1998 Minnesota Statutes

     325E.21 Dealers in wire and cable; records and reports.  

    Subdivision 1.  Every person, firm or corporation, 
 including an agent, employee or representative thereof, engaging 
 in the business of buying and selling wire and cable commonly 
 and customarily used by communication and electric utilities 
 shall keep a record, in the English language, legibly written in 
 ink or typewriting, at the time of each purchase or acquisition, 
 an accurate account or description, including the weight if 
 customarily purchased by weight, of such wire and cable commonly 
 and customarily used by communication and electric utilities 
 purchased or acquired, the date, time and place of the receipt 
 of the same, the name and address of the person selling or 
 delivering the same and the number of the driver's license of 
 such person.  Such record, as well as such wire and cable 
 commonly and customarily used by communication and electric 
 utilities purchased or received, shall at all reasonable times 
 be open to the inspection of any sheriff or deputy sheriff of 
 the county, or of any police officer or constable in any 
 incorporated city or statutory city, in which such business may 
 be carried on.  Such person shall not be required to furnish or 
 keep such record of any property purchased from merchants, 
 manufacturers or wholesale dealers, having an established place 
 of business, or of any goods purchased at open sale from any 
 bankrupt stock, but a bill of sale or other evidence of open or 
 legitimate purchase of such property shall be obtained and kept 
 by such person which must be shown upon demand to the sheriff or 
 deputy sheriff of the county, or to any police officer or 
 constable in any incorporated city or statutory city, in which 
 such business may be carried on.  The provisions of this 
 subdivision and of subdivision 2 shall not apply to or include 
 any person, firm or corporation engaged exclusively in the 
 business of buying or selling motor vehicles, new or used, paper 
 or wood products, rags or furniture, secondhand machinery.  

    Subd. 2.  It shall be the duty of every such person, firm 
 or corporation defined in subdivision 1 hereof, to make out and 
 to deliver or mail to the office of the sheriff of the county in 
 which business is conducted, not later than the second business 
 day of each week, a legible and correct copy of the record 
 required in subdivision 1 of the entries during the preceding 
 week.  In the event such person, firm or corporation has not 
 made any purchases or acquisitions required to be recorded under 
 subdivision 1 hereof during the preceding week no report need be 
 submitted to the sheriff under this subdivision.  

    Subd. 3.  Records required to be maintained by subdivision 
 1 hereof shall be retained by the person making them for a 
 period of three years.  

    HIST: (10225) 1907 c 228 s 1; 1957 c 960 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 
 s 7; 1986 c 444