753.01 BILL OF SALE OR INVOICE.
Except in trucks and trailers licensed for and engaged in interstate commerce, any person who operates a truck, trailer or other vehicle upon any public highway, road or street in this State for the purpose of transporting five or more cut trees, or one hundred pounds or more of boughs, of any species of pine, spruce, fir, hemlock or other narrow leafed or broad leafed evergreen tree or shrub, shall have upon his person during such transporting a bill of sale or invoice for such trees or boughs signed by the owner or custodian of the lands from which such trees or boughs were cut and removed.
Such bill of sale or invoice shall state:
(a) The date of sale;
(b) The number and species of trees, or pounds and species of boughs, being transported;
(c) The name of the township, county and state where such lands are situated;
(d) The proper postal address of the landowner or custodian.
If such trees or boughs have been obtained from a dealer in such goods, the bill of sale or invoice need only show his name and the place of business from which the trees or boughs were obtained.
This section does not apply to the transportation of trees or boughs by or for the owner or custodian of lands from which such trees or boughs were cut or removed, or by or for an agent of either. (1954 Code Sec. 20.600)
753.02 WRITTEN STATEMENT.
Whenever any trees or boughs described in Section 753.01 are being transported within this State by any person other than a person required by such section to have a bill of sale or invoice, a true written statement shall accompany such shipment, which written statement shall set forth:
(a) The location of the lands from which such trees or boughs were removed. Such statement of location shall include, but not be limited to, the township, county and state in which such lands are located;
(b) The name, address and telephone number of the owner of the lands from which such trees or boughs were removed;
(c) The name, address and telephone number of the custodian of such lands if different from that of the owner. If the same, the statement shall so state;
(d) The name, address and telephone number of the driver of the vehicle transporting such trees or boughs.
Such statement shall be signed by the owner or custodian of the lands from which such trees or boughs are removed or by the agent of either. The same written statement may be used for any number of shipments. (1954 Code Sec. 20.602)
753.03 IMPOUNDING EVERGREENS.
Any forest or park officer, peace officer or highway patrolman of this State may stop any truck, trailer or other vehicle engaged in the transporting of the evergreen trees or boughs described in Section 753.01, except trucks or trailers licensed for and engaged in interstate commerce, and require the operator to produce the bill, invoice or statement of ownership required by Sections 753.01 and 753.02 as evidence of lawful ownership or custody of such cut trees or boughs. Failure to produce upon demand such bill of sale, invoice or statement or offering a bill of sale, invoice or statement which fails to provide the information required by such sections is a violation of such sections; and such truck, trailer or other vehicle, together with its contents, shall be impounded by the investigating officer for a period of forty-eight hours, unless a satisfactory and genuine bill of sale, invoice or statement is sooner presented.
Failure to furnish a satisfactory and genuine bill of sale, invoice or statement within forty-eight hours from the time that such truck, trailer or other vehicle is impounded constitutes prima-facie evidence that the trees or boughs so impounded are not the property of the person engaged in transporting them and that such person is unlawfully transporting such trees or boughs. (1954 Code Sec. 20.604)
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