WAREHOUSING AND DEPOSITS
CHAPTER 487
HOUSE BILL NO. 1026
(Legislative Management)
(Agriculture and Transportation Committee)
AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 60-02, three new sections to chapter 60-02.1, and a new section to chapter 60-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to financial criteria for grain buyer, grain broker, grain processor, and warehousemen licenses, and licensing and bonding for grain brokers and grain processors; to amend and reenact sections 60-02-01, 60-02-07, 60-02-09, 60-02-11, 60-02-12, 60-02-19.1, 60-02-24, 60-02.1-01, 60-02.1-07, 60-02.1-08, 60-02.1-10, 60-02.1-11, 60-02.1-13, 60-02.1-14, 60-02.1-15, 60-02.1-17, 60-02.1-19, 60-02.1-21, 60-02.1-23, 60-02.1-29, 60-02.1-32, and 60-02.1-41, subsection 2 of section 60-04-01, and sections 60-04-03 and 60-10-16 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to definitions of grain brokers and processors, the duties and powers of the commissioner, confidentiality records, scale ticket contents, credit-sale contracts, reports, annual licenses, fees, and bonds for grain buyers, grain brokers, grain processors, and warehousemen; to repeal sections 60-02.1-06, 60-02.1-07.1, 60-02.1-26, 60-02.1-27, 60-04-09, and 60-10-15; and to provide a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 60-02-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
60-02-01. Definitions.
In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Commissioner" means the agriculture commissioner.
2. "Credit-sale contract" means a written contract for the sale of grain pursuant to which the sale price is to be paid or may be paid more than thirty days after the delivery or release of the grain for sale and which contains the notice provided in subsection 7 of section 60-02-19.1. If a part of the sale price of a contract for the sale of grain is to be paid or may be paid more than thirty days after the delivery or release of the grain for sale, only such part of the contract is a credit-sale contract.
3. "Deferred-payment contract" means a credit-sale contract for which the amount owed for the sale of grain has been established, but the payment is postponed until a later date.
4. "Grain" means wheat, durum, oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed, speltz, safflower, sunflower seeds, tame mustard, peas, beans, soybeans, corn, clover, millet, alfalfa, and any other commercially grown grain or grass seed.
