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80-4-522. Schedule of charges -- posting

MT Code § 80-4-522 (2019) (N/A)
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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.

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80-4-522. Schedule of charges -- posting