82-3-203. Copies of bills and invoices to be kept for inspection. A person, firm, or corporation mining, shipping, or producing coal and all persons, firms, or corporations wholesaling, jobbing, exchanging, offering for sale, or selling at retail any coal in this state shall keep a true, accurate, and complete copy of all the original statements, bills, and invoices of all coal produced, shipped, marketed, exchanged, or sold for at least 1 year. All papers, records, and files of any person, firm, or corporation transporting, producing, shipping, exchanging, or selling any coal in this state shall, at all times, be open to inspection by the attorney general, the county attorneys, and the department of commerce for the purposes of enforcing this part.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 104, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 3546.4, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 117, Ch. 431, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 50-604; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 274, L. 1981.