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Minn. Stat. § 206.805 — MN Code / Part 200_212 / Chapter 206 / Section 206.805
§ 206.805 STATE VOTING SYSTEMS CONTRACTS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Contracts required. (a) The secretary of state, with the assistance of the commissioner of administration, must establish one or more state voting systems contracts. The contracts should, if practical, include provisions for maintenance of the equipment purchased. The voting systems contracts must address precinct-based optical scan voting equipment, assistive voting technology, automatic tabulating equipment, and electronic roster equipment. The contracts must give the state a perpetual license to use and modify the software. The contracts must include provisions to escrow the software source code. Bids for voting systems and related election services must be solicited from each vendor selling or leasing voting systems that have been certified for use by the secretary of state. Bids for electronic roster equipment, software, and related services must be solicited from each vendor selling or leasing electronic roster equipment that meets the requirements of section 201.225, subdivision 2 . The contracts must be renewed from time to time. (b) Counties and municipalities may purchase or lease voting systems and obtain related election services from the state contracts. All counties and municipalities are members of the cooperative purchasing venture of the Department of Administration for the purpose of this section. For the purpose of township elections, counties must aggregate orders under contracts negotiated under this section for products and services and may apportion the costs of those products and services proportionally among the townships receiving the products and services. The county is not liable for the timely or accurate delivery of those products or services.

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 2010 c 201 s 82 ]
Minn. Stat. § 252A.14 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 252A / Section 252A.14
§ 252A.14 COMMISSIONER AS ADVISOR.
Status: in_force

The commissioner, acting through the local agency, shall seek out those persons with a developmental disability who are in need of guardianship and shall advise them as to the availability of suitable services and assistance. The provision of advice and guidance may be made without prior appointment by a court and shall not be dependent upon a finding of incompetency. The provision of services by the commissioner does not authorize the care, treatment, supervision, or any control over any person with a developmental disability.
Minn. Stat. § 124D.995 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 124D / Section 124D.995
§ 124D.995 SCHOOL UNEMPLOYMENT AID.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Account established. An account is established in the special revenue fund known as the school unemployment aid account.

§ Subd. 2. Funds deposited in account. Funds appropriated for school unemployment aid must be transferred to the school unemployment aid account in the special revenue fund.

§ Subd. 3. Money appropriated. (a) Subject to the availability of funds, money in the account is annually appropriated to the commissioner of education to reimburse school districts; charter schools; intermediate school districts and cooperative units under section 123A.24, subdivision 2 ; the Perpich Center for Arts Education; and the Minnesota State Academies for costs associated with providing unemployment benefits to school employees under section 268.085, subdivision 7 , paragraph (b). (b) The Perpich Center for Arts Education and the Minnesota State Academies may only apply to the commissioner for reimbursement of unemployment insurance amounts in excess of the amounts specifically identified in their annual agency appropriations. (c) If the amount in the account is insufficient, the commissioner must proportionately reduce the aid payment to each recipient. Notwithstanding section 127A.45, subdivision 3 , aid payments must be paid 90 percent in the current year and ten percent in the following year on a schedule determined by the commissioner.

§ Subd. 4. Administration and monitoring. Up to $275,000 is annually appropriated from the account to the commissioner of education for costs associated with administering and monitoring the program under this section. This amount is in addition to any other amount specifically appropriated for this purpose.

§ Subd. 5. School reimbursement. The commissioner of education must reimburse school districts, charter schools, intermediate school districts and other cooperative units, the Perpich Center for Arts Education, and the Minnesota State Academies in the form and manner specified by the commissioner. The commissioner may establish procedures to ensure that any costs reimbursed under this section are excluded from other school revenue calculations.

§ Subd. 6. Expiration. This section expires on June 30, 2028, and any balance remaining in the account is canceled to the general fund.
Minn. Stat. § 341.35 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 341 / Section 341.35
§ 341.35 UNLICENSED EVENTS; MISDEMEANOR.
Status: in_force

Any person or persons who send or cause to be sent, published, or otherwise made known, any challenge to fight what is commonly known as a prize fight, or engage in any public combative sport match or contest, with or without gloves, for any prize, reward, or compensation, or for which any admission fee is charged directly or indirectly, or go into training preparatory for the fight, exhibition, or contest, or act as a trainer, aider, abettor, backer, umpire, referee, second, surgeon, assistant, or attendant at the fight, exhibition, or contest, or in any preparation for same, and any owner or lessee of any ground, building, or structure of any kind permitting the same to be used for any fight, exhibition, or contest, is guilty of a misdemeanor unless the licenses required for the holding of the fight, exhibition, or contest have been issued by the commissioner in compliance with the rules adopted by it.
Minn. Stat. § 617.295 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 617 / Section 617.295
§ 617.295 EXEMPTIONS.
Status: in_force

The following are exempt from criminal or other action hereunder:

(1) recognized and established schools, churches, museums, medical clinics and physicians, hospitals, public libraries, governmental agencies or quasi governmental sponsored organizations, and persons acting in their capacity as employees or agents of such organization. For the purpose of this section "recognized and established" shall mean an organization or agency having a full time faculty and diversified curriculum in the case of a school; a church affiliated with a national or regional denomination; a licensed physician or psychiatrist or clinic of licensed physicians or psychiatrists; and in all other exempt organizations shall refer only to income tax exempted organizations which are supported in whole or in part by tax funds or which receive at least one-third of their support from publicly donated funds;

(2) individuals in a parental relationship with the minor; and

(3) motion picture machine operators, stagehands, or other theatre employees such as cashiers, doorkeepers, ushers, and concession employees, if such person or persons have no financial interest in the entertainment presented other than the salary or wage, or in any theatre or place where such employee has no financial interest when the employee's services are obtained solely for salary or wage; provided, that such employee is under the direct supervision of a theatre manager who is a resident of this state and who is not exempt from action under sections 617.291 to 617.297 .
Minn. Stat. § 617.92 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 617 / Section 617.92
§ 617.92 PUBLIC NUISANCE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Gang activities. A criminal gang that continuously or regularly engages in gang activities is a public nuisance.

§ Subd. 2. Use of place. The continuous or regular use of a place by a lessee or tenant to engage in or allow gang activity by a criminal gang that is knowingly permitted by the owner or a person who is responsible for maintaining the place on behalf of the owner is a public nuisance.
Minn. Stat. § 275.02 — MN Code / Part 272_289 / Chapter 275 / Section 275.02
§ 275.02 STATE LEVY FOR BONDED DEBT; CERTIFICATION OF TAX RATE.
Status: in_force

A state tax for bonded debt pursuant to the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, shall be levied on the tax capacity of all taxable property in the state. The rate of the tax shall be certified by the state auditor to each county auditor on or before November 1 annually. The tax under this section is not treated as a local tax rate under section 469.177 .
Minn. Stat. § 121A.29 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 121A / Section 121A.29
§ 121A.29 REPORTING; CHEMICAL ABUSE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Teacher's duty. A teacher in a nonpublic school participating in a school district chemical use program, or a public school teacher, who knows or has reason to believe that a student is using, possessing, or transferring alcohol or a controlled substance while on the school premises or involved in school-related activities, shall immediately notify the school's chemical abuse preassessment team of this information. A teacher who complies with this section shall be defended and indemnified under section 466.07, subdivision 1 , in any action for damages arising out of the compliance.

§ Subd. 2. Other reports. Nothing in this section prevents a teacher or any other school employee from reporting to a law enforcement agency any violation of law occurring on school premises or at school sponsored events.
Minn. Stat. § 428B.09 — MN Code / Part 426_435 / Chapter 428B / Section 428B.09
§ 428B.09 DISESTABLISHMENT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Procedure for disestablishment. An ordinance adopted under this chapter must provide a 30-day period each year in which business owners subject to the service charge may request disestablishment of the district. Beginning one year after establishment of the tourism improvement district, an annual 30-day period of disestablishment begins with the anniversary of the date of establishment. Upon submission of a petition from impacted business owners, the municipality may disestablish a tourism improvement district by adopting an ordinance after holding a public hearing on the disestablishment. Prior to the hearing, the municipality must publish notice of the hearing on disestablishment in at least two issues of the municipality's official newspaper. The two publications must be two weeks apart and the municipality must hold the hearing at least three days after the last publication. Not less than ten days before the hearing, the municipality must mail, or deliver by electronic means, notice to the business owner of each business subject to the service charge. The notice must include: (1) the time and place of the hearing; (2) a statement that all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the hearing regarding disestablishment; (3) the reason for disestablishment; and (4) a proposal to dispose of any assets acquired with the revenues of the service charge imposed under the tourism improvement district.

§ Subd. 2. Objection. An ordinance disestablishing the tourism improvement district becomes effective following the notice and veto requirements in section 428B.08 .

§ Subd. 3. Refund to business owners. (a) Upon the disestablishment of a tourism improvement district, any remaining revenues derived from the service charge, or any revenues derived from the sale of assets acquired with the service charge revenues, shall be refunded to business owners located and operating within the tourism improvement district in which service charges were imposed by applying the same method and basis that was used to calculate the service charges levied in the fiscal year in which the district is disestablished. (b) If the disestablishment occurs before the service charge is imposed for the fiscal year, the method and basis that was used to calculate the service charge imposed in the immediate prior fiscal year shall be used to calculate the amount of a refund, if any.
Minn. Stat. § 167.51 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 167 / Section 167.51
§ 167.51 TRUNK HIGHWAY BOND ACCOUNT; TRANSFERS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Account; appropriation. The commissioner of management and budget shall maintain in the state bond fund a separate account which shall be designated the Minnesota trunk highway bond account. On the first day of December of each year there shall be transferred from the trunk highway fund to the Minnesota trunk highway bond account a sum sufficient, with all money previously transferred to such account, and all income from the investment of such money, to pay all principal and interest then and theretofore due and to become due within the next ensuing year and to and including July 1 in the second ensuing year on Minnesota trunk highway bonds. There is annually appropriated from the trunk highway fund a sum of money sufficient to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.

§ Subd. 2. Transfers. All money transferred from the trunk highway fund or from any other source to the Minnesota trunk highway bond account and all income from the investment thereof shall be available for the payment of outstanding state trunk highway bonds and interest thereon, whether or not issued pursuant to section 167.50 , in the same manner as the proceeds of taxes paid into the trunk highway fund, and so much thereof as may be necessary is appropriated for such payments. The legislature may appropriate and transfer to the Minnesota trunk highway bond account, for the payment of such trunk highway bonds and interest thereon, any other moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. The commissioner of management and budget is directed to make the appropriate entries in the accounts of the respective funds.
Minn. Stat. § 62A.616 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 62A / Section 62A.616
§ 62A.616 COVERAGE FOR NURSING HOME CARE FOR TERMINALLY ILL AND OTHER SERVICES.
Status: in_force

An insurer may offer a health plan that covers nursing home care for the terminally ill, personal care attendants, and hospice care. For the purposes of this section, "terminally ill" means a diagnosis certified by a physician that a person has less than six months to live.
Minn. Stat. § 115A.1461 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 115A / Section 115A.1461
§ 115A.1461 DEPOSIT RETURN SYSTEM.
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intent of the legislature that if a bottle deposit return system is enacted in the future, it will be harmonized with sections 115A.144 to 115A.1463 in a manner that ensures that:

(1) materials covered in that system are exempt from sections 115A.144 to 115A.1463 or related financial obligations are reduced;

(2) colocation of drop-off collection sites is maximized;

(3) education and outreach is integrated between the two programs; and

(4) waste reduction and reuse strategies are prioritized between the two programs.

(b) Any implementation of a deposit return system must include a two-year transition period before the expiration of the currently approved stewardship plan and be conducted in a manner that does not create sudden and significant operational or financial disruption to the implementation of a stewardship plan under section 115A.1451 , including provisions of recycling or reuse services contained in the plan.
Minn. Stat. § 393.02 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 393 / Section 393.02
§ 393.02 OATH.
Status: in_force

Each member of the local social services agency, other than those holding some other public office for which they have qualified, shall take the oath of office prescribed in section 358.05 and file same in the office of the auditor of the county for which such member was appointed. No person shall be qualified to act as a member of the local social services agency until such oath has been filed.
Minn. Stat. § 137.43 — MN Code / Part 135A_137 / Chapter 137 / Section 137.43
§ 137.43 SUBSTITUTE PHYSICIAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Establishment. The Board of Regents, through the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, is requested to establish and administer a substitute physician (locum tenens and emergency room coverage) demonstration project at up to four rural demonstration sites within the state. The Academic Health Center is requested to coordinate the administration of the project with the commissioner of health and the Office of Rural Health and Primary Health Care.

§ Subd. 2. Project activities. The project must: (1) encourage physicians to serve as substitute physicians for the demonstration sites; (2) provide a central register of physicians interested in serving as substitute physicians at the demonstration sites; (3) provide a referral service for requests from demonstration sites for substitute physicians; and (4) provide substitute physician services at rates that reflect the administrative savings resulting from centralized referral and credentialing.

§ Subd. 3. Credentialing; professional education. The Academic Health Center is requested to credential persons desiring to serve as substitute physicians. The Academic Health Center may employ substitute physicians serving in the demonstration project as temporary clinical faculty and may provide substitute physicians with additional opportunities for professional education and interaction.

§ Subd. 4. Demonstration sites. The Academic Health Center is requested to designate up to four rural communities as demonstration sites for the project. The Academic Health Center is requested to choose sites based on a community's need for substitute physician services and the willingness of the community to work cooperatively with the Academic Health Center and participate in the demonstration project evaluation.
Minn. Stat. § 60D.56 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 60D / Section 60D.56
§ 60D.56 CONTENTS OF ORSA SUMMARY REPORT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Preparation and documentation. The ORSA Summary Report shall be prepared by the insurer consistent with the ORSA Guidance Manual, subject to the requirements of subdivision 2. Documentation and supporting information shall be maintained by the insurer and made available upon examination or upon request of the commissioner.

§ Subd. 2. Review. The review of the ORSA Summary Report, and any additional requests for information, shall be made by the commissioner using similar procedures currently used in the analysis and examination of multistate or global insurers and insurance groups.
Minn. Stat. § 88.39 — MN Code / Part 88_91 / Chapter 88 / Section 88.39
§ 88.39 WORK OF IMPROVEMENT; DUTIES OF ENGINEERS; PAYMENTS TO CONTRACTORS.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the engineer from time to time as occasion may require to visit the premises and examine the work performed by the contractor and when and as often as ten percent or more of the work is completed the engineer may issue a certificate to the contractor and a duplicate to the county auditor, therein certifying the amount of work that has been done by the contractor and the value thereof. Upon the filing by the contractor of such certificate with the county auditor, the auditor may draw a warrant in favor of the contractor for a sum not to exceed 75 percent of the contract price of the work done since the last report. When the contractor shall have notified the engineer of the completion of the work, the engineer shall make careful examination and report findings of fact to the county auditor; and, on finding the contract to be completed in accordance with the terms thereof, the engineer shall so certify. Thereupon the county auditor shall notify the owners of the land that a hearing will be had upon the report of the engineer that the contract is completed, which hearing shall be held by the county board at the next meeting following the filing of the report, if not less than 15 days thereafter; otherwise, as soon as possible. At the hearing all parties interested may appear before the county board; and, if the county board shall find the contract fully completed, it shall order payment of the balance owing under the contract.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-103 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.2-103
§ 524.2-103 SHARE OF HEIRS OTHER THAN SURVIVING SPOUSE.
Status: in_force

Any part of the intestate estate not passing to the decedent's surviving spouse under section 524.2-102 , or the entire intestate estate if there is no surviving spouse, passes in the following order to the individuals designated below who survive the decedent:

(1) to the decedent's descendants by representation;

(2) if there is no surviving descendant, to the decedent's parents equally if both survive, or to the surviving parent;

(3) if there is no surviving descendant or parent, to the descendants of the decedent's parents or either of them by representation;

(4) if there is no surviving descendant, parent, or descendant of a parent, but the decedent is survived by one or more grandparents or descendants of grandparents, half of the estate passes to the decedent's paternal grandparents equally if both survive, or to the surviving paternal grandparent, or to the descendants of the decedent's paternal grandparents or either of them if both are deceased, the descendants taking by representation; and the other half passes to the decedent's maternal relatives in the same manner; but if there is no surviving grandparent or descendant of a grandparent on either the paternal or the maternal side, the entire estate passes to the decedent's relatives on the other side in the same manner as the half;

(5) if there is no surviving descendant, parent, descendant of a parent, grandparent, or descendant of a grandparent, to the next of kin in equal degree, except that when there are two or more collateral kindred in equal degree claiming through different ancestors, those who claim through the nearest ancestor shall take to the exclusion of those claiming through an ancestor more remote.