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CRIMES punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years, or in a county jail for not more than one year.

Approved March 15, 1965.

CHAPTER 105

H. B. No. 872

(Borstad, Erickson (Mountrail) )

TRADING SURPLUS FOODS

AN ACT

Prohibiting sale, trading in or bartering of surplus federal food or other commodities, prohibiting purchase or exchange of such sur- plus federal food or other commodities, making violation hereof a misdemeanor and providing penalties therefor.

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

§ 1. Prohibition of Sale, Trading in, Barter, Purchase or Exchange of Surplus Federal Food or Other Commodities-Violation a Misdemeanor-Penalties.) Any person who knowingly makes any unauthorized disposition of any federal food or other commodity donated under any program of the federal government, by selling, trading in or bartering such federal food or other commodity, and any unauthorized person who knowingly receives such food or other commodity donated under any program of the federal government by purchase, exchange or other means, and converts same to his own use, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Approved March 10, 1965.