§ 228.47 — Issuing a Duplicate Bill With Fraud in Mind
Plain-Language Summary
It is a crime for a carrier's officer, agent, or employee to knowingly issue a duplicate negotiable bill of lading for goods when another negotiable bill for those same goods is already outstanding. This is a felony-level offense.
228.47 ISSUING A DUPLICATE BILL WITH FRAUD IN MIND.
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Subdivision 1.Elements of crime.
An officer, agent, or employee of a carrier, who with intent to defraud issues or helps to issue a negotiable bill for goods, knowing that another negotiable bill for some or all of the goods is outstanding and uncanceled, is guilty of a crime. §
Subd. 2.Exceptions.
Issuing bills in a set over issue of documents for fungible goods and issuing substitutes for lost, stolen, or destroyed documents are not violations of subdivision 1. §
Subd. 3.Penalty.
Whoever commits the crime described in subdivision 1 may be sentenced for each offense to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
History:
(5004) 1917 c 399 s 46; 1965 c 812 s 5; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1988 c 469 art 4 s 1
History: History: (5004) 1917 c 399 s 46; 1965 c 812 s 5; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1988 c 469 art 4 s 1