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| 1. Acts enumerated. The commissioner or the commissioner's duly | authorized agent may refuse to grant or renew a license, after | notice and opportunity for a hearing is provided in a manner | consistent with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act as to | adjudicatory proceedings, upon a finding that any of the following | acts have existed within 2 years of the date of the filing of an | application for license: |
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| A. That fraudulent charges or returns have been made by the | applicant or licensee for the handling, sale or storage of | potatoes or rotation crops, or for the rendering of any | service in connection with the handling, sale or storage of | potatoes or rotation crops; |
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| B. That the applicant or licensee has failed or refused to | render a true account of sales, or to make a settlement | thereon, within the time and in the manner required by this | Article, or has failed or refused to pay for potatoes or | rotation crops purchased by the applicant or licensee within | 30 calendar days after acceptance of the potatoes or | rotation crops; |
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| C. That the applicant or licensee has knowingly made any | false material statement as to the condition, quality or | quantity of potatoes or rotation crops received, handled, | sold, purchased or stored by the applicant or licensee; |
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| D. That the applicant or licensee directly or indirectly | has purchased for that applicant's or licensee's own | account, potatoes or rotation crops received by the | applicant or licensee upon consignment without prior | authorization from consignor together with price fixed by | consignor or without promptly notifying the consignor of | such purchase. This does not prevent any dealer, processor, | broker, agent or retailer, in order to close the day's | business, from taking into account in the record of sales | miscellaneous lots or parcels of potatoes or rotation crops | remaining unsold, if such dealer, processor, broker, agent | or retailer on the business day next following properly | enters any such transaction in that applicant's or | licensee's accounts; |
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| E. That the applicant or licensee has made any substantial | misrepresentation as to the conditions of the market for | potatoes or rotation crops; |
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| F. That the applicant or licensee has made fictitious sales | or has defrauded or attempted to defraud a producer; |
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