2008 Minnesota Statutes

233.08 LICENSE.

No public terminal warehouse may be operated or receive grain for storage until the owners or parties in charge and operating the warehouse obtain a license from the department authorizing the warehouse operator to operate a warehouse under this chapter. Licenses issued or renewed annually expire at midnight on June 30 following the date of issuance or renewal. Before a license may be issued, written application must be made to the department for a license specifying the kind of warehouse, the nature of its construction, its capacity and location, the name of the firm or corporation operating it, each member of the firm or officer of the corporation, and other facts the department requires. The department shall act on the application with reasonable dispatch. If no reason exists for refusing the application, a license must be issued upon the payment of the fee set by the commissioner. The amount of the fee must be set to cover the costs of administering and enforcing this chapter.

A license may be revoked by the department for violation of the law or a rule of the department, but may only be revoked upon a written notice or complaint specifying the charges and after a hearing before the department. A license may be refused to a warehouse operator whose license has been revoked within the preceding year.

Fees collected under this chapter must be paid into the grain buyers and storage account established in section 232.22.

History:

(5018) 1923 c 201 s 3; 1951 c 282 s 1; 1967 c 881 s 2; 1969 c 9 s 58; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1981 c 356 s 335; 1982 c 508 s 8; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 197 art 3 s 1; 1991 c 326 s 7; 1999 c 231 s 172