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Minn. Stat. § 354.105 — MN Code / Part 352_356B / Chapter 354 / Section 354.105
§ 354.105 PAYMENTS USING PRETAX TRANSFERS.
Status: in_force

If a current or past member is making a payment to the Teachers Retirement Association to receive service credit under a provision of this chapter, chapter 356, or applicable special law, and this payment is to be made by a transfer of pretax assets authorized under section 356.441 , payment is authorized after the due date, but not to exceed 90 days, provided that the authorization for the asset transfer has been received by the applicable third-party administrator by the due date, and the payment must include interest at the applicable monthly rate or rates specified in section 356.59, subdivision 4, compounded annually, from the due date through the end of the month in which the Teachers Retirement Association receives the payment.
Minn. Stat. § 3.8844 — MN Code / Part 3_3E / Chapter 3 / Section 3.8844
§ 3.8844 LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON DATA PRACTICES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Established. The Legislative Commission on Data Practices and Personal Data Privacy is created to study issues relating to government data practices and individuals' personal data privacy rights and to review legislation impacting data practices, data security, and personal data privacy. The commission is a continuation of the commission that was established by Laws 2014, chapter 193, as amended, and which expired June 30, 2019.

§ Subd. 2. Membership. The commission consists of two senators appointed by the senate majority leader, two senators appointed by the minority leader in the senate, two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker, and two members of the house of representatives appointed by the minority leader in the house. Two members from each chamber must be from the majority party in that chamber and two members from each chamber must be from the minority party in that chamber. Each appointing authority must make appointments as soon as possible after the beginning of the regular legislative session in the odd-numbered year. The ranking senator from the majority party appointed to the commission must convene the first meeting of a biennium by February 15 in the odd-numbered year. The commission may elect up to four former legislators who have demonstrated an interest in, or have a history of working in, the areas of government data practices and personal data privacy to serve as nonvoting members of the commission. The former legislators must not be registered lobbyists and shall be compensated as provided under section 15.0575, subdivision 3 .

§ Subd. 3. Terms; vacancies. Members of the commission serve for terms beginning upon appointment and ending at the beginning of the regular legislative session in the next odd-numbered year. The appropriate appointing authority must fill a vacancy for a seat of a current legislator for the remainder of the unexpired term.

§ Subd. 4. Officers. The commission must elect a chair and may elect other officers as it determines are necessary. The chair alternates between a member of the senate and a member of the house of representatives in January of each odd-numbered year.

§ Subd. 5. Staff. Legislative staff must provide administrative and research assistance to the commission. The Legislative Coordinating Commission may, if funding is available, appoint staff to provide research assistance.

§ Subd. 6. Duties. The commission shall: (1) review and provide the legislature with research and analysis of emerging issues relating to government data practices and security and privacy of personal data; (2) review and make recommendations on legislative proposals relating to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act; and (3) review and make recommendations on legislative proposals impacting personal data privacy rights, data security, and other related issues.
Minn. Stat. § 116.0713 — MN Code / Part 114C_116I / Chapter 116 / Section 116.0713
§ 116.0713 LIVESTOCK ODOR.
Status: in_force

(a) The Pollution Control Agency must:

(1) monitor and identify potential livestock facility violations of the state ambient air quality standards for hydrogen sulfide, using a protocol for responding to citizen complaints regarding feedlot odor and its hydrogen sulfide component, including the appropriate use of portable monitoring equipment that enables monitoring staff to follow plumes;

(2) when livestock production facilities are found to be in violation of ambient hydrogen sulfide standards, take appropriate actions necessary to ensure compliance, utilizing appropriate technical assistance and enforcement and penalty authorities provided to the agency by statute and rule.

(b) Livestock production facilities are exempt from state ambient air quality standards while manure is being removed and for seven days after manure is removed from barns or manure storage facilities.

(c) For a livestock production facility having greater than 300 animal units, the maximum cumulative exemption in a calendar year under paragraph (b) is 21 days for the removal process.

(d) The operator of a livestock production facility that claims exemption from state ambient air quality standards under paragraph (b) must provide notice of that claim to either the Pollution Control Agency or the county feedlot officer delegated under section 116.07 .

(e) State ambient air quality standards are applicable at the property boundary of a farm or a parcel of agricultural land on which a livestock production facility is located, except that if the owner or operator of the farm or parcel obtains an air quality easement from the owner of land adjoining the farm or parcel, the air quality standards must be applicable at the property boundary of the adjoining land to which the easement pertains. The air quality easement must be for no more than five years, must be in writing, and must be available upon request by the agency or the county feedlot officer. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, state ambient air quality standards are applicable at locations to which the general public has access. The "general public" does not include employees or other categories of people who have been directly authorized by the property owner to enter or remain on the property for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose, or trespassers.

(f) The agency may not require air emission modeling for a type of livestock system that has not had a hydrogen sulfide emission violation.
Minn. Stat. § 184.24 — MN Code / Part 175_187 / Chapter 184 / Section 184.24
§ 184.24 POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Generally. It is the duty of the department to administer the provisions of sections 184.21 to 184.41 . The commissioner shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses by the issuance of subpoenas, administer oaths, and to take testimony and proofs concerning all matters within its jurisdiction. The department shall make all rules not inconsistent with law needed in performing its duties.

§ Subd. 2. Supervisory and investigative authority. The department shall have supervisory and investigative authority over all employment agents and counselors. The department shall have the right to examine only such records required to be kept by this chapter and Laws 1971, chapter 95 by employment agents and counselors and to examine the offices where business is or shall be conducted by them. The department shall have the right to investigate all advertisements, communications and materials published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public by an employment agency or counselor, for the purpose of determining whether the provisions of section 325F.67 or 184.38, subdivision 8 have been violated.
Minn. Stat. § 162.021 — MN Code / Part 160_174A / Chapter 162 / Section 162.021
§ 162.021 NATURAL PRESERVATION ROUTES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Establishment; rules. (a) The commissioner shall establish a natural preservation routes category within the county state-aid highway system. (b) Natural preservation routes include those routes that possess particular scenic, environmental, or historical characteristics, such as routes along lakes or through forests, wetlands, or floodplains, that would be harmed by construction or reconstruction meeting the engineering standards under section 162.07 or the rules adopted under that section. (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules establishing minimum construction and reconstruction standards that address public safety and reflect the function, lower traffic volume, and slower speed on natural preservation routes. The rules may not establish standards for natural preservation routes that are higher than the standards for national forest highways within national forests and state park access roads within state parks. Design standards specifying the width of vehicle recovery areas on forest highways, forest and park roads, and on natural preservation routes must minimize harmful environmental impact.

§ Subd. 2. Signs. Signs must be posted at entry points to and at regular intervals along natural preservation routes. Signs posted must conform to the commissioner's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Properly posted signs are prima facie evidence that adequate notice of a natural preservation route has been given to the motoring public.

§ Subd. 3. Liability. Where a county state-aid highway has been designated a natural preservation route and signs have been posted under subdivision 2, the state and the county with jurisdiction over the road and their officers and employees are exempt from liability for any tort claim for injury to persons or property arising from travel on the highway and related to its design standards for construction or reconstruction, if the design standards comply with the standards established by the commissioner under subdivision 1. This subdivision does not preclude an action for damages arising from negligence in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of a natural preservation route.

§ Subd. 4. Public information. A county proposing a project on a county state-aid highway that is a natural preservation route that requires removal of the entire surface of the highway shall send to owners of property abutting the highway a written notice that describes the project. The county shall hold a public meeting to discuss design and construction alternatives.

§ Subd. 5. Designation. The commissioner may designate a county state-aid highway as a natural preservation route only on petition of the county board of the county having jurisdiction over the road. Within 60 days after a county board receives a written request to designate a county state-aid highway as a natural preservation route, the county board shall act on the request.
Minn. Stat. § 308A.313 — MN Code / Part 300_323A / Chapter 308A / Section 308A.313
§ 308A.313 APPORTIONMENT OF DIRECTORS AMONG DISTRICTS OR UNITS.
Status: in_force

The bylaws of an electric cooperative that has 35,000 or more members and that nominates, elects, or otherwise selects directors on a district or local unit basis must provide that representation on the board be apportioned equally throughout the different districts or local units in proportion to the membership residing in or belonging to the districts or units. The number of members in any one district or unit may not vary by more than ten percent from the average number of members for the districts or units.

The bylaws must provide for a survey to take place at least once every ten years to determine whether the number of members in a district or local unit has changed. If the number of members in a district or local unit changes by 15 percent or more, the bylaws must provide for changes in the districts or local units so that representation on the board continues to be apportioned equally throughout the districts or units in proportion to the membership.
Minn. Stat. § 383C.04 — MN Code / Part 370_403 / Chapter 383C / Section 383C.04
§ 383C.04 REEMPLOYMENT.
Status: in_force

Whenever any employee in the classified service, who has been performing all duties in a satisfactory manner, as shown by the records of the employing department or other agency, is laid off because of lack of work or lack of funds, or has been on authorized leave of absence for more than one year and is ready to report for duty when a position is open, or has resigned in good standing with the consent of the human resources director and the employing department, and has requested reemployment, the human resources director shall place the name of such employee on the reemployment list for the appropriate class. No reemployment list shall be valid for more than two years. The order in which names shall be placed on the reemployment list for any class shall be established by rule. No person shall be reinstated or be restored to a reemployment list unless such request is made within two years after the effective date of resignation.
Minn. Stat. § 524.6-311 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 524 / Section 524.6-311
§ 524.6-311 APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

Sections 524.6-301 to 524.6-311 apply to registrations of securities in beneficiary form made before, on, or after June 1, 1992, by decedents dying on or after June 1, 1992.
Minn. Stat. § 88.79 — MN Code / Part 88_91 / Chapter 88 / Section 88.79
§ 88.79 STATE FOREST SERVICE TO PRIVATE OWNERS.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Employing competent foresters; service to private owners. The commissioner of natural resources may employ competent foresters to furnish owners of forest lands within the state of Minnesota who own not more than 1,000 acres of forest land, forest management services consisting of: (1) advice in management and protection of timber, including written stewardship and forest management plans; (2) selection and marking of timber to be cut; (3) measurement of products; (4) aid in marketing harvested products; (5) provision of tree-planting equipment; (6) advice in community forest management; and (7) such other services as the commissioner of natural resources deems necessary or advisable to promote maximum sustained yield of timber and other benefits upon such forest lands.

§ Subd. 2. Charge for service; receipts to special revenue fund. Notwithstanding section 16A.1283 , the commissioner of natural resources may, by written order published in the State Register, establish fees the commissioner determines to be fair and reasonable that are charged to owners receiving services under subdivision 1. The charges must account for differences in the value of timber and other benefits. The receipts from the services shall be credited to the special revenue fund and are annually appropriated to the commissioner for the purposes specified in subdivision 1.

§ Subd. 3. Cost-sharing conservation practices. The commissioner of natural resources may provide cost sharing of conservation practices to nonindustrial owners of less than 5,000 acres of private land within this state, provided that the landowners successfully complete conservation practices approved by the commissioner. The cost shared by the commissioner may not exceed 75 percent of the actual cost of the conservation practice.

§ Subd. 4. Rulemaking exemption. The charge for forest management services and cost-sharing conservation practices under this section are not subject to the rulemaking provisions of chapter 14, and section 14.386 does not apply.
Minn. Stat. § 299F.051 — MN Code / Part 299A_299N / Chapter 299F / Section 299F.051
§ 299F.051 ARSON TRAINING.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Training unit. An arson training unit is established within the Division of Fire Marshal to develop and administer arson training courses throughout the state for law enforcement and fire service personnel and for prosecutors.

§ Subd. 1a. Curriculum. The arson training unit, in consultation with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state fire marshal, the Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, the County Attorneys Association, the attorney general, and the Governor's Council on Fire Prevention and Control, shall establish a standardized curriculum to be included in the training programs. The standardized curriculum shall include fire scene investigation and preservation of evidence, interviewing of witnesses and suspects, constitutional limits on interrogation by sworn and nonsworn officers, and other topics deemed necessary to successful criminal investigation and prosecution. The training program offered to peace officers shall meet the applicable preservice training requirements established by the Peace Officer Standards and Training Board under section 626.8456 .

§ Subd. 2. Training location, instructor. (a) The arson training unit, in cooperation with the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training, the County Attorneys Association, and the attorney general, shall provide courses at convenient locations in the state for training firefighters, peace officers, and prosecutors in: (1) the conduct of investigations following the occurrence of a fire; and (2) the prosecution of arson cases. (b) For this purpose, the arson training unit may use the services and employees of the bureau, the state fire marshal, and the attorney general. In addition, the arson training unit is authorized to establish minimum qualifications for training course instructors, and engage part-time instructors necessary and proper to furnish the best possible instruction, subject to the limitation of funds appropriated and available for expenditure. Laws 1981, chapter 210, sections 1 to 48, shall not apply to the part-time instructors.

§ Subd. 3. In-service training. The arson training unit, in cooperation with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, shall offer in-service and refresher training for firefighters and peace officers through schools administered by the state, county, school district, municipality, or joint or contractual combinations thereof. The in-service training courses offered for peace officers shall be eligible for continuing education credit from the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training.

§ Subd. 4. Cooperative investigation. The state fire marshal and the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shall encourage the cooperation of local firefighters and peace officers in the investigation of violations of sections 609.561 to 609.576 or other crimes associated with reported fires in all appropriate ways.
Minn. Stat. § 443.34 — MN Code / Part 440_446A / Chapter 443 / Section 443.34
§ 443.34 POWERS ADDITIONAL.
Status: in_force

The provisions of sections 443.26 to 443.35 shall be construed as an addition to existing charter or statutory powers of any city of the first class and not as an amendment to or repeal thereof, the purpose of these sections being to permit any city of the first class to engage in the activities hereinbefore authorized, to promote the public health, safety, welfare, convenience, and prosperity of the city. The activity herein authorized shall be considered a public utility and such activity may be merged and operated with any other city operated utility, if deemed necessary and economical. Accounting for the activity herein authorized shall be separate as hereinbefore directed.
Minn. Stat. § 465.16 — MN Code / Part 465_466 / Chapter 465 / Section 465.16
§ 465.16 POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

In the event that the chief governing body, city council or board of park commissioners of such city shall exercise such right by condemnation such body may do so under any laws provided for the condemnation of real property or eminent domain or under any provision of the charter of such city granting to such body the right of condemnation or power of eminent domain; or, it being for the best interests of such city, such chief governing board, city council, or board of park commissioners shall have the power and authority to acquire the rights by purchase, taking into consideration the present worth of such right to exemption and the probability or improbability that such exemptions would ever be used as an offset to future assessments for benefits.
Minn. Stat. § 518E.503 — MN Code / Part 517_519A / Chapter 518E / Section 518E.503
§ 518E.503 SAVINGS CLAUSE.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not affect the validity of a court order concerning custodial responsibility during deployment which was entered before August 1, 2015.
Minn. Stat. § 144A.291 — MN Code / Part 144_159 / Chapter 144A / Section 144A.291
§ 144A.291 FEES.
Status: in_force

§ Subdivision 1. Nonrefundable fees. All fees are nonrefundable.

§ Subd. 2. Amounts. (a) Fees may not exceed the following amounts but may be adjusted lower by board direction and are for the exclusive use of the board as required to sustain board operations. The maximum amounts of fees are: (1) application for licensure, $200; (2) for a prospective applicant for a review of education and experience advisory to the license application, $100, to be applied to the fee for application for licensure if the latter is submitted within one year of the request for review of education and experience; (3) state examination, $125; (4) initial license, $250 if issued between July 1 and December 31, $100 if issued between January 1 and June 30; (5) acting permit, $400; (6) renewal license, $250; (7) duplicate license, $50; (8) reinstatement fee, $250; (9) health services executive initial license, $250; (10) health services executive renewal license, $250; (11) reciprocity verification fee, $50; (12) second shared assignment, $250; (13) continuing education fees: (i) greater than six hours, $50; and (ii) seven hours or more, $75; (14) education review, $100; (15) fee to a sponsor for review of individual continuing education seminars, institutes, workshops, or home study courses: (i) for less than seven clock hours, $30; and (ii) for seven or more clock hours, $50; (16) fee to a licensee for review of continuing education seminars, institutes, workshops, or home study courses not previously approved for a sponsor and submitted with an application for license renewal: (i) for less than seven clock hours total, $30; and (ii) for seven or more clock hours total, $50; (17) late renewal fee, $75; (18) fee to a licensee for verification of licensure status and examination scores, $30; (19) registration as a registered continuing education sponsor, $1,000; (20) mail labels, $75; and (21) annual assisted living program education provider fee, $2,500. (b) The revenue generated from the fees must be deposited in an account in the state government special revenue fund.
Minn. Stat. § 525.161 — MN Code / Part 524_532 / Chapter 525 / Section 525.161
§ 525.161 NO SURVIVING SPOUSE OR KINDRED, NOTICES TO ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Status: in_force

When it appears from the petition or application for administration of the estate, or otherwise, in a proceeding in the court that the intestate left surviving no spouse or kindred, the court shall give notice of such fact and notice of all subsequent proceedings in such estate to the attorney general forthwith; and the attorney general shall protect the interests of the state during the course of administration. The residue which escheats to the state shall be transmitted to the attorney general. All moneys, stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages and other securities, and all other personal property so escheated shall then be given into the custody of the commissioner of management and budget who shall immediately credit the moneys received to the general fund. The commissioner of management and budget shall hold such stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages and other securities, and all other personal property, subject to such investment, sale or other disposition as the State Board of Investment may direct pursuant to section 11A.04 , clause (9). The attorney general shall immediately report to the State Executive Council all real property received in the individual escheat, and any sale or disposition of such real estate shall be made in accordance with sections 16B.281 to 16B.287 .