1997 Minnesota Statutes

     32.11 Discrimination in buying and selling; schedule of 
  prices. 

    (a) Any person, firm, copartnership, or corporation engaged 
 in the business of buying milk, cream or butterfat for 
 manufacture or for sale of such milk, cream, or butterfat, who 
 shall discriminate between different sections, localities, 
 communities, or cities of this state, or who shall discriminate 
 between persons in the same section, locality, community or city 
 of this state, by purchasing such commodity at a higher price or 
 rate from one person or in one locality than is paid for the 
 same commodity by such person, firm, copartnership, or 
 corporation in the same locality or in another locality, after 
 making due allowance for the difference, if any, in the 
 reasonable cost of transportation from the locality of purchase 
 to the locality of manufacture or locality of sale of such milk, 
 cream, or butterfat, shall be deemed guilty of unfair 
 discrimination, which is a misdemeanor.  

    (b) A processor or wholesaler who sells selected class I or 
 class II dairy products as defined in section 32.70 in Minnesota 
 shall maintain a current schedule of prices showing rebates, 
 discounts, refunds, and price differentials for the selected 
 dairy products offered for sale at wholesale to retailers or to 
 another wholesaler. 

    HIST: (3907) 1921 c 305 s 1; 1923 c 120 s 1; 1955 c 876 s 1; 
 1971 c 23 s 3; 1993 c 367 s 26