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MN Stat § 238.40 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 237 - 238 — Telecommunications|Chapter 238 — Cable Communications|Section 238.40 — Liability; Indemnify Public Utility.

238.40 LIABILITY; INDEMNIFY PUBLIC UTILITY. (a) Every pole, duct, and conduit agreement must contain a provision that the cable communications system shall defend, indemnify, protect, and save harmless the public utility from and against any and all claims and demands for damages to property and injury or death to persons, including payments made under any worker's compensation law or under any plan for employees' disability and death benefits, which may arise out of or be caused: (1) by the erection, maintenance, presence, use, or removal of the cable communications system's cable, equipment, and facilities or by the proximity of the cables, equipment, and facilities of the parties to the agreement; or (2) by any act of the cable communications system on or in the vicinity of the public utility company's poles and conduit system, in the performance of the agreement. Nothing contained in this section relieves the public utility company from liability for the negligence of the public utility company or anyone acting under its direction and control. (b) The cable communications system shall also indemnify, protect, and save harmless the public utility: (1) from any and all claims and demands that arise directly or indirectly from the operation of the cable communications system's facilities including taxes, special charges by others, claims, and demands (i) for damages or loss for infringement of copyright, (ii) for libel and slander, (iii) for unauthorized use of television broadcast programs, and (iv) for unauthorized use of other program material; and (2) from and against all claims and demands for infringement of patents with respect to the manufacture, use, and operation of the cable communications equipment in combination with the public utility company's poles, conduit system, or otherwise. (c) Nothing contained in this section relieves the public utility company from liability for the negligence of the public utility company or anyone acting under its direction and control. History:  1985 c 285 s 40; 2004 c 261 art 7 s 26
MN Stat § 238.41 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 237 - 238 — Telecommunications|Chapter 238 — Cable Communications|Section 238.41 — Insurance.

238.41 INSURANCE. The cable communications system shall carry insurance to protect the parties to the agreement from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, judgments, costs, expenses, and liabilities which may arise or result, directly or indirectly, from or by reason of the loss, injury, claim, or damage. The amount of the insurance must be agreed to by the parties to this agreement. The cable communications system shall also carry insurance to protect it from all claims under workers' compensation laws in effect that may be applicable to it. Insurance required must remain in effect for the entire term of the agreement. History:  1985 c 285 s 41; 2004 c 261 art 7 s 28
MN Stat § 238.42 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 237 - 238 — Telecommunications|Chapter 238 — Cable Communications|Section 238.42 — Additional Contract Terms.

238.42 ADDITIONAL CONTRACT TERMS. Nothing contained in sections 238.02, subdivisions 3a, 20a, and 31b, and 238.37 to 238.42 in any way prohibits a public utility company from including in its pole, duct, and conduit agreements with cable communications systems additional terms which do not conflict with sections 238.02, subdivisions 3a, 20a, and 31b, and 238.37 to 238.42. History:  1985 c 285 s 42; 2004 c 261 art 7 s 28; 2005 c 10 art 1 s 38
MN Stat § 238.43 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 237 - 238 — Telecommunications|Chapter 238 — Cable Communications|Section 238.43 — Regional Channel.

238.43 REGIONAL CHANNEL. Subdivision 1.  [Renumbered 238.02, subd 31c] Subd. 2. Legislative purpose. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the activation of a metropolitan area interconnected regional channel, to be uniformly carried on VHF channel 6 on cable communications systems operating in the metropolitan area in order to provide a broad range of informational, educational, and public service programs and materials to metropolitan area cable subscribers. Subd. 3. VHF channel 6. Franchises for cable communications systems franchised in whole or in part within the metropolitan area shall contain a provision designating the standard VHF channel 6 for uniform regional channel usage; provided, however, that until the regional channel becomes operational, the designated VHF channel 6 may be utilized by the cable communications system as it deems appropriate. The designated regional channel may be combined with the government access channel until such time as the video programming usage of the government access channel expands to such point as it is in use during 80 percent of the time between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. during any consecutive six-week period. Use of time on the regional channel must be made available without charge. Subd. 4. Use. The regional channel will provide a broad range of informational, educational, and public service programs and materials to metropolitan area cable subscribers. Subd. 5. Regional channel entity. The Cable Communications Board may designate a regional channel entity prior to July 1, 1985. If the Cable Communications Board does not designate an entity by June 30, 1985, the Metropolitan Council shall appoint the governing body of the regional channel entity which must consist of 15 members appointed to three-year terms. In making the initial appointments the Metropolitan Council shall designate one-third of the appointees to serve one-year terms, one-third to serve two-year terms, and one-third to serve three-year terms. In the case of a vacancy the council shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term. The Metropolitan Council shall name three appointees from the recommendations received from the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities and three from the recommendations received from the cable communications companies operating in the metropolitan area. Subd. 6. Regional channel operator. The regional channel entity may operate the regional channel or designate the operator of the regional channel. In the event the regional channel entity designates the operator of the regional channel, the designation must be for an initial period not exceeding three years. Before the expiration of the three-year period, the regional channel entity shall review its designation and consider renewal for a term not exceeding three years. Nothing in this section creates any right to renewal for the operator designated by the regional channel entity. History:  1985 c 285 s 43; 2004 c 261 art 7 s 27,28
MN Stat § 239.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.01 — Weights And Measures Division; Jurisdiction.

239.01 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES DIVISION; JURISDICTION. The Weights and Measures Division, referred to in this chapter as the division, is created under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce. The division has supervision and control over all weights, weighing devices, and measures in the state. History:  (5270) 1911 c 156 s 1; 1971 c 25 s 42,44; 1971 c 74 s 5; 1991 c 198 s 1; 1Sp2001 c 4 art 6 s 70
MN Stat § 239.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.02 — Director; Deputies, Employees.

239.02 DIRECTOR; DEPUTIES, EMPLOYEES. The department shall appoint in accordance with chapter 43A, a director of weights and measures and such deputies and other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. History:  (4634, 5271) RL s 1959; 1911 c 140 s 3; 1911 c 156 s 2; 1921 c 382 s 1; 1971 c 25 s 43; 1977 c 364 s 12; 1981 c 210 s 54; 1991 c 198 s 4
MN Stat § 239.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.06 — Rules.

239.06 RULES. The department shall prescribe and adopt such rules as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including but not limited to the adoption of definitions of basic units of weights and measures, tables of weights and measures, and weights and measures equivalents to govern weighing and measuring equipment and transactions in Minnesota. The division may change, modify, or amend any or all rules when deemed necessary and the rules shall have the force and effect of law. History:  (5275) 1911 c 156 s 3; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2014 c 222 art 1 s 46
MN Stat § 239.081 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.081 — Inspecting Track Scale.

239.081 INSPECTING TRACK SCALE. The division shall supervise and inspect all track scales, and may direct any carrier to transport, move, and switch to any track scale free of charge any car used in the inspection and testing of scales. The division shall require the installation and maintenance of track scales at terminals, warehouses, and at other points in the state where scales are deemed necessary. The division shall prescribe reasonable rules for the weighing of railroad cars and of freight. History:  1980 c 460 s 31; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2014 c 222 art 1 s 47
MN Stat § 239.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.09 — Special Police Powers.

239.09 SPECIAL POLICE POWERS. When necessary to enforce this chapter or rules adopted under the authority granted by section 239.06, the director is: (1) empowered to seize for use as evidence and without formal warrant, any false weight, measure, weighing or measuring device, package, or commodity found to be used, retained, or offered or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law; (2) during normal business hours, authorized to enter commercial premises; (3) if the premises are not open to the public, authorized to enter commercial premises only after presenting credentials and obtaining consent or after obtaining a search warrant; (4) empowered to issue stop-use, hold, and removal orders with respect to weights and measures commercially used, and packaged commodities or bulk commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, that do not comply with the weights and measures laws; (5) empowered, upon reasonable suspicion of a violation of the weights and measures laws, to stop a commercial vehicle and, after presentation of credentials, inspect the contents of the vehicle, require that the person in charge of the vehicle produce documents concerning the contents, and require the person to proceed with the vehicle to some specified place for inspection; and (6) empowered, after written warning, to issue citations of not less than $100 and not more than $500 to a person who violates any provision of this chapter, any provision of the rules adopted under the authority contained in this chapter, or any provision of statutes enforced by the Division of Weights and Measures. History:  (5280) 1911 c 156 s 8; 1971 c 25 s 44; 1971 c 74 s 9; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 98; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 348 s 34; 1991 c 198 s 6; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 62; 2014 c 222 art 1 s 48
MN Stat § 239.091 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.091 — Method Of Sale.

239.091 METHOD OF SALE. The method of sale for a commodity must provide an accurate and adequate quantity of information that will allow the buyer to make price and quantity comparisons. History:  1991 c 198 s 7; 2014 c 222 art 1 s 49
MN Stat § 239.092 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.092 — Sale From Bulk.

239.092 SALE FROM BULK. (a) Bulk sales of commodities, when the buyer and seller are not both present to witness the measurement, must be accompanied by a delivery ticket containing the following information: (1) the name and address of the person who weighed or measured the commodity; (2) the date delivered; (3) the quantity delivered; (4) the count of individually wrapped packages delivered, if more than one is included in the quantity delivered; (5) the quantity on which the price is based, if different than the quantity delivered; and (6) the identity of the commodity in the most descriptive terms commercially practicable, including representations of quality made in connection with the sale. (b) This section is not intended to conflict with the bulk sale requirements of the Department of Agriculture. If a conflict occurs, the law and rules of the Department of Agriculture govern. (c) Firewood sold or distributed in this state must include delivery ticket information regarding the harvest locations of the wood by county or counties and state. (d) Paragraph (c) may be enforced using the authority granted in this chapter or section 18J.05 or 84D.13. History:  1991 c 198 s 8; 2007 c 36 s 3; 2010 c 333 art 1 s 15; 2012 c 244 art 1 s 68
MN Stat § 239.093 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.093 — Information Required With Package.

239.093 INFORMATION REQUIRED WITH PACKAGE. (a) A package offered, exposed, or held for sale must bear a clear and conspicuous declaration of: (1) the identity of the commodity in the package, unless the commodity can be easily identified through the wrapper or container; (2) the net quantity in terms of weight, measure, or count; (3) the name and address of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor, if the packages were not produced on the premises where they are offered, exposed, or held for sale; and (4) the unit price, if the packages are part of a lot containing random weight packages of the same commodity. (b) This section is not intended to conflict with the packaging requirements of the Department of Agriculture. If a conflict occurs, the laws and rules of the Department of Agriculture govern. (c) Firewood sold or distributed in this state must include information regarding the harvest locations of the wood by county or counties and state on each label or wrapper. (d) Paragraph (c) may be enforced using the authority granted in this chapter or section 18J.05 or 84D.13. History:  1991 c 198 s 9; 2007 c 36 s 4; 2010 c 333 art 1 s 16; 2012 c 244 art 1 s 69
MN Stat § 239.094 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.094 — Packaged Commodity; Advertising For Sale.

239.094 PACKAGED COMMODITY; ADVERTISING FOR SALE. When a packaged commodity is advertised with its retail price, the quantity declaration that appears on the package must also appear in the advertisement. History:   1991 c 198 s 10
MN Stat § 239.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.10 — Annual Inspection.

239.10 ANNUAL INSPECTION. Subdivision 1. Light capacity scales; retail establishments. The director shall inspect light capacity scales in retail establishments such as grocery stores, other retail food establishments, or hardware stores, not more often than once every 36 months except when (1) the owner requests an inspection, (2) when the scale is inspected as part of an investigation, or (3) when the scale has been repaired. Subd. 2. Packaged food commodities. The director shall inspect packaged food commodities in grocery stores and other retail food establishments not more often than once every 36 months except when (1) the owner requests an inspection or (2) when packages are inspected as part of an investigation. Subd. 3. Other weights and measures. The director shall inspect all weights and measures, except those specified in subdivisions 1 and 2, annually, or as often as deemed possible within budget and staff limitations. History:  (5282) 1911 c 156 s 11; 1915 c 281 s 1; 1969 c 399 s 1; 1969 c 1031 s 11; 1971 c 25 s 44,67; 1971 c 74 s 10; 1977 c 364 s 15; 1981 c 357 s 76; 1983 c 301 s 175; 1984 c 654 art 3 s 79; 1987 c 268 art 14 s 1; 1993 c 369 s 71; 1Sp2001 c 4 art 6 s 71
MN Stat § 239.101 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.101 — Inspection Fees.

239.101 INSPECTION FEES. Subdivision 1. Fee setting and cost recovery. The department shall recover the amount appropriated to the weights and measures program through revenue from two separate fee systems under subdivisions 2 and 3, and according to the fee-setting and cost-recovery requirements in subdivisions 4, 5, and 6. Subd. 2. Weights and measures fees. The director shall charge a fee to the owner for inspecting and testing weights and measures, providing metrology services and consultation, and providing petroleum quality assurance tests at the request of a licensed distributor. Money collected by the director must be paid into the state treasury and credited to the state general fund. Subd. 3. Petroleum inspection fee; appropriation, uses. (a) An inspection fee is imposed (1) on petroleum products when received by the first licensed distributor, and (2) on petroleum products received and held for sale or use by any person when the petroleum products have not previously been received by a licensed distributor. The petroleum inspection fee is $1 for every 1,000 gallons received. The commissioner of revenue shall collect the fee. The revenue from 89 cents of the fee is appropriated to the commissioner of commerce for the cost of operations of the Division of Weights and Measures and petroleum supply monitoring. The remainder of the fee must be deposited in the general fund. (b) The commissioner of revenue shall credit a person for inspection fees previously paid in error or for any material exported or sold for export from the state upon filing of a report as prescribed by the commissioner of revenue. (c) The commissioner of revenue may collect the inspection fee along with any taxes due under chapter 296A. Subd. 4.  MS 2012 [Repealed, 2014 c 222 art 1 s 58] Subd. 5. Setting petroleum inspection fee. When the department estimates that inspection costs will exceed the revenue from the fee, the commissioner shall notify the commissioner of management and budget. The commissioner of management and budget shall then request a fee increase from the legislature. Subd. 6. Cost-recovery requirements. The cost of inspection activities and services not specified in subdivisions 2 and 3, including related overhead costs, must be equitably apportioned and recovered by the fees. Subd. 7.  [Repealed, 2007 c 62 s 16] History:  1993 c 369 s 72; 1996 c 305 art 3 s 29; 1998 c 299 s 30; 1999 c 250 art 3 s 25; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 13 s 4; 1Sp2003 c 19 art 1 s 8; 2004 c 189 s 2; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 4 s 63; 2007 c 57 art 3 s 40; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109; 2013 c 85 art 6 s 5; 2014 c 222 art 1 s 50
MN Stat § 239.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.23 — Offenses; Misdemeanor.

239.23 OFFENSES; MISDEMEANOR. Any person who shall offer or expose for sale, sell or use, or possess a false scale, weight or measure, or weighing or measuring device, or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device which has not been sealed as provided by sections 239.01 to 239.10, or use the same in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing; or who shall dispose of any condemned weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device, or remove any tag placed thereon by any authorized employee of the division, or sell or offer or expose for sale less than the quantity represented; or sell or offer or expose for sale any such commodities in the manner contrary to law; or sell or offer for sale or possess for the purpose of selling, any device or instrument to be used to, or calculated to, falsify any weight or measure, or refuse to pay any fee charged for testing and sealing or condemning any scale, weight, or measure, or weighing or measuring device, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History:  (5278) 1911 c 156 s 6; 1971 c 25 s 44; 1971 c 74 s 12; 1977 c 364 s 17; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 239.24 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.24 — Hindering Official; Misdemeanor.

239.24 HINDERING OFFICIAL; MISDEMEANOR. Any person hindering, impeding, or restricting in any way any employee of the division while in the performance of official duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History:  (5279) 1911 c 156 s 7; 1971 c 25 s 44; 1971 c 74 s 13; 1977 c 364 s 18; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 239.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.32 — Standard Weight Of Bushel.

239.32 STANDARD WEIGHT OF BUSHEL. In contracts for the sale of any of the following articles, the term "bushel" shall mean the number of pounds avoirdupois herein stated: corn, in ear, 70; beans (except lima beans, scarlet runner pole beans, white runner pole beans and broad windsor beans), smooth peas, wheat, clover seed, Irish potatoes and alfalfa, 60; broom corn seed and sorghum seed, 57; shelled corn (except sweet corn), rye, lima beans, flaxseed and wrinkled peas, 56; sweet potatoes and turnips, 55; onions and rutabagas, 52; buckwheat, hempseed, rapeseed, beets, green apples, walnuts, rhubarb, hickory nuts, chestnuts, tomatoes, scarlet runner pole beans and white runner pole beans, 50; barley, millet, Hungarian grass seed, sweet corn, cucumbers and peaches, 48; broad windsor beans, 47; carrots, timothy seed and pears, 45; parsnips, 42; spelt or spilts, 40; cranberries, 36; oats and bottom onion-sets, 32; dried apples, dried peaches and top onion-sets, 28; peanuts, 22; blue grass, orchard grass and redtop seed, 14; plastering hair, unwashed, 8; plastering hair, washed, 4; lime, 80; but if sold by the barrel the weight shall be 200 pounds. In contracts for the sale of green apples, the term "bushel" shall mean 2150.42 cubic inches. History:  (7025) RL s 2728; 1913 c 560 s 4; 1935 c 270
MN Stat § 239.33 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapter 239 — Weights And Measures|Chapter 239 — Weights, Measures|Section 239.33 — Standard Measurements Of Wood.

239.33 STANDARD MEASUREMENTS OF WOOD. In all contracts for sale of wood the term "cord" shall mean 128 cubic feet of wood, bark, and air, if cut in four-foot lengths; and if the sale is of "sawed wood," a cord shall mean 110 cubic feet when ranked, or 160 cubic feet when thrown irregularly or loosely into a conveyance for delivery to the purchaser; and if the sale is of "sawed and split wood," a cord shall mean 120 cubic feet, when ranked, and 175 cubic feet when thrown irregularly and loosely into a conveyance for delivery. If a measurement is made by weight, the term "cord" or any other term used to describe freshly cut wood shall be based on 79 cubic feet of solid wood content per cord. The weight per cord may vary by species or species group. In case of any dispute when the parties have not otherwise agreed in writing to the weight per cord by species or species group, the weight most recently established by the commissioner of natural resources prevails. In all contracts for sale of wood, the term "board foot" means 144 cubic inches of wood measured in any combination of length, thickness, and width. If a measurement or scale is made of logs, Scribner's decimal C rule is the standard rule for determining board feet log scale. When measuring or scaling logs, each log must be scaled individually by the largest number of even feet in its length above eight and under 24 feet. All logs of 24 feet or more in length must be scaled as two or more logs. This section does not apply to finished lumber measured in nominal dimensions. History:  (7026) 1913 c 560 s 5; 1985 c 260 s 1; 2000 c 301 s 1; 2005 c 141 s 12