Missouri Laws 411.160 – Grain inspected and weighed by authorized inspectors — penalty
1. When official inspection, weighing, or supervising of actual weighing of grain is requested in this state whether into or out of state licensed warehouses or portions of warehouses so licensed for public storage operations, subject to the provisions of this chapter, or in cars, barges, wagons, trucks, or sacks at warehouses where official state grain inspection or weighing is maintained shall be performed by such persons as have been duly appointed by the director and qualified according to law.
2. Any person who shall inspect grain where state grain inspection is established, or any person who shall officially weigh or supervise the weighing of grain in public warehouses where official state grain weighing is established and who has not been duly appointed by the director or directed by a state weighmaster so to do, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by confinement in the county jail, or if in the city of St. Louis in the city jail of the city, for not less than three months nor more than six months, or both such fine and confinement, at the discretion of the court, for every such offense so committed.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 411.160
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Director: the director of the Missouri department of agriculture or his designated representative. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- Grain: all grains for which standards have been established under the United States Grain Standards Act (Sections 71 to 87 of Title 7, United States Code), and any other agricultural commodities, seeds and vegetable oils prescribed by the director by regulation, except the term "grain" shall not include those commodities deemed not to be grain pursuant to section 411. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- Person: means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation, cooperative, society, public body, political subdivision, or any other business or commercial entity or organization of any kind whatsoever, and any member, officer or employee thereof. See Missouri Laws 411.026
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020