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Minn. Stat. § 325E.26 — MN Code / Part 324_342 / Chapter 325E / Section 325E.26
§ 325E.26 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Scope. The terms used in sections 325E.26 to 325E.30 have the meanings given them in this section.

§ Subd. 2. Automatic dialing-announcing device. "Automatic dialing-announcing device" means a device that selects and dials telephone numbers and that, working alone or in conjunction with other equipment, disseminates a prerecorded or synthesized voice message to the telephone number called.

§ Subd. 3. Caller. "Caller" means a person, corporation, firm, partnership, association, or legal or commercial entity who attempts to contact, or who contacts, a subscriber in this state by using a telephone or a telephone line.

§ Subd. 4. Commercial telephone solicitation. "Commercial telephone solicitation" means any unsolicited call to a residential subscriber when the person initiating the call has not had a prior business or personal relationship with the subscriber, and when the purpose of the call is to solicit the purchase or the consideration of purchase of goods or services by the subscriber. Commercial telephone solicitation does not include calls initiated by organizations listed in Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 290.21, subdivision 3 , clauses (a) to (e).

§ Subd. 5. Subscriber. "Subscriber" means a person who has subscribed to telephone service from a telephone company or the other persons living or residing with the subscribing person.

§ Subd. 6. Message. "Message" means any call, regardless of its content.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-1113 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.2-1113
§ 524.2-1113 DISCLAIMER OF POWER HELD IN FIDUCIARY CAPACITY.
Status: in_force

(a) If a fiduciary disclaims a power held in a fiduciary capacity which has not been exercised, the disclaimer takes effect as of the time the instrument creating the power becomes irrevocable.

(b) If a fiduciary disclaims a power held in a fiduciary capacity which has been exercised, the disclaimer takes effect immediately after the last exercise of the power.

(c) A disclaimer under this section is effective as to another fiduciary if:

(1) the disclaimer so provides; and

(2) the fiduciary disclaiming has the authority to bind the estate, trust, or other person for whom the fiduciary is acting.
Minn. Stat. § 62A.4519 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 62A / Section 62A.4519
§ 62A.4519 COMPLAINT SYSTEM.
Status: in_force

Every prepaid limited health service organization shall establish and maintain a complaint system providing reasonable procedures for resolving written complaints initiated by enrollees and providers, consistent with the requirements of Medicare Part D.
Minn. Stat. § 147A.27 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 147A / Section 147A.27
§ 147A.27 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT ADVISORY COUNCIL.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Membership. The Physician Assistant Advisory Council is created and is composed of seven persons appointed by the board. The seven persons must include: (1) two public members, as defined in section 214.02 ; (2) three physician assistants licensed under this chapter who meet the criteria for a new applicant under section 147A.02 ; and (3) two licensed physicians with experience practicing with physician assistants.

§ Subd. 2. Organization. The council shall be organized and administered under section 15.059 .

§ Subd. 3. Duties. The council shall advise the board regarding: (1) physician assistant licensure standards; (2) enforcement of grounds for discipline; (3) distribution of information regarding physician assistant licensure standards; (4) applications and recommendations of applicants for licensure or license renewal; (5) complaints and recommendations to the board regarding disciplinary matters and proceedings concerning applicants and licensees according to sections 214.10 ; 214.103 ; and 214.13 , subdivisions 6 and 7; and (6) issues related to physician assistant practice and regulation. The council shall perform other duties authorized for the council by chapter 214 as directed by the board.
Minn. Stat. § 525A.21 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 525A / Section 525A.21
§ 525A.21 EFFECT OF ANATOMICAL GIFT ON HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "health care directive" has the meaning given in section 145C.01 , subdivision 5a.

(b) If a prospective donor has a health care directive and the terms of the declaration or directive and the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift are in conflict with regard to the administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy, the prospective donor's attending physician and the prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict. If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor's declaration or directive or, if there is none or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by a law other than this chapter to make health care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor, shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict. The conflict must be resolved as expeditiously as possible. Information relevant to the resolution of the conflict may be obtained from the appropriate procurement organization and any other person authorized to make an anatomical gift for the prospective donor under section 525A.09 . Before resolution of the conflict, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor if withholding or withdrawing the measures is not contraindicated by appropriate end-of-life care.
Minn. Stat. § 88.10 — MN Code / Part 88_91 / Chapter 88 / Section 88.10
§ 88.10 AUTHORITY OF STATE FOREST OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. General authority. Under the direction of the commissioner, forest officers are charged with preventing and extinguishing wildfires in their respective districts and the performance of such other duties as may be required by the commissioner. They may arrest without warrant any person found violating any provisions of sections 88.03 to 88.22 , take the person before a court of competent jurisdiction in the county charging the person so arrested, and the person so charged shall be arraigned and given a hearing on the complaint. The forest officers shall not be liable in civil action for trespass committed in the discharge of their duties. All authorized state forest officers, fire wardens, conservation officers, smoke chasers, fire supervisors or individuals legally employed as firefighters, may in the performance of their duties of firefighting go onto the property of any person, company, or corporation and in so doing may set backfires, dig or plow trenches, cut timber for clearing fire lines, dig water holes, remove fence wires to provide access to the fire or carry on all other customary activities necessary for the fighting of wildfires without incurring a liability to anyone, except for damages arising out of willful or gross negligence.

§ Subd. 2. Arrest authority. Any forest officer may serve any warrant for the arrest of any person violating any provision of sections 88.03 to 88.22 .

§ Subd. 3. Wildland firefighters; training and licensing. Forest officers and all individuals employed as firefighters under this chapter are not subject to the licensing, training, and certification requirements of chapter 299N.
Minn. Stat. § 356.636 — MN Code / Part 352_356B / Chapter 356 / Section 356.636
§ 356.636 CORRECTION OF ERRORS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Pension fund" means the Minnesota State Retirement System, the Public Employees Retirement Association, the Teachers Retirement Association, and the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association. (c) "Tax qualification" means compliance with all applicable requirements of section 401(a) or 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.

§ Subd. 2. Correction of errors. (a) The executive director of a pension fund may correct an error made by a pension fund or an error in a plan document that is not a statute if the executive director determines that correction is necessary or appropriate to preserve and protect the tax qualification of any pension or retirement plan listed in section 356.611, subdivision 6 , that is administered by the pension fund. The method of correction must comply with the Internal Revenue Service Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) or any successor thereto, if the EPCRS addresses the error and correction. (b) To the extent deemed necessary by the executive director to implement correction, the executive director may: (1) make distributions; (2) transfer assets; (3) recover an overpayment by reducing future benefit payments or designating appropriate revenue or source of funding that will restore to the plan the amount of the overpayment; or (4) take any other action that will restore the plan and any affected member or participant to the position the plan, member, or participant would have been in had the error not occurred. (c) An executive director may correct an error under paragraph (a) or (b) without regard to any statute that imposes a time limitation on making such correction.

§ Subd. 3. Annual report. (a) The executive director of each pension fund must submit a report annually to the chair and executive director of the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement no later than each February 1. The report must describe each error or plan document error corrected under subdivision 2 during the preceding calendar year, other than: (1) an error corrected in the ordinary course of business; and (2) correction authorized by current law, including but not limited to correction authorized under sections 352.04 , 353.27 , 354.42 , 356.401 , and 356.637 . (b) The report must describe the error, the pension or retirement plan affected by the error, the method of correction, and the cost, if any, to the pension or retirement plan, employee, or employer of the error and correction. (c) An error is corrected in the ordinary course of business if it is a correction or cancellation of an overpayment or an adjustment of an ongoing annuity amount.
Minn. Stat. § 428A.12 — MN Code / Part 426_435 / Chapter 428A / Section 428A.12
§ 428A.12 PETITION REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

No action may be taken under sections 428A.13 and 428A.14 unless owners of 50 percent or more of the housing units that would be subject to fees in the proposed housing improvement area file a petition requesting a public hearing on the proposed action with the city clerk. No action may be taken under section 428A.14 to impose a fee unless owners of 50 percent or more of the housing units subject to the proposed fee file a petition requesting a public hearing on the proposed fee with the city clerk or other appropriate official.
Minn. Stat. § 383A.552 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 383A / Section 383A.552
§ 383A.552 CHARTER COMMISSION; NOMINATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Status: in_force

Within 30 days of the effective date of Laws 1987, chapter 103, the Ramsey County legislative delegation shall nominate 41 persons as candidates for appointment to a Charter Commission to frame a charter to provide for the form of government for Ramsey County. Five persons who reside in the district shall be nominated for each of the county commissioner districts in the county. Six persons who reside in the county shall also be nominated without regard to county commissioner districts. Within 30 days of the selection of nominees the judges of the Second Judicial District shall appoint the Charter Commission of 17 members consisting of two appointees for each county commissioner district selected from those nominated from each county commissioner district and three appointees from those nominated at large to serve at large. The commission members must be qualified voters in Ramsey County. No person shall be disqualified from serving on the Charter Commission because of holding an elective or appointive office.
Minn. Stat. § 86B.303 — MN Code / Part 85_87A / Chapter 86B / Section 86B.303
§ 86B.303 OPERATING PERSONAL WATERCRAFT AND OTHER MOTORBOATS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Adult operators. An adult operator may not operate a motorboat, including a personal watercraft, unless: (1) the adult operator possesses a valid watercraft operator's permit; (2) the adult operator is an exempt operator; or (3) an accompanying operator is in the motorboat.

§ Subd. 2. Young operators. (a) A young operator may not operate a personal watercraft or any motorboat powered by a motor with a factory rating of more than 75 horsepower. (b) A young operator may operate a motorboat that is not a personal watercraft and that is powered by a motor with a factory rating of less than 75 horsepower if an accompanying operator is in the motorboat.

§ Subd. 3. Accompanying operators. For purposes of this section and section 169A.20 , an accompanying operator, as well as the actual operator, is operating and is in physical control of a motorboat.

§ Subd. 4. Owners may not allow unlawful use. An owner or other person in lawful control of a motorboat may not allow the motorboat to be operated contrary to this section.

§ Subd. 5. Exception for low-powered motorboats. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, a person of any age may operate a motorboat that is not a personal watercraft that is powered by a motor with a factory rating of 25 horsepower or less without possessing a valid watercraft operator's permit and without an accompanying operator in the motorboat.
Minn. Stat. § 115A.67 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 115A / Section 115A.67
§ 115A.67 ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Chair; board. The chair shall be elected from outside the board of directors by majority vote of the board of directors. The first chair shall serve for a term of two years. Members of the board of directors shall be residents of the district.

§ Subd. 2. First meeting. The first meeting of the board of directors shall be held at the call of the chair, after notice, for the purpose of proposing the bylaws, electing officers and for any other business that comes before the meeting. The bylaws of the district, and amendments thereto, shall be adopted by a majority vote of the board of directors unless the certificate of incorporation requires a greater vote.

§ Subd. 3. Bylaws. The bylaws shall state: (1) the manner and time of calling regular meetings of the representatives and the board of directors, not less than once annually; (2) the title, manner of selection, and term of office of officers of the district; (3) the term of office of members of the board of directors, the manner of their removal, and the manner of filling vacancies on the board of directors; (4) the powers and duties of the board of directors consistent with the order and articles of incorporation establishing the district; (5) the definition of a quorum for meetings of the board of directors, which shall be not less than a majority of the members; (6) the compensation and reimbursement for expenses for members of the board of directors, which shall not exceed that provided for in section 15.0575, subdivision 3 ; and (7) such other provisions for regulating the affairs of the district as the board of directors shall determine to be necessary.
Minn. Stat. § 145.63 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 145 / Section 145.63
§ 145.63 REVIEW ORGANIZATION; ADVISORY CAPACITY; IMMUNITY.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Members, directors, and officers. No review organization and no person who is a member or employee, director, or officer of, who acts in an advisory capacity to, or who furnishes counsel or services to, a review organization shall be liable for damages or other relief in any action brought by a person or persons whose activities have been or are being scrutinized or reviewed by a review organization, by reason of the performance by the person of any duty, function, or activity of such review organization, unless the performance of such duty, function or activity was motivated by malice toward the person affected thereby. No review organization and no person shall be liable for damages or other relief in any action by reason of the performance of the review organization or person of any duty, function, or activity as a review organization or a member of a review committee or by reason of any recommendation or action of the review committee when the person acts in the reasonable belief that the action or recommendation is warranted by facts known to the person or the review organization after reasonable efforts to ascertain the facts upon which the review organization's action or recommendation is made, except that any corporation designated as a review organization under the Code of Federal Regulations, title 42, section 466 (1983) shall be subject to actions for damages or other relief by reason of any failure of a person, whose care or treatment is required to be scrutinized or reviewed by the review organization, to receive medical care or treatment as a result of a determination by the review organization that medical care was unnecessary or inappropriate. The protections from liability provided in this subdivision shall also apply to the governing body of the review organization and shall not be waived as a result of referral of a matter from the review organization to the governing body or consideration by the governing body of decisions, recommendations, or documentation of the review organization.

§ Subd. 2. Organizations. No state or local association of professionals or organization of professionals from a particular area shall be liable for damages or other relief in any action brought by a person whose activities have been or are being scrutinized or reviewed by a review organization established by the association or organization, unless the association or organization was motivated by malice towards the person affected by the review or scrutiny.
Minn. Stat. § 92.32 — MN Code / Part 92_94 / Chapter 92 / Section 92.32
§ 92.32 GOVERNOR TO EXECUTE CONVEYANCES.
Status: in_force

To carry out sections 92.30 and 92.31 the governor may execute proper instruments of conveyance in the name and under the seal of the state.
Minn. Stat. § 72A.504 — MN Code / Part 59A_79A / Chapter 72A / Section 72A.504
§ 72A.504 OBTAINING INFORMATION UNDER IMPROPER MEANS.
Status: in_force

Any person who knowingly and willfully obtains information about a person in violation of section 72A.493 is subject to a fine not to exceed $3,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 364 days, or both.
Minn. Stat. § 345.43 — MN Code / Part 343_348 / Chapter 345 / Section 345.43
§ 345.43 PAYMENT OR DELIVERY OF ABANDONED PROPERTY.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1996 c 439 art 1 s 27 ]

§ Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1996 c 439 art 1 s 27 ]

§ Subd. 2a. Holder's obligations. At the time of the filing of the report required under section 345.41 and with that report, the holder reporting property presumed abandoned and subject to custody as unclaimed property shall pay or deliver to the commissioner all of the property shown on the report and remaining unclaimed by the apparent owner. Upon written request showing good cause, the commissioner may postpone the payment or delivery upon the terms or conditions the commissioner considers necessary and appropriate. The property paid or delivered to the commissioner shall include all interest, dividends, increments, and accretions due, payable, or distributable on the property on November 1, or October 1 for a life insurance company. If payment or delivery is postponed, the property paid or delivered to the commissioner shall include accretions due, payable, or distributable on the day that the property is paid or delivered to the commissioner.

§ Subd. 3. Evidence of ownership. The holder of an interest under section 345.35 shall deliver a duplicate certificate or other evidence of ownership if the holder does not issue certificates of ownership to the commissioner. Upon delivery of a duplicate certificate to the commissioner, the holder and any transfer agent, registrar, or other person acting for or on behalf of a holder in executing or delivering the duplicate certificate is relieved of all liability of every kind in accordance with the provision of section 345.44 to every person, including any person acquiring the original certificate or the duplicate of the certificate issued to the commissioner, for any losses or damages resulting to any person by the issuance and delivery to the commissioner of the duplicate certificate.
Minn. Stat. § 124D.44 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 124D / Section 124D.44
§ 124D.44 MATCH REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

ServeMinnesota Innovation grant funds must be used for the living allowance, cost of employer taxes under sections 3111 and 3301 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, workers' compensation coverage, health benefits, training and evaluation for each program participant, and administrative expenses, which must not exceed seven percent of total program costs. Applicant resources, from sources and in a form determined by the commission, must be used to provide for all other program costs.
Minn. Stat. § 626.8431 — MN Code / Part 625_634 / Chapter 626 / Section 626.8431
§ 626.8431 AUTOMATIC LICENSE REVOCATION.
Status: in_force

The license of a peace officer convicted of a felony is automatically revoked. For purposes of this section, "conviction" includes a finding of guilt, whether or not the adjudication of guilt is stayed or executed, an admission of guilt, or a no contest plea.
Minn. Stat. § 120B.018 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 120B / Section 120B.018
§ 120B.018 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

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

§ Subd. 2. Academic standard. "Academic standard" means a summary description of student learning in a required content area under section 120B.021 or elective content area under section 120B.022 .

§ Subd. 3. Benchmark. "Benchmark" means specific knowledge or skill that a student must master to complete part of an academic standard by the end of the grade level or grade band.

§ Subd. 4. Credit. "Credit" means the determination by the local school district that a student has successfully completed an academic year of study or mastered the applicable subject matter.

§ Subd. 5. Elective standard. "Elective standard" means a locally adopted expectation for student learning in career and technical education and world languages.

§ Subd. 6. Required standard. "Required standard" means a statewide adopted expectation for student learning in the content areas of language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, physical education, health, and the arts. Locally developed academic standards in health apply until statewide rules implementing statewide health standards under section 120B.021, subdivision 3, are required to be implemented in the classroom.
Minn. Stat. § 147D.23 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 147D / Section 147D.23
§ 147D.23 DISCIPLINE; REPORTING.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, licensed traditional midwives and applicants are subject to the provisions of sections 147.091 to 147.162 .