty of every such person, firm or
corporation defined in subdivision 1 hereof, to make out and to deliver or mail to the office of the
sheriff of the county in which business is conducted, not later than the second business day of
each week, a legible and correct copy of the record required in subdivision 1 of the entries during
the preceding week. In the event such person, firm or corporation has not made any purchases or
acquisitions required to be recorded under subdivision 1 hereof during the preceding week no
report need be submitted to the sheriff under this subdivision.
    Subd. 3. Retention required. Records required to be maintained by subdivision 1 hereof
shall be retained by the person making them for a period of three years.
History: (10225) 1907 c 228 s 1; 1957 c 960 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1986 c 444; 2005 c
10 art 2 s 4

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