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Minn. Stat. § 524.2-405 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.2-405
§ 524.2-405 SOURCE, DETERMINATION, AND DOCUMENTATION.
Status: in_force

(a) If the estate is otherwise sufficient, property specifically devised may not be used to satisfy rights to exempt property. Subject to this restriction, the surviving spouse, guardians or conservators of minor children, or children who are adults may select property of the estate as exempt property. The personal representative may make those selections if the surviving spouse, the children, or the guardians of the minor children are unable or fail to do so within a reasonable time or there is no guardian of a minor child.

(b) The personal representative may execute an instrument or deed of distribution to establish the ownership of property taken as exempt property.

(c) The personal representative or an interested person aggrieved by any selection, determination, payment, proposed payment, or failure to act under this section may petition the court for appropriate relief, which may include a selection or determination under this section other than that which the surviving spouse, guardians or conservators of minor children, children who are adults, or the personal representative selected, could have selected, determined, or could have determined.
Minn. Stat. § 16B.49 — MN Code / Part 16A_16E / Chapter 16B / Section 16B.49
§ 16B.49 CENTRAL MAILING SYSTEM.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner shall maintain and operate for state agencies, departments, institutions, and offices a central mail handling unit. Official, outgoing mail for units in St. Paul must be delivered unstamped to the unit. The unit shall also operate an interoffice mail distribution system. The department may add personnel and acquire equipment that may be necessary to operate the unit efficiently and cost-effectively. Account must be kept of the postage required on that mail, which is then a proper charge against the agency delivering the mail. To provide funds for the payment of postage, each agency shall make advance payments to the commissioner sufficient to cover its postage obligations for at least 60 days. For purposes of this section, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is a state agency.

(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) or section 16C.09 , the commissioner may approve the performance of mail-related functions by an agency outside the state's central mail-handling unit if the agency demonstrates it furthers program effectiveness, better use of services, greater efficiency, or greater economy in state government.
Minn. Stat. § 375.78 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 375 / Section 375.78
§ 375.78 AID TO POULTRY ASSOCIATIONS.
Status: in_force

A county board may make an annual appropriation of not more than $500 from the county treasury to aid any poultry association organized and existing in the county; provided, the poultry association holds at least one annual poultry exhibit and pays premiums at the exhibit in at least the amount of the appropriation.
Minn. Stat. § 196.053 — MN Code / Part 196_198 / Chapter 196 / Section 196.053
§ 196.053 ACCEPTANCE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.
Status: in_force

The commissioner is authorized to apply for and accept federal funding for purposes of this chapter.
Minn. Stat. § 197.996 — MN Code / Part 196_198 / Chapter 197 / Section 197.996
§ 197.996 AMERICAN LEGION DAY.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Purpose. The American Legion was chartered by Congress on September 16, 1919. This section is enacted to recognize the millions of American Legion veterans who have dedicated and continue to dedicate themselves to service of community, state, and nation. This section expresses the appreciation of Minnesotans for that service, on the occasion of the Legion's 90th year of existence and each year thereafter on the anniversary of its charter date.

§ Subd. 2. Dedication. September 16 is American Legion Day in Minnesota.
Minn. Stat. § 137.63 — MN Code / Part 135A_137 / Chapter 137 / Section 137.63
§ 137.63 BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH FACILITIES FUNDING PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Program established. A biomedical science research facilities funding program is established to provide appropriations to the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota for up to 75 percent of the project costs for each of four projects approved by the Board of Regents under section 137.64 , other than the clinical research facility. Appropriations to the Board of Regents for the clinical research facility are for 100 percent of the project costs for design, land acquisition, site preparation, and preconstruction services.

§ Subd. 2. Project requirements. The Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, either acting on its own or in collaboration with another private or public entity, must pay at least 25 percent of the project costs for each of four projects, other than the clinical research facility. The board must not use tuition revenue to pay for the university's share of the costs for the projects approved under section 137.64 .
Minn. Stat. § 165.04 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 165 / Section 165.04
§ 165.04 BRIDGE, CULVERT; WIDTHS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Major highway. Except for railroad-highway grade separations and single lane one directional ramp bridges, and except as hereinafter provided, all bridges and culverts on any trunk highway, county state-aid highway, or municipal state-aid street hereafter established, constructed, or improved shall be at least 24 feet wide between curbs, and approaches thereto shall be at least 28 feet wide shoulder to shoulder. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent the state, counties, or municipalities from performing ordinary repairs or maintenance on any such bridge or culvert less than 24 feet wide between curbs.

§ Subd. 2. Extraordinary repair or improvement. Upon finding it practical to do so, the commissioner may make extraordinary repairs or improvements on existing trunk highway bridges less than 24 feet wide between curbs without widening such bridges. Counties and municipalities may make extraordinary repairs or improvements on major existing bridges less than 24 feet wide between curbs, without widening such bridges, if the plans for such extraordinary repairs or improvements are first approved by the commissioner. A major bridge shall mean a bridge which, together with its approaches, is at least 75 feet in length.

§ Subd. 3. Other roads. Except for railroad-highway grade separations, all bridges, culverts, and approaches thereto on all other roads, except cartways, hereafter established, constructed, or improved shall be at least 20 feet wide, provided that in cases where salvaged material from a steel span bridge removed from a highway can be used in the erection of a steel span bridge on a county highway or town road, such bridge, so to be erected, may be less than 20 feet wide, but before such bridge is erected the plan shall first be approved by the commissioner.
Minn. Stat. § 197.23 — MN Code / Part 196_198 / Chapter 197 / Section 197.23
§ 197.23 PURCHASE OF GRAVE MARKERS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Authorization. The commissioner of veterans affairs may provide, within available funds and upon request of a county veterans service officer or any congressionally chartered veterans organization, an appropriate marker for the grave of any veteran as defined under section 197.447 . Any marker provided must be used for memorial purposes to permanently mark the grave of a veteran buried within the limits of the state.

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 2004 c 256 art 2 s 5 ]
Minn. Stat. § 375.87 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 375 / Section 375.87
§ 375.87 RADIO SYSTEMS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Establishment. A county may establish and rent, lease, construct, equip, and maintain a radio broadcasting station or stations, with land-fixed repeater stations and other necessary communication equipment, to be used for public safety communications. It may acquire land, towers, or equipment by gift, purchase, lease, exchange, condemnation, or other means for use as a site for public safety communications equipment. Public safety communications sites may be acquired by lease for a period of up to 25 years in duration. Public safety communications may include police, fire, highway maintenance, emergency medical service, local government, forestry conservation, and other communications as determined by the county board.

§ Subd. 2. Antenna site use agreements. Use of county-owned radio towers, building rooftops, lands, and easements may be made available to commercial wireless service providers or other users for the purpose of installing antennas and equipment. The county may charge site use fees for the value of the real property or structure made available and for public safety communications systems costs. In lieu of a site use fee, the county may make agreements with commercial wireless service providers or other tower owners to place county equipment on privately owned towers and may accept improvements such as tower reinforcement, reconstruction, site development, or other site improvements to the county's communications system facilities or real or personal property. Antenna site use agreements and leases may be entered into by any means available and in the manner determined by the county board, with or without advertisement for bids.
Minn. Stat. § 270C.928 — MN Code / Part 270_271 / Chapter 270C / Section 270C.928
§ 270C.928 PROCEEDINGS TO DETERMINE NET TAX CAPACITY.
Status: in_force

The proceedings provided in sections 270C.92 to 270C.927 are for determining the net tax capacity upon the basis of which taxes are spread against property, or its owner, in the first instance. The order of the commissioner, or the final order for judgment of the court of appeals on it, shall not be a bar to any defense against the taxes interposed at the time of the proceedings for judgment on them. All defenses which may be set up against the proceedings for judgment upon the taxes may be asserted notwithstanding the determination of the commissioner or the court. If the taxes are levied or extended pending review of the order of the commissioner by the court, a judgment entered upon the taxes in the tax delinquency proceedings shall not be a bar to the spreading of further taxes against the property for that year, in the event the net tax capacity of the property is raised as herein provided. In the proceedings for the collection of any taxes which include an additional levy because of the raising of the net tax capacity of any property, the owner may answer separately to the proceedings to obtain judgment for the excess levy.
Minn. Stat. § 471.71 — MN Code / Part 471_472B / Chapter 471 / Section 471.71
§ 471.71 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Terms. For the purposes of sections 471.71 to 471.83 the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to them unless the context otherwise requires.

§ Subd. 2. Municipality. "Municipality" includes cities, towns, and school districts.

§ Subd. 3. City, town, school district. "City," "town," or "school district" include only those of the class made subject to sections 471.71 to 471.83 by sections 471.72 and 471.73 .

§ Subd. 4. Unfunded indebtedness. "Unfunded indebtedness" includes all general obligations and indebtedness except bonds and except indebtedness which is payable from special assessments against benefited property.

§ Subd. 5. Year. "Year" means calendar year, except that it means "fiscal year" in the case of any school district or city as to which both of the following conditions exist: (1) in the case of a city, the charter or law under which it is organized provides for a fiscal year differing from the calendar year; in the case of a school district, the books of account are kept on the basis of a fiscal year differing from the calendar year; (2) the governing body of such city or school district shall have adopted a resolution determining that its operation under sections 471.71 to 471.83 shall be on the basis of such fiscal year and giving the date of the beginning of that year.
Minn. Stat. § 60A.953 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 60A / Section 60A.953
§ 60A.953 ENFORCEMENT; REFUSAL TO COOPERATE WITH AN INVESTIGATION.
Status: in_force

The intentional failure to provide relevant information as required by section 60A.952, subdivision 1 , or to provide notification of insurance fraud as required by section 60A.952, subdivision 2 , is punishable as a misdemeanor. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly or intentionally interfere with the enforcement of the provisions of sections 60A.951 to 60A.956 or investigation of suspected or actual violations of sections 60A.951 to 60A.956 and is punishable as a misdemeanor.
Minn. Stat. § 257.64 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 257 / Section 257.64
§ 257.64 PRETRIAL ORDERS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Permissible orders and recommendations. On the basis of the information produced at the pretrial hearing, including information as to the financial status of the parties, the court may: (a) recommend that the alleged father voluntarily acknowledge his paternity of the child if the parties have agreed on a financial settlement; or (b) recommend that the matter be compromised by an agreement among the alleged father, the mother, and the child, in which the father and child relationship is not determined but in which a defined economic obligation is undertaken by the alleged father in favor of the child and, if appropriate, in favor of the mother, subject to approval by the court. In reviewing the obligation undertaken by the alleged father in a compromise agreement, the court shall consider the best interest of the child, in the light of the applicable factors enumerated in section 518.17, subdivision 3 , discounted by the improbability, as it appears to the court, of establishing the alleged father's paternity or nonpaternity of the child in a trial of the action. In the best interest of the child, the court may order that the alleged father's identity be kept confidential. In that case, the court may designate a person or agency to receive from the alleged father and disburse on behalf of the child all amounts paid by the alleged father in fulfillment of obligations imposed on him. The child, on reaching 21 years of age or older, may petition the court to disclose the alleged father's identity. The court shall grant the petition if after considering the interests of all known persons involved, the court determines that disclosure of the information would be of greater benefit than nondisclosure.

§ Subd. 2. Agreement with recommendations. If the parties accept a recommendation made in accordance with subdivision 1, judgment shall be entered accordingly. The court shall advise all parties that pretrial recommendations are not binding and will have no effect if the recommendation is disregarded and the matter is set for trial.

§ Subd. 3. Refusal to agree with recommendations. If a party refuses to accept a recommendation made under subdivision 1 and blood or genetic tests have not been taken, the court shall require the parties to submit to blood or genetic tests. If a party refuses to accept the final recommendation the action shall be set for trial.

§ Subd. 4. Guardian ad litem. The guardian ad litem may accept or refuse to accept a recommendation under this section.

§ Subd. 5. Setting action for trial. The informal hearing may be terminated and the action set for trial if the court finds it unlikely that all parties would accept a recommendation made under subdivision 1 or 3.
Minn. Stat. § 62Q.734 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 62Q / Section 62Q.734
§ 62Q.734 EXEMPTION.
Status: in_force

Sections 62Q.735 to 62Q.739 and 62Q.74 do not apply to health plan companies whose annual Minnesota health premium revenues are less than three percent of the total annual Minnesota health premium revenues, as measured by the assessment base of the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association. For purposes of this percentage calculation, a health plan company's premiums include the Minnesota health premium revenues of its affiliates.
Minn. Stat. § 385.34 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 385 / Section 385.34
§ 385.34 TO DEPOSIT ORDERS; AUDITOR'S DUTY.
Status: in_force

The treasurer shall deposit with the auditor on the day of redemption all orders and warrants redeemed, and take the auditor's receipt therefor. The treasurer shall enter the same, with date of payment, in the register of orders paid, and credit the office daily upon the treasurer's journal and ledger with the amount thereof. The auditor shall cancel the same immediately upon the auditor's register of orders issued, and at the close of the day credit the treasurer with the same upon the auditor's journal and ledger.
Minn. Stat. § 325G.26 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325G / Section 325G.26
§ 325G.26 LIMITATION ON MEMBERSHIP PERIOD.
Status: in_force

No contract shall be valid for a term longer than 18 months from the date upon which the contract is signed. However, a club may allow a member to convert a contract into a contract for a period longer than 18 months after the member has been a member of the club for a period of at least six months. The duration of the contract shall be clearly and conspicuously disclosed in the contract in bold face type of a minimum size of 14 points.
Minn. Stat. § 144A.351 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144A / Section 144A.351
§ 144A.351 LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES AND SUPPORTS REPORT REQUIRED.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Report requirements. (a) The commissioners of health and human services, with the cooperation of counties and in consultation with stakeholders, including persons who need or are using long-term care services and supports, lead agencies, regional entities, senior, disability, and mental health organization representatives, service providers, and community members shall compile data regarding the status of the full range of long-term care services and supports for the elderly and children and adults with disabilities and mental illnesses in Minnesota. The compiled data shall include: (1) demographics and need for long-term care services and supports in Minnesota; (2) summary of county and regional reports on long-term care gaps, surpluses, imbalances, and corrective action plans; (3) status of long-term care services and related mental health services, housing options, and supports by county and region including: (i) changes in availability of the range of long-term care services and housing options; (ii) access problems, including access to the least restrictive and most integrated services and settings, regarding long-term care services; and (iii) comparative measures of long-term care services availability, including serving people in their home areas near family, and changes over time; and (4) recommendations regarding goals for the future of long-term care services and supports, policy and fiscal changes, and resource development and transition needs. (b) The commissioners of health and human services shall make the compiled data available on at least one of the department's websites.

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1Sp2017 c 6 art 1 s 54 ]
Minn. Stat. § 583.21 — MN Code / Part 570_583 / Chapter 583 / Section 583.21
§ 583.21 LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that the agricultural sector of the state's economy is under severe financial stress due to low farm commodity prices, continuing high interest rates, and reduced net farm income. The suffering agricultural economy adversely affects economic conditions for all other businesses in rural communities as well. Thousands of this state's farmers are unable to meet current payments of interest and principal payable on mortgages and other loan and land contracts and are threatened with the loss of their farmland, equipment, crops, and livestock through mortgage and lien foreclosures, cancellation of contracts for deed, and other collection actions. The agricultural economic emergency requires an orderly process with state assistance to adjust agricultural indebtedness to prevent civil unrest and to preserve the general welfare and fiscal integrity of the state.
Minn. Stat. § 110A.05 — MN Code / Part 103A_114B / Chapter 110A / Section 110A.05
§ 110A.05 LANDS INCLUDED.
Status: in_force

The lands proposed to be included within the district need not consist of contiguous parcels. A district may to the extent authorized by resolution of the governing body of the city consist of land within the limits of a city and may consist of land within the limits of any town or county, located outside the metropolitan area, as defined by section 473.121, subdivision 2 .
Minn. Stat. § 385.21 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 385 / Section 385.21
§ 385.21 ACTION AGAINST.
Status: in_force

If any county treasurer fails to make return or settlement, or to pay over all money with which the treasurer stands charged, at the time and in the manner prescribed by law, the county auditor, on receiving instructions for that purpose from the state auditor or from the county board, shall cause an action to be commenced against such treasurer and the treasurer's sureties in the district court of the county; and judgment may be rendered therein against them for the amount due from such treasurer, with interest and a penalty of ten percent thereon.
Minn. Stat. § 291.016 — MN Code / Part 289A_295 / Chapter 291 / Section 291.016
§ 291.016 MINNESOTA TAXABLE ESTATE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. General. For purposes of the tax under this chapter, the Minnesota taxable estate equals the federal taxable estate as provided under section 2051 of the Internal Revenue Code, without regard to whether the estate is subject to the federal estate tax: (1) increased by the value of any property in which the decedent had a qualifying income interest for life and for which an election was made under section 291.03 , subdivision 1d, for Minnesota estate tax purposes, but was not made for federal estate tax purposes; (2) increased by the additions under subdivision 2; and (3) decreased by the subtraction under subdivision 3.

§ Subd. 2. Additions. The following amounts, to the extent deducted in computing or otherwise excluded from the federal taxable estate, must be added in computing the Minnesota taxable estate: (1) the amount of the deduction for state death taxes allowed under section 2058 of the Internal Revenue Code; (2) the amount of the deduction for foreign death taxes allowed under section 2053(d) of the Internal Revenue Code; and (3) the aggregate amount of taxable gifts as defined in section 2503 of the Internal Revenue Code, made by the decedent within three years of the date of death. For purposes of this clause, the amount of the addition equals the value of the gift under section 2512 of the Internal Revenue Code and excludes any value of the gift included in the federal estate.

§ Subd. 3. Subtraction. (a) For estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2016, a subtraction is allowed in computing the Minnesota taxable estate, equal to the sum of: (1) the exclusion amount for the year of death under paragraph (b); and (2) the lesser of: (i) the value of qualified small business property under section 291.03, subdivision 9 , and the value of qualified farm property under section 291.03, subdivision 10 ; or (ii) $5,000,000 minus the exclusion amount for the year of death under paragraph (b). (b) The following exclusion amounts apply for the year of death: (1) $2,100,000 for decedents dying in 2017; (2) $2,400,000 for decedents dying in 2018; (3) $2,700,000 for decedents dying in 2019; and (4) $3,000,000 for decedents dying in 2020 and thereafter. (c) The subtraction under this subdivision must not reduce the Minnesota taxable estate to less than zero.