80-4-522. Schedule of charges -- posting. (1) Before a license to conduct a warehouse is granted, the warehouse operator shall file with the director a copy of the schedule of charges for storage and other services. The schedule must be posted in a conspicuous place in the warehouse.
(2) All charges made by a warehouse operator for the handling and storage of agricultural commodities must be just and reasonable. However, the director may, upon the complaint of any person or upon the director's own motion, hold a public hearing and may declare any existing charges for handling or storage of any agricultural commodity to be unreasonable or unjust. After the hearing, the director shall determine and order what is a just and reasonable charge to be imposed or enforced in place of that found to be unreasonable or unjust.
(3) Failure to file and post scheduled charges for the current year will keep in full force the most recently posted and filed schedule rates.
(4) In all cases, the producers must receive the first 15 days of storage without charge.
History: En. Sec. 29, Ch. 539, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 452, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 2582, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
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