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Minn. Stat. § 375.168 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 375 / Section 375.168
§ 375.168 UNDERCOVER BUY FUND; EXPENDITURE OF MONEY BY COUNTIES.
Status: in_force

A county board may appropriate money for investigation of criminal activity relating to receiving or selling stolen goods, including the setting aside of money for "buy funds."
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-1002 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.2-1002
§ 524.2-1002 INTERNATIONAL WILL; VALIDITY.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Form. A will is valid as regards form, irrespective particularly of the place where it is made, of the location of the assets and of the nationality, domicile, or residence of the testator, if it is made in the form of an international will complying with the requirements of sections 524.2-1002 to 524.2-1005 .

§ Subd. 2. Effect of invalidity. The invalidity of the will as an international will does not affect its formal validity as a will of another kind.

§ Subd. 3. Multiple testators. Sections 524.2-1001 to 524.2-1010 do not apply to the form of testamentary dispositions made by two or more persons in one instrument.
Minn. Stat. § 144.7408 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144 / Section 144.7408
§ 144.7408 NO DISCRIMINATION.
Status: in_force

A facility shall not base decisions about admission to a facility or the provision of care or treatment on any requirement that the source individual consent to blood-borne pathogen testing under sections 144.7401 to 144.7415 .
Minn. Stat. § 160.283 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 160 / Section 160.283
§ 160.283 RESORT INFORMATION SIGNS; PURPOSE.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. MS 2012 [Repealed, 2014 c 227 art 1 s 23 ]

§ Subd. 2. Applicability. The provisions of sections 160.283 to 160.285 only apply to directional devices or signs that may be erected pursuant to the provisions of sections 160.283 to 160.285 on those county state-aid highways, county highways and town roads within one-half mile of areas that have restrictions on the erection of advertising devices along or adjacent thereto imposed under the applicable provisions of chapter 173.

§ Subd. 3. Resort defined. For the purposes of sections 160.283 to 160.285 the term "resort" shall be as defined in section 157.15 or a golf course, restaurant, or motel as defined in section 157.15 or recreational camping area as defined in section 327.14, subdivision 8 .
Minn. Stat. § 383A.08 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 383A / Section 383A.08
§ 383A.08 DETENTION AND CORRECTIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Authority. Ramsey County may maintain, operate and manage a detention facility, workhouse, work farm or juvenile detention facility, or a combination of them.

§ Subd. 2. Home schools. The county has the exclusive power to construct, maintain, operate and administer, or combine or abolish, the county home schools for boys and girls existing under Minnesota Statutes 1971, section 260.094 .

§ Subd. 3. Acquisition of land. The county shall bear the cost and expense of acquiring land for erecting, equipping and furnishing a facility.

§ Subd. 4. Education. The board of education, commissioner of education, or others having charge of the public schools where a juvenile detention facility is located may furnish the necessary instructors, school books and school supplies for the boys and girls placed in the juvenile detention facility.

§ Subd. 5. Detention of minors. No sheriff, municipal police officer or other person having charge of a minor under the age of 18 years chargeable with a crime may detain the minor in a public facility other than a county juvenile detention facility.

§ Subd. 6. Rules and regulations. The county may promulgate rules and regulations for the proper operation and maintenance of each facility and the proper care and discipline of inmates detained in the facility. These rules and regulations may, among other things, provide for the diminution of sentences of inmates for good behavior in accordance with section 643.29 .

§ Subd. 7. Confinement of inmates from other counties. The county may accept an inmate for confinement at a county correction facility when the inmate is committed to the facility by order of a judge of a municipality or county outside Ramsey County if the county is paid the amount of compensation for board, confinement, and maintenance of the inmate that it determines. A county outside Ramsey County or a municipality outside Ramsey County may enter into and agree with Ramsey County for the incarceration of prisoners.
Minn. Stat. § 148.77 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 148 / Section 148.77
§ 148.77 VIOLATIONS.
Status: in_force

Any person violating the provisions of section 148.76 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Minn. Stat. § 260C.181 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 260C / Section 260C.181
§ 260C.181 PLACE OF TEMPORARY CUSTODY; SHELTER CARE FACILITY.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Temporary custody. A child taken into custody pursuant to section 260C.175 may be detained for up to 24 hours in a shelter care facility, secure detention facility, or, if there is no secure detention facility available for use by the county having jurisdiction over the child, in a jail or other facility for the confinement of adults who have been charged with or convicted of a crime in quarters separate from any adult confined in the facility which has been approved for the detention of juveniles by the commissioner of corrections. At the end of the 24-hour detention any child requiring further detention may be detained only as provided in this section.

§ Subd. 2. Least restrictive setting. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision 1, if the child had been taken into custody pursuant to section 260C.175, subdivision 1 , clause (1) or (2), item (ii), and is not alleged to be delinquent, the child shall be detained in the least restrictive setting consistent with the child's health and welfare and in closest proximity to the child's family as possible. Placement may be with a child's relative or, if no placement is available with a relative, in a shelter care facility. The placing officer shall comply with this section and shall document why a less restrictive setting will or will not be in the best interests of the child for placement purposes.

§ Subd. 3. Placement. If the child had been taken into custody and detained as one who is alleged to be in need of protection or services under section 260C.007, subdivision 6 , clause (13) or (14), by reason of having been adjudicated, in need of protection or services under section 260C.007, subdivision 6 , clause (13) or (14), or conditionally released by the juvenile court without adjudication, has violated probation, parole, or other field supervision under which the child had been placed as a result of behavior described in this subdivision, the child may be placed only in a shelter care facility.
Minn. Stat. § 342.17 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 342 / Section 342.17
§ 342.17 SOCIAL EQUITY APPLICANTS.
Status: in_force

(a) An applicant qualifies as a social equity applicant if the applicant:

(1) was found delinquent for, received a stay of adjudication for, or was convicted of an offense involving the possession or sale of cannabis or marijuana prior to May 1, 2023;

(2) had a parent, guardian, child, spouse, or dependent who was convicted of an offense involving the possession or sale of cannabis or marijuana prior to May 1, 2023;

(3) was a dependent of an individual who was convicted of an offense involving the possession or sale of cannabis or marijuana prior to May 1, 2023;

(4) is a military veteran, including a service-disabled veteran, current or former member of the national guard;

(5) is a military veteran or current or former member of the national guard who lost honorable status due to an offense involving the possession or sale of cannabis or marijuana;

(6) has been a resident for the last five years of one or more subareas, such as census tracts or neighborhoods:

(i) that experienced a disproportionately large amount of cannabis enforcement as determined by the study conducted by the office pursuant to section 342.04 , paragraph (b), or another report based on federal or state data on arrests or convictions;

(ii) where the poverty rate was 20 percent or more;

(iii) where the median family income did not exceed 80 percent of the statewide median family income or, if in a metropolitan area, did not exceed the greater of 80 percent of the statewide median family income or 80 percent of the median family income for that metropolitan area;

(iv) where at least 20 percent of the households receive assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; or

(v) where the population has a high level of vulnerability according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) Social Vulnerability Index; or

(7) has participated in the business operation of a farm for at least three years and currently provides the majority of the day-to-day physical labor and management of a farm that had gross farm sales of at least $5,000 but not more than $100,000 in the previous year.

(b) The qualifications described in paragraph (a) apply to each individual applicant or, in the case of a business entity, apply to at least 65 percent of the controlling ownership of the business entity.
Minn. Stat. § 520.31 — MN Code / Part 520_523 / Chapter 520 / Section 520.31
§ 520.31 SHORT TITLE.
Status: in_force

Sections 520.21 to 520.31 may be cited as the "Uniform Act for the Simplification of Fiduciary Security Transfers."
Minn. Stat. § 317A.825 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 317A / Section 317A.825
§ 317A.825 ACCEPTANCE OF REGISTRATION BY SECRETARY OF STATE.
Status: in_force

The secretary of state may accept a registration under section 317A.821 or 317A.823 if the information on the registration is in substantial compliance with these sections, even if the information on the registration is not identical to equivalent information in the records of the secretary of state.
Minn. Stat. § 31.131 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 31 / Section 31.131
§ 31.131 EMERGENCY PERMIT CONTROL.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Temporary conditional permits. Whenever the commissioner finds after investigation that the distribution in the state of Minnesota of any class of food may, by reason of contamination with microorganisms during manufacture, processing, or packing thereof in any locality, be injurious to health, and that such injurious nature cannot be adequately determined after such articles have entered commerce, the commissioner then, and in such case only, shall promulgate rules providing for the issuance, to manufacturers, processors, or packers of such class of food in such locality, of permits to which shall be attached such conditions governing the manufacture, processing, or packaging, or packing of such class of food, for such temporary period of time as may be necessary to protect the public health; and after the effective date of such rules, and during such temporary period, no person shall introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce any such food manufactured, processed, or packed by any such manufacturer, processor, or packer unless such manufacturer, processor, or packer holds a permit issued by the commissioner as provided by such rules.

§ Subd. 2. Immediate permit suspension. The commissioner is authorized to suspend immediately upon notice any permit issued under authority of this section if it is found that any of the conditions of the permit have been violated. The holder of a permit so suspended may at any time apply for the reinstatement of such permit, and the commissioner shall, immediately after prompt hearing and inspection of the establishment, reinstate such permit or issue an amended permit if it is found that adequate measures have been taken to comply with and maintain the conditions of the permit, as originally issued, or as amended.

§ Subd. 3. Inspection. Any officer or employee duly designated by the commissioner shall have access to any factory or establishment, the operator of which holds a permit from the commissioner, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the conditions of the permit are being complied with, and denial of access for such inspection shall be ground for suspension of the permit until such access is freely given by the operator.
Minn. Stat. § 322.11 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 322 / Section 322.11
§ 322.11 STATUS OF PERSON ERRONEOUSLY BELIEVING TO BE A LIMITED PARTNER.
Status: in_force

A contributor to the capital of a business conducted by a person or partnership erroneously believing that the contributor has become a limited partner in a limited partnership is not, by reason of the exercise of the rights of a limited partnership, a general partner with the person or in the partnership carrying on the business, or bound by the obligations of such person or partnership; provided, that, on ascertaining the mistake, the contributor promptly renounces interest in the profits of the business, or other compensation by way of income.
Minn. Stat. § 574.09 — MN Code / Part 570_583 / Chapter 574 / Section 574.09
§ 574.09 ADDITIONAL SECURITY.
Status: in_force

When, in its judgment, other or further security is required, the state or such other corporation or department may require the contractor to furnish other or further security of the same nature within ten days, and thereupon if so ordered, the work on such contract shall cease until such other or further security is furnished. If such other or further security is not furnished within such time, the pledgee may at its option terminate the contract and complete the same as the agent and at the expense of such contractor.
Minn. Stat. § 125A.53 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 125A / Section 125A.53
§ 125A.53 DIRECTOR OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION COOPERATIVE.
Status: in_force

The authority for the selection and employment of the director of a special education cooperative established pursuant to sections 125A.03 to 125A.24 and 125A.65 or section 471.59 is vested in the governing board of the cooperative. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 122A.40, subdivision 10 or 11, no individual shall have a right to employment as a director based on seniority or order of employment by the cooperative.
Minn. Stat. § 365.45 — MN Code / Part 365_368 / Chapter 365 / Section 365.45
§ 365.45 PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION; BY COUNTY BOARD.
Status: in_force

When a petition signed by a majority of the registered voters of the town calling for the dissolution of the town organization is filed with the town clerk at least 60 days before a regular or special town election, the question of whether to dissolve the town shall be submitted to the voters at the regular or special town election in the same manner provided in section 368.47 . The result of the election, duly certified by the town clerk, shall be presented to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the town is located. The board of county commissioners shall, or whenever the tax delinquency in any town exceeds 70 percent in any one year, the board of county commissioners of the county wherein the town is situated, on its own initiative, may, by resolution, dissolve the town and attach the territory formerly embraced therein to an adjoining town or towns, or provide for the government of the territory as unorganized territory of the county. If the dissolved territory is added to an adjoining town, the proposal shall first have the approval of a five-eighths majority of the voting electors of the town to which the dissolved territory is added. Upon the adoption of the resolution by the county board, the town shall be dissolved and no longer entitled to exercise any of the powers or functions of an organized town. The county auditor shall give ten days' notice, by one publication in the paper in which the proceedings of the county board are published, of the meeting of the county board at which the dissolution of the town will be considered.
Minn. Stat. § 64B.17 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 64B / Section 64B.17
§ 64B.17 BENEFICIARIES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Change; eligibility; rights. The owner of a benefit contract may at all times change the beneficiary or beneficiaries in accordance with the laws or rules of the society unless the owner waives this right by specifically requesting in writing that the beneficiary designation be irrevocable. A society may, through its laws or rules, limit the scope of beneficiary designations and shall provide that no revocable beneficiary shall have or obtain any vested interest in the proceeds of any certificate until the certificate has become due and payable in conformity with the provisions of the benefit contract.

§ Subd. 2. Support and other payments. The member may at any time, by written instrument, authorize the society to provide and pay for the support, care, medical and surgical treatment, and funeral of a member and deduct the amount so paid, with legal interest, from the net reserve to the credit of the member's certificate or from the amount otherwise payable under the certificate to the beneficiary, or the member may, at any time, designate the society as beneficiary and, in such case, the society shall use this reserve or amount to the extent necessary for the purpose aforesaid.

§ Subd. 3. Absence of designation. If, at the death of any person insured under a benefit contract, there is no lawful beneficiary to whom the proceeds shall be payable, the amount of the benefit, except to the extent that funeral benefits may be paid, shall be payable to the personal representative of the deceased insured, provided that if the owner of the certificate is other than the insured, the proceeds shall be payable to the owner.
Minn. Stat. § 325D.65 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325D / Section 325D.65
§ 325D.65 VENUE.
Status: in_force

Actions or proceedings brought by the state or any private party for violations of the provisions of sections 325D.49 to 325D.66 , may be brought in the district court in and for the county where the offense or any part thereof is committed, or where any of the defendants reside or is found, or where any agent of any defendant resides or is found, or where any defendant, corporation, association, firm, partnership, or limited partnership does business.
Minn. Stat. § 3.751 — MN Code / Part 3_3E / Chapter 3 / Section 3.751
§ 3.751 CONTRACT CLAIMS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Waiver of immunity. When a controversy arises out of a contract for work, services, the delivery of goods, debt obligations of the state incurred under article XI of the Minnesota Constitution, or revenue obligations of a retirement fund incurred under section 356B.10 entered into by a state agency through established procedure, in respect to which controversy a party to the contract would be entitled to redress against the state in a court, if the state were suable, and no claim against the state has been made in a bill pending in the legislature for the same redress against it, the state waives immunity from suit in connection with the controversy and confers jurisdiction on the district court to determine it in the manner provided for civil actions in the district court. Only a party to the contract may bring action against the state.

§ Subd. 2. Limitation of action. No action shall be maintained unless it is commenced within 90 days after the plaintiff has been furnished by the state with a final estimate under the contract, or, at the election of the plaintiff, within six months after the work provided for under the contract is completed.

§ Subd. 3. Venue; procedure. The action may be brought in the district court in the county where the cause of action or some part of it arose or in the district court in Ramsey County. The action shall be commenced by filing a complaint with the administrator of court and serving a summons and copy of the complaint upon the attorney general at the State Capitol. The state shall have 40 days from the date of the service to serve an answer upon the plaintiff. The action shall proceed in the district court as other actions at law.

§ Subd. 4. Appeal. An appeal from a final order or judgment in the action may be taken as in other civil cases.

§ Subd. 5. Trunk highways. This section does not apply to controversies arising out of a contract to construct or repair a state trunk highway.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.1204 — MN Code / Part 500_515B / Chapter 501C / Section 501C.1204
§ 501C.1204 TRUSTS NOT AFFECTED.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding other law to the contrary, a trust created before June 1, 1973, relating to one's "minority" or "majority" or other related terms is governed by the definitions of those terms existing at the time of the creation of the trust.
Minn. Stat. § 148.7804 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 148 / Section 148.7804
§ 148.7804 POWERS OF THE BOARD.
Status: in_force

The board, acting under the advice of the Athletic Trainers Advisory Council, shall issue all licenses and shall exercise the following powers and duties:

(1) adopt rules necessary to implement sections 148.7801 to 148.7815 ;

(2) prescribe license application forms, license forms, protocol forms, and other necessary forms;

(3) approve a licensure examination;

(4) keep a complete record of licensed athletic trainers, prepare a current official listing of the names and addresses of licensed athletic trainers, and make a copy of the list available to any person requesting it upon payment of a copying fee established by the board;

(5) keep a permanent record of all its proceedings; and

(6) establish the duties of, and employ, clerical personnel.
Minn. Stat. § 457A.02 — MN Code / Part 451_459 / Chapter 457A / Section 457A.02
§ 457A.02 PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Purpose of program. A port development assistance program is established for the purpose of: (1) expediting the movement of commodities and passengers on the commercial navigation system; (2) enhancing the commercial vessel construction and repair industry in Minnesota; and (3) promoting economic development in and around ports and harbors in the state.

§ Subd. 2. Commissioner to administer. The commissioner shall administer the port development assistance program to advance the purposes of subdivision 1. In administering the program, the commissioner may: (1) make grants and loans to applicants eligible under section 457A.03, subdivision 1 , to apply for them; (2) make assistance agreements with recipients of grants and loans; and (3) adopt rules authorized by section 457A.05 .
Minn. Stat. § 336.12-101 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 336 / Section 336.12-101
§ 336.12-101 TITLE.
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code-Controllable Electronic Records.
Minn. Stat. § 308B.405 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 308B / Section 308B.405
§ 308B.405 NUMBER OF DIRECTORS.
Status: in_force

The board shall not have less than five directors, except that a cooperative with 50 or fewer members may have three or more directors as prescribed in the articles or bylaws.
Minn. Stat. § 181.031 — MN Code / Part 175_187 / Chapter 181 / Section 181.031
§ 181.031 EMPLOYERS NOT TO ACCEPT CONSIDERATION FOR SECURING EMPLOYMENT.
Status: in_force

An employer, or any manager, superintendent, lead supervisor, or other representative of an employer, may not, directly or indirectly, demand or accept from any employee any part of such employee's wages or other consideration, or any gratuity, in consideration of giving to or securing, or assisting in securing, for any employee any employment with such employer.