SEC. 69-3-23. Traders in seed-cotton to keep register.

(1) Every person who buys or barters for seed-cotton, shall enter in a book or register the names of all persons from whom he buys or procures by barter such cotton, the date of the transaction, the quantity received, and the place where said to have been grown, and shall allow an inspection of such entries at any time by any person interested to make it.

(2) Every person who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one week nor more than three months, or both.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 1013; 1906, Sec. 1090; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 816; 1930, Sec. 839; 1942, Sec. 2065; Laws, 1882, p. 141.

1997 Amendment

Repealed.

SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 611, Sec. 3, HB1162, Effective July 1, 1997.