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Minn. Stat. § 518C.604 — MN Code / Part 517_519A / Chapter 518C / Section 518C.604
§ 518C.604 CHOICE OF LAW.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (d), the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs:

(1) the nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments under a registered support order;

(2) the computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the arrearages under the support order; and

(3) the existence and satisfaction of other obligations under the support order.

(b) In a proceeding for arrearages under a registered support order, the statute of limitation under the laws of this state or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies.

(c) A responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedures and remedies of this state to enforce current support and collect arrears and interest due on a support order of another state or a foreign country registered in this state.

(d) After a tribunal of this state or another state determines which is the controlling order and issues an order consolidating arrears, if any, a tribunal of this state shall prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order, including its law on interest on arrears, on current and future support, and on consolidated arrears.
Minn. Stat. § 65A.21 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 65A / Section 65A.21
§ 65A.21 INVESTMENT OF GUARANTY SURPLUS.
Status: in_force

The guaranty surplus shall be held and be invested by the company in the same manner as its capital stock and surplus accumulation may be held and be invested, and shall be liable and applicable in the same manner as the capital stock to the payment generally of the losses of the company.
Minn. Stat. § 47.52 — MN Code / Part 46_59 / Chapter 47 / Section 47.52
§ 47.52 AUTHORIZATION.
Status: in_force

(a) With the prior approval of the commissioner, any bank doing business in this state may establish and maintain detached facilities provided the facilities are located within: (1) the municipality in which the principal office of the applicant bank is located; or (2) 5,000 feet of its principal office measured in a straight line from the closest points of the closest structures involved; or (3) a municipality in which no bank is located at the time of application; or (4) a municipality having a population of more than 10,000; or (5) a municipality having a population of 10,000 or less, as determined by the commissioner from the latest available data from the state demographer, or for municipalities located in the seven-county metropolitan area from the Metropolitan Council, and all the banks having a principal office in the municipality have consented in writing to the establishment of the facility.

(b) A detached facility shall not be closer than 50 feet to a detached facility operated by any other bank and shall not be closer than 100 feet to the principal office of any other bank, the measurement to be made in the same manner as provided above. This paragraph shall not be applicable if the proximity to the facility or the bank is waived in writing by the other bank and filed with the application to establish a detached facility.

(c) A bank is allowed, in addition to other facilities, part-time deposit-taking locations at elementary and secondary schools located within the municipality in which the main banking house or a detached facility is located if they are established in connection with student education programs approved by the school administration and consistent with safe, sound banking practices.

(d) In addition to other facilities, a bank may operate part-time locations at nursing homes and senior citizen housing facilities located within the municipality in which the main banking house or a detached facility is located, or within the seven-county metropolitan area if the bank's main banking facility or a detached facility is located within the seven-county metropolitan area, if they are operated in a manner consistent with safe, sound banking practices.
Minn. Stat. § 116C.73 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 116C / Section 116C.73
§ 116C.73 TRANSPORTING RADIOACTIVE WASTES INTO STATE.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provision of sections 216C.05 to 216C.381 to the contrary, no person shall transport radioactive wastes into the state of Minnesota for the purpose of disposal by burial in soil or permanent storage within Minnesota unless expressly authorized by the Minnesota legislature, except that radioactive wastes may be transported into the state for temporary storage in accordance with applicable federal and state law for up to 12 months pending transportation out of the state.
Minn. Stat. § 382.01 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 382 / Section 382.01
§ 382.01 OFFICERS ELECTED; TERMS.
Status: in_force

In every county in this state there shall be elected at the general election in 1918 a county auditor, a county treasurer, sheriff, county recorder, county attorney, and coroner.

The terms of office of these officers shall be four years and shall begin on the first Monday in January next succeeding their election. They shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. Each of these offices must be filled by election every four years thereafter, unless an office is consolidated with another county office or made appointive under chapter 375A or other general or special law.
Minn. Stat. § 245.53 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 245 / Section 245.53
§ 245.53 TRANSMITTAL OF COPIES OF ACT.
Status: in_force

Duly authenticated copies of sections 245.51 to 245.53 shall, upon its approval, be transmitted by the secretary of state to the governor of each state, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State of the United States, and the Council of State Governments.
Minn. Stat. § 524.5-209 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.5-209
§ 524.5-209 RIGHTS AND IMMUNITIES OF GUARDIAN.
Status: in_force

(a) A guardian of a minor person subject to guardianship is entitled to reasonable compensation for services as guardian and to reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of the person subject to guardianship, in a manner consistent with section 524.5-502 .

(b) A guardian of a minor person subject to guardianship is not liable to a third person for acts of the person subject to guardianship solely by reason of the relationship. A guardian of a minor person subject to guardianship is not liable for injury to the person subject to guardianship resulting from the negligence or act of a third person providing medical or other care, treatment, or service for the person subject to guardianship except to the extent that a parent would be liable under the circumstances.

(c) A guardian of a minor person subject to guardianship may not initiate the commitment of a person subject to guardianship to an institution except in accordance with section 524.5-207 .
Minn. Stat. § 306.15 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 306 / Section 306.15
§ 306.15 LOTS, CONVEYANCE.
Status: in_force

(a) When a lot in a cemetery, or an entombment or inurnment space in a mausoleum, has been sold or conveyed for burial purposes, the lot, entombment, or inurnment space is then inalienable, except as provided in this section.

(b) The original purchaser of the lot, entombment, or inurnment space may sell or convey any part of it to the cemetery that is not actually occupied by interments or by entombed or inurned human remains.

(c) A person who has inherited the lot, entombment, or inurnment space may sell or convey any part of it to the cemetery that is not actually occupied by interments or by entombed or inurned human remains.

(d) When, by the consent of the owner, the lot, entombment, or inurnment space will be solely used by some other person as a family burial place, the owner may convey it to the person so using it.

(e) There must be filed with the cemetery a copy of an agreement of sale signed and acknowledged by the owner (and spouse, if any) and the proposed purchaser, transferring title to the cemetery and requesting that the cemetery issue a new conveyance of the lot or space directly to the purchaser in consideration of the payment by the purchaser to the owner of a specified price which must not be more than the price that would be charged by the cemetery in its sale of a similar lot or space.

Upon filing the agreement, a reasonable transfer and service charge of not more than $15 must be paid to the cemetery and the cemetery shall then promptly issue a conveyance of the lot or space to the designated purchaser.

(f) The cemetery may use any of its funds to repurchase lots, entombments, or inurnment spaces, as provided herein, and may hold or again sell and convey them.
Minn. Stat. § 518C.711 — MN Code / Part 517_519A / Chapter 518C / Section 518C.711
§ 518C.711 MODIFICATION OF CONVENTION CHILD SUPPORT ORDER.
Status: in_force

(a) A tribunal of this state may not modify a convention child support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless:

(1) the obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of this state, either expressly or by defending on the merits of the case without objecting to the jurisdiction at the first available opportunity; or

(2) the foreign tribunal lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its support order or issue a new support order.

(b) If a tribunal of this state does not modify a convention child support order because the order is not recognized in this state, section 518C.708 , paragraph (c), applies.
Minn. Stat. § 373.07 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 373 / Section 373.07
§ 373.07 SUITS AGAINST COUNTIES; SERVICE; JURORS.
Status: in_force

Service of summons or other original process in actions against a county shall be made upon the chair of the board or upon the county auditor, either during a session of the board, or within ten days before the day appointed for one. The person served shall immediately notify the county attorney of the service and give the board at its next regular meeting all the information the person has regarding the action. In actions in which the county is a party, its inhabitants, if otherwise qualified, may be jurors.
Minn. Stat. § 216A.08 — MN Code / Part 216_217 / Chapter 216A / Section 216A.08
§ 216A.08 CONTINUATION OF RULES OF PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT.
Status: repealed

All valid rules, orders, and directives heretofore enforced, issued, or promulgated by the Public Service Department under authority of chapter 216, 216A, 216B, 216C, 218, 219, 221, 222, 237, 238, or 239 shall remain and continue in force and effect until repealed, modified, or superseded by duly authorized rules, orders, or directives of the Public Utilities Commission, the commissioner of transportation, or the commissioner of commerce.
Minn. Stat. § 2.125 — MN Code / Part 1_2A / Chapter 2 / Section 2.125
§ 2.125 TWELFTH DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Senate district. Notwithstanding the order of the Minnesota Special Redistricting Panel in Wattson v. Simon, Nos. A21-0243, A21-0546 (February 15, 2022), Senate District 12 consists of the district as described in that order, with the modification contained in file L12B-1, on file with the Geographic Information Systems Office of the Legislative Coordinating Commission and published on its website on April 27, 2022.

§ Subd. 2. House of representatives districts. Notwithstanding the order of the Minnesota Special Redistricting Panel in Wattson v. Simon, Nos. A21-0243, A21-0546 (February 15, 2022), Senate District 12 is divided into two house of representatives districts as follows: (a) House of Representatives District 12A consists of the district as described in that order. (b) House of Representatives District 12B consists of all territory of Senate District 12, as modified by subdivision 1, that is not included in House of Representatives District 12A.
Minn. Stat. § 256B.51 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 256B / Section 256B.51
§ 256B.51 NURSING HOMES; COST OF HOME CARE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. In-home care for elderly; experimental program. To determine the effectiveness of home care in providing or arranging for the care and services which would normally be provided in a nursing home, the commissioner of human services may establish an experimental program to subsidize a limited number of eligible agencies or households which agree to carry out a planned program of in-home care for an elderly or physically disabled person. The household or agency to provide the services shall be selected by the person who will receive the services. This program shall be limited to agencies or households caring for persons with a physical disability or persons 60 years of age or older, and who otherwise would require and be eligible for placement in a nursing home.

§ Subd. 2. Grants. Grants to eligible agencies or households shall be determined by the commissioner of human services. In determining the grants, the commissioner shall consider the cost of diagnostic assessments, homemaker services, specialized equipment, visiting nurses' or other pertinent therapists' costs, social services, day program costs, and related transportation expenses, not to exceed 50 percent of the average medical assistance reimbursement rate for nursing homes in the region of the person's residence.

§ Subd. 3. Care plan required. An individual care plan for the person shall be established and agreed upon by the person or agency providing the care, the person or agency receiving the subsidy, the person receiving the care, and the appropriate local welfare agency. The plan shall be periodically evaluated to determine the person's progress.
Minn. Stat. § 461.19 — MN Code / Part 460_463 / Chapter 461 / Section 461.19
§ 461.19 EFFECT ON LOCAL ORDINANCE; NOTICE.
Status: in_force

Sections 461.12 to 461.18 do not preempt a local ordinance that provides for more restrictive regulation of sales of tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices, and nicotine and lobelia products. A governing body shall give notice of its intention to consider adoption or substantial amendment of any local ordinance required under section 461.12 or permitted under this section. The governing body shall take reasonable steps to send notice by mail at least 30 days prior to the meeting to the last known address of each licensee or person required to hold a license under section 461.12 . The notice shall state the time, place, and date of the meeting and the subject matter of the proposed ordinance.
Minn. Stat. § 169.50 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 169 / Section 169.50
§ 169.50 REAR LAMPS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Requirements; exception. (a) Every motor vehicle and every vehicle that is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles must be equipped with at least one tail lamp, exhibiting a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear. (b) Every motor vehicle, other than a truck-tractor, and every vehicle that is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles, registered in this state and manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1960, must be equipped with at least two tail lamps mounted on the rear and on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable. When lighted, the tail lamps must comply with the provisions of this section. (c) An implement of husbandry being towed by a motor vehicle at a speed of not more than 35 miles per hour, displaying a slow-moving vehicle emblem, and complying with section 169.55, subdivision 2 , paragraph (a), clause (4), is not subject to the requirements of this section.

§ Subd. 2. License plates. Either such rear lamp or separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any rear lamp or rear lamps, together with any separate lamp for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.

§ Subd. 3. Reflectors. On and after January 1, 1960, each new motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, hereafter sold and each such vehicle hereafter operated on a highway, shall carry at the rear either as a part of the rear lamp, or separately, at least two reflectors. The reflectors shall be of a type approved by the commissioner of public safety and shall be mounted as close as is practicable to the extreme edges of the vehicle at a height not more than 60, nor less than 20 inches above the surface upon which the vehicle stands. Each such reflector shall be so designed and maintained as to be visible at night from all distances within 300 to 50 feet from the vehicle, except that on a commercial vehicle the reflectors shall be visible from all distances within 500 to 50 feet from the vehicle, when directly in front of a motor vehicle displaying lawfully lighted headlamps.
Minn. Stat. § 626.8555 — MN Code / Part 625_634 / Chapter 626 / Section 626.8555
§ 626.8555 PEACE OFFICER EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

Metropolitan State University and Minneapolis Community and Technical College, in consultation with the Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training and state and local law enforcement agencies in the seven-county metropolitan area, shall provide core law enforcement courses in an accelerated time period. The schools shall grant priority admission to students who have a bona fide offer of employment from a Minnesota law enforcement agency. These courses shall be available at the beginning of the 1995-1996 academic year and are contingent on sufficient program enrollment.

The board, Metropolitan State University, and Minneapolis Community and Technical College shall evaluate the accelerated law enforcement education program and report their findings to the 1997 legislature.
Minn. Stat. § 344.14 — MN Code / Part 343_348 / Chapter 344 / Section 344.14
§ 344.14 VIEWERS WHEN FENCE ON TOWN LINE.
Status: in_force

If a partition fence is to be built on a line between towns, or partly in one town and partly in another, two supervisors, one from each town, shall be the fence viewers.
Minn. Stat. § 222.48 — MN Code / Part 218_222 / Chapter 222 / Section 222.48
§ 222.48 DEFINITIONS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Scope. As used in sections 222.46 to 222.54 , the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings given them herein.

§ Subd. 1a. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of transportation.

§ Subd. 2. Department. "Department" means the Department of Transportation.

§ Subd. 3. [Renumbered subd 1a]

§ Subd. 3a. [Repealed, 2012 c 287 art 4 s 50 ]

§ Subd. 4. Rail line. "Rail line" means railroad roadbeds, track, track structure, and other appurtenances of railroad right-of-way.

§ Subd. 5. Rail service. "Rail service" means rail transportation and local rail service.

§ Subd. 6. Rail users. "Rail users" means shippers, consignors, or other business entities that depend upon or benefit from the movement of goods and products by means of rail service.

§ Subd. 7. [Renumbered subd 3a]
Minn. Stat. § 64B.09 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 64B / Section 64B.09
§ 64B.09 WAIVER.
Status: in_force

The laws of the society may provide that no subordinate body, nor any of its subordinate officers or members, may waive any of the provisions of the laws of the society. The provision is binding on the society and every member and beneficiary of a member.
Minn. Stat. § 442A.20 — MN Code / Part 440_446A / Chapter 442A / Section 442A.20
§ 442A.20 DISTRICT PROGRAMS, SURVEYS, AND STUDIES.
Status: in_force

A district may develop general programs and particular projects within the scope of its powers and purposes and may make all surveys, studies, and investigations necessary for the programs and projects.
Minn. Stat. § 18C.131 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 18C / Section 18C.131
§ 18C.131 FERTILIZER INSPECTION ACCOUNT.
Status: in_force

A fertilizer inspection account is established in the state treasury. The fees collected under this chapter and interest attributable to money in the account must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the fertilizer inspection account in the agricultural fund. Money in the account, including interest earned, is appropriated to the commissioner for the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
Minn. Stat. § 103A.335 — MN Code / Part 103A_114B / Chapter 103A / Section 103A.335
§ 103A.335 FILING, NOTICE, AND PROCEDURE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Notice. A consent, notice, or recommendation made by the board must be filed with the agency. The filing is notice of the board's action. The board's rules may provide for a notice, in addition to filing by mail, posting, publication, or otherwise, to inform parties and interested persons of the board's actions.

§ Subd. 2. Subpoena. (a) To implement sections 103A.301 to 103A.341 , the chair of the board or a board member may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and compel the production of books, records, and other evidence. (b) Disobedience of a subpoena, refusal to be sworn, or refusal to answer as a witness, is punishable as a contempt of the district court. The board or a board member must file a complaint of the disobedience with the district court of the county where the disobedience occurred. (c) Witnesses receive the same fees and mileage as in civil actions. (d) Persons must be sworn before testifying and the right to examine or cross-examine is the same as in civil actions.

§ Subd. 3. Hearings. Hearings must be public, conducted by the board or an authorized board member, and affected persons have the opportunity to be heard. The board must provide a stenographer to take the testimony and proceedings at the hearings must be recorded and preserved. Hearings must be conducted as much as practicable in the same way as civil actions.

§ Subd. 4. Position of state agencies. State agencies may adopt opposite positions on the matter before the board when full advocacy will assist in disclosing the public interest.
Minn. Stat. § 325G.052 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325G / Section 325G.052
§ 325G.052 CREDIT CARD OFFERS AND SOLICITATIONS; ADDRESS VERIFICATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) A credit card issuer that mails an offer or solicitation to receive a credit card and, in response, receives a completed application for a credit card that lists an address that is different from the address on the offer or solicitation shall verify the change of address before issuing a credit card.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person to whom an offer or solicitation to receive a credit card is made is not liable for the unauthorized use of a credit card issued in response to that offer or solicitation if the credit card issuer does not verify the change of address pursuant to paragraph (a) before the issuance of the credit card, unless the credit card issuer proves that this person actually incurred the charge on the credit card.

(c) When a credit card issuer receives a written or oral request for a change of the cardholder's billing address and then receives a written or oral request for an additional credit card within ten days after the requested address change, the credit card issuer shall not mail the requested additional credit card to the new address or, alternatively, shall not activate the requested additional credit card, unless the credit card issuer has verified the change of address.
Minn. Stat. § 136D.24 — MN Code / Part 135A_137 / Chapter 136D / Section 136D.24
§ 136D.24 JOINT BOARD HAS ALL POWERS OF MEMBER DISTRICTS.
Status: in_force

To effectuate the agreement, the joint school board shall have all the powers granted by law to any or all of the participating school districts.
Minn. Stat. § 302A.121 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 302A / Section 302A.121
§ 302A.121 REGISTERED OFFICE; REGISTERED AGENT.
Status: in_force

Every corporation shall have a registered office, and may have a registered agent, in the manner prescribed by section 5.36 .