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17B.27 Fumigating grain to change color; penalty.

Any person who shall sell or offer for sale or for shipment and sale any barley or other grain, which shall have been subjected to fumigation, or other treatment by sulphur or other material, or to any other chemical process, affecting the color thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $3,000 or by imprisonment in the Minnesota correctional facility-Stillwater for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment, and be liable to any person injured in treble damages. Barley and oats may be purified by fumigation, or treatment with sulphur, under such restrictions and rules as the commissioner shall prescribe for such purpose and when so purified may be sold and marketed as "purified barley" or "purified oats," and not otherwise.

HIST: 1974 c 548 s 27; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1985 c 248 s 70

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