Section 227.51 Receipt Containing False Statement; Penalty

227.51 RECEIPT CONTAINING FALSE STATEMENT; PENALTY.

Subdivision 1.Elements of crime.

A warehouse operator, or an officer, agent, or employee of a warehouse operator, who fraudulently issues or helps to fraudulently issue a receipt for goods knowing that the receipt contains a false statement, is guilty of a crime.

Subd. 2.Penalty.

Whoever commits the crime described in subdivision 1 may be sentenced for each offense to imprisonment for not more than one year or to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000, or both.

History:

(5160) 1913 c 161 s 51; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 3 s 1