80-4-503. Fees of department. (1) The department shall collect an annual warehouse operator license fee of $232 for each warehouse owned or operated by the warehouse operator.
(2) If, after evaluation of the commodity dealer/public warehouse operator program, the department determines that revenue from license fees is inadequate to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the department may by rule increase the license fees, but the fee may not exceed $500 for a facility.
(3) The department shall collect a fee of $150 a day or fraction of a day for maintaining an employee of the department at a warehouse to supervise the correction of a deficiency.
(4) All license fees collected under subsection (1) and deficiency fees collected under subsection (3) must be deposited into the commodity dealer/public warehouse operators account.
History: En. Sec. 24, Ch. 539, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 620, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 452, L. 1993.
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