514.57 COMMISSIONER OF NATURAL RESOURCES; LIEN FOR CHARGES. To secure the payment of fees, mileage, and other charges for official services relating to logs, timber, and lumber, the commissioner of natural resources shall have a lien upon the same, which the commissioner may retain by affixing to the scale bill of such logs, timber, or lumber a statement of the amount due, with a declaration that the commissioner claims and is entitled to such lien, and by taking actual possession of a quantity of such logs, timber, or lumber sufficient to pay such amount, with the expenses of seizure and sale. History: (8546) RL s 3539; 1967 c 568 s 1 subd 9; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1986 c 444
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