Any person, partnership, firm, or corporation, foreign or domestic, doing business in the state and engaged in the production, manufacture, or distribution of any printed or mimeograph matter, commodity, article, goods, wares, or merchandise in general use or consumption, who for the purpose or with the effect of injuring a competitor or destroying competition, shall discriminate between different sections, communities, or cities of this state by selling or furnishing such commodity, article, goods, wares or merchandise at a lower price, or rate in one section, community, or city, or any portion thereof, than such person, firm, or corporation, foreign or domestic, charges for such commodity, article, goods, wares, or merchandise in another section, community, or city, or any portion thereof, after making allowance for difference, if any, in the grade, quality, or quantity after equalizing the distance from the point of production, manufacture, or distribution and freight rates therefrom, shall be guilty of unfair discrimination; provided, that sections 325D.01 to 325D.07 shall not prevent any person, firm, or corporation from, in good faith, meeting local competition within any one section, community, or city. The inhibition hereof against locality discrimination shall embrace any scheme of special rebates, collateral contracts, or any device of any nature whereby such discrimination is, in substance or fact, effected in violation of the spirit and intent of sections 325D.01 to 325D.07.
(3976-38) 1937 c 116 pt 1 s 2; 1957 c 822 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection
Chapter 325D — Restraint Of Trade
Section 325D.01 — Definitions.
Section 325D.02 — Application.
Section 325D.03 — Discrimination Unlawful.
Section 325D.04 — Selling Below Cost Forbidden.
Section 325D.05 — Bankrupt Sales Not To Be Considered In Fixing Costs.
Section 325D.06 — Inapplicable Sales.
Section 325D.07 — Remedies Cumulative.
Section 325D.071 — Violations; Penalties.
Section 325D.072 — Injunctive Relief.
Section 325D.09 — Unlawful Trade Practices.
Section 325D.10 — Definitions.
Section 325D.11 — Certain Unlawful Trade Practices.
Section 325D.12 — Retailers Not To Misrepresent Nature Of Business.
Section 325D.13 — Quality, Misrepresented.
Section 325D.14 — Employer Not To Dispose Of Other Than Own Products.
Section 325D.15 — Violations; Restraining Orders.
Section 325D.16 — Application.
Section 325D.30 — Minnesota Unfair Cigarette Sales Act; Findings And Policy.
Section 325D.32 — Definitions.
Section 325D.33 — Sales At Less Than Cost; Penalty.
Section 325D.34 — Combination Sales.
Section 325D.35 — Sales By A Wholesaler To A Wholesaler.
Section 325D.36 — Sales Exceptions.
Section 325D.37 — Transactions Permitted To Meet Lawful Competition.
Section 325D.371 — Publication Of Cigarette Prices.
Section 325D.38 — Admissible Evidence.
Section 325D.39 — Sales Outside Ordinary Channels Of Business; Effect.
Section 325D.405 — Investigations.
Section 325D.415 — Cigarette Distributor Fees.
Section 325D.42 — Partial Unconstitutionality.
Section 325D.421 — Unlawful Cigarette Trade Practices.
Section 325D.43 — Definitions.
Section 325D.44 — Deceptive Trade Practices.
Section 325D.46 — Application.
Section 325D.47 — Uniformity Of Application And Construction.
Section 325D.50 — Definitions.
Section 325D.51 — Unreasonable Restraint Of Trade Or Commerce.
Section 325D.52 — Establishment, Maintenance, Or Use Of Monopoly Power.
Section 325D.53 — Prohibited Contracts, Combinations, And Conspiracies.
Section 325D.54 — Scope Of Act.
Section 325D.56 — Penalties For Violation.
Section 325D.58 — Injunctive Relief.
Section 325D.59 — Authority Of The Attorney General.
Section 325D.60 — Forfeiture Of Charter Rights And Privilege To Do Business.
Section 325D.62 — Judgment In Favor Of State As Prima Facie Evidence.
Section 325D.63 — Notification Of Civil Action.
Section 325D.64 — Statute Of Limitations.
Section 325D.66 — Action Not Barred As Affecting Or Involving Interstate Or Foreign Commerce.
Section 325D.68 — Monopolization Of Food Products.
Section 325D.71 — Unlawful Gasoline Sales.
Section 325D.72 — Bad Faith Assertions Of Patent Infringement.