FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Minn. Stat. § 477A.18 — MN Code / Part 474_477C / Chapter 477A / Section 477A.18
§ 477A.18 PRODUCTION PROPERTY TRANSITION AID.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) When used in this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated in this subdivision. (b) "Local unit" means a home rule charter or statutory city, or a town. (c) "Net tax capacity differential" means the positive difference, if any, by which the local unit's net tax capacity was reduced from assessment year 2014 to assessment year 2015 due to the change in the definition of real property in section 272.03, subdivision 1, enacted by Laws 2014, chapter 308, article 2, section 9. For purposes of determining the net tax capacity differential, any property in a job opportunity building zone under section 469.314 may not be included when calculating a local unit's net tax capacity.

§ Subd. 2. Aid eligibility; payment. (a) If the net tax capacity differential of the local unit exceeds five percent of its 2015 net tax capacity, the local unit is eligible for transition aid computed under paragraphs (b) to (f). (b) For aids payable in 2016, transition aid under this section for an eligible local unit equals (1) the net tax capacity differential, times (2) the jurisdiction's tax rate for taxes payable in 2015. (c) For aids payable in 2017, transition aid under this section for an eligible local unit equals 80 percent of (1) the net tax capacity differential, times (2) the jurisdiction's tax rate for taxes payable in 2016. (d) For aids payable in 2018, transition aid under this section for an eligible local unit equals 60 percent of (1) the net tax capacity differential, times (2) the jurisdiction's tax rate for taxes payable in 2017. (e) For aids payable in 2019, transition aid under this section for an eligible local unit equals 40 percent of (1) the net tax capacity differential, times (2) the jurisdiction's tax rate for taxes payable in 2018. (f) For aids payable in 2020, transition aid under this section for an eligible local unit equals 20 percent of (1) the net tax capacity differential, times (2) the jurisdiction's tax rate for taxes payable in 2019. (g) No aids shall be payable under this section in 2021 and thereafter. (h) The commissioner of revenue shall compute the amount of transition aid payable to each local unit under this section. On or before August 1 of each year, the commissioner shall certify the amount of transition aid computed for aids payable in the following year for each recipient local unit. The commissioner shall pay transition aid to local units annually at the times provided in section 477A.015 . (i) The commissioner of revenue may require counties to provide any data that the commissioner deems necessary to administer this section.

§ Subd. 3. Appropriation. An amount sufficient to pay transition aid under this section is annually appropriated to the commissioner of revenue from the general fund.
Minn. Stat. § 142G.85 — MN Code / Part 142A_142G / Chapter 142G / Section 142G.85
§ 142G.85 TANF DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS OR WAIVER FROM FEDERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner of children, youth, and families may pursue TANF demonstration projects or waivers of TANF requirements from the United States Department of Health and Human Services as needed to allow the state to build a more results-oriented Minnesota Family Investment Program to better meet the needs of Minnesota families.

§ Subd. 2. Purpose. The purpose of the TANF demonstration projects or waivers is to: (1) replace the federal TANF process measure and its complex administrative requirements with state-developed outcomes measures that track adult employment and exits from MFIP cash assistance; (2) simplify programmatic and administrative requirements; and (3) make other policy or programmatic changes that improve the performance of the program and the outcomes for participants.
Minn. Stat. § 115.41 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 115 / Section 115.41
§ 115.41 DEFINITIONS.
Status: repealed

§ Subdivision 1. Applicability. The definitions given in this section shall obtain for the purposes of sections 115.41 to 115.53 , except as otherwise expressly provided or indicated by the context.

§ Subd. 2. Additional terms. The definitions given in section 115.01 shall govern for the purposes of sections 115.41 to 115.53 , except as otherwise expressly provided or indicated by the context.

§ Subd. 3. [Repealed, 1969 c 9 s 20 ]

§ Subd. 4. MS 1990 [Renumbered subd 6]

§ Subd. 4. Agency. "Agency" means the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

§ Subd. 5. MS 1990 [Renumbered subd 2]

§ Subd. 5. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of administration.

§ Subd. 6. MS 1990 [Renumbered subd 4]

§ Subd. 6. Municipality. "Municipality" means a city, sanitary district, or other governmental subdivision or public corporation.
Minn. Stat. § 136F.77 — MN Code / Part 135A_137 / Chapter 136F / Section 136F.77
§ 136F.77 EQUITY INVESTMENTS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Powers of board. The board may acquire an interest in a product or a private business entity for the purpose of developing and providing educational materials and related programs or services to further the mission of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and foster the economic growth of the state. The board may enter into joint venture agreements with private corporations to develop educational materials and related programs or services. Any proceeds from the investments or ventures are appropriated to the board. The state is not liable for any obligations or liabilities that arise from investments under this section. The board must report annually by September 1 to the legislature regarding its earnings from partnerships and the disposition of those earnings.

§ Subd. 2. Consultation required. Prior to entering into a joint venture agreement under this section, the board shall consult with appropriate exclusive bargaining representatives and must address topics such as employee protections, instructional services, information availability, and reporting conflicts of interest.

§ Subd. 3. No abrogation. Nothing in this section shall abrogate the provisions of sections 43A.047 and 136F.581 .
Minn. Stat. § 144G.40 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144G / Section 144G.40
§ 144G.40 HOUSING AND SERVICES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Responsibility for housing and services. The facility is directly responsible to the resident for all housing and service-related matters provided, irrespective of a management contract. Housing and service-related matters include but are not limited to the handling of complaints, the provision of notices, and the initiation of any adverse action against the resident involving housing or services provided by the facility.

§ Subd. 2. Uniform checklist disclosure of services. (a) All assisted living facilities must provide to prospective residents: (1) a disclosure of the categories of assisted living licenses available and the category of license held by the facility; (2) a written checklist listing all services permitted under the facility's license, identifying all services the facility offers to provide under the assisted living facility contract, and identifying all services allowed under the license that the facility does not provide; and (3) an oral explanation of the services offered under the contract. (b) The requirements of paragraph (a) must be completed prior to the execution of the assisted living contract. (c) The commissioner must, in consultation with all interested stakeholders, design the uniform checklist disclosure form for use as provided under paragraph (a).

§ Subd. 3. Reservation of rights. Nothing in this chapter: (1) requires a resident to utilize any service provided by or through, or made available in, a facility; (2) prevents a facility from requiring, as a condition of the contract, that the resident pay for a package of services even if the resident does not choose to use all or some of the services in the package. For residents who are eligible for home and community-based waiver services under chapter 256S and section 256B.49 , payment for services will follow the policies of those programs; (3) requires a facility to fundamentally alter the nature of the operations of the facility in order to accommodate a resident's request; or (4) affects the duty of a facility to grant a resident's request for reasonable accommodations.
Minn. Stat. § 145.893 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 145 / Section 145.893
§ 145.893 NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Food benefits. An eligible individual shall receive food benefits for the purchase of specified nutritional supplements in type and quantity approved by the commissioner. Alternate forms of delivery may be developed by the commissioner in appropriate cases.

§ Subd. 2. Eligibility. An individual shall be eligible for nutritional supplements who is not receiving a similar supplement under any federal, state, or local program and (1) is pregnant or lactating; or (2) is an infant or a child; and (3) is eligible for or a recipient of any form of public assistance authorized by law and is certified by the local health agency to be a nutritional risk; or (4) is certified by the local health agency to be a nutritional risk and is without sufficient resources to purchase necessary nutritional supplements.

§ Subd. 3. Cessation. Eligibility for nutritional supplements shall cease upon certification by the local health agency that the individual is no longer a nutritional risk, but in no case later than: (1) for lactating women, 12 months after the birth of a surviving child; and (2) for children, at five years of age.
Minn. Stat. § 97C.401 — MN Code / Part 97_102 / Chapter 97C / Section 97C.401
§ 97C.401 LIMITS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Duty to prescribe limits. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the commissioner shall, by rule, prescribe the limits on the number of each species of fish that may be taken in one day and the number that may be possessed.

§ Subd. 2. Walleye. A person may have no more than one walleye larger than 20 inches in possession. This subdivision does not apply to boundary waters.

§ Subd. 3. Gar. The commissioner must annually establish daily and possession limits for gar under section 84.027, subdivision 13 , paragraph (b).
Minn. Stat. § 18B.12 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 18B / Section 18B.12
§ 18B.12 SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF ADULTERATED PESTICIDES.
Status: in_force

A person may not offer for sale or distribute a pesticide that is determined by the commissioner to be adulterated, including a pesticide that has:

(1) a strength or purity that does not meet the standard of quality expressed on its label;

(2) a constituent entirely or partially substituted; or

(3) an important or necessary constituent entirely or partially removed.
Minn. Stat. § 125A.07 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 125A / Section 125A.07
§ 125A.07 RULEMAKING.
Status: in_force

(a) Consistent with this section, the commissioner shall adopt new rules and amend existing rules related to children with disabilities only under specific authority and consistent with the requirements of chapter 14 and paragraph (c).

(b) As provided in this paragraph, the state's regulatory scheme should support schools by assuring that all state special education rules adopted by the commissioner result in one or more of the following outcomes:

(1) increased time available to teachers and, where appropriate, to support staff including school nurses for educating students through direct and indirect instruction;

(2) consistent and uniform access to effective education programs for students with disabilities throughout the state;

(3) reduced inequalities and conflict, appropriate due process hearing procedures and reduced court actions related to the delivery of special education instruction and services for students with disabilities;

(4) clear expectations for service providers and for students with disabilities;

(5) increased accountability for all individuals and agencies that provide instruction and other services to students with disabilities;

(6) greater focus for the state and local resources dedicated to educating students with disabilities; and

(7) clearer standards for evaluating the effectiveness of education and support services for students with disabilities.

(c) Subject to chapter 14, the commissioner may adopt, amend, or rescind a rule related to children with disabilities if such action is specifically required by federal law.
Minn. Stat. § 31B.02 — MN Code / Part 17_43 / Chapter 31B / Section 31B.02
§ 31B.02 DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

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

§ Subd. 2. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture.

§ Subd. 3. Dealer. "Dealer" means a person, other than a market agency in the business of buying or selling livestock, either on the person's own account or as the employee or agent of the vendor or purchaser.

§ Subd. 4. Livestock. "Livestock" means live or dead cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, farmed Cervidae, as defined in section 35.153, subdivision 3 , llamas, as defined in section 17.455, subdivision 2 , Ratitae, as defined in section 17.453, subdivision 3 , bison (buffalo), or goats.

§ Subd. 5. Livestock products. "Livestock products" means products and by-products other than meats and meat food products of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry derived in whole or in part from livestock.

§ Subd. 6. Market agency. "Market agency" means a person engaged in the business of (1) buying or selling livestock on a commission basis, or (2) furnishing stockyard services and includes a person who sells or offers for sale livestock located in this state by satellite video auction.

§ Subd. 7. Meat food products. "Meat food products" means edible products and by-products of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry.

§ Subd. 8. Packer. "Packer" means a person in the business of (1) buying livestock for purposes of slaughter, (2) manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products for sale or shipment, or (3) marketing meats, meat food products, or livestock products in an unmanufactured form acting as a wholesale broker, dealer, or distributor.

§ Subd. 9. Stockyard. "Stockyard" means a place, establishment, or facility commonly known as a stockyard conducted, operated, or managed for profit or nonprofit as a public market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies, and buyers, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, in which live cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment.

§ Subd. 10. Stockyard owner. "Stockyard owner" means a person in the business of conducting or operating a stockyard.

§ Subd. 11. Stockyard services. "Stockyard services" means services or facilities furnished at a stockyard in connection with the receiving, buying, or selling on a commission basis or otherwise, marketing, feeding, watering, holding, delivery, shipment, weighing, or handling of livestock.
Minn. Stat. § 148B.561 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 148B / Section 148B.561
§ 148B.561 RETALIATORY PROVISIONS.
Status: in_force

If by the laws of any state or the rulings or decisions of the appropriate officers or boards thereof, any burden, obligation, requirement, disqualification, or disability is put upon licensed professional counselors licensed and in good standing in this state, affecting the right of these licensed professional counselors to be registered or licensed in that state, then the same or like burden, obligation, requirement, disqualification, or disability may be put upon the licensure in this state of licensed professional counselors registered in that state.
Minn. Stat. § 246.595 — MN Code / Part 245_267 / Chapter 246 / Section 246.595
§ 246.595 SOUTHERN CITIES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Service provision. The Direct Care and Treatment executive board shall offer medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area through the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic. For purposes of this requirement, the Faribault service area is expanded to also include geographic areas of the state within 100 miles of Faribault.

§ Subd. 2. Consultation required. The Direct Care and Treatment executive board shall consult with providers of psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients, family members of developmentally disabled clients, the chairs of the house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over health and human services fiscal issues, and the exclusive representatives when considering policy changes related to: (1) the future of the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic; (2) the services currently provided by that clinic to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault regional center catchment area; and (3) changes in the model for providing those services.

§ Subd. 3. Guarantee of service availability; legislative notice. (a) Direct Care and Treatment shall guarantee the provision of medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area through the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic until or unless other appropriate arrangements have been made to provide those clients with those services and the requirements of paragraph (b) are met. (b) The executive board shall notify the chairs of the house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over health and human services fiscal issues of plans to use other arrangements to provide medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area. The executive board must not implement these arrangements unless a regular legislative session has convened and adjourned since the date notice was given under this paragraph.
Minn. Stat. § 344.05 — MN Code / Part 343_348 / Chapter 344 / Section 344.05
§ 344.05 REPAIR COSTS RECOVERABLE.
Status: in_force

If a complainant builds, repairs, or rebuilds a fence according to section 344.04 and the fence viewers consider it sufficient, they shall give the occupants reasonable notice and an opportunity to be heard, determine the cost of the fence or repair, and give to the complainant who built, repaired, or rebuilt the fence a signed certificate of their decision and of the cost of the fence or repair and the viewers' fees. The complainant may demand, either of the owner or the occupant of the adjoining land where the fence was wanting or deficient, the viewers' fees and double the amount of the ascertained expense. If the owner or occupant does not pay that amount within one month after demand, the complainant may recover the amount, with interest, in a civil action.
Minn. Stat. § 124E.15 — MN Code / Part 120_129C / Chapter 124E / Section 124E.15
§ 124E.15 TRANSPORTATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A charter school must comply with all pupil transportation requirements in section 123B.88, subdivision 1 . A charter school must not require parents to surrender their rights to pupil transportation under section 123B.88, subdivision 2 .

(b) A charter school must notify the district in which the school is located and the commissioner by July 1 of its first fiscal year of operation if it will provide its own transportation or use the transportation services of the district in which it is located. For each subsequent year of operation, a charter school must give that district and the commissioner notice by March 1 for the following fiscal year.

(c) If a charter school elects to provide transportation for pupils, the charter school must provide the transportation within the district in which the charter school is located. The state must pay transportation aid to the charter school according to section 124E.23 .

(d) For pupils who reside outside the district in which the charter school is located, the charter school is not required to provide or pay for transportation between the pupil's residence and the border of the district in which the charter school is located. The charter school may reimburse a parent for costs of transportation from the pupil's residence to the border of the district in which the charter school is located if the pupil is from a family whose income is at or below the poverty level, as determined by the federal government. The reimbursement may not exceed the pupil's actual cost of transportation or 15 cents per mile traveled, whichever is less. Reimbursement may not be paid for more than 250 miles per week.

(e) If a charter school does not elect to provide transportation, the district in which the school is located must provide transportation, according to sections 123B.88, subdivision 6 , governing transporting nonresident pupils, and 124D.03, subdivision 8 , for a pupil residing in the same district in which the charter school is located. The district in which the charter school is located may provide transportation, according to sections 123B.88, subdivision 6 , and 124D.03, subdivision 8 , governing open enrollment transportation, for a pupil residing in a different district. If the district provides the transportation, the scheduling of routes, manner and method of transportation, control and discipline of the pupils, and any other matter relating to the transportation of pupils under this paragraph is within the sole discretion, control, and management of the district.

(f) The charter school must provide the parent or guardian with information about transportation when a pupil enrolls.
Minn. Stat. § 272.121 — MN Code / Part 272_289 / Chapter 272 / Section 272.121
§ 272.121 CURRENT TAX ON DIVIDED PARCELS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Certification of payment. Except as provided in subdivision 2, if a deed or other instrument conveys a parcel of land that is less than a whole parcel of land as described in the current tax list, the county auditor shall not transfer or divide the land in the auditor's official records, and the county recorder shall not file and record the instrument, unless the instrument of conveyance contains a certification by the county treasurer that the taxes due in the current tax year for the whole parcel have been paid. This certification is in addition to the certification for delinquent tax required by section 272.12 .

§ Subd. 2. Exceptions. No certification of current tax paid is required when the land is being conveyed to the federal government, the state, or a home rule charter or statutory city or any other political subdivision. No certification of current tax paid is required under subdivision 1 for any sheriff's or referee's certificate of sale or other instrument if a certification of delinquent tax for the instrument is not required under section 272.12 .
Minn. Stat. § 346.57 — MN Code / Part 343_348 / Chapter 346 / Section 346.57
§ 346.57 DOGS AND CATS IN MOTOR VEHICLES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Unattended dogs or cats. A person may not leave a dog or a cat unattended in a standing or parked motor vehicle in a manner that endangers the dog's or cat's health or safety.

§ Subd. 2. Removal of dogs or cats. A peace officer, as defined in section 626.84 , a humane agent, a dog warden, or a volunteer or professional member of a fire or rescue department of a political subdivision may use reasonable force to enter a motor vehicle and remove a dog or cat which has been left in the vehicle in violation of subdivision 1. A person removing a dog or a cat under this subdivision shall use reasonable means to contact the owner of the dog or cat to arrange for its return home. If the person is unable to contact the owner, the person may take the dog or cat to an animal shelter.

§ Subd. 3. Petty misdemeanor. A person who violates subdivision 1 is subject to a fine of $25.