Minnesota Legislature
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
2006 Minnesota Statutes
This is an historical version of this statute chapter. Also view the most recent published version.
227.52 ISSUING A SECOND RECEIPT WITHOUT "DUPLICATE" ON IT.
Subdivision 1. Elements of crime. A warehouse operator, or an officer, agent, or employee
of a warehouse operator, who issues or helps to issue a negotiable receipt for goods knowing that
another negotiable receipt for some or all of the goods is outstanding and uncanceled, without
putting the word "duplicate" plainly on the face of the receipt is guilty of a crime.
Subd. 2. Exception. If the original receipt is lost, stolen, or destroyed, and if proceedings
have been conducted as provided by law, it is not a crime under subdivision 1 to issue a duplicate
receipt without putting the word "duplicate" plainly on it.
Subd. 3. Penalty. Whoever commits the crime described in subdivision 1 may be sentenced
for each offense to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not
more than $10,000, or both.
History: (5161) 1913 c 161 s 52; 1965 c 812 s 3; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1988
c 469 art 3 s 1
Subdivision 1. Elements of crime. A warehouse operator, or an officer, agent, or employee
of a warehouse operator, who issues or helps to issue a negotiable receipt for goods knowing that
another negotiable receipt for some or all of the goods is outstanding and uncanceled, without
putting the word "duplicate" plainly on the face of the receipt is guilty of a crime.
Subd. 2. Exception. If the original receipt is lost, stolen, or destroyed, and if proceedings
have been conducted as provided by law, it is not a crime under subdivision 1 to issue a duplicate
receipt without putting the word "duplicate" plainly on it.
Subd. 3. Penalty. Whoever commits the crime described in subdivision 1 may be sentenced
for each offense to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not
more than $10,000, or both.
History: (5161) 1913 c 161 s 52; 1965 c 812 s 3; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1988
c 469 art 3 s 1
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes