80-4-501. License necessary to operate public warehouse. (1) A person may not act as a warehouse operator without first having obtained an annual license from the department. This requirement and other requirements in parts 4 through 6 that regulate the activities of a warehouse operator do not apply to operators of warehouses that are federally licensed under the United States Warehouse Act. However, if a federally licensed warehouse operator engages in business as a commodity dealer, the provisions of parts 4 through 7 apply to the commodity dealer activity.
(2) If a warehouse operator operates two or more warehouses in the same city or immediately adjacent to the city or in the same immediate area, in conjunction with each other and with the same workforce, if one set of books and records is kept for all the warehouses, cash slips, scale weight tickets, and warehouse receipts, and if checks of one series are used for agricultural commodities stored in the warehouse, only one warehouse operator's license is required for the operation of all the warehouses.
History: En. Sec. 22, Ch. 539, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 452, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 76, L. 1997.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 4. Agricultural Commodities
Part 5. Agricultural Commodity Warehouse Operators
80-4-501. License necessary to operate public warehouse
80-4-502. Licenses to warehouse operator -- issuance -- renewal -- conditions precedent
80-4-504. Bond of applicant for license -- additional bond -- additional obligations
80-4-505. Amount of bond -- cancellation
80-4-507. through 80-4-520 reserved
80-4-521. Duties of warehouse operator -- content of records
80-4-522. Schedule of charges -- posting
80-4-523. Required receipt of agricultural commodities according to capacity
80-4-524. Discrimination in charge by warehouse operator prohibited
80-4-525. Scale weight tickets -- form -- issuance
80-4-526. Warehouse receipts -- written terms
80-4-527. Warehouse receipt -- issuance -- cancellation
80-4-528. Penalty for unlawful issue of warehouse receipts
80-4-530. Shipment of stored grain to terminal grain warehouse outside state
80-4-532. Delivery of grain from different warehouse
80-4-533. Loss of receipts -- conditions of reissue
80-4-534. Cancellation of insurance -- suspension of license
80-4-537. Examination of stored agricultural commodities