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Minn. Stat. § 302A.165 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 302A / Section 302A.165
§ 302A.165 EFFECT OF LACK OF POWER; ULTRA VIRES.
Status: in_force

The doing, continuing, or performing by a corporation of an act, or an executed or wholly or partially executory contract, conveyance or transfer to or by the corporation, if otherwise lawful, is not invalid because the corporation was without the power to do, continue, or perform the act, contract, conveyance, or transfer, unless the lack of power is established in a court in this state:

(a) In a proceeding by a shareholder against the corporation to enjoin the doing, continuing, or performing of the act, contract, conveyance, or transfer. If the unauthorized act, continuation, or performance sought to be enjoined is being, or to be, performed or made pursuant to a contract to which the corporation is a party, the court may, if just and reasonable in the circumstances, set aside and enjoin the performance of the contract and in so doing may allow to the corporation or to the other parties to the contract compensation for the loss or damage sustained as a result of the action of the court in setting aside and enjoining the performance of the contract;

(b) In a proceeding by or in the name of the corporation, whether acting directly or through a legal representative, or through shareholders in a representative or derivative suit, against the incumbent or former officers or directors of the corporation for exceeding or otherwise violating their authority, or against a person having actual knowledge of the lack of power; or

(c) In a proceeding by the attorney general, as provided in section 302A.757 , to dissolve the corporation, or in a proceeding by the attorney general to enjoin the corporation from the transaction of unauthorized business.
Minn. Stat. § 402.10 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 402 / Section 402.10
§ 402.10 CITATION.
Status: in_force

Sections 402.01 to 402.10 may be cited as the Human Services Act.
Minn. Stat. § 626.8453 — MN Code / Part 625_634 / Chapter 626 / Section 626.8453
§ 626.8453 QUALIFIED FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; SPECIAL STATE AND FEDERAL TASK FORCES; PEACE OFFICER AUTHORITY.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Definitions. The terms defined in this subdivision apply to this section. (a) "Duly authorized executive officer" means the law enforcement officer headquartered in Minnesota who is in charge of the activities of a federal law enforcement agency in this state. (b) "Memorandum of understanding" is a written agreement between the governing bodies of the participating units of local government and the commissioners of the state agencies authorized to have a law enforcement agency as defined by section 626.84, subdivision 1 , paragraph (f), the sheriffs of the participating counties, and the duly authorized executive officers of the participating federal law enforcement agencies that specifies the mission of the parties, the agreement's purpose, the exchange of powers, required training, the duration of the agreement, and other rights and responsibilities of the parties. (c) "Qualified federal law enforcement officer" means an employee of the United States charged with the enforcement of the criminal laws of the United States who has successfully completed professionally recognized peace officer preemployment education which the board has found comparable to Minnesota peace officer preemployment education. (d) "Special purpose task force" is a coalition of city, county, state, and federal law enforcement officers directed to accomplish specific state and federal law enforcement objectives.

§ Subd. 2. Powers of federal law enforcement officers. A qualified federal law enforcement officer assigned to a special purpose task force created under a memorandum of understanding that has been filed with the board who is acting within the scope of the memorandum of understanding shall possess the authority of the peace officers participating in the special purpose task force under the memorandum of understanding.

§ Subd. 3. Federal authority preserved. This section is not intended to limit the existing authority possessed by federal law enforcement officers.
Minn. Stat. § 609.2111 — MN Code / Part 609_624 / Chapter 609 / Section 609.2111
§ 609.2111 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of sections 609.2111 to 609.2114 , the terms defined in this subdivision have the meanings given them.

(b) "Motor vehicle" has the meaning given in section 609.52, subdivision 1 , and includes attached trailers.

(c) "Controlled substance" has the meaning given in section 152.01, subdivision 4 .

(d) "Intoxicating substance" has the meaning given in section 169A.03, subdivision 11a .

(e) "Qualified prior driving offense" includes a prior conviction:

(1) for a violation of section 169A.20 under the circumstances described in section 169A.24 or 169A.25 ;

(2) under section 609.2112, subdivision 1 , paragraph (a), clauses (2) to (6); 609.2113, subdivision 1, clauses (2) to (6); 2, clauses (2) to (6); or 3, clauses (2) to (6); or 609.2114, subdivision 1 , paragraph (a), clauses (2) to (6); or 2, clauses (2) to (6);

(3) under Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 609.21, subdivision 1 , clauses (2) to (6); or

(4) under Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 609.21, subdivision 1 , clauses (2) to (6); 2, clauses (2) to (6); 2a, clauses (2) to (6); 2b, clauses (2) to (6); 3, clauses (2) to (6); or 4, clauses (2) to (6).

(f) "Artificially derived cannabinoid" has the meaning given in section 342.01, subdivision 6.

(g) "Cannabis flower" has the meaning given in section 342.01, subdivision 16 .

(h) "Cannabis product" has the meaning given in section 342.01, subdivision 20 .

(i) "Hemp-derived consumer product" has the meaning given in section 342.01 , subdivision 37.

(j) "Lower-potency hemp edible" has the meaning given in section 342.01, subdivision 50.
Minn. Stat. § 356.407 — MN Code / Part 352_356B / Chapter 356 / Section 356.407
§ 356.407 RESTORATION OF SURVIVOR BENEFITS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Restoration upon termination of remarriage. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of the laws governing any of the retirement plans enumerated in subdivision 2, any person who was receiving a surviving spouse's benefit from any of those plans and whose benefit terminated solely because of remarriage is, if the remarriage terminates for any reason, again entitled upon reapplication to a surviving spouse's benefit; provided, however, that the person is not entitled to retroactive payments for the period of remarriage. The benefit resumes at the level which the person would have been receiving if there had been no remarriage.

§ Subd. 2. Covered funds. The provisions of this section apply to the following retirement funds: (1) the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association established under chapter 353; (2) the public employees police and fire plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association established under chapter 353; (3) the State Patrol retirement plan established under chapter 352B; (4) the legislators retirement plan established under chapter 3A; (5) the elective state officers retirement plan established under chapter 352C; and (6) the Teachers Retirement Association established under chapter 354.
Minn. Stat. § 578.16 — MN Code / Part 570_583 / Chapter 578 / Section 578.16
§ 578.16 PRESUMPTION OF DEATH FROM ABSENCE.
Status: in_force

An absentee who is missing for a continuous period of four years, during which, after diligent search, the absentee has not been seen or heard of or from, and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained, shall be presumed, in any action or proceeding involving the property of the person, contractual or property rights contingent upon the absentee's death or the administration of the absentee's estate, to have died four years after the date the unexplained absence commenced. If the person was exposed to a specific peril of death, that fact may be a sufficient basis for determining that the absentee died less than four years after the date the absence commenced.
Minn. Stat. § 45.0291 — MN Code / Part 44A_45A / Chapter 45 / Section 45.0291
§ 45.0291 DEPARTMENT BONDS.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under chapters 45 to 83, 309, 332, and sections 326B.802 to 326B.885 , are not state bonds or contracts for purposes of sections 8.05 and 16C.05, subdivision 2 .
Minn. Stat. § 641.24 — MN Code / Part 636_643 / Chapter 641 / Section 641.24
§ 641.24 LEASING.
Status: in_force

The county may, by resolution of the county board, enter into a lease agreement with any statutory or home rule charter city situated within the county, or a county housing and redevelopment authority established pursuant to chapter 469 or any special law whereby the city or county housing and redevelopment authority will construct a jail or other law enforcement facilities for the county sheriff, deputy sheriffs, and other employees of the sheriff and other law enforcement agencies, in accordance with plans prepared by or at the request of the county board and, when required, approved by the commissioner of corrections and will finance it by the issuance of revenue bonds, and the county may lease the site and improvements for a term and upon rentals sufficient to produce revenue for the prompt payment of the bonds and all interest accruing thereon and, upon completion of payment, will acquire title thereto. The real and personal property acquired for the jail shall constitute a project and the lease agreement shall constitute a revenue agreement as contemplated in chapter 469, and all proceedings shall be taken by the city or county housing and redevelopment authority and the county in the manner and with the force and effect provided in chapter 469; provided that:

(1) no tax shall be imposed upon or in lieu of a tax upon the property;

(2) the approval of the project by the commissioner of commerce shall not be required;

(3) the Department of Corrections shall be furnished and shall record such information concerning each project as it may prescribe;

(4) the rentals required to be paid under the lease agreement shall not exceed in any year one-tenth of one percent of the estimated market value of property within the county, as last finally equalized before the execution of the agreement;

(5) the county board shall provide for the payment of all rentals due during the term of the lease, in the manner required in section 641.264, subdivision 2 ;

(6) no mortgage on the property shall be granted for the security of the bonds, but compliance with clause (5) hereof may be enforced as a nondiscretionary duty of the county board; and

(7) the county board may sublease any part of the jail property for purposes consistent with the maintenance and operation of a county jail or other law enforcement facility.
Minn. Stat. § 325B.06 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325B / Section 325B.06
§ 325B.06 ASSIGNMENT, TRANSFER OR SALE OF BUSINESS.
Status: in_force

No brewer shall unreasonably withhold consent to any assignment, transfer or sale of the wholesaler's business whenever the wholesaler to be substituted meets the material and reasonable qualifications and standards required of its wholesalers.
Minn. Stat. § 144E.015 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144E / Section 144E.015
§ 144E.015 MEDICAL SERVICES DIVISION.
Status: in_force

A Medical Services Division is created in the Office of Emergency Medical Services. The Medical Services Division shall be under the supervision of a deputy director of medical services appointed by the director. The deputy director of medical services must be a physician licensed under chapter 147. The deputy director, under the direction of the director, shall enforce and coordinate the laws, rules, and policies assigned by the director, which may include overseeing the clinical aspects of prehospital medical care and education programs for emergency medical service personnel.
Minn. Stat. § 176.095 — MN Code / Part 175_187 / Chapter 176 / Section 176.095
§ 176.095 LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that workers' compensation benefits for total disabilities should exceed those benefits provided for partial disabilities in order to fairly compensate the person unable to engage in gainful employment or suffering an injury described in section 176.101, subdivision 5 . It is the policy of the legislature that any change in the benefit schedule for total disability be accompanied by an appropriate change in the benefit schedule for partial disability.
Minn. Stat. § 299A.02 — MN Code / Part 299A_299N / Chapter 299A / Section 299A.02
§ 299A.02 LIQUOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS.
Status: reserved

§ Subdivision 1. Conflict of interest. No employee of the Department of Public Safety or the Department of Revenue having any responsibility for the administration or enforcement of chapter 297G or 340A shall have a direct or indirect interest, except through ownership or investment in pension or mutual funds, in the manufacture, transportation or sale of intoxicating liquor or any malt or vinous beverages, intoxicating, nonintoxicating, or commercial or industrial alcohol. The commissioner of public safety or the commissioner of revenue may remove an employee in the unclassified civil service for any intentional violation of any provision of chapter 297G or 340A. Intentional violation of a provision of chapter 297G or 340A by a classified employee of one of the departments may be grounds for removal of that employee pursuant to section 43A.33 .

§ Subd. 2. General powers. The commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions of chapters 297G and 340A through the director of alcohol and gambling enforcement, except for those provisions thereof for which administration and enforcement are reserved to the commissioner of revenue.

§ Subd. 3. Reports; rules. The commissioner shall have power to require periodic factual reports from all licensed importers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of intoxicating liquors and to make all reasonable rules to effect the object of chapters 297G and 340A. The rules shall include provisions for assuring the purity of intoxicating liquors and the true statement of its contents and proper labeling thereof with regard to all forms of sale. No rule may require the use of new containers in aging whiskey. No rule may require cordials or liqueurs to contain in excess of 2-1/2 percent by weight of sugar or dextrose or both.

§ Subd. 4. Subpoena. In all matters relating to official duties, the commissioner shall have the powers possessed by courts of law to issue subpoenas and cause them to be served and enforced. All public officials, and their respective deputies and employees, and all individuals, partnerships, firms, corporations, incorporated and unincorporated associations, and others who manufacture, transport, or sell intoxicating liquor, or are connected therewith in any manner, shall at all times attend and answer under oath the commissioner's lawful inquiries, produce and exhibit such books, accounts, documents, and property as the commissioner may desire to inspect, and in all things aid the commissioner in the performance of the commissioner's duties.
Minn. Stat. § 244.1995 — MN Code / Part 241_244 / Chapter 244 / Section 244.1995
§ 244.1995 SANCTIONS CONFERENCE PROCEDURES.
Status: in_force

The chief executive officer of a probation agency, with approval of the district court, must develop procedures for the sanctions conference under sections 244.197 to 244.199 and develop a sanctions conference form that includes notice to the individual on probation:

(1) of the specific court-ordered condition of probation that the individual has allegedly violated, the probation officer's authority to ask the court to revoke the individual's probation for the technical violation, and the individual's right to elect to participate in a sanctions conference to address the technical violation in lieu of the probation officer asking the court to revoke the individual's probation;

(2) that participation in the sanctions conference is in lieu of a court hearing under section 609.14 and that if the individual elects to participate in the sanctions conference, the individual must admit, or agree not to contest, the alleged technical violation and must waive the right to contest the violation at a judicial hearing, present evidence, call witnesses, cross-examine the state's witnesses, and be represented by counsel;

(3) that, if the individual chooses, the individual is entitled to a hearing before the court under section 609.14 for a determination of whether the individual committed the alleged violation, including the right to be present at the hearing, to cross-examine witnesses, to have witnesses subpoenaed for the individual, to have an attorney present or to have an attorney appointed if the individual cannot afford one, and to require the state to prove the allegations against the individual;

(4) that if, after a hearing, the court finds that the violations have been proven, the court may continue the sentence, subject to the same, modified, or additional conditions, or order a sanction that may include incarceration, additional fines, revocation of the stay of sentence, imposition of sentence, or other sanctions;

(5) that the decision to participate in the sanctions conference will not result in the probation officer recommending revocation of the individual's stay of sentence unless the individual subsequently fails to successfully complete the probation violation sanction by a specified date;

(6) that various types of probation violation sanctions may be imposed and that the probation violation sanctions imposed on the individual will depend on the nature of the individual's technical violation, criminal history, and level of supervision;

(7) that the probation violation sanctions supplement any existing conditions of probation; and

(8) that participation in the sanctions conference requires completing all probation violation sanctions imposed by the probation agency and that failing to successfully complete any imposed probation violation sanction could result in additional sanctions or initiation of revocation proceedings under section 609.14 .
Minn. Stat. § 123B.43 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 123B / Section 123B.43
§ 123B.43 USE OF INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner shall assure that textbooks and individualized instructional materials loaned to nonpublic school pupils are secular, neutral, nonideological and that they are incapable of diversion for religious use.

(b) Textbooks, individualized instructional materials, software or other educational technology must not be used in religious courses, devotional exercises, religious training or any other religious activity.

(c) Textbooks and individualized instructional materials must be loaned only to individual pupils upon the request of a parent or guardian or the pupil on a form designated for this use by the commissioner. The request forms shall provide for verification by the parent or guardian or pupil that the requested textbooks and individualized instructional materials are for the use of the individual pupil in connection with a program of instruction in the pupil's elementary or secondary school.

(d) The servicing school district or the intermediary service area must take adequate measures to ensure an accurate and periodic inventory of all textbooks, individualized instructional materials, software or other educational technology loaned to elementary and secondary school pupils attending nonpublic schools. The commissioner of education shall promulgate rules under the provisions of chapter 14 to terminate the eligibility of any nonpublic school pupil if the commissioner determines, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that the textbooks, individualized instructional materials, or software or other educational technology, have been used in a manner contrary to the provisions of section 123B.41, subdivision 5 , 123B.42 , or this section or any rules promulgated by the commissioner of education.

(e) Nothing contained in section 123B.41, subdivision 5 , 123B.42 , or this section shall be construed to authorize the making of any payments to a nonpublic school or its faculty, staff or administrators for religious worship or instruction or for any other purpose.
Minn. Stat. § 386.06 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 386 / Section 386.06
§ 386.06 TRACT INDEX BOOKS; CONTRACTS FOR MAKING.
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of any county in the state which does not have a tract index, belonging to the county, in the office of the county recorder, of lands within the county, is hereby authorized and empowered to cause or have a tract index made, and may hire, employ, or contract with any competent person, without advertising therefor, to prepare and make such tract index.
Minn. Stat. § 443.19 — MN Code / Part 440_446A / Chapter 443 / Section 443.19
§ 443.19 LIMIT OF INDEBTEDNESS; TAX ESTIMATES.
Status: in_force

The obligations incurred by any city of the first class in the making of any such contracts shall not be considered as a part of its indebtedness under the provisions of its governing charter, or of any law of this state fixing the limit of amount of its indebtedness; nor shall it be required, at any time before making, or during the life of such contracts, to have specifically provided for the same by previous tax estimates or levy, or to provide for or have on hand in its treasury more money applicable to such contracts than the amount to be paid thereon during a single year.
Minn. Stat. § 480.20 — MN Code / Part 480_494 / Chapter 480 / Section 480.20
§ 480.20 APPLICATION TO SUBSTITUTION OF PROBATE JUDGES.
Status: in_force

The provisions of sections 480.13 to 480.20 shall in no way be construed to impair the authority and manner of substitution of probate judges provided in Minnesota Statutes 1961, section 525.051 .