2005 Minnesota Statutes

     233.33 Police protection. 

    Subdivision 1.    Protection to grain.  Railroad 
 companies, warehouse operators, and millers operating at the 
 terminal points of this state shall furnish sufficient police 
 protection at their terminal yards and on their terminal tracks 
 to securely protect all cars containing grain while in their 
 possession, shall prohibit and restrain all unauthorized persons 
 from entering or loitering in or about their respective railroad 
 yards or tracks and from entering any cars of grain under their 
 control or removing grain from the cars, and shall employ and 
 detail security guards as necessary to carry out this section.  

    Subd. 2.    Violations and penalties.  A railroad 
 company, warehouse operator, or miller operating at a terminal 
 point of this state who fails to comply with this section is 
 guilty of a misdemeanor.  An unauthorized person who removes 
 grain from a car before the car is unloaded or who sweeps or 
 removes grain from a car after it is unloaded at a terminal 
 point in this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

    HIST: (5058) RL s 2083; 1945 c 550 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 197 
 art 3 s 1