80-4-501. License necessary to operate public warehouse. (1) No person may act as a warehouse operator without first having obtained an annual license from the department. This requirement does not apply to operators of warehouses that are federally licensed under the United States Warehouse Act.
     (2) If a warehouse operator operates two or more warehouses in the same city or immediately adjacent thereto or in the same immediate area, in conjunction with each other and with the same work force, and one set of books and records is kept for all such warehouses and cash slips, scale weight tickets, warehouse receipts, and checks of one series are used for agricultural commodities stored therein, only one warehouse operator's license is required for the operation of all such warehouses.

     History: En. Sec. 22, Ch. 539, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 452, L. 1993.