89.39 PURCHASE AGREEMENTS AND PENALTIES.
Every individual, partnership, or private corporation to whom any planting stock is supplied
for planting on private land hereunder shall execute an agreement, upon a form approved by the
attorney general, to comply with all the requirements of sections
89.35 to
89.39 and all conditions
prescribed by the commissioner hereunder. Any party to such an agreement who shall violate
any provision thereof shall, in addition to any other penalties that may be applicable, be liable to
the state in a sum equal to three times the reasonable value of the trees affected by the violation
at the time the same were shipped for planting; provided, that if such trees are sold or offered
for sale for any purpose not herein authorized, such penalty shall be equal to three times the sale
price. Such penalties shall be recoverable in a civil action brought in the name of the state by
the attorney general.
History: 1947 c 94 s 5; 1980 c 509 s 22