Page:1949 North Dakota Session Laws.pdf/121



To amend and reenact section 4-1013 of the 1947 Supplement to the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943, providing for grade inspection of potatoes; prescribing fees and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

.) Section 4-1013 of the 1947 Supplement to the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:

4-1013. .) The commissioner, by regulation, shall fix the fees for making grade inspections, and said fees shall be uniform throughout the state for such periods of time as shall be specified. The maximum fee per carload or truckload or any other lot unit not in excess of a standard freight carload quantity, and not containing more than two lots, shall not exceed six dollars and fifty cents for potatoes and seven dollars for other produce. A minimum of twenty-five cents of each inspection fee for potatoes shall be covered into an advertising fund to be used by the commissioner in consultation with the the growers for the purpose of advertising North Dakota seed and table stock potatoes in the wholesale and retail markets of the United States. Any person soliciting an inspection or inspections at points other than those at which inspectors are located, or at which itinerant inspectors may be at the time inspection is requested, may obtain inspection service on payment of the necessary traveling expenses, in addition to the regular inspection fee. The owner and the consignor or shipper of the potatoes shall be held responsible for the payment of the inspection fees when they are not paid otherwise. The commissioner shall collect all fees and charges and shall make detailed annual reports of all receipts and expenditures to the board of administration, which shall publish the same for distribution to interested parties. Provided, however, that there shall be no increase in fees except with the approval of a majority of the directors and officers of the North Dakota Certified Seed Potato Growers association and the North Dakota