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 364 days 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; 2023 c 52 art 6 s 16
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