Tennessee Statutes
§ 43-19-205 — Conversion of samples or plucking leaves therefrom prohibited - Penalty
Tennessee·Title 43
(a)No warehouse keeper, nor anyone in the employment of the warehouse keeper, shall take or convert to that person's own use, or dispose of, any sample of tobacco, but the tobacco shall be delivered to the purchaser, and all loose tobacco shall be neatly returned to the hogshead or other container from which it came, before coopering and weighing.
(b)No person shall willfully or wantonly pluck any leaf or leaves from any sample of tobacco to which the inspector has attached the inspector's seal, either before or after sale.
(c)Any person violating any provision of this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.
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Legislative History
Acts 1870-1871, ch. 65, § 11; 1889, ch. 192, § 4; Shan., § 3390a; mod. Code 1932, § 6489; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-2114; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
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