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Minn. Stat. § 375.081 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 375 / Section 375.081
§ 375.081 VACANCY IN OFFICE OF SHERIFF OR COUNTY ATTORNEY; OPTIONAL SPECIAL ELECTION.
Status: in_force

As an alternative to the appointment procedure provided in section 375.08 , a vacancy in the office of sheriff or county attorney may be filled at a special election as provided in this section. The county board may, by resolution, call for a special election to be held on a date authorized by section 205.10, subdivision 3a . The person elected at the special election must take office immediately after receipt of the certificate of election and upon filing the bond and taking the oath of office and must serve the remainder of the unexpired term. This section does not apply to a vacancy that occurs less than 84 days before the state primary in the year preceding the end of the term.
Minn. Stat. § 268B.19 — MN Code / Part 268_269 / Chapter 268B / Section 268B.19
§ 268B.19 EMPLOYER MISCONDUCT; PENALTY.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner must penalize an employer if that employer or any employee, officer, or agent of that employer is in collusion with any applicant for the purpose of assisting the applicant in receiving benefits fraudulently. The penalty is $500 or the amount of benefits determined to be overpaid, whichever is greater.

(b) The commissioner must penalize an employer if that employer or any employee, officer, or agent of that employer:

(1) made a false statement or representation knowing it to be false;

(2) made a false statement or representation without a good-faith belief as to the correctness of the statement or representation; or

(3) knowingly failed to disclose a material fact.

(c) The penalty is the greater of $500 or 50 percent of the following resulting from the employer's action:

(1) the amount of any overpaid benefits to an applicant;

(2) the amount of benefits not paid to an applicant that would otherwise have been paid; or

(3) the amount of any payment required from the employer under this chapter that was not paid.

(d) Penalties must be paid within 30 calendar days of issuance of the determination of penalty and credited to the family and medical benefit insurance account.
Minn. Stat. § 59C.08 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 59C / Section 59C.08
§ 59C.08 PROHIBITED ACTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Unless licensed as an insurance company, a vehicle protection product warrantor shall not use in its name, contracts, or literature, any of the words "insurance," "casualty," "surety," "mutual," or any other words descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business or deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety corporation, or any other vehicle protection product warrantor. A warrantor may use the term "guaranty" or similar word in the warrantor's name.

(b) A vehicle protection product seller or warrantor may not require as a condition of financing that a retail purchaser of a motor vehicle purchase a vehicle protection product.
Minn. Stat. § 573.20 — MN Code / Part 570_583 / Chapter 573 / Section 573.20
§ 573.20 DEVISEES, WHEN LIABLE; LIMITATIONS.
Status: in_force

Devisees made liable to creditors of their testator by the provisions of this chapter shall not be held liable unless it shall appear that the testator's personal assets and the real property descended to the testator's heirs were insufficient to discharge the debt, or that after due proceedings before the district court the creditor has been unable to recover the debt, or any part thereof, from the personal representative of the testator, or next of kin, legatees, or heirs. In either of these cases, the amount of the deficiency of the personal assets, and of the real property descended to satisfy the debt of the plaintiff, and the amount which the plaintiff may have failed to recover from the personal representative, next of kin, legatees, and heirs of the testator, may be recovered of the devisees, to the extent of the real property devised to them, respectively. Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the devisees for a debt of their testator which was charged by will exclusively upon the real property devised, or made payable exclusively by such devisees, or out of the real property devised before resorting to the personal property or to any other real property descended or devised.
Minn. Stat. § 237.66 — MN Code / Part 237_238 / Chapter 237 / Section 237.66
§ 237.66 DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL SERVICE OPTIONS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Notice to local residential customers. A telephone company, when a residential customer initially requests service or requests a change of service, and annually in the form of a bill insert, shall advise each residential customer of the price of all service options available to that customer. The requirement of an annual notice through a bill insert does not apply to long-distance service.

§ Subd. 1a. Notice to customer; right to require prior authorization. Each residential and commercial telecommunications carrier customer may elect to require that the telephone company serving the customer receive authorization from the customer before a request to serve that customer from a different intrastate telecommunications carrier than the carrier currently serving the customer is processed.

§ Subd. 1b. [Repealed, 1998 c 345 s 16 ]

§ Subd. 1c. Timing of notice; new customer. For new installations, a telephone company shall notify a residential or commercial customer of the right described in subdivision 1a when the customer initially requests intraexchange service. Any customer notification of the rights set forth in this section shall be provided utilizing uniform, competitively neutral language and the form, content, and style of the authorization shall be consistent with federal law and regulation and shall use language provided and approved by the public utilities commission.

§ Subd. 1d. Change of election. A customer may change the election under subdivision 1a at any time by notifying the telephone company of that decision. No separate charge may be imposed on the customer for electing to exercise the right described in subdivision 1a or to change that election, but a telephone company may recover in rates the reasonable costs of administering the election.

§ Subd. 2. Filing; exemptions. Copies of both the written notices and information provided to customer service representatives concerning the disclosure required under subdivision 1 must be filed once every 12 months with the commission and the department. Independent telephone companies, municipalities, and cooperative telephone associations are exempt from the requirements of this subdivision unless otherwise ordered by the commission.

§ Subd. 2a. Call blocking. A telephone company, when a residential customer initially requests service, shall advise each residential customer of the availability of all blocking options including 900 number blocking and international long-distance blocking.

§ Subd. 3. Enforcement. If, after an expedited procedure conducted under section 237.61 , the commission finds that a telephone company is failing to provide disclosure as required under subdivision 1, or the notification required under subdivision 1c, it shall order the company to take corrective action as necessary.
Minn. Stat. § 204C.24 — MN Code / Part 200_212 / Chapter 204C / Section 204C.24
§ 204C.24 ELECTION RETURNS; SUMMARY STATEMENTS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Information requirements. Precinct summary statements must be submitted by the election judges in every precinct. For all elections, the election judges must complete three or more copies of the summary statements, and each copy must contain the following information for each kind of ballot: (1) the number of ballots delivered to the precinct as adjusted by the actual count made by the election judges, the number of unofficial ballots made, and the number of absentee ballots delivered to the precinct; (2) the number of votes each candidate received or the number of yes and no votes on each question, the number of undervotes, the number of overvotes, and the number of defective ballots with respect to each office or question; (3) the number of spoiled ballots, the number of duplicate ballots made, the number of absentee ballots rejected, and the number of unused ballots, presuming that the total count provided on each package of unopened prepackaged ballots is correct; (4) the number of voted ballots indicating only a voter's choices as provided by section 206.80 , paragraph (b), clause (2), item (ii), in precincts that use an assistive voting device that produces this type of ballot; (5) the number of individuals who voted at the election in the precinct which must equal the total number of ballots cast in the precinct, as required by sections 204C.20 and 206.86, subdivision 1 ; (6) the number of voters registering or updating registrations on election day in that precinct; (7) the signatures of the election judges who counted the ballots certifying that all of the ballots cast were properly piled, checked, and counted; and that the numbers entered by the election judges on the summary statements correctly show the number of votes cast for each candidate and for and against each question; (8) the number of election judges that worked in that precinct on election day; and (9) the number of voting booths used in that precinct on election day. At least two copies of the summary statement must be prepared for elections not held on the same day as the state elections.

§ Subd. 2. Sealing in envelopes. The election judges shall place a full set of completed summary statements in each of three separate envelopes and seal them so that the envelopes cannot be opened without leaving evidence that they have been opened. The election judges shall then sign each envelope over the sealed part so that no envelope can be opened without disturbing the continuity of the signatures. Each of the envelopes shall show substantially the following information on its face: "Summary statements of the returns of the .... election precinct, (Town) or (City) of ....., or (School District Number) ...., in the County of ....., State of Minnesota."
Minn. Stat. § 84.02 — MN Code / Part 83A_84 / Chapter 84 / Section 84.02
§ 84.02 DEFINITIONS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]

§ Subd. 3. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]

§ Subd. 4. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]

§ Subd. 4a. [Repealed, 2010 c 361 art 1 s 11 ]

§ Subd. 5. Native prairie. "Native prairie" means land that has never been plowed where native prairie vegetation originating from the site currently predominates or, if disturbed, is predominantly covered with native prairie vegetation that originated from the site. Unbroken pasture land used for livestock grazing can be considered native prairie if it has predominantly native vegetation originating from the site and conservation practices have maintained biological diversity.

§ Subd. 6. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]

§ Subd. 6a. [Repealed, 2010 c 361 art 1 s 11 ]

§ Subd. 6b. [Repealed, 2010 c 361 art 1 s 11 ]

§ Subd. 6c. Restored prairie. "Restored prairie" means a restoration that uses at least 25 representative and biologically diverse native prairie plant species and that occurs on land that was previously cropped or used as pasture.

§ Subd. 7. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]

§ Subd. 8. [Repealed, 2011 c 107 s 108 ]
Minn. Stat. § 144.07 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144 / Section 144.07
§ 144.07 POWERS OF COMMISSIONER.
Status: in_force

The commissioner may:

(1) make all reasonable rules necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section and sections 144.06 and 144.09 , and may amend, alter, or repeal such rules;

(2) accept private gifts for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of those sections;

(3) cooperate with agencies, whether city, state, federal, or private, which carry on work for maternal and infant hygiene;

(4) make investigations and recommendations for the purpose of improving maternity care;

(5) promote programs and services available in Minnesota for parents and families of victims of sudden infant death syndrome; and

(6) collect and report to the legislature the most current information regarding the frequency and causes of sudden infant death syndrome.

The commissioner shall include in the report to the legislature a statement of the operation of those sections.
Minn. Stat. § 252A.20 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 252A / Section 252A.20
§ 252A.20 COSTS OF HEARINGS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Witness and attorney fees. In each proceeding under sections 252A.01 to 252A.21 , the court shall allow and order paid to each witness subpoenaed the fees and mileage prescribed by law; to each physician, advanced practice registered nurse, physician assistant, psychologist, or social worker who assists in the preparation of the comprehensive evaluation and who is not employed by the local agency or the state Department of Human Services, a reasonable sum for services and for travel; and to the counsel of the person subject to public guardianship, when appointed by the court, a reasonable sum for travel and for each day or portion of a day actually employed in court or actually consumed in preparing for the hearing. Upon order the county auditor shall issue a warrant on the county treasurer for payment of the amount allowed.

§ Subd. 2. Expenses. When the settlement of the person subject to public guardianship is found to be in another county, the court shall transmit to the county auditor a statement of the expenses incurred pursuant to subdivision 1. The auditor shall transmit the statement to the auditor of the county of the settlement of the person subject to public guardianship and this claim shall be paid as other claims against that county. If the auditor to whom this claim is transmitted denies the claim, the auditor shall transmit it, together with the objections thereto, to the commissioner, who shall determine the question of settlement and certify findings to each auditor. If the claim is not paid within 30 days after such certification, an action may be maintained thereon in the district court of the claimant county.

§ Subd. 3. Change of venue; cost of proceedings. Whenever venue of a proceeding has been transferred under sections 252A.01 to 252A.21 , the costs of such proceedings shall be reimbursed to the county of the settlement of the person subject to public guardianship by the state.
Minn. Stat. § 273.1104 — MN Code / Part 272_289 / Chapter 273 / Section 273.1104
§ 273.1104 IRON ORE, VALUE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Determination of value. The term value as applied to iron ore in sections 273.165, subdivision 2 , and 273.13, subdivision 31 , shall be deemed to be the present value of future income or the minimum value as established by the commissioner notwithstanding the provisions of section 273.11 . The present value of future income shall be determined by the commissioner of revenue in accordance with professionally recognized mineral valuation practice and procedure. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as requiring any change in the method of determining present value of iron ore utilized by the commissioner prior to the enactment hereof or as limiting any remedy presently available to the taxpayer in connection with the commissioner's determination of present value, or precluding the commissioner from making subsequent changes in the present worth formula.

§ Subd. 2. Notice of market value. On or before May 1 in each year, the commissioner shall send to each person subject to the tax on unmined iron ores and to each taxing district affected, a notice of the market value of the unmined ores as determined by the commissioner. Said notice shall be sent by mail directed to such person at the address given in the report filed and the assessor of such taxing district, but the validity of the tax shall not be affected by the failure of the commissioner of revenue to mail such notice or the failure of the person subject to the tax to receive it. On the first secular day following May 20, the commissioner of revenue shall hold a hearing which may be adjourned from day to day. All relevant and material evidence having probative value with respect to the issues shall be submitted at the hearing and such hearing shall not be a "contested case" within the meaning of section 14.02, subdivision 3 . Every person subject to such tax may at such hearing present evidence and argument on any matter bearing upon the validity or correctness of the tax determined to be due, and the commissioner of revenue shall review the determination of such tax.
Minn. Stat. § 280.08 — MN Code / Part 272_289 / Chapter 280 / Section 280.08
§ 280.08 RECORD OF ASSIGNMENT.
Status: in_force

The assignee or transferee of a certificate or deed issued upon the sale of land for general taxes or for special assessments for local improvements shall present the instrument of transfer and a copy thereof to the official custodian of the record of such sale. Such officer shall thereupon certify such copy to be correct and shall file the same and note such transfer upon the record. The record as herein provided of any such instrument shall be taken and deemed notice to parties. The recording in the office of the county recorder of any such assignment or any quitclaim deed transferring any interest in such land shall have the same force and effect as the record above provided.
Minn. Stat. § 181A.11 — MN Code / Part 175_187 / Chapter 181A / Section 181A.11
§ 181A.11 AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT.
Status: in_force

Nothing in sections 181A.01 to 181A.12 shall prohibit a person from employing a child in any agricultural pursuit permitted under the United States Code, title 29, section 213(c)(2).
Minn. Stat. § 282.07 — MN Code / Part 272_289 / Chapter 282 / Section 282.07
§ 282.07 AUDITOR TO CANCEL TAXES.
Status: in_force

Immediately after forfeiture to the state of any parcel of land, as provided by sections 281.16 to 281.25 , the county auditor shall cancel all taxes and tax liens appearing upon the records, both delinquent and current, and all special assessments, delinquent or otherwise. When the interest of a purchaser of state trust fund land sold under certificate of sale, or of the purchaser's heirs or assigns or successors in interest, shall by reason of tax delinquency be transferred to the state as provided by law, such interest shall pass to the state free from any trust obligation to any taxing district and free from all special assessments and such land shall become unsold trust fund land.
Minn. Stat. § 309.735 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 309 / Section 309.735
§ 309.735 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In sections 309.735 to 309.77:

(1) "Charitable purpose" means the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, the promotion of health, or any other eleemosynary purpose.

(2) "Endowment fund" means an institutional fund or part thereof that, under the terms of a gift instrument, is not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis. The term does not include assets that an institution designates as an endowment fund for its own use.

(3) "Gift instrument" means a record or records, including an institutional solicitation, under which property is granted to, transferred to, or held by an institution as an institutional fund.

(4) "Institution" means:

(A) a person, other than an individual, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes;

(B) a government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, to the extent that it holds funds exclusively for a charitable purpose; and

(C) a trust that had both charitable and noncharitable interests, after all noncharitable interests have terminated.

(5) "Institutional fund" means a fund held by an institution exclusively for charitable purposes. The term does not include:

(A) program-related assets;

(B) a fund held for an institution by a trustee that is not an institution; or

(C) a fund in which a beneficiary that is not an institution has an interest, other than an interest that could arise upon violation or failure of the purposes of the fund.

(6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(7) "Program-related asset" means an asset held by an institution primarily to accomplish a charitable purpose of the institution and not primarily for investment.

(8) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
Minn. Stat. § 3.151 — MN Code / Part 3_3E / Chapter 3 / Section 3.151
§ 3.151 DISTURBING LEGISLATURE OR INTIMIDATING MEMBER.
Status: in_force

A person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who:

(1) willfully disturbs the legislature, or either house of it, while in session;

(2) commits disorderly conduct in the presence and view of either house, tending to interrupt its proceedings or impair the respect due to its authority; or

(3) willfully, by intimidation or otherwise, prevents a member of the legislature from attending a session of the member's house, or of a committee of it, or from giving the member's vote upon a question which may come before the house, or from performing any other official act.
Minn. Stat. § 333.12 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 333 / Section 333.12
§ 333.12 FEES.
Status: in_force

The fees of the secretary of state for registration, alteration, cancellation, searches made, and certificates issued, pursuant to sections 333.07 to 333.11 , shall be $10. The fees so collected shall be paid by the secretary of state into the state treasury.
Minn. Stat. § 336.7-502 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 336 / Section 336.7-502
§ 336.7-502 RIGHTS ACQUIRED BY DUE NEGOTIATION.
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to sections 336.7-205 and 336.7-503 , a holder to which a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby:

(1) title to the document;

(2) title to the goods;

(3) all rights accruing under the law of agency or estoppel, including rights to goods delivered to the bailee after the document was issued; and

(4) the direct obligation of the issuer to hold or deliver the goods according to the terms of the document free of any defense or claim by the issuer except those arising under the terms of the document or under this article, but in the case of a delivery order, the bailee's obligation accrues only upon the bailee's acceptance of the delivery order and the obligation acquired by the holder is that the issuer and any indorser will procure the acceptance of the bailee.

(b) Subject to section 336.7-503 , title and rights acquired by due negotiation are not defeated by any stoppage of the goods represented by the document of title or by surrender of the goods by the bailee and are not impaired even if:

(1) the due negotiation or any prior due negotiation constituted a breach of duty;

(2) any person has been deprived of possession of a negotiable tangible document or control of a negotiable electronic document by misrepresentation, fraud, accident, mistake, duress, loss, theft, or conversion; or

(3) a previous sale or other transfer of the goods or document has been made to a third person.