276.411. License required--administrative hearing for violation, penalty--license application forms, renewal applications--penalty for late renewal.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

276.411. License required--administrative hearing for violation, penalty--license application forms, renewal applications--penalty for late renewal.

License required--administrative hearing for violation,penalty--license application forms, renewal applications--penaltyfor late renewal.

276.411. 1. No person shall engage in business as a grain dealer inthe state of Missouri without having obtained a license therefor issued bythe director pursuant to sections 276.401 to 276.582. Following anadministrative hearing, the director may require the dealer to pay apenalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each day the dealer isfound to be operating without a license or bond. In determining whether toassess the penalty, the director shall ascertain whether the dealer hascontinued to operate without a license or bond after being informed by thedepartment in writing by certified mail of the need for licensing orbonding. Any penalties collected by the director under this section shallbe deposited in the general revenue fund to the credit of the grainregulatory services program. In the event that a person penalized underthis section fails to pay the penalty, the director may apply to thecircuit court of Cole County for, and the court is authorized to enter, anorder enforcing the assessed penalty.

2. Each application for a license to engage in business as a graindealer shall be filed with the director and shall be in a form prescribedby the director.

3. The application for an initial license may be filed at any timeprior to beginning business as a grain dealer; however, such license shallterminate on the last day of the fifth month after the close of the graindealer's fiscal year, except that the initial licensing period shall be forat least six months but not longer than eighteen months. The grain dealershall set forth on the original application the closing date for his fiscalyear.

4. At least sixty days prior to the expiration of each license issuedby the director under this chapter, the director shall notify the dealer ofthe date of expiration and furnish the dealer with the renewal application.The dealer shall submit the renewal application to the director at leastthirty days prior to the date of expiration of the license. The dealershall be penalized ten dollars per day for each day the renewal applicationis submitted after the date the application for a renewal license is due.The date of submission of the renewal application shall be the datepostmarked. Any person licensed under both the provisions of sections276.401 to 276.582 and sections 411.010 to 411.800, RSMo, who submits acombination warehouse-grain dealer renewal application shall not beassessed a penalty for late renewal in excess of ten dollars per day.

5. The original application shall be accompanied by a filing feepursuant to section 276.506.