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21.112 COMMISSIONER, DUTIES; SEED POTATOES.
    Subdivision 1. Duties, employees. The commissioner shall provide the means and direct the
work for the inspection, certification, promotion of quality, and creation of demand and sale of
seed potatoes. The commissioner may enter into contracts and ground leases for planting and
growing potatoes outside of the state for experimental and research purposes. The commissioner
shall provide such forms as are necessary and keep a record of the work performed, and shall
appoint, designate, or employ such officers, inspectors, and employees as may be deemed
necessary and fix their compensation.
    Subd. 2. Advisory seed potato certification task force. The commissioner may appoint
an advisory seed potato certification task force. If the task force is appointed each member shall
be a grower in Minnesota of certified seed potatoes. The terms, compensation and removal of
members shall be as provided in section 15.059. The task force shall expire June 30, 2003.
History: 1951 c 465 s 3; 1983 c 260 s 12; 1986 c 444; 1997 c 192 s 14; 2001 c 161 s 9

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