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Minn. Stat. § 222.56 — MN Code / Part 218_222 / Chapter 222 / Section 222.56
§ 222.56 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Scope. For purposes of sections 222.55 to 222.62 the terms defined in this section have the meanings given.

§ Subd. 1a. Account. "Account" means the rail user loan guarantee account created by section 222.57 .

§ Subd. 2. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of transportation.

§ Subd. 3. [Renumbered subd 1a]

§ Subd. 3a. Guarantee. "Guarantee" means a personal or corporate obligation to pay the loan.

§ Subd. 4. Lender. "Lender" means any state or federally chartered bank, or in the case of revenue bonds issued under chapter 469, the municipality, county, or rural development financing authority.

§ Subd. 5. Loan. "Loan" means a loan or advance of credit provided by a financial institution to (1) either a rail user or rail carrier for participation in contracts for rail line or rolling stock rehabilitation, acquisition, or installation, or for paying the costs of capital improvements necessary to improve rail service or reduce the impact of discontinuance of rail service, or (2) a rail carrier for rehabilitation of locomotives.

§ Subd. 6. [Renumbered subd 3a]

§ Subd. 7. [Renumbered subd 8a]

§ Subd. 8. Rail carrier. "Rail carrier" means a common carrier by rail engaged in rail transportation of people, goods, or products for hire.

§ Subd. 8a. Rail user. "Rail user" has the meaning given that term in section 222.48, subdivision 6 .

§ Subd. 9. Rolling stock. "Rolling stock" means railcars, machinery, and equipment used by a rail carrier to move people, goods, and products, but does not include maintenance of way equipment or tools used in the maintenance or upgrade of track.
Minn. Stat. § 325E.51 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325E / Section 325E.51
§ 325E.51 LICENSING NEGOTIATIONS.
Status: in_force

No performing rights society shall enter into, or offer to enter into, a contract for the payment of royalties by a proprietor unless at the time of the offer, or any time thereafter, but no later than 72 hours prior to the execution of that contract, it provides to the proprietor, in writing, the following:

(1) a schedule of the rates and terms of royalties under the contract;

(2) upon the request of the proprietor, the opportunity to review the most current available list of the members or affiliates represented by the society; and

(3) notice that it will make available, upon written request of any proprietor, at the sole expense of the proprietor, the most current available listing of the copyrighted musical works in the performing rights society's repertory, provided that the notice shall specify the means by which the information can be secured.
Minn. Stat. § 176.312 — MN Code / Part 175_187 / Chapter 176 / Section 176.312
§ 176.312 AFFIDAVITS OF PREJUDICE AND PETITIONS FOR REASSIGNMENT.
Status: in_force

In accordance with rules adopted by the chief administrative law judge, an affidavit of prejudice for cause may be filed by each party to the claim against a compensation judge assigned to hear a case.

A petition for reassignment of a case to a different compensation judge for hearing may be filed once, in any case, by each party to the claim within 20 days after the filing party has received notice of the assigned judge. Upon receipt of a timely petition for reassignment, the chief administrative law judge shall assign the case to another judge.

An affidavit of prejudice or a petition for reassignment shall be filed with the chief administrative law judge and shall not result in the continuance or delay of a hearing scheduled under section 176.341 .

This section does not apply to prehearing, settlement conferences, or administrative conferences.
Minn. Stat. § 244.42 — MN Code / Part 241_244 / Chapter 244 / Section 244.42
§ 244.42 COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND INDIVIDUALIZED REHABILITATION PLAN REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Comprehensive assessment. (a) The commissioner must develop a comprehensive assessment process for each person who: (1) is committed to the commissioner's custody and confined in a state correctional facility on or after January 1, 2025; and (2) has 365 or more days remaining until the person's scheduled supervised release date or parole eligibility date. (b) As part of the assessment process, the commissioner must take into account appropriate rehabilitative programs under section 244.03 .

§ Subd. 2. Individualized rehabilitation plan. After completing the assessment process, the commissioner must ensure the development of an individualized rehabilitation plan, along with identified goals, for every person committed to the commissioner's custody. The individualized rehabilitation plan must be holistic in nature by identifying intended outcomes for addressing: (1) the incarcerated person's needs and risk factors; (2) the person's identified strengths; and (3) available and needed community supports, including victim safety considerations as required under section 244.47 , if applicable.

§ Subd. 3. Victim input. (a) If an individual is committed to the commissioner's custody for a crime listed in section 609.02, subdivision 16 , the commissioner must make reasonable efforts to notify a victim of the opportunity to provide input during the assessment and rehabilitation plan process. Victim input may include: (1) a summary of victim concerns relative to release; (2) concerns related to victim safety during the committed individual's term of imprisonment; or (3) requests for imposing victim safety protocols as additional conditions of imprisonment or supervised release. (b) The commissioner must consider all victim input statements when developing an individualized rehabilitation plan and establishing conditions governing confinement or release.

§ Subd. 4. Transition and release plan. For an incarcerated person with less than 365 days remaining until the person's supervised release date, the commissioner, in consultation with the incarcerated person, must develop a transition and release plan.

§ Subd. 5. Scope of act. This act is separate and distinct from other legislatively authorized release programs, including the challenge incarceration program, work release, conditional medical release, or the program for the conditional release of nonviolent controlled substance offenders.
Minn. Stat. § 214.122 — MN Code / Part 214_215 / Chapter 214 / Section 214.122
§ 214.122 INFORMATION PROVISION; PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

(a) The Board of Medical Practice and the Board of Nursing shall at least annually inform licensees who are authorized to prescribe prescription drugs of the availability of the Board of Pharmacy's website that contains information on resources and programs to assist patients with the cost of prescription drugs. The boards shall provide licensees with the website address established by the Board of Pharmacy under section 151.06, subdivision 6 , and the materials described under section 151.06, subdivision 6 , paragraph (b). The boards shall also ensure that licensees are provided with information on the insulin safety net program established in section 151.74 , and a link to the Board of Pharmacy's information sheet on how patients can apply for the program.

(b) Licensees must make available to patients information on sources of lower cost prescription drugs, including information on the availability of the website established by the Board of Pharmacy under section 151.06, subdivision 6 .
Minn. Stat. § 324.08 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 324 / Section 324.08
§ 324.08 ACTS PROHIBITED; DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Advertising disclosures. No catalog offering fine prints for sale in this state shall be knowingly published or distributed, or both, unless it clearly and conspicuously discloses the relevant informational detail as required by section 324.09 concerning each edition of the prints so offered or states that the relevant information is available on request.

§ Subd. 2. Advertising disclaimer. If the person offering fine prints by means of a catalog disclaims knowledge as to any relevant detail referred to in section 324.09 , that person shall so state the information is unknown or not available. Describing the edition as an edition of "reproductions" eliminates the need to furnish further informational details unless the edition was allegedly published in a numbered, or limited edition, and signed by the artist, in which case all of the informational details are required to be furnished.

§ Subd. 3. Sales disclosures. No fine print may be knowingly sold in this state by any person unless a written invoice or receipt for the purchase price or a certificate furnished to the purchaser clearly and conspicuously discloses all of the relevant informational details required under section 324.09 ; or the seller states or clearly and conspicuously posts that the relevant information is available on request.

§ Subd. 4. Sales disclaimer. If the seller disclaims knowledge as to any relevant detail referred to in section 324.09 , the seller shall so state the information is unknown or not available. Describing the print as a "reproduction" eliminates the need to furnish information details unless it was allegedly published in a numbered, or limited edition, and signed by the artist, in which case all of the informational details are required to be furnished.
Minn. Stat. § 16A.724 — MN Code / Part 16A_16E / Chapter 16A / Section 16A.724
§ 16A.724 HEALTH CARE ACCESS FUND.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Creation of fund. A health care access fund is created in the state treasury. The fund is a direct appropriated special revenue fund. The commissioner shall deposit to the credit of the fund money made available to the fund. Notwithstanding section 11A.20 , after June 30, 1997, all investment income and all investment losses attributable to the investment of the health care access fund not currently needed shall be credited to the health care access fund.

§ Subd. 2. MS 2022 [Repealed, 1Sp2021 c 7 art 1 s 40 ]

§ Subd. 3. MinnesotaCare federal receipts. All federal funding received by Minnesota for implementation and administration of MinnesotaCare as a basic health program, as authorized in section 1331 of the Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, as amended by Public Law 111-152, is appropriated to the commissioner of human services to be used only for the MinnesotaCare program under chapter 256L. Federal funding that is received for implementing and administering MinnesotaCare as a basic health program shall be used only for that program to purchase health care coverage for enrollees and reduce enrollee premiums and cost-sharing or provide additional enrollee benefits.

§ Subd. 4. MinnesotaCare funding. The commissioner of human services may expend money appropriated from the health care access fund for MinnesotaCare in either year of the biennium.
Minn. Stat. § 221.178 — MN Code / Part 218_222 / Chapter 221 / Section 221.178
§ 221.178 PASSENGER CARRIER; CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Carrier to conduct background check. A motor carrier of passengers shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, an initial background check of a person the carrier hires or with whom the carrier contracts whose duties include operating a vehicle used to transport passengers. A subsequent background check must be conducted every three years.

§ Subd. 2. Scope and procedures of check. Sections 299C.67 , 299C.68 , 299C.70 , and 299C.71 apply to background checks conducted under subdivision 1. For purposes of this section, when used in sections 299C.67 , 299C.68 , 299C.70 , and 299C.71 , the term "owner" refers to a motor carrier of passengers and the term "manager" refers to a driver. A motor carrier of passengers may not use a driver to operate a vehicle providing passenger transportation if the background check response shows that the driver has been convicted of a background check crime defined in section 299C.67, subdivision 2 , paragraph (a) or (b).

§ Subd. 3. Records. A carrier shall keep a record, identified by the employee's name, of a background check conducted under this section. A record must be made available to the commissioner upon request.

§ Subd. 4. Exception. This section does not apply to a driver who holds a valid driver's license with a school bus endorsement.
Minn. Stat. § 561.08 — MN Code / Part 553_566 / Chapter 561 / Section 561.08
§ 561.08 OWNER OF PROPERTY MAY DISTRAIN.
Status: in_force

The owner or occupant of lands in any city may distrain any of such animals or fowls doing damage on such lands, and thereupon such proceedings as to these animals or fowls and the disposition thereof and the damage done thereby as are or shall be provided by the general laws of this state relating to the distraining by the owner or occupant of lands, of any beast doing damage thereon, the disposition of the beast distrained, and the appraisal of the damages, and the collection thereof.
Minn. Stat. § 84B.07 — MN Code / Part 84A_84D / Chapter 84B / Section 84B.07
§ 84B.07 PAYMENT IN LIEU OF PROPERTY TAXES.
Status: in_force

When a tract or lot of privately owned property is acquired by the federal government for inclusion within Voyageurs National Park, and when, as a result of the acquisition, taxes are no longer assessed against the tract or lot or any improvements thereon, the following amount shall be paid by the commissioner of natural resources to the county of Koochiching or St. Louis for distribution to the taxing districts: In the first year after taxes are last required to be paid on the property, 80 percent of the last required payment; in the second year after taxes are last required to be paid on the property, 60 percent of the last required payment; in the third year after taxes are last required to be paid on the property, 40 percent of the last required payment; in the fourth year after taxes are last required to be paid on the property, 20 percent of the last required payment. The county auditor shall certify to the commissioner of natural resources the total amount due to a county on or before March 30 of the year in which money must be paid pursuant to this section. Money received by a county pursuant to this subdivision shall be distributed to the various taxing districts in the same proportion as the levy of a taxing district bears to the total levy on the property in the last year taxes were required to be paid on the property. In no case shall the total amount of money paid to Koochiching County exceed $19,000, and in no case shall the total amount of money paid to St. Louis County exceed $111,000.
Minn. Stat. § 53A.11 — MN Code / Part 46_59 / Chapter 53A / Section 53A.11
§ 53A.11 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT; ANNUAL REPORT.
Status: in_force

The licensee shall keep and use in the licensee's business the books, accounts, and records that will enable the commissioner to determine whether the licensee is complying with this chapter and with the rules adopted by the commissioner. A licensee shall preserve the books, accounts, and records for at least two years after making the final entry.
Minn. Stat. § 299C.14 — MN Code / Part 299A_299N / Chapter 299C / Section 299C.14
§ 299C.14 INFORMATION ON RELEASED PRISONER.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the officials having charge of the penal institutions of the state or the release of prisoners therefrom to furnish to the bureau, as the superintendent may require, finger and thumb prints, photographs, distinctive physical mark identification data, other identification data, modus operandi reports, and criminal records of prisoners heretofore, now, or hereafter confined in such penal institutions, together with the period of their service and the time, terms, and conditions of their discharge. This duty to furnish information includes, but is not limited to, requests for fingerprints as the superintendent of the bureau deems necessary to maintain and ensure the accuracy of the bureau's criminal history files, to reduce the number of suspense files, or to comply with the mandates of section 299C.111 relating to the reduction of the number of suspense files where a disposition record is received that cannot be linked to an arrest record. The officials shall electronically enter the information in a bureau-managed searchable database within 24 hours of a prisoner's date of release or discharge. The bureau shall convert the information into an electronic format and enter it into the searchable database within three business days of the date of receipt, if the information is not entered by the officials.
Minn. Stat. § 1.1485 — MN Code / Part 1_2A / Chapter 1 / Section 1.1485
§ 1.1485 STATE SOIL.
Status: in_force

Lester is designated as the official soil of the state of Minnesota.
Minn. Stat. § 72A.51 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 72A / Section 72A.51
§ 72A.51 RIGHT TO CANCEL.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Date of purchase defined. For the purposes of this section and section 72A.52 "date of purchase" means the date on which the purchaser receives a copy of the policy or contract.

§ Subd. 2. Return of policy or contract; notice. Any individual person may cancel an individual policy of insurance against loss or damage by reason of the sickness of the assured or the assured's dependents, a nonprofit health service plan contract providing benefits for hospital, surgical and medical care, a health maintenance organization subscriber contract, or a policy of insurance authorized by section 60A.06, subdivision 1 , clause (4), except Medicare-related coverage as defined in section 62A.3099, subdivision 17 , and long-term care insurance as defined in section 62S.01, subdivision 18 , by returning the policy or contract and by giving written notice of cancellation any time before midnight of the tenth day following the date of purchase. Notice of cancellation may be given personally or by mail. The policy or contract may be returned personally or by mail. If by mail, the notice or return of the policy or contract is effective upon being postmarked, properly addressed and postage prepaid.

§ Subd. 3. Refund of consideration. With the exception of a variable annuity contract issued pursuant to sections 61A.13 to 61A.21 , a person's cancellation of an insurance policy or contract under this section and section 72A.52 is without liability and the person is entitled to a refund of the entire consideration paid for the policy or contract within ten days after notice of cancellation and the returned policy or contract are received by the insurer or its agent. Cancellation under this section and section 72A.52 of a variable annuity contract issued pursuant to sections 61A.13 to 61A.21 shall entitle a person to an amount equal to the sum of (a) the difference between the premiums paid including any contract fees or other charges and the amounts allocated to any separate accounts under the contract and (b) the cash value of the contract, or, if the contract does not have a cash value, the reserve for the contract, on the date the returned contract is received by the insurer or its agent. Cancellation of an insurance policy or contract under this section or section 72A.52 makes the policy or contract void from its inception.

§ Subd. 4. Waiver or surrender prohibited. A person may not waive or surrender a right to cancel an insurance policy or contract under this section and section 72A.52 .
Minn. Stat. § 123B.74 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 123B / Section 123B.74
§ 123B.74 EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

In any municipal corporation or district in this state where the governing body or board has the right, power, and authority to purchase sites for school buildings without authorization by the voters at a regular or special meeting or election called for that purpose, such governing body or school board shall have the right, power, and authority to condemn lands under the power of eminent domain for sites and grounds for public school buildings. The governing body or board shall exercise such power and authority pursuant to the terms and provisions of chapter 117. Any such corporation or district shall have the right, upon the filing of the award of the commissioners provided for in chapter 117, and upon giving the notice therein required of the filing of such award, to enter upon and appropriate the lands so condemned without giving of any bond. In case of such entry and appropriation, such corporation or district shall be bound absolutely to pay all damages awarded, either by the commissioners or by the court upon appeal therefrom, together with all costs and expenses adjudged against it therein within the time specified in chapter 117. In case any such corporation or district shall appeal from the award of commissioners appointed pursuant to any such condemnation proceedings, such corporation or school district shall not be required to give or file any appeal bond therein.
Minn. Stat. § 521A.14 — MN Code / Part 520_523 / Chapter 521A / Section 521A.14
§ 521A.14 DISCLOSURE OF DIGITAL ASSETS TO CONSERVATOR OF PROTECTED PERSON.
Status: in_force

(a) After an opportunity for a hearing under chapter 524, the court may grant a conservator access to the digital assets of a protected person.

(b) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or directed by the user, a custodian shall disclose to a conservator the catalog of electronic communications sent or received by a protected person and any digital assets, other than the content of electronic communications, in which the protected person has a right or interest if the conservator gives the custodian:

(1) a written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form;

(2) a certified copy of the court order that gives the conservator authority over the digital assets of the protected person; and

(3) if requested by the custodian:

(i) a number, username, address, or other unique subscriber or account identifier assigned by the custodian to identify the account of the protected person; or

(ii) evidence linking the account to the protected person.

(c) A conservator with general authority to manage the assets of a protected person may request a custodian of the digital assets of the protected person to suspend or terminate an account of the protected person for good cause. A request made under this section must be accompanied by a certified copy of the court order giving the conservator authority over the protected person's property.
Minn. Stat. § 59C.12 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 59C / Section 59C.12
§ 59C.12 APPLICABILITY.
Status: in_force

This chapter applies to all vehicle protection products sold or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2008. The failure of any person to comply with this chapter before January 1, 2008, is not admissible in any court proceeding, administrative proceeding, arbitration, or alternative dispute resolution proceeding and may not otherwise be used to prove that the action of any person or the affected vehicle protection product was unlawful or otherwise improper. The adoption of this chapter does not imply that a vehicle protection product warranty was insurance before January 1, 2008. Nothing in this section may be construed to require the application of the penalty provisions where this section is not applicable.
Minn. Stat. § 609.715 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 609 / Section 609.715
§ 609.715 PRESENCE AT UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY.
Status: in_force

Whoever without lawful purpose is present at the place of an unlawful assembly and refuses to leave when so directed by a law enforcement officer is guilty of a misdemeanor.