43-18-105 - Persons other than producers or dealers buying or selling lint cotton under two hundred fifty pounds Penalty. - Tennessee Statutes

43-18-105. Persons other than producers or dealers buying or selling lint cotton under two hundred fifty pounds Penalty.

(a)  It is unlawful for any person who is not a grower or producer of cotton, or who is not engaged in the business of buying and selling cotton, to buy, sell or offer for sale, or possess for purposes of sale, any loose lint cotton or ginned cotton that is not in bales, in quantities less than two hundred fifty pounds (250 lbs.).

(b)  Any violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

[Acts 1917, ch. 88, §§ 1, 2; Shan., §§ 6800a9, 6800a10; Code 1932, §§ 11268, 11269; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-2005; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]