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Minn. Stat. § 628.68 — MN Code / Part 625_634 / Chapter 628 / Section 628.68
§ 628.68 DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS OF GRAND JURY.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in rule 18.07 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, every judge, grand juror, county attorney, court administrator, or other officer, who, except in the due discharge of official duty, shall disclose, before an accused person shall be in custody, the fact that an indictment found or ordered against the accused person, and every grand juror who, except when lawfully required by a court or officer, shall willfully disclose any evidence adduced before the grand jury, or anything which the juror or any other member of the grand jury said, or in what manner any grand juror voted upon any matter before them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Disclosure may be made by the county attorney, by notice to the defendant or the defendant's attorney of the indictment and the time of defendant's appearance in the district court, if in the discretion of the judge notice is sufficient to insure defendant's appearance.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-118 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.2-118
§ 524.2-118 ADOPTEE AND ADOPTEE'S ADOPTIVE PARENT OR PARENTS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Parent-child relationship between adoptee and adoptive parent or parents. A parent-child relationship exists between an adoptee and the adoptee's adoptive parent or parents.

§ Subd. 2. Individual in process of being adopted by married couple; stepchild in process of being adopted by stepparent. For purposes of subdivision 1: (1) an individual who is in the process of being adopted by a married couple when one of the spouses dies is treated as adopted by the deceased spouse if the adoption is subsequently granted to the decedent's surviving spouse; and (2) a child of a genetic parent who is in the process of being adopted by a genetic parent's spouse when the spouse dies is treated as adopted by the deceased spouse if the genetic parent survives the deceased spouse by 120 hours.

§ Subd. 3. Child of assisted reproduction in process of being adopted. If, after a parent-child relationship is established between a child of assisted reproduction and a parent under section 524.2-120 , the child is in the process of being adopted by the parent's spouse when that spouse dies, the child is treated as adopted by the deceased spouse for the purpose of subdivision 2, clause (2).

§ Subd. 4. In the process of adoption. An individual is "in the process of being adopted" if there exists clear and convincing evidence of the intention of the deceased spouse to adopt that individual.
Minn. Stat. § 280.10 — MN Code / Part 272_289 / Chapter 280 / Section 280.10
§ 280.10 PAYMENT OF SUBSEQUENT TAXES.
Status: in_force

The taxes for subsequent years shall be levied on property so bid in for the state in the same manner as if the sale had not been made.
Minn. Stat. § 92.214 — MN Code / Part 92_94 / Chapter 92 / Section 92.214
§ 92.214 CERTIFICATES DEEMED CANCELED IN CERTAIN CASES.
Status: in_force

If the interest of the purchaser of a tract of state public land becomes forfeited to the state for delinquent taxes, the certificates are canceled and terminated, and the land shall be held by the state as unsold public land, free from right, title, interest, or claim of the purchaser or heirs, representatives, or assigns of the purchaser, and free from any trust in favor of a taxing district.
Minn. Stat. § 116.0715 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 116 / Section 116.0715
§ 116.0715 LIMIT ON BASIS FOR ACTION.
Status: in_force

The agency shall not issue or deny a permit or amendment or impose control requirements based solely on computer models projecting compliance or noncompliance with the secondary particulate matter standard.
Minn. Stat. § 62M.03 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 62M / Section 62M.03
§ 62M.03 COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Licensed utilization review organization. Beginning January 1, 1993, any organization that meets the definition of utilization review organization in section 62M.02, subdivision 21 , must be licensed under chapter 60A, 62C, 62D, 62N, 62T, or 64B, or registered under this chapter and must comply with this chapter and section 72A.201 , subdivisions 8 and 8a. Each licensed community integrated service network or health maintenance organization that has an employed staff model of providing health care services shall comply with this chapter and section 72A.201 , subdivisions 8 and 8a, for any services provided by providers under contract.

§ Subd. 2. Nonlicensed utilization review organization. An organization that meets the definition of a utilization review organization under section 62M.02, subdivision 21 , that is not licensed in this state that performs utilization review services for Minnesota residents must register with the commissioner of commerce and must certify compliance with this chapter. Initial registration must occur no later than January 1, 1993. The registration is effective for two years and may be renewed. Applications for initial and renewal registrations must be made on forms prescribed by the commissioner. Each utilization review organization registered under this chapter shall notify the commissioner of commerce within 30 days of any change in the name, address, or ownership of the organization. The organization shall pay to the commissioner of commerce a fee of $1,000 for the initial registration application and $1,000 for each two-year renewal.

§ Subd. 3. Penalties and enforcements. If a utilization review organization fails to comply with this chapter, the organization may not provide utilization review services for any Minnesota resident. The commissioner of commerce may issue a cease and desist order under section 45.027, subdivision 5 , to enforce this provision. The cease and desist order is subject to appeal under chapter 14. A nonlicensed utilization review organization that fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter is subject to all applicable penalty and enforcement provisions of section 72A.201 . Each utilization review organization licensed under chapter 60A, 62C, 62D, 62N, 62T, or 64B shall comply with this chapter as a condition of licensure.
Minn. Stat. § 260C.227 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 260C / Section 260C.227
§ 260C.227 VOLUNTARY FOSTER CARE; REQUIRED COURT REVIEW.
Status: in_force

(a) When the responsible social services agency and the child's parent or guardian agree that the child's safety, health, and best interests require that the child be in foster care, the agency and the parent or guardian may enter into a voluntary agreement for the placement of the child in foster care. The voluntary agreement must be in writing and in a form approved by the commissioner.

(b) When the child has been placed in foster care pursuant to a voluntary foster care agreement between the agency and the parent, under this section and the child is not returned home within 90 days after initial placement in foster care, the agency responsible for the child's placement in foster care shall:

(1) return the child to the home of the parent or parents; or

(2) file a petition according to section 260C.141 , subdivision 1 or 2, which may:

(i) ask the court to review the child's placement in foster care and approve it as continued voluntary foster care for up to an additional 90 days;

(ii) ask the court to order continued foster care according to sections 260C.178 and 260C.201 ; or

(iii) ask the court to terminate parental rights under section 260C.301 .

(3) The out-of-home placement plan must be updated and filed along with the petition.

(c) If the court approves continuing the child in foster care for up to 90 more days on a voluntary basis, at the end of the court-approved 90-day period, the child must be returned to the parent's home. If the child is not returned home, the responsible social services agency must proceed on the petition filed alleging the child in need of protection or services or the petition for termination of parental rights or other permanent placement of the child away from the parent. The court must find a statutory basis to order the placement of the child under section 260C.178 ; 260C.201 ; 260C.503 to 260C.521 ; or 260C.317 .

(d) If the child is placed in a qualified residential treatment program, the placement must follow the requirements of sections 260C.70 to 260C.714 .
Minn. Stat. § 124D.549 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 124D / Section 124D.549
§ 124D.549 COMMISSIONER-SELECTED HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY TEST.
Status: in_force

The commissioner, in consultation with adult basic education stakeholders, must select a high school equivalency test. The commissioner may issue a high school equivalency diploma to a Minnesota resident 19 years of age or older who has not earned a high school diploma, who has not previously been issued a general education development (GED) certification, and who has exceeded or achieved a minimum passing score on the equivalency test established by the publisher. The commissioner of education may waive the minimum age requirement if supportive evidence is provided by an employer or a recognized education or rehabilitation provider.
Minn. Stat. § 60E.10 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 60E / Section 60E.10
§ 60E.10 ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROCEDURAL AUTHORITY REGARDING RISK RETENTION GROUPS AND PURCHASING GROUPS.
Status: in_force

The commissioner of commerce may use any of the powers established under the insurance laws of this state to enforce the laws of this state not specifically preempted by the Product Liability Risk Retention Act of 1981, as amended by the Risk Retention Amendments of 1986. This includes, but is not limited to, the commissioner's administrative authority to investigate, issue subpoenas, conduct depositions and hearings, issue orders, impose penalties, and seek injunctive relief. With regard to an investigation, administrative proceedings, or litigation, the commissioner can rely on the procedural laws of the state. The injunctive authority of the commissioner in regard to risk retention groups is restricted by the requirement that an injunction be issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Minn. Stat. § 412.153 — MN Code / Part 410_414 / Chapter 412 / Section 412.153
§ 412.153 HOUSING AID TO ENSURE TIMELY PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICE.
Status: in_force

Statutory cities may expend public funds to acquire or lease residential property for housing or otherwise provide housing assistance in the city for one or more volunteer firefighters or ambulance personnel. The expenditure may only be made to attract and retain the qualified personnel necessary to ensure that a city has timely public safety and related service. A city may make the expenditure only after the need for the expenditure has been established and approved at a public hearing.
Minn. Stat. § 325A.08 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325A / Section 325A.08
§ 325A.08 RECORDS.
Status: in_force

Every invention developer shall maintain all records and correspondence relating to performance of each invention development contract for a period of not less than three years after expiration of the term of the contract.
Minn. Stat. § 97A.338 — MN Code / Part 97_102 / Chapter 97A / Section 97A.338
§ 97A.338 GROSS OVERLIMITS OF WILD ANIMALS; PENALTY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who takes, possesses, or transports wild animals over the legal limit, in closed season, or without a valid license, when the restitution value of the wild animals is over $1,000 is guilty of a gross overlimit violation. Except as provided in paragraph (b), a violation under this paragraph is a gross misdemeanor.

(b) If a wild animal involved in a gross overlimit violation is listed as a threatened or endangered wild animal, the penalty in paragraph (a) does not apply unless more than one animal is taken, possessed, or transported in violation of the game and fish laws.
Minn. Stat. § 515A.1-108 — MN Code / Part 500_515B / Chapter 515A / Section 515A.1-108
§ 515A.1-108 SUPPLEMENTAL GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW APPLICABLE.
Status: in_force

The principles of law and equity, including the law of corporations, the law of real property and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, eminent domain, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, receivership, substantial performance, or other validating or invalidating cause supplement the provisions of sections 515A.1-101 to 515A.4-117 , except to the extent inconsistent with sections 515A.1-101 to 515A.4-117 . Documents required by sections 515A.1-101 to 515A.4-117 to be recorded shall in the case of registered land be filed.
Minn. Stat. § 455.01 — MN Code / Part 451_459 / Chapter 455 / Section 455.01
§ 455.01 SECOND, THIRD CLASS CHARTER CITY MAY BUILD, BUY LIGHT PLANT.
Status: in_force

Each home rule charter city of the second or third class, by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members of its council, may construct, or purchase an electric light plant to be operated by the city for municipal purposes and for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the city.
Minn. Stat. § 17A.11 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 17A / Section 17A.11
§ 17A.11 FEES FOR LIVESTOCK WEIGHING.
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall prescribe the fee necessary to cover the cost of state weighing, to be assessed and collected from the seller in the manner the commissioner may prescribe. The fee assessed must be the same, and the manner of collection of the fee must be uniform at all facilities. At any location where state weighing is performed in accordance with this chapter and the total annual fees collected are insufficient to pay the cost of the weighing, the annual deficit shall be assessed and collected in the manner the commissioner may prescribe. Additional money arising from the weighing of animals by the commissioner, which has been collected and retained by any person, shall be paid on demand to the commissioner. All money collected by the commissioner shall be deposited in the agricultural fund and credited to the livestock weighing account. Money in the account is appropriated to the commissioner to carry out the duties of section 17A.10 and for activities and duties required under chapter 31B.
Minn. Stat. § 144.055 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144 / Section 144.055
§ 144.055 HOME SAFETY PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Preventing home accidents; working with local boards. The state commissioner of health is authorized to develop and conduct by exhibit, demonstration and by health education or public health engineering activity, or by any other means or methods which the commissioner may determine to be suitable and practicable for the purpose, a program in home safety designed to prevent accidents and fatalities resulting therefrom. The commissioner shall cooperate with community health boards as defined in section 145A.02, subdivision 5 , the Minnesota Safety Council, and other interested voluntary groups in its conduct of such programs.

§ Subd. 2. Sharing equipment and staff. For the purpose of assisting community health boards to develop community home safety programs and to conduct such surveys of safety hazards in municipalities and counties, the commissioner may loan or furnish exhibit, demonstration, and educational materials, and may assign personnel for a limited period to such community health boards.
Minn. Stat. § 47.18 — MN Code / Part 46_59 / Chapter 47 / Section 47.18
§ 47.18 "CORPORATION"; "AGENCY."
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this section and section 47.19 , the term "corporation" shall be construed to mean any bank, savings bank, trust company, insurance company, or savings association organized under the laws of this state; and the term "agency" shall be construed to mean the federal home loan bank of the district of which this state is a part, or of an adjoining district if convenience shall so require, or other financial corporation, association or agency created by any act of Congress.
Minn. Stat. § 209.05 — MN Code / Part 200_212 / Chapter 209 / Section 209.05
§ 209.05 GUARDING THE BALLOTS.
Status: in_force

In any election, upon demand made of the custodian of the ballots and upon notice to the candidate's opponent, a candidate may keep a continuous visual guard over the ballots until the expiration of the time for instituting contests. In case of a contest, the contestant or contestee may keep a visual guard over the ballots. The guard may be maintained either by the candidate, contestant, or contestee, or by their duly authorized agents, not exceeding two at a time for each party to the contest. If a candidate, contestant, or contestee seeks to guard the ballots, the custodian of the ballots shall appoint some suitable person to guard the ballots so they are not in the sole custody of the candidate, contestant, contestee, or their agents.
Minn. Stat. § 558.24 — MN Code / Part 553_566 / Chapter 558 / Section 558.24
§ 558.24 SALE OF PART; LIFE ESTATE OR FOR YEARS.
Status: in_force

When a part of the property only is ordered to be sold, if there is an estate for life or for years in an undivided share of the property, the whole of such estate may be set off in any part of the property not ordered sold.
Minn. Stat. § 137.53 — MN Code / Part 135A_137 / Chapter 137 / Section 137.53
§ 137.53 ACTIVITIES; CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

The legislature recognizes that the board has all powers necessary or convenient for designing, constructing, equipping, improving, controlling, operating, and maintaining the stadium and may enter into contracts that are, in its judgment, in the best interests of the public for those purposes. Notwithstanding contrary law, the board may adopt the fair and competitive design and construction procurement procedures in connection with the stadium that it considers to be in the public interest. The board must ensure, to the greatest extent practicable, that materials derived from American-made steel are used in the construction of the stadium. Sections 16B.33 and 16B.335 do not apply to the stadium.
Minn. Stat. § 336.2A-511 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 336 / Section 336.2A-511
§ 336.2A-511 MERCHANT LESSEE'S DUTIES AS TO RIGHTFULLY REJECTED GOODS.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to any security interest of a lessee (section 336.2A-508 (5)), if a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in the lessee's possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions received from the lessor or the supplier with respect to the goods. In the absence of those instructions, a merchant lessee shall make reasonable efforts to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the goods for the lessor's account if they threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.

(2) If a merchant lessee (subsection (1)) or any other lessee (section 336.2A-512 ) disposes of goods, the lessee is entitled to reimbursement either from the lessor or the supplier or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and disposing of the goods and, if the expenses include no disposition commission, to a commission as is usual in the trade, or if there is none, to a reasonable sum not exceeding ten percent of the gross proceeds.

(3) In complying with this section or section 336.2A-512 , the lessee is held only to good faith. Good faith conduct is neither acceptance or conversion nor the basis of an action for damages.

(4) A purchaser who purchases in good faith from a lessee pursuant to this section or section 336.2A-512 takes the goods free of any rights of the lessor and the supplier even though the lessee fails to comply with one or more of the requirements of this article.
Minn. Stat. § 458.03 — MN Code / Part 451_459 / Chapter 458 / Section 458.03
§ 458.03 POWER TO BUILD FACILITIES, CHARGE FEES FOR USE.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Construction. A city described in section 458.02 may construct, erect, and maintain on land acquired under that section, docks, quays, levees, wharves, landing places, railroad and other transportation loading and unloading places, water freight and passenger stations, terminals and terminal buildings for carriers, and necessary equipment and appurtenances.

§ Subd. 2. Fees. The city council may set reasonable fees for the use of the facilities and necessary equipment and appurtenances described in section 458.02 .
Minn. Stat. § 85.0505 — MN Code / Part 85_87A / Chapter 85 / Section 85.0505
§ 85.0505 FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE IN STATE PARKS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Itasca State Park. Minnesota-produced wine and beer may be sold and consumed by the drink at the restaurant in Douglas Lodge in Itasca State Park, subject to other laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquor.

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 2009 c 176 art 1 s 52 ]

§ Subd. 3. MS 2020 [Repealed, 1Sp2021 c 6 art 2 s 134 ]
Minn. Stat. § 144.063 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144 / Section 144.063
§ 144.063 DEMENTIA SERVICES PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.
Status: in_force

The commissioner of health shall establish the dementia services program to:

(1) facilitate the coordination and support of:

(i) state-funded policies and programs that relate to Alzheimer's disease and related forms of dementia;

(ii) outreach programs and services between state agencies, local public health departments, Tribal Nations, educational institutions, and community groups for the purpose of fostering public awareness and education regarding Alzheimer's disease and related forms of dementia; and

(iii) services and activities between groups that are interested in dementia research, programs, and services, including area agencies on aging, service providers, advocacy groups, legal services, emergency personnel, law enforcement, local public health departments, Tribal Nations, and state colleges and universities;

(2) facilitate the coordination, review, publication, and implementation of and updates to the Minnesota Dementia Strategic Plan;

(3) use and share data related to the impact of Alzheimer's disease and related forms of dementia in Minnesota to guide statewide action; and

(4) incorporate early detection and risk reduction strategies into existing department-led public health programs.