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Minn. Stat. § 447.10 — MN Code / Part 447_450 / Chapter 447 / Section 447.10
§ 447.10 TAX LEVY FOR OPERATING AND MAINTAINING HOSPITAL.
Status: in_force

The governing body of a city of the first class owning a hospital may annually levy a tax to operate and maintain the hospital. The tax must not exceed 0.00806 percent of estimated market value.
Minn. Stat. § 29.21 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 29 / Section 29.21
§ 29.21 DEFINITIONS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Person. The word "person" when used in sections 29.21 to 29.27 means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, and shall include any officer, employee, agent, trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof, provided that neither a producer of eggs when selling shell eggs produced on a farm occupied and cultivated by the producer, nor a hatchery which produces or purchases shell eggs solely for hatching shall be deemed a "person."

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1 ]

§ Subd. 3. Department. The word "department" means the Department of Agriculture unless otherwise indicated.

§ Subd. 4. Checks. "Checks" means eggs that have cracks or breaks in the shell but have intact shell membranes that do not leak.

§ Subd. 5. Dirties. "Dirties" means eggs with adhering dirt, foreign material, prominent stains, or moderate stains covering more than 1/32 of the shell surface, if localized, or 1/16 of the shell surface, if scattered.

§ Subd. 6. Egg handler. "Egg handler" means a person who buys, sells, transports, stores, processes, or in any other way receives or has shell eggs. This includes farmers who sell candled and graded eggs off their premises.

§ Subd. 7. Grading. "Grading" means assigning an identifying classification to a group of eggs that demonstrates that those eggs have the same degree of quality.

§ Subd. 8. Incubator rejects. "Incubator rejects" means eggs that have been subjected to incubation and have been removed during the hatching operation as infertile or otherwise unhatchable.

§ Subd. 9. Leakers. "Leakers" means eggs that have a crack or break in the shell and shell membrane to the extent that the contents pass or are free to pass through the shell.

§ Subd. 10. Loss. "Loss" means eggs that are unfit for human consumption because they are smashed, broken, leaking, overheated, frozen, contaminated, or incubator rejects, or because they contain bloody whites, large meat spots, a large quantity of blood, or other foreign material.

§ Subd. 11. Restricted eggs. "Restricted eggs" means eggs that contain dirties, checks, leakers, inedibles, loss, and incubator rejects.
Minn. Stat. § 370.22 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 370 / Section 370.22
§ 370.22 COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS; COUNTY BUILDINGS.
Status: in_force

All transferred territory is liable for its proportion of the excess indebtedness of the original county above the value of its county buildings and of the balance of funds in its treasury. The share shall be based upon the last assessment, and the value of the buildings, unless agreed upon by the respective county boards, shall be fixed by the sworn appraisal of three disinterested citizens, none of whom shall be a resident or taxpayer in either county, and who shall be appointed by the governor, upon the written application of the board of either county. The appraisal shall be in writing, subscribed and verified by at least two appraisers, and filed in the office of the secretary of state, and shall be final and conclusive. Within five days after the filing of the appraisal, the secretary of state shall transmit to the auditor of each of the counties a certified copy of the appraisal, application, appointment and oath.
Minn. Stat. § 62Q.472 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 62Q / Section 62Q.472
§ 62Q.472 SCREENING AND TESTING FOR OPIOIDS.
Status: in_force

(a) A health plan company shall not place a lifetime or annual limit on screenings and urinalysis testing for opioids for an enrollee in an inpatient or outpatient substance use disorder treatment program when the screening or testing is ordered by a health care provider and performed by an accredited clinical laboratory. A health plan company is not prohibited from conducting a medical necessity review when screenings or urinalysis testing for an enrollee exceeds 24 tests in any 12-month period.

(b) This section does not apply to managed care plans or county-based purchasing plans when the plan provides coverage to public health care program enrollees under chapter 256B or 256L.
Minn. Stat. § 555.05 — MN Code / Part 553_566 / Chapter 555 / Section 555.05
§ 555.05 ENUMERATION NOT EXCLUSIVE.
Status: in_force

The enumeration in sections 555.02 to 555.04 does not limit or restrict the exercise of the general powers conferred in section 555.01 , in any proceeding where declaratory relief is sought, in which judgment or decree will terminate the controversy or remove an uncertainty.
Minn. Stat. § 410.06 — MN Code / Part 410_414 / Chapter 410 / Section 410.06
§ 410.06 COMPENSATION; EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

The members of the commission shall receive no compensation, but the commission may employ an attorney and other personnel to assist in framing the charter, and any amendment or revision of it. When so directed by the commission, the reasonable compensation of personnel, the cost of printing the charter or any amendment or revision of it, and the cost of informing the citizens of a suggested charter or suggested charter amendments or revisions, shall be paid by the city. The amount of reasonable and necessary charter commission expenses that shall be paid by the city is the greater of .07 percent of the city's current certified general property tax levy or $1,500, not to exceed $20,000 in any one year, but the council may authorize such additional charter commission expenses the commission considers necessary. Other statutory and charter provisions requiring budgeting of or limiting expenditures do not apply to charter commission expenses. The council may levy a tax in excess of charter tax limitations to pay the expenses.
Minn. Stat. § 270C.59 — MN Code / Part 270_271 / Chapter 270C / Section 270C.59
§ 270C.59 LIABILITY OF THIRD PARTIES PAYING OR PROVIDING FOR WAGES.
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of section 290.92 , if a lender, surety, or other person, who is not an employer with respect to an employee or group of employees, pays wages directly to such an employee or group of employees, employed by one or more employers, or to an agent on behalf of such employee or employees, such lender, surety, or other person shall be liable to the commissioner in a sum equal to the taxes required to be deducted and withheld from such wages by such employer.

(b) If a lender, surety, or other person supplies funds to or for the account of an employer for the specific purpose of paying wages of the employees of such employer, with actual notice or knowledge that such employer does not intend to or will not be able to make timely payment or deposit of the amounts of tax required by section 290.92 to be deducted and withheld by such employer from such wages, such lender, surety, or other person shall be liable personally to the commissioner in a sum equal to the taxes which are not paid over to the commissioner by such employer with respect to such wages.

(c) For purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed for purposes of a particular transaction to have actual notice or knowledge of any fact from the time such fact is brought to the attention of the individual conducting such transaction, and in any event from the time such fact would have been brought to such individual's attention if the person had exercised due diligence. A person exercises due diligence by maintaining reasonable routines for communicating significant information to the person conducting the transaction and there is reasonable compliance with the routines. Due diligence does not require an individual acting for the person to communicate information unless such communication is part of the individual's regular duties or unless the individual has reason to know of the transaction and that the transaction would be materially affected by the information.

(d) Any amounts paid to the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be credited to the liability of the employer.
Minn. Stat. § 375.80 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 375 / Section 375.80
§ 375.80 APPOINTMENT OF PERSON TO SUPERVISE.
Status: in_force

A county board appropriating money as provided in section 375.79 shall, at the same meeting, or some subsequent meeting, appoint a county resident to supervise and have full charge of the exhibit and of the disbursement of the appropriation. The county board shall set the compensation for the position at the same meeting at which the person is appointed. Compensation shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the exhibit.
Minn. Stat. § 259.63 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 259 / Section 259.63
§ 259.63 APPEALS.
Status: in_force

Any order, judgment, or decree of a court pursuant to the provisions of sections 259.21 to 259.63 may be appealed by any person against whom the order, judgment, or decree is made or who is affected by it as in other civil cases.
Minn. Stat. § 480.01 — MN Code / Part 480_494 / Chapter 480 / Section 480.01
§ 480.01 JUSTICES; TERMS; TRAVEL EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Justices; terms. The supreme court shall consist of one chief justice and six associate justices, who shall hold one term of court each year, at the seat of government, commencing on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, with such continuations or adjournments thereof during the year as may be necessary for the dispatch of the business coming before the court. When the chief justice of the court shall be absent from the state, or shall be, for any reason, incapacitated from acting as such, the associate justice present within the state and not incapacitated who shall have served the longest time, or when there are two or more associate justices of equal terms of service, then the associate justice, whom the chief justice shall designate as senior associate justice as such, shall have and exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the chief justice during the absence or incapacity and shall be, during such absence or incapacity, the presiding justice of the court.

§ Subd. 2. Travel expenses. Travel expenses shall be paid by the state in the same manner and amount as provided for judges of the district court in section 484.54 .
Minn. Stat. § 145.42 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 145 / Section 145.42
§ 145.42 ABORTIONS; NONLIABILITY FOR REFUSAL TO PERFORM.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Damages. No physician, nurse, or other person who refuses to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion, and no hospital that refuses to permit the performance of an abortion upon its premises, shall be liable to any person for damages allegedly arising from the refusal.

§ Subd. 2. Related actions. No physician, nurse, or other person who refuses to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion shall, because of that refusal, be dismissed, suspended, demoted, or otherwise prejudiced or damaged by a hospital with which the person is affiliated or by which the person is employed.
Minn. Stat. § 160.15 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 160 / Section 160.15
§ 160.15 PRESERVING SECTION OR QUARTER-SECTION CORNERS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Perpetuation of corners. Whenever the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of a public street or highway causes the destruction or obliteration of a public land survey corner marker or monument, the road authority having jurisdiction over the highway or street shall provide for the perpetuation of the corners and placement of corner monuments, corner markers, reference monuments, or witness monuments by a land surveyor licensed under chapter 326. A certificate of location of government corner shall be prepared in accordance with section 381.12 .

§ Subd. 2. MS 2014 [Repealed, 2015 c 7 s 15 ]

§ Subd. 3. Time of placement; tie objects of durable material. Reference ties evidencing the location of the public land survey corner shall be established by a land surveyor licensed under chapter 326 before the obliteration of the corner in at least three places if practicable and shall consist of objects of durable material. If it is not practicable to establish three reference ties, two must be established.

§ Subd. 4. MS 2014 [Repealed, 2015 c 7 s 15 ]

§ Subd. 5. MS 2014 [Repealed, 2015 c 7 s 15 ]

§ Subd. 6. Cost of placing markers. The cost of placing the markers and monuments, including filing fees, must be paid out of the respective funds provided by law, or set aside for highway or street purposes.
Minn. Stat. § 18C.231 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 18C / Section 18C.231
§ 18C.231 ADULTERATION.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Sale and distribution prohibited. A person may not sell or distribute an adulterated fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment product.

§ Subd. 2. Factors causing adulteration. A fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment is adulterated if: (1) it contains a deleterious or harmful ingredient in an amount to render it injurious to plant life if applied in accordance with directions for use on the label; (2) the composition falls below or differs from that which the product is purported to possess by its labeling; or (3) the product contains unwanted crop seed or weed seed.

§ Subd. 3. Certain adulterated products must be disposed. Adulterated products that cannot be reconditioned must be disposed of according to methods approved by the commissioner.
Minn. Stat. § 103F.705 — MN Code / Part 103A_114B / Chapter 103F / Section 103F.705
§ 103F.705 PURPOSE.
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of the legislature in enacting sections 103F.701 to 103F.755 to protect, enhance, and restore surface water and groundwater in the state, through financial and technical assistance to local units of government to prevent water pollution, including that associated with land use and land management activities, and to provide a legal basis for state implementation of federal laws controlling nonpoint source water pollution.
Minn. Stat. § 216A.04 — MN Code / Part 216_217 / Chapter 216A / Section 216A.04
§ 216A.04 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY; COMMISSION EMPLOYEES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Selection of executive secretary. The commission shall appoint an executive secretary, not a member, who shall be in the unclassified service of the state and shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The executive secretary shall take, subscribe, and file an oath similar to that required of the commissioners, and shall be subject to the same disqualifications as commissioners.

§ Subd. 1a. Powers and duties of executive secretary. The executive secretary shall: (1) cause to be kept full and correct records of all transactions and proceedings of the commission; (2) appoint, subject to chapter 43A and the approval of the commission, all other classified employees of the commission and supervise and direct their activities; (3) have custody of the seal of the commission; (4) serve as the administrative officer of the commission with responsibility for personnel, budget and other administrative details related to the work of the commission or as required by state law; (5) prepare orders, reports, and other materials as assigned by the commission and recommend to the commission such measures as may be appropriate to achieve the objectives of the commission; (6) advise the commission of its financial position and recommend a budget for its approval; and (7) perform other duties as the commission directs.

§ Subd. 2. Acting secretary. The commission may designate any responsible employee to serve as acting secretary in the absence of the secretary.

§ Subd. 3. Officers and employees. The commission may establish other positions in the unclassified service if the positions meet the criteria of section 43A.08, subdivision 1a , clauses (1) to (7). The commission may employ other persons as may be necessary to carry out its functions.

§ Subd. 4. Transcripts of proceedings. Hearing reporters may provide transcripts of proceedings before the commission to persons requesting transcripts who pay a reasonable charge therefor to the reporter. The amount of the charge shall be fixed by the commission and retained by the reporter, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Minn. Stat. § 386.706 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 386 / Section 386.706
§ 386.706 RULES.
Status: in_force

The commissioner may adopt rules necessary for the administration of sections 386.62 to 386.76 .
Minn. Stat. § 298.2215 — MN Code / Part 296_299 / Chapter 298 / Section 298.2215
§ 298.2215 COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Establishment. A county may establish a scholarship fund from any unencumbered revenue received pursuant to section 93.22, 298.018 , 298.28 , 298.39 , 298.396 , or 298.405 or any law imposing a tax upon severed mineral values. Scholarships must be used at a two-year Minnesota State Colleges and Universities institution, or an accredited skilled trades program, within the county. The county shall establish procedures for applying for and distributing the scholarships.

§ Subd. 2. Eligibility. An applicant for a scholarship under this section must be a resident of the county at the time of the applicant's high school graduation. The county may establish additional eligibility criteria.
Minn. Stat. § 168.301 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 168 / Section 168.301
§ 168.301 VEHICLE TRANSFER DEADLINE; FEES; SUSPENSION.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Surrender plates and credit tax paid. (a) On transferring a motor vehicle, the transferor shall surrender the registration plates and assign the registration tax paid to the credit of the transferee. (b) As specified in section 115A.908 , the commissioner must impose a $10 fee on each transfer of title within the state, other than transfers for resale purposes, of every motor vehicle weighing more than 1,000 pounds.

§ Subd. 2. Ten days to file. The transferee's rights to the transferred vehicle's registration plates and credit for taxes paid on the vehicle expire after ten days have elapsed from the date of transfer unless: (1) the transfer has been filed as provided under section 168A.10 ; or (2) the transferee is a dealer licensed under section 168.27 , and is complying with section 168A.11 .

§ Subd. 3. Late fee. In addition to any fee or tax otherwise authorized or imposed upon the transfer of title for a motor vehicle, the commissioner of public safety must impose a $2 additional fee for failure to deliver a title transfer within the period specified under section 168A.10, subdivision 2 .

§ Subd. 4. Reinstatement fee. When the commissioner has suspended license plates on a vehicle because the transferee has failed to file the title certificate within 30 days, the transferee shall pay a $10 fee before the registration is reinstated.

§ Subd. 5. Verification of compliance. A person does not violate this section or section 168.09, subdivision 1 , by reason of suspension, if the person provides verification from the registrar that the title transfer with fees and taxes were filed with the registrar prior to being cited for violating this section or the vehicle was purchased from a licensed Minnesota dealer. The verification of compliance must be presented to the appropriate law enforcement agency within seven days after being charged or to the court on or before the date set for appearance.

§ Subd. 6. Registration suspension. The commissioner of public safety may suspend the registration of any owner who violates this section.
Minn. Stat. § 558A.15 — MN Code / Part 553_566 / Chapter 558A / Section 558A.15
§ 558A.15 PURCHASE BY PART OWNER.
Status: in_force

When a party entitled to a share in the property, or an encumbrancer entitled to have a lien paid out of the proceeds of the same, becomes a purchaser, the referee may take the receipt for so much of the proceeds of the sale as belong to the entitled party or encumbrancer.
Minn. Stat. § 116.05 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 116 / Section 116.05
§ 116.05 COOPERATION.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Other departments and agencies. All state departments and agencies are hereby directed to cooperate with the Pollution Control Agency and its commissioner and assist them in the performance of their duties, and are authorized to enter into necessary agreements with the agency, and the Pollution Control Agency is authorized to cooperate and to enter into necessary agreements with other departments and agencies of the state, with municipalities, with other states, with the federal government and its agencies and instrumentalities, in the public interest and in order to control pollution under this chapter and chapter 115 .

§ Subd. 2. Governor's order. Upon the request of the Pollution Control Agency the governor may, by order, require any department or agency of the state to furnish such assistance to the agency or its commissioner in the performance of its duties or in the exercise of the commissioner's powers imposed by law, as the governor may, in the order, designate or specify; and with the consent of the department or agency concerned, the governor may direct all or part of the cost or expense for the amount of such assistance to be paid from the general fund or appropriation in such amount as the governor may deem just and proper.

§ Subd. 3. Air quality control regions. (a) The Pollution Control Agency through its commissioner may designate air quality control regions which shall as far as practical follow regional boundaries designated by state statutes or executive order, and consider other jurisdictional boundaries, urban-industrial concentrations and other factors including atmospheric conditions and necessary procedures to provide adequate implementation of air quality standards. Within a designated air quality control region the Pollution Control Agency may by contract delegate its administrative powers to local governmental authorities to be exercised by such authorities within the region and within their own jurisdictional boundaries. (b) Local governmental authorities which are delegated administrative powers shall have legal authority to conduct such activities, and, in conducting such activities, may enter into contracts, employ personnel, expend funds, acquire property and adopt ordinances for such purposes. Such ordinances may include provisions establishing permit or license requirements and fees therefor. (c) With the approval of the Pollution Control Agency, local governmental authorities with jurisdiction wholly or in part within a designated region may enter into an agreement as provided by chapter 471 to exercise jointly all or some of the powers delegated by agreement with the Pollution Control Agency. The term "local governmental authorities" as used herein includes every city, county, town or other political subdivision and any agency of the state of Minnesota, or subdivision thereof, having less than statewide jurisdiction.