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609.687
Statute ID:
3091
Statute Function ID:
19420
Adulteration
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Statute Number:
609.687
Enactment Date:
Jan 1, 1859
Effective Date:
Aug 1, 1983
Expiration Date:
Repealed?:
No
Summary Text:
Adulteration
Statute ID:
3091
Created:
Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us
Updated:
Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us
Last Update Action:
System
Legal Analyst Comment:
Summary Text:
Adulteration
Link to MN Statute Text:
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/687.html
Legislative Session:
2005 - NA
Session Law Text?:
No
Statute text last updated on:
Sep 1, 2006
Subdivision 1. "Adulteration" is the intentional adding of any substance, which has the capacity to cause death, bodily harm or illness by ingestion, injection, inhalation or absorption, to a substance having a customary or reasonably foreseeable human use. Subd. 2. (a) Whoever, knowing or having reason to know that the adulteration will cause or is capable of causing death, bodily harm or illness, adulterates any substance with the intent to cause death, bodily harm or illness is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 3; or (b) Whoever, knowing or having reason to know that a substance has been adulterated as defined in subdivision 1, distributes, disseminates, gives, sells, or otherwise transfers an adulterated substance with the intent to cause death, bodily harm or illness is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 3. Subd. 3. Whoever violates subdivision 2 may be sentenced as follows: (1) if the adulteration causes death, to imprisonment for not more than 40 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $100,000, or both; (2) if the adulteration causes any illness, pain, or other bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both; (3) otherwise, to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
