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     32.12 Evidence of discrimination; cost of 
  transportation; competition.  


    Subdivision 1.    Prima facie evidence.  Proof that any 
 person, firm, copartnership, or corporation has paid a higher 
 price for milk or cream or butterfat in one locality or to one 
 person in the same locality than to another, or to another 
 person in the same locality, after due allowance for the 
 reasonable cost of transportation has been made, shall be prima 
 facie evidence of the violation of section 32.11.  


    Subd. 2.    Reasonable transportation cost.  Wherever 
 the transportation cost actually paid for hauling cream shall be 
 two cents or more per pound for butterfat therein contained, and 
 15 cents per one hundred pounds for transportation of whole 
 milk, such transportation charge shall be deemed a compliance 
 with the terms of section 32.11 as to reasonable cost of 
 transportation.  


    Subd. 3.    Meeting competition.  It shall not be unfair 
 discrimination for any person to pay, in any section, locality, 
 community, or city in this state, a price equal to that actually 
 paid on the same day by any bona fide competitor in such place 
 for milk, cream or butterfat of the same kind, quality and 
 grade, provided such price is paid in a good faith effort to 
 meet such competition, but the burden of proving such facts 
 shall be upon the person charged with violation of section 32.11.


    HIST: (3908) 1921 c 305 s 2; 1955 c 876 s 2; 1973 c 123 art 5 
 s 7

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