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Minn. Stat. § 72B.092 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 72B / Section 72B.092
§ 72B.092 MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE ADJUSTMENTS; PROHIBITIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Prohibitions on insurer. No adjuster or insurer, director, officer, broker, agent, attorney-in-fact, employee, or other representative of an insurer shall in collision cases: (1) limit the freedom of an insured or claimant to choose the shop; (2) require that an insured or claimant present the claim or the automobile for loss adjustment or inspection at a "drive-in" claim center or any other similar facility solely under the control of the insurer; (3) engage in boycotts, intimidation or coercive tactics in negotiating repairs to damaged motor vehicles which they insure or are liable to claimants to have repaired; (4) attempt to secure, except in an emergency, the insured's or claimant's signature authorizing the party securing the signature to act in behalf of the insured or claimant in selection of a repair shop facility; (5) adjust a damage appraisal of a repair shop when the extent of damage is in dispute without conducting a physical inspection of the vehicle; (6) specify the use of a particular vendor for the procurement of parts or other materials necessary for the satisfactory repair of the vehicle. This clause does not require the insurer to pay more than a reasonable market price for parts of like kind and quality in adjusting a claim; or (7) unilaterally and arbitrarily disregard a repair operation or cost identified by an estimating system, which an insurer and collision repair facility have agreed to utilize in determining the cost of repair.

§ Subd. 2. Boycotts. No motor vehicle repair shop shall in any way coerce, or intimidate a motor vehicle owner to boycott an insurer's "drive-in" claim center or similar facility.

§ Subd. 3. Owner's signature. No motor vehicle repair shop shall attempt to secure, except in an emergency, the vehicle owner's signature authorizing the party securing the signature to act in behalf of the owner in selection of a repair shop.

§ Subd. 4. Access to repair shop. An insurer's representative shall not be unreasonably denied access to a motor vehicle repair shop during normal business hours for the purpose of inspecting or reinspecting damaged vehicles.

§ Subd. 5. Storage and towing charges. When a damaged vehicle is towed to a motor vehicle repair shop, the storage and towing charges shall not exceed the usual and customary charges for the towing and storage of undamaged vehicles in the area except if the vehicle, due to its damaged condition, requires special handling in the towing or storage, an added charge may be made.
Minn. Stat. § 358.68 — MN Code / Part 357_359 / Chapter 358 / Section 358.68
§ 358.68 STAMPING DEVICE SECURITY.
Status: in_force

A notary public is responsible for the security of the notary public's stamping device and may not allow another individual to use the device to perform a notarial act.
Minn. Stat. § 192.26 — MN Code / Part 190_195 / Chapter 192 / Section 192.26
§ 192.26 STATE AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES NOT TO LOSE PAY WHILE ON AUTHORIZED LEAVE FOR MILITARY DUTY.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Authorized leave. Subject to the conditions hereinafter prescribed, any officer or employee of the state or of any political subdivision, municipal corporation, or other public agency of the state who shall be a member of the National Guard, or any other component of the militia of the state now or hereafter organized or constituted under state or federal law, or who shall be a member of the officers' reserve corps, the enlisted reserve corps, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps reserve, or any other reserve component of the military or naval forces of the United States now or hereafter organized or constituted under federal law, shall be entitled to leave of absence from the public office or employment without loss of pay, seniority status, efficiency rating, vacation, sick leave, or other benefits for all the time when engaged with such organization or component in training or active service ordered or authorized by proper authority pursuant to law, whether for state or federal purposes, but not exceeding a total of 15 days in any calendar year. The state or political subdivision, municipal corporation, or other public agency shall allow the officer or employee to choose when during the calendar year to take the 15 days of paid military leave. The officer or employee may choose to use all of the 15 days of paid military leave at one time or, in the alternative, the 15 days of paid military leave may be divided and taken throughout the calendar year at the discretion of the officer or employee. Such leave shall be allowed only in case the required military or naval service is satisfactorily performed, which shall be presumed unless the contrary is established. Such leave shall not be allowed unless the officer or employee (1) returns to the public position immediately on being relieved from such military or naval service and not later than the expiration of the time herein limited for such leave, or (2) is prevented from so returning by physical or mental disability or other cause not due to the officer's or employee's own fault, or (3) is required by proper authority to continue in such military or naval service beyond the time herein limited for such leave.

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1963 c 658 s 20 ]
Minn. Stat. § 356.648 — MN Code / Part 352_356B / Chapter 356 / Section 356.648
§ 356.648 ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF FUNDING.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in addition to all sources of funding described in Minnesota Statutes, section 356.63 , any public retirement plan described in Minnesota Statutes, section 356.63 , paragraph (b), is authorized to accept, at its discretion, for deposit in its fund the following:

(1) gifts;

(2) donations;

(3) bequests; and

(4) life insurance death benefits.
Minn. Stat. § 260A.05 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 260A / Section 260A.05
§ 260A.05 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE REVIEW BOARDS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Establishment. A school district or charter school may establish one or more school attendance review boards to exercise the powers and duties in this section. The school district or charter school board shall appoint the members of the school attendance review board and designate the schools within the board's jurisdiction. Members of a school attendance review board may include: (1) the superintendent of the school district or the superintendent's designee or charter school director or the director's designee; (2) a principal and one or more other school officials from within the district or charter school; (3) parent representatives; (4) representatives from community agencies that provide services for truant students and their families; (5) a juvenile probation officer; (6) school counselors and attendance officers; and (7) law enforcement officers.

§ Subd. 2. General powers and duties. A school attendance review board shall prepare an annual plan to promote interagency and community cooperation and to reduce duplication of services for students with school attendance problems. The plan shall include a description of truancy procedures and services currently in operation within the board's jurisdiction, including the programs and services under section 260A.04 . A board may provide consultant services to, and coordinate activities of, truancy programs and services. If a board determines that it will be unable to provide services for all truant students who are referred to it, the board shall establish procedures and criteria for determining whether to accept referrals of students or refer them for other appropriate action.

§ Subd. 3. Oversight of truant students. A school attendance review board shall oversee referrals of truant students and provide appropriate intervention and services under section 260A.06 . The board shall establish procedures for documenting student attendance and verifying actions and interventions with respect to truant students and their families.
Minn. Stat. § 245A.155 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 245A / Section 245A.155
§ 245A.155 CARE OF INDIVIDUALS ON MEDICAL MONITORING EQUIPMENT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Licensed foster care and respite care. This section applies to foster care agencies and licensed foster care providers who place, supervise, or care for individuals who rely on medical monitoring equipment to sustain life or monitor a medical condition that could become life-threatening without proper use of the medical equipment in respite care or foster care.

§ Subd. 2. Foster care agency requirements. In order for an agency to place an individual who relies on medical equipment to sustain life or monitor a medical condition that could become life-threatening without proper use of the medical equipment with a foster care provider, the agency must ensure that the foster care provider has received the training to operate such equipment as observed and confirmed by a qualified source, and that the provider: (1) is currently caring for an individual who is using the same equipment in the foster home; or (2) has written documentation that the foster care provider has cared for an individual who relied on such equipment within the past six months; or (3) has successfully completed training with the individual being placed with the provider.

§ Subd. 3. Foster care provider requirements. A foster care provider shall not care for an individual who relies on medical equipment to sustain life or monitor a medical condition unless the provider has received the training to operate such equipment as observed and confirmed by a qualified source, and: (1) is currently caring for an individual who is using the same equipment in the foster home; or (2) has written documentation that the foster care provider has cared for an individual who relied on such equipment within the past six months; or (3) has successfully completed training with the individual being placed with the provider.

§ Subd. 4. Qualified source definition. For purposes of this section, a "qualified source" includes a health care professional or an individual who provides training on such equipment.

§ Subd. 5. Foster care provider training and skills form. The agency supervising the foster care provider shall keep a training and skills form on file for each foster care provider and update the form annually. The agency placing the individual shall obtain a copy of the training and skills form from the foster care provider or the agency supervising the foster care provider and shall keep it and any updated information on file for the duration of the placement. The form must be made available to the parents or the primary caregiver and social worker of the individual, or the individual, whichever is applicable, in order to make an informed placement decision. The agency shall use the training and skills form developed by the commissioner of human services.
Minn. Stat. § 469.046 — MN Code / Part 466A_470 / Chapter 469 / Section 469.046
§ 469.046 ADVANCE OF LITIGATION ON CALENDAR.
Status: in_force

In any litigation described in sections 469.044 and 469.045 , in which a bond has been required and given or the court has denied a motion to require a bond, the court shall advance the case on its calendar for trial at the earliest feasible date. An appeal from an appealable order made, or from a judgment entered in a district court may be taken after 30 days from entry of the judgment or after written notice of the order from the adverse party.
Minn. Stat. § 336.4-203 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 336 / Section 336.4-203
§ 336.4-203 EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONS.
Status: in_force

Subject to article 3 concerning conversion of instruments (section 336.3-420 ) and restrictive endorsements (section 336.3-206 ), only a collecting bank's transferor can give instructions that affect the bank or constitute notice to it, and a collecting bank is not liable to prior parties for any action taken pursuant to the instructions or in accordance with any agreement with its transferor.
Minn. Stat. § 349.169 — MN Code / Part 349_350 / Chapter 349 / Section 349.169
§ 349.169 FILING OF INVENTORY AND DISCOUNTS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Filing required. Manufacturers, distributors, and linked bingo game providers must file, by the 20th of each month, with the director a list of all gambling equipment that the manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider sold or leased in the preceding month. The filing must be in a format the director prescribes.

§ Subd. 2. Copies. The director shall provide copies of filings to any person requesting them and may charge a reasonable fee for the copies. Any person may examine filings in the board office at no cost, and the director shall make the filings available for that purpose.

§ Subd. 3. Sales at discount. When required to report under subdivision 1, all manufacturers, distributors, and linked bingo game providers must notify the board of any volume discounts or other discounts available for gambling equipment sales.
Minn. Stat. § 169.4511 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 169 / Section 169.4511
§ 169.4511 SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENT OPERATION.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Postcrash inspection. (a) A peace officer responding to an accident involving a school bus or Head Start bus must immediately notify the State Patrol if the accident results in: (1) a fatality; (2) bodily injury to a person who, as a result of the injury, immediately receives medical treatment away from the scene of the accident; or (3) one or more motor vehicles incurring disabling damage as a result of the accident, requiring a motor vehicle to be transported away from the scene by tow truck or other motor vehicle. (b) No person shall drive or knowingly permit or cause to be driven, for the purpose of transporting students, any school bus or Head Start bus after such an accident unless: (1) the vehicle has been inspected by the Minnesota State Patrol and the State Patrol has determined that the vehicle may safely be operated; or (2) a waiver has been granted under subdivision 2. (c) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.

§ Subd. 2. Waiver. A state trooper or designee of the Minnesota State Patrol called to the scene of an accident by a responding peace officer under subdivision 1 may waive the inspection requirement of subdivision 1 if the trooper or State Patrol designee determines that a postcrash inspection is not needed or cannot be accomplished without unreasonable delay. The trooper or State Patrol designee granting a waiver must provide to the driver of the school bus for which the waiver is granted a written statement that the inspection has been waived. The written statement must include the incident report number assigned to the accident by the State Patrol.
Minn. Stat. § 465.31 — MN Code / Part 465_466 / Chapter 465 / Section 465.31
§ 465.31 OATH.
Status: in_force

The appraisers shall be sworn to discharge their duty as appraisers in the matter with impartiality and fidelity; and to make due return of their acts to the city council.
Minn. Stat. § 62A.147 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 62A / Section 62A.147
§ 62A.147 DISABLED EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS; DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Scope. For the purposes of this section and section 62A.148 , the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings here given them.

§ Subd. 2. Covered employee. "Covered employee" means any person who, at the time that person suffered an injury resulting in total disability or became totally disabled by reason of illness, was employed by and receiving a salary, commission, hourly wage, or other remuneration for services by any employer providing, offering or contributing to group insurance coverage or group coverage through a health maintenance contract, for that employee who was so enrolled for the coverage.

§ Subd. 3. Total disability. "Total disability" means (a) the inability of an injured or ill employee to engage in or perform the duties of the employee's regular occupation or employment within the first two years of such disability and (b) after the first two years of such disability, the inability of the employee to engage in any paid employment or work for which the employee may, by education and training, including rehabilitative training, be or reasonably become qualified.

§ Subd. 4. Group insurance. "Group insurance" means any policy or contract of accident and health protection, including health maintenance contracts, regardless of by whom underwritten, which provides benefits, including cash payments for reimbursement of expenses or the provision of usual needed health care and medical services as the result of any injury, sickness, disability or disease suffered by a group of employees, or any one of them, and which protection is paid for or otherwise provided in full or in part by an employer.

§ Subd. 5. Employer. "Employer" means any natural person, company, corporation, partnership, association, firm, or franchise which employs any employee.

§ Subd. 6. Insurer. "Insurer" means any person, company, corporation including a nonprofit corporation and a health maintenance organization, partnership, association, firm or franchise which underwrites or is by contract or other agreement obligated to provide accident and health protection benefits to any group of employees of any employer.
Minn. Stat. § 609.2662 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 609 / Section 609.2662
§ 609.2662 MURDER OF UNBORN CHILD IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
Status: in_force

Whoever does either of the following is guilty of murder of an unborn child in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 40 years:

(1) causes the death of an unborn child with intent to effect the death of that unborn child or another, but without premeditation; or

(2) causes the death of an unborn child, without intent to effect the death of any unborn child or person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense other than criminal sexual conduct in the first or second degree with force or violence.
Minn. Stat. § 609.54 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 609 / Section 609.54
§ 609.54 EMBEZZLEMENT OF PUBLIC FUNDS.
Status: in_force

Whoever does an act which constitutes embezzlement under the provisions of Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section 13 may be sentenced as follows:

(1) if the value of the funds so embezzled is $2,500, or less, to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both; or

(2) if such value is more than $2,500, to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both.
Minn. Stat. § 18G.01 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 18G / Section 18G.01
§ 18G.01 PLANT PROTECTION; POWERS OF COMMISSIONER.
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter authorizes the commissioner to abate, suppress, eradicate, prevent, or otherwise regulate the introduction or establishment of plant pests that threaten Minnesota's agricultural, forest, or horticultural interests or the general ecological quality of the state.

(b) The commissioner may employ entomologists, plant pathologists, and other qualified employees necessary to administer and enforce this chapter.
Minn. Stat. § 174.21 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 174 / Section 174.21
§ 174.21 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT; PURPOSE.
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of sections 174.21 to 174.27 to:

(1) provide access to transit for persons who have no alternative mode of transit available;

(2) increase the efficiency and productivity of public transportation systems;

(3) alleviate problems of automobile congestion and energy consumption and promote desirable land use where such activities are cost-effective;

(4) maintain a state commitment to public transportation; and

(5) meet the needs of individual transit systems to the extent they are consistent with the other objectives stated above.
Minn. Stat. § 518C.309 — MN Code / Part 517_519A / Chapter 518C / Section 518C.309
§ 518C.309 PRIVATE COUNSEL.
Status: in_force

An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.
Minn. Stat. § 61A.59 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 61A / Section 61A.59
§ 61A.59 ENFORCEMENT; EFFECT OF COMPLIANCE.
Status: in_force

(a) An agent, broker, or insurer shall not recommend the replacement or conservation of an existing policy or contract by use of a substantially inaccurate presentation or comparison of an existing policy's or contract's premiums and benefits or dividends and values, if any. An insurer, agent, representative, officer, or employee of the insurer failing to comply with the requirements of sections 61A.53 to 61A.60 is subject to such penalties as may be appropriate under this chapter.

(b) Patterns of action by policyholders or contract holders who purchase replacing policies or contracts from the same agent or broker, after indicating on applications that replacement is not involved, are prima facie evidence of the agent's or broker's knowledge that replacement was intended in connection with the sale of those policies, and the patterns of action are prima facie evidence of the agent's or broker's intent to violate sections 61A.53 to 61A.60 .

(c) Sections 61A.53 to 61A.60 do not prohibit the use of additional material other than that which is required that does not violate those sections or any other statute or rule.

(d) Compliance by an insurer, agent, or broker with sections 61A.53 to 61A.60 does not limit any cause of action or other remedies that the insured may otherwise have against an insurer, agent, or broker. In a proceeding in which the insured's knowledge or understanding is an issue, compliance with those sections may be admitted as evidence on that issue, but shall not be conclusive.
Minn. Stat. § 116A.10 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 116A / Section 116A.10
§ 116A.10 ENGINEER'S SURVEY AND EXAMINATION.
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of the order calling for a detailed survey, the engineer shall prepare the complete set of plans, specifications and estimates of cost, and shall make a complete report in duplicate of the work and recommendations to the board or court, including therein all maps and profiles, and shall file the report with the auditor or court administrator. If the report is filed with the court administrator, a complete copy also shall be filed with the auditor of each county affected. After final acceptance of the system, the engineer shall make revisions of the plan, profiles and designs of structures to show the project as actually constructed on the original tracings, and shall file the revisions in duplicate with the auditor or court administrator. When more economical construction will result, the engineer may recommend that the work be divided into sections and let separately, and may recommend the time and manner in which the work or any section shall be done.
Minn. Stat. § 611.364 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 611 / Section 611.364
§ 611.364 PREHEARING SETTLEMENTS AND HEARING.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Prehearing settlements. The panel may set a prehearing settlement conference date. At this conference, the parties must make a good faith attempt to reach a settlement in the case. If the parties agree, they may present the panel with a joint motion for summary disposition and no further hearings are required. If a settlement document is approved by the panel, it has the same effect as an award under section 611.365 , for all purposes of that section.

§ Subd. 2. Hearing. (a) If the parties are unable to reach a settlement, the panel must hold an evidentiary hearing to determine the amount of damages to be awarded to the claimant. The panel may consider any evidence and argument submitted by the parties, including affidavits, documentation, and oral and written arguments. The panel is bound by any fact or damage amount established by the stipulation of the parties. (b) Hearings and records relating to the hearing are open to the public, except where, in the interest of justice, the panel orders a hearing closed or a record sealed.