Aet. 12-a.] Sale of Farm Produce on Commission 1955 



produce. Such applicant shall state the kind or kinds of farm Kinds of 

 produce which the applicant proposes to handle, the full name of produce. 

 the person, firm, exchange, association or corporation applying 

 for such a license and if the applicant be a firm, exchange, corpo- 

 ration or association, the full name of each member of the firm, 

 or the names of the officers of the exchange, association or corpo- Name of 

 ration, and the name of the local agent of the exchange or asso- agent, 

 elation and the city, town or village and street number at which Address. 

 the business is to be conducted. Such applicant shall further 

 satisfy the commissioner of agriculture of his or its character, character, 

 responsibility and good faith in seeking to carry on a commission 

 business. The commissioner of ao-riculture shall thereupon issue issuing 



" •■■ license 



to such applicant, on payment of ten dollars and the execution f^^- 

 and delivery of a bond as hereinafter provided, a license entitling 

 the applicant to conduct the business of receiving and selling farm 

 produce on commission at the place named in the application until 

 the first day of July next following. {As added hy chapter 457 

 of the Laws of 1913.) 



§ 284. Bond. Before any such license shall be issued every 

 applicant shall execute and deliver to the commissioner of agricul- 

 ture a fidelity bond with satisfactory sureties in the sum of three Amount, 

 thousand dollars to secure the honest accountino; to the consionor 

 of the monies received by such conmiission merchant from the 

 sale of the farm produce sold on commission, and the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture may bring an action in any court of com- Action 



.^ . . . " "" bond. 



potent jurisdiction in the county in which is situated the place county, 

 of business of the licensee, against the principal and sureties for 

 the recovery of any monies so received and not honestly accounted 

 for. (As added by chapter 457 of the Laws of 1913.) 



§ 285. Power of the commissioner of agriculture to investi- 

 gate. The commissioner of agriculture or his assistants shall 

 have power to investigate, upon the verified complaint of an in- tfon'^^upon 

 terested person, the record of any person, firm, exchange, corpo- "^om^piaint. 

 ration or association applying for a license, or any transaction 

 involving the solicitation, receipt, sale or attempted sale of farm 

 produce on a commission basis, the failure to make proper and^cc^nt 



I Failure to 



