Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories
411.287. Director may monitor operations, when — fee for monitoring — director may order shipments of grain stopped, failure to obey order, penalty. — 1. If a license is suspended, revoked or a shortage is known to exist and the director determines that there is danger of loss to depositors, the director or his authorized agents may enter the premises of the warehouseman, monitor the activities of the warehouseman and take any actions authorized by this chapter which are necessary to protect the interests of depositors of grain. Additionally, when a shortage exists, the director or his designated representative may order, verbally or in writing, the warehouseman to cease shipping any grain until such shortage is corrected. Should the warehouseman continue to ship grain after being advised of such order to cease shipping, such action of the warehouseman shall constitute a class D felony. The director and his designated representative shall notify local law enforcement officials and request the immediate arrest of the warehouseman.
2. Whenever the director or his authorized agents monitor the operation of any warehouse, the warehouseman, upon a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction that the director had reasonable grounds to believe that this action was necessary to protect the depositors, may be assessed and shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars per person for each day or part thereof that the director or his authorized agents monitored the operations.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 75 § 10, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1578, A.L. 1997 H.B. 211, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Effective 1-01-17
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXVI - Trade and Commerce
Chapter 411 - Missouri Grain Warehouse Law
Section 411.010 - Short title.
Section 411.015 - Scope of law.
Section 411.020 - Application of law — construction of laws governing warehouse receipts.
Section 411.026 - Definitions.
Section 411.050 - Bond of director.
Section 411.061 - Director not to deal in grain, exception.
Section 411.070 - Director — powers and duties — rules, procedure.
Section 411.100 - Inspectors — qualifications.
Section 411.110 - Weighmasters — powers and duties.
Section 411.135 - Warehouseman to act as registrar of receipts — records to be kept.
Section 411.140 - Personnel of branch offices — appointment — qualifications — duties.
Section 411.145 - Department may conduct grain inspection business outside state, when.
Section 411.150 - Fees, how fixed.
Section 411.160 - Grain inspected and weighed by authorized inspectors — penalty.
Section 411.170 - Certificates shall be evidence — right of revocation.
Section 411.200 - Reinspection.
Section 411.263 - Fee for license.
Section 411.266 - Renewal of license — application, contents of — penalty for late renewal.
Section 411.268 - Schedule of charges to be filed, posted by warehouseman.
Section 411.271 - Examination of warehouse — paid for by whom — discrepancy, effect of.
Section 411.276 - Liability of surety not cumulative.
Section 411.278 - Amount of bond, how computed.
Section 411.280 - Warehouseman's net worth, requirements — deficiency, how corrected.
Section 411.281 - Additional bond required, when — amount, how determined.
Section 411.290 - Insurance required, exceptions — rules and regulations.
Section 411.301 - Director may enjoin violations.
Section 411.311 - Operation without license prohibited, penalty.
Section 411.321 - Terminal warehouseman to receive, inspect, weigh and grade grain.
Section 411.327 - Grain bank grain, how treated.
Section 411.331 - Grain may be withheld from going into terminal warehouse — when — how — penalties.
Section 411.341 - Grain may be stored in special bin — receipt to indicate.
Section 411.381 - Receipts, contents — prima facie evidence of holder's claim to grain.
Section 411.383 - Warehouse receipt register, how maintained.
Section 411.391 - Warehouseman may sell or pledge receipts issued for grain owned by him.
Section 411.401 - Grain accepted for storage in other public warehouse — form of trust receipts.
Section 411.410 - Receipts to be numbered — duplicates.
Section 411.420 - Lost receipts — procedure.
Section 411.491 - Warehouseman must deliver grain, when.
Section 411.511 - Warehouseman should deliver grain, to whom.
Section 411.515 - Inventory required to be maintained — documents required to establish inventory.
Section 411.517 - Records required to be kept.
Section 411.520 - Misfeasance or malfeasance — accepting money — improper influence — penalty.
Section 411.523 - Warehouseman liable for conversion, when.
Section 411.531 - Failure to take up and cancel receipt — warehouseman liable — when.
Section 411.551 - Alteration of receipt — effect of.
Section 411.561 - Receipt marked "duplicate" — meaning of.
Section 411.571 - Transferor of receipt to endorse.
Section 411.581 - Warranties on negotiation or transfer of receipt.
Section 411.591 - Endorser not a guarantor for other parties.
Section 411.601 - Certain devices prohibited where official state weights are given.
Section 411.611 - Issuance of receipt without receiving grain — penalty.
Section 411.621 - False statement — penalty.
Section 411.631 - Issuance of receipt without indicating warehouseman's ownership — penalty.
Section 411.641 - Improper delivery — penalty.
Section 411.651 - Fraudulent deposit of grain and negotiation of receipt — penalty.
Section 411.691 - Fee for public warehouse license, how computed.
Section 411.701 - Director may contract with federal agencies.
Section 411.750 - Safe working conditions to be maintained.
Section 411.755 - Failure to pay fees, effect of.
Section 411.760 - Remedies provided are in addition to and not exclusive.
Section 411.770 - Stealing grain, penalty.
Section 411.775 - Attorney general and prosecutors may prosecute upon complaint.