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Minn. Stat. § 308C.545 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 308C / Section 308C.545
§ 308C.545 MEMBER VOTING RIGHTS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Generally. One membership shall be issued by the cooperative for each dwelling unit or lot in the project such that the resulting number of memberships outstanding at all times is equal to the number of dwelling units or lots in the project. Each membership shall have one vote in the affairs of the cooperative. If the cooperative has both occupant and nonoccupant members, on any matter of the cooperative, the entire occupant members voting power shall be voted collectively based upon the vote of the majority of occupant members voting on the issue and the collective vote of the nonoccupant members shall be a majority of the vote cast unless otherwise provided in the bylaws. The bylaws may not reduce the collective occupant member vote to less than 15 percent of the total vote on matters of the cooperative. A nonoccupant member has the voting rights in accordance with nonoccupant membership interests as granted in the bylaws, subject to the provisions of this chapter.

§ Subd. 2. Right to vote at meeting. A member may exercise voting rights on any matter that is before the members as prescribed in the articles or bylaws at a member meeting from the time the member arrives at the member meeting, unless the articles or bylaws specify an earlier and specific time for closing the right to vote.

§ Subd. 3. Voting method. A member's vote at a member meeting shall be in person or by mail if a mail vote is authorized by the board or by alternative method if authorized by the board.

§ Subd. 4. Absentee ballots. (a) A member who is or will be absent from a member meeting may vote by mail or by an approved alternative method on the ballot prescribed in this subdivision on any motion, resolution, or amendment that the board submits for vote by mail or alternative method to the members. (b) The ballot shall be in the form prescribed by the board and contain: (1) the exact text of the proposed motion, resolution, or amendment to be acted on at the meeting; and (2) the text of the motion, resolution, or amendment for which the member may indicate an affirmative or negative vote. (c) The member shall express a choice by marking an appropriate choice on the ballot and mail, deliver, or otherwise submit the ballot to the cooperative in a plain, sealed envelope inside another envelope bearing the member's name or by an alternative method approved by the board. (d) A properly executed ballot shall be accepted by the board and counted as the vote of the absent member at the meeting.

§ Subd. 5. Jointly owned membership interest. If membership interest is owned by two or more individuals, any individual may vote on a matter that is before the members, unless the cooperative receives written notice denying the authority of an individual to vote on the behalf of the jointly owned membership interest.
Minn. Stat. § 169.073 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 169 / Section 169.073
§ 169.073 PROHIBITED LIGHT OR SIGNAL.
Status: in_force

(a) No person or corporation shall place, maintain or display any red light or red sign, signal, or lighting device or maintain it in view of any highway or any line of railroad on or over which trains are operated in such a way as to interfere with the effectiveness or efficiency of any highway traffic-control device or signals or devices used in the operation of a railroad. Upon written notice from the commissioner of transportation, a person or corporation maintaining or owning or displaying a prohibited light shall promptly remove it, or change the color of it to some other color than red. Where a prohibited light or sign interferes with the effectiveness or efficiency of the signals or devices used in the operation of a railroad, the Department of Transportation may cause the removal of it and the department may issue notices and orders for its removal. The department shall proceed as provided in sections 216.13 , 216.14 , 216.15 , 216.16 , and 216.17 , with a right of appeal to the aggrieved party in accordance with chapter 14.

(b) No person or corporation shall maintain or display any light after written notice from the commissioner of transportation that the light constitutes a traffic hazard and that the commissioner has ordered the removal thereof.
Minn. Stat. § 145A.145 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 145A / Section 145A.145
§ 145A.145 NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner of health shall award expansion grants to community health boards and tribal nations to expand existing nurse-family partnership programs. Grant funds must be used to start up, expand, or sustain nurse-family partnership programs in the county, reservation, or region to serve families in accordance with the Nurse-Family Partnership Service Office nurse-family partnership model. The commissioner shall award grants to community health boards, nonprofit organizations, or tribal nations in metropolitan and rural areas of the state.

(b) Priority for all grants shall be given to nurse-family partnership programs that provide services through a Minnesota health care program-enrolled provider that accepts medical assistance. Priority for grants to rural areas shall be given to community health boards, nonprofit organizations, and tribal nations that start up, expand, or sustain services within regional partnerships that provide the nurse-family partnership program.

(c) Funding available under this section may only be used to supplement, not to replace, funds being used for nurse-family partnership home visiting services as of June 30, 2015.
Minn. Stat. § 67A.13 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 67A / Section 67A.13
§ 67A.13 TYPES OF INSURANCE AUTHORIZED.
Status: in_force

A township mutual fire insurance company shall insure only against loss or damage by fire, lightning, explosion, flood, earthquake, theft, vandalism, collapse, upset, overturn, collision, riot, riot attending a strike, civil commotion, aircraft, vehicles, smoke, breakage of glass, weight of ice, snow or sleet, freezing, leakage of water or other substance, electrical power interruption or electrical breakdown from any cause, and as to livestock against loss or damage by electrocution by electrical currents artificially generated, attack by dogs or wild animals, drowning, accidental shooting, loading or unloading, or collision or overturn of conveyances, and consequential losses as a result of damage from any of the perils listed except public liability.
Minn. Stat. § 222.632 — MN Code / Part 218_222 / Chapter 222 / Section 222.632
§ 222.632 RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.
Status: in_force

A railroad interest that is in bankruptcy proceedings may not sell or offer for sale an interest in real property that is within the right-of-way, a railroad interest that is abandoning a railroad line may not sell or offer for sale an interest in real property within the right-of-way to be abandoned, and a nonrailroad lessor may not sell or offer for sale an interest in real property within the right-of-way with respect to which it is a nonrailroad lessor, unless it first extends a written offer to sell that interest at a fair market value price to each person who is a leaseholder with respect to the property. Leaseholders must respond to the offer within 60 days of receipt of the notice and the railroad interest must negotiate in good faith with an interested leaseholder for a period of 90 days following the leaseholder's response. The property may not be sold to a party other than the leaseholder during the response and negotiation periods. This section does not apply to a sale of an entire operating railroad line by one operating railroad to another for the purpose of operating a railroad.
Minn. Stat. § 317A.101 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 317A / Section 317A.101
§ 317A.101 PURPOSES.
Status: in_force

A corporation may be incorporated under this chapter for any lawful purpose, unless another statute requires incorporation for a purpose under a different law. Unless otherwise limited in its articles, a corporation has a general purpose of engaging in any lawful activity. A corporation engaging in conduct that is regulated by another statute is subject to the limitations of the other statute.
Minn. Stat. § 16A.531 — MN Code / Part 16A_16E / Chapter 16A / Section 16A.531
§ 16A.531 FUNDS CREATED.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Environmental fund. There is created in the state treasury an environmental fund as a special revenue fund for deposit of receipts from environmentally related taxes, fees, and other sources as provided in subdivision 1a.

§ Subd. 1a. Revenues. The following revenues must be deposited in the environmental fund: (1) revenue from the motor vehicle transfer fee as provided in section 115A.908 , subdivision 2; (2) all fees collected under section 116.07, subdivision 4d ; (3) all money collected by the Pollution Control Agency in enforcement matters as provided in section 115.073 ; (4) all revenues from license fees for subsurface sewage treatment systems under section 115.56 ; (5) all loan repayments deposited under section 115A.0716 ; (6) all revenue from pollution prevention fees imposed under section 115D.12 ; (7) all loan repayments deposited under section 116.994 ; (8) all fees collected under section 116C.834 ; (9) revenue collected from the solid waste management tax pursuant to chapter 297H; (10) fees collected under section 473.844 ; (11) interest accrued on the fund; and (12) money received in the form of gifts, grants, reimbursement, or appropriation from any source for any of the purposes provided in subdivision 2, except federal grants.

§ Subd. 2. Natural resources fund. There is created in the state treasury a natural resources fund as a special revenue fund for deposit of certain receipts from fees and services associated with natural resource management by the state.

§ Subd. 3. Agricultural fund. There is created in the state treasury an agricultural fund as a special revenue fund for deposit of receipts from agricultural related fees and activities conducted by the state.
Minn. Stat. § 148.241 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 148 / Section 148.241
§ 148.241 EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Appropriation. The expenses of administering sections 148.171 to 148.285 and chapter 148G shall be paid from the appropriation made to the Minnesota Board of Nursing.

§ Subd. 2. Expenditure. All amounts appropriated to the board shall be held subject to the order of the board to be used only for the purpose of meeting necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the purposes of sections 148.171 to 148.285 and chapter 148G, and the duties imposed thereby as well as the promotion of nursing or certified midwifery education and standards of nursing or certified midwifery care in this state.
Minn. Stat. § 385.03 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 385 / Section 385.03
§ 385.03 FAILURE TO QUALIFY.
Status: in_force

If any person elected to the office of county treasurer shall not take the oath and give the bond required by law on or before the first Monday of January next succeeding election, it shall be deemed a refusal to serve.
Minn. Stat. § 103H.005 — MN Code / Part 103A_114B / Chapter 103H / Section 103H.005
§ 103H.005 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter.

§ Subd. 2. Agricultural chemical. "Agricultural chemical" means a pesticide, fertilizer, plant amendment, or soil amendment.

§ Subd. 3. Health risk limits. "Health risk limits" means a concentration of a substance or chemical adopted by rule of the commissioner of health that is a potential drinking water contaminant because of a systemic or carcinogenic toxicological result from consumption.

§ Subd. 4. Best management practices. "Best management practices" means practicable voluntary practices that are capable of preventing and minimizing degradation of groundwater, considering economic factors, availability, technical feasibility, implementability, effectiveness, and environmental effects. Best management practices apply to schedules of activities; design and operation standards; restrictions of practices; maintenance procedures; management plans; practices to prevent site releases, spillage, or leaks; application and use of chemicals; drainage from raw material storage; operating procedures; treatment requirements; and other activities causing groundwater degradation.

§ Subd. 5. Common detection. "Common detection" means detection of a pollutant that is not due to misuse or unusual or unique circumstances, but is likely to be the result of normal use of a product or a practice.

§ Subd. 6. Degradation. "Degradation" means changing groundwater from its natural condition by human activities.

§ Subd. 7. Fertilizer. "Fertilizer" has the meaning given in section 18C.005, subdivision 11 .

§ Subd. 8. Groundwater. "Groundwater" means groundwater as defined in section 115.01, subdivision 6 .

§ Subd. 9. Pesticide. "Pesticide" has the meaning given in section 18B.01, subdivision 18 .

§ Subd. 10. Plant amendment. "Plant amendment" has the meaning given in section 18C.005, subdivision 25 .

§ Subd. 11. Pollutant. "Pollutant" means a chemical or substance for which a health risk limit has been adopted.

§ Subd. 12. Pollution. "Pollution" means degradation of groundwater by a pollutant.

§ Subd. 13. Sensitive area. "Sensitive area" means a geographic area defined by natural features where there is a significant risk of groundwater degradation from activities conducted at or near the land surface.

§ Subd. 14. Soil amendment. "Soil amendment" has the meaning given in section 18C.005, subdivision 34 .

§ Subd. 15. Water resource protection requirements. "Water resource protection requirements" means requirements adopted by rule for one or more pollutants intended to prevent and minimize pollution of groundwater. Water resource protection requirements include design criteria, standards, operation and maintenance procedures, practices to prevent releases, spills, leaks, and incidents, restrictions on use and practices, and treatment requirements.
Minn. Stat. § 142F.102 — MN Code / Part 142A_142G / Chapter 142F / Section 142F.102
§ 142F.102 SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

The commissioner of children, youth, and families shall implement simplified reporting as permitted under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, and the SNAP regulations in Code of Federal Regulations, title 7, part 273. SNAP benefit recipient households required to report periodically shall not be required to report more often than one time every six months.
Minn. Stat. § 116B.01 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 116B / Section 116B.01
§ 116B.01 PURPOSE.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds and declares that each person is entitled by right to the protection, preservation, and enhancement of air, water, land, and other natural resources located within the state and that each person has the responsibility to contribute to the protection, preservation, and enhancement thereof. The legislature further declares its policy to create and maintain within the state conditions under which human beings and nature can exist in productive harmony in order that present and future generations may enjoy clean air and water, productive land, and other natural resources with which this state has been endowed. Accordingly, it is in the public interest to provide an adequate civil remedy to protect air, water, land and other natural resources located within the state from pollution, impairment, or destruction.
Minn. Stat. § 85.52 — MN Code / Part 85_87A / Chapter 85 / Section 85.52
§ 85.52 GRANTS; PRIORITIES.
Status: in_force

The Regional Parks and Trail Coordination Board under section 85.51 may administer grants from the United States, the state, or other sources to develop, enhance, or maintain the central Minnesota regional parks and trails plan, and must dispose of grant money in accordance with the acceptance of any agreement or contract. In developing, enhancing, and maintaining the plan, the Parks and Trails Coordination Board must develop priorities for expenditure of grant money.
Minn. Stat. § 308A.135 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 308A / Section 308A.135
§ 308A.135 AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Procedure. (a) The articles of a cooperative must be amended as provided in this subdivision. (b) The board by majority vote must pass a resolution stating the text of the proposed amendment. The text of the proposed amendment and an attached mail ballot, if the board has provided for a mail ballot in the resolution, must be mailed with a regular or special meeting notice to each member. The notice must designate the time and place of the meeting for the proposed amendment to be considered and voted on. A cooperative with more than 200 members may publish the notice, proposed amendment, and ballot in the manner provided for a regular meeting notice. (c) If a quorum of the members is registered as being present or represented by mail vote at the meeting, the proposed amendment is adopted: (1) if approved by a majority of the votes cast; or (2) for a cooperative with articles or bylaws requiring more than majority approval or other conditions for approval, the amendment is approved by a proportion of the votes cast or a number of total members as required by the articles or bylaws and the conditions for approval in the articles or bylaws have been satisfied.

§ Subd. 2. Filing. After an amendment has been adopted by the members, the amendment must be signed by the chair, vice-chair, president, vice-president, secretary, or assistant secretary, and a copy of the amendment filed in the Office of the Secretary of State.

§ Subd. 3. Certificate. (a) A certificate must be prepared stating: (1) the vote and meeting of the board adopting a resolution of the proposed amendment; (2) the notice given to members of the meeting at which the amendment was adopted; (3) the quorum registered at the meeting; and (4) the vote cast adopting the amendment. (b) The certificate must be signed by the chair, vice-chair, president, vice-president, secretary, or assistant secretary and filed with the records of the cooperative.

§ Subd. 4. Amendment by board. A majority of directors may amend the articles if the cooperative does not have any members or stockholders with voting rights.
Minn. Stat. § 402.05 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 402 / Section 402.05
§ 402.05 EMPLOYEES.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Continuity; personnel administration. All persons employed by a county, whose functions are assumed by a human services board, shall continue as employees of the board without loss in seniority or benefits. Personnel administration for the employees shall be in compliance with the federal standard for a merit system of personnel administration.

§ Subd. 1a. Director. Each human services board shall appoint a director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the human services board. The director shall by training and experience demonstrate management and administrative skills.

§ Subd. 2. MS 1978 [Repealed, 1979 c 118 s 12 ]

§ Subd. 3. Per diem, expenses. Each member of the human services board may receive a per diem and be reimbursed expenses in the performance of official duties.
Minn. Stat. § 121A.73 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 121A / Section 121A.73
§ 121A.73 SCHOOL CELL PHONE POLICY.
Status: in_force

A school district or charter school must adopt a policy on students' possession and use of cell phones in school by March 15, 2025. The Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association and the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals must collaborate to make best practices available to schools on a range of different strategies in order to minimize the impact of cell phones on student behavior, mental health, and academic attainment.
Minn. Stat. § 550.02 — MN Code / Part 540_552 / Chapter 550 / Section 550.02
§ 550.02 JUDGMENTS; METHODS OF ENFORCEMENT.
Status: in_force

Where a judgment requires the payment of money, or the delivery of real or personal property, it may be enforced in those respects by execution. Where it requires the performance of any other act, a certified copy of the judgment may be served upon the party against whom it is given, or the person or officer who is required thereby or by law to obey the same. A person so served who refuses may be punished by the court as for contempt, and the individual's obedience thereto enforced.
Minn. Stat. § 473J.25 — MN Code / Part 473_473J / Chapter 473J / Section 473J.25
§ 473J.25 METROPOLITAN SPORTS FACILITIES COMMISSION ASSETS; LIABILITIES TO AUTHORITY.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Authority expenses. The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission shall pay the operating expenses of the authority including salaries, compensation, and other personnel, office, equipment, consultant, and any other costs, until the commission is abolished pursuant to subdivision 3.

§ Subd. 2. Transfer. By August 12, 2012, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission shall pay its outstanding obligations, settle its accounts, and transfer its remaining assets, liabilities, and obligations to the authority, for its purposes.

§ Subd. 3. Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission abolished; interim powers conferred on authority. Upon transfer to the authority of all remaining assets, liabilities, and obligations of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, in subdivision 2, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission is abolished. When the remaining assets, liabilities, and obligations of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission have been transferred to the authority and the commission has been abolished, the powers and duties of the commission under sections 473.551 to 473.599 , and any other law shall devolve upon the authority, in addition to the powers and duties of the authority under chapter 473J, until the first NFL home game is played at the stadium.

§ Subd. 4. Employees. Upon transfer of ownership all persons employed by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission shall be transferred to the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority without loss of right or privilege. Nothing in this section shall be construed to give any such person the right or privilege to continue in the same level or classification of employment previously held. The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority may assign any such person to an employment level and classification which it deems appropriate and desirable in accordance with its personnel code.

§ Subd. 5. Conforming changes. The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission shall submit a technical bill to the 2013 legislature making any cross-reference, grammatical, or other conforming changes necessary as a result of Laws 2012, chapter 299. This bill shall be submitted by February 12, 2013.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-206 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.2-206
§ 524.2-206 DECEDENT'S NONPROBATE TRANSFERS TO SURVIVING SPOUSE.
Status: in_force

Excluding the homestead and property passing to the surviving spouse under the federal Social Security system, the value of the augmented estate includes the value of the decedent's nonprobate transfers to the decedent's spouse, which consists of all property that passed outside probate at the decedent's death from the decedent to the surviving spouse by reason of the decedent's death that would have been included in the augmented estate under section 524.2-205, paragraph (1 ) or (2), had the property passed to or for the benefit of a person other than the decedent's spouse, the decedent, or the decedent's creditors, estate, or estate creditors.