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MN Stat § 4.60 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4 — Governor|Section 4.60 — Poet Laureate.

4.60 POET LAUREATE. (a) The position of poet laureate of the state of Minnesota is established. The Minnesota Humanities Center must solicit nominations for the poet laureate appointment and must make recommendations to the governor. After receiving recommendations from the Minnesota Humanities Center, the governor shall appoint a state poet laureate and conduct appropriate ceremonies to honor the person appointed. The person appointed as poet laureate continues to serve in this position until the governor appoints another person. (b) State agencies and officers are encouraged to use the services of the poet laureate for appropriate ceremonies and celebrations. History:  2007 c 148 art 2 s 4; 2009 c 78 art 9 s 8
MN Stat § 4A.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4A — Strategic And Long-range Planning|Section 4A.01 — Strategic And Long-range Planning.

4A.01 STRATEGIC AND LONG-RANGE PLANNING. Subdivision 1. Duties. The commissioner of administration is the state planning officer and is responsible for the coordination, development, assessment, and communication of information, performance measures, planning, and policy concerning the state's future. The commissioner may contract with another agency for the provision of administrative services. Subd. 2. Long-range plan. By September 15, 2010, and every five years thereafter, the commissioner must develop an integrated long-range plan for the state based upon the plans and strategies of state agencies, public advice about the future, and other information developed under this chapter. The commissioner must coordinate activities among all levels of government and must stimulate public interest and participation in the future of the state. The commissioner must act in coordination with the commissioner of management and budget, affected state agencies, and the legislature in the planning and financing of major public programs. Subd. 3. Report. The commissioner must submit a report to the governor and chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house of representatives committees with jurisdiction on state government finance by January 15 of each year that provides economic, social, and environmental demographic information to assist public and elected officials with long-term management decisions. The report must identify and assess the information important to understanding the state's two-, ten-, and 50-year outlook. The report must include the demographic forecast required by section 4A.02, paragraph (e), and information to assist with the preparation of the milestones report required by section 4A.11, and may include policy recommendations based upon the information and assessment provided. History:  1991 c 345 art 2 s 2; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 6,109; 2013 c 134 s 9
MN Stat § 4A.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4A — Strategic And Long-range Planning|Section 4A.03 — Population Estimates And Projections; State Agencies.

4A.03 POPULATION ESTIMATES AND PROJECTIONS; STATE AGENCIES. Each state agency shall submit to the director for comment all population estimates and projections prepared by it before: (1) submitting the estimates and projections to the legislature or the federal government to obtain approval of grants; (2) the issuance of bonds based upon those estimates and projections; or (3) releasing a plan based upon the estimates and projections. History:   1991 c 345 art 2 s 4
MN Stat § 4A.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4A — Strategic And Long-range Planning|Section 4A.04 — Cooperative Contracts.

4A.04 COOPERATIVE CONTRACTS. (a) The director may apply for, receive, and expend money from municipal, county, regional, and other planning agencies; apply for, accept, and disburse grants and other aids for planning purposes from the federal government and from other public or private sources; and may enter into contracts with agencies of the federal government, local governmental units, the University of Minnesota, and other educational institutions, and private persons as necessary to perform the director's duties. Contracts made pursuant to this section are not subject to the provisions of chapter 16C, as they relate to competitive bidding. (b) The director may apply for, receive, and expend money made available from federal sources or other sources for the purposes of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the director relating to local and urban affairs. (c) All money received by the director pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the state treasury and is appropriated to the director for the purposes for which the money has been received. The money shall not cancel and is available until expended. History:  1992 c 513 art 4 s 27; 1998 c 386 art 2 s 6
MN Stat § 4A.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4A — Strategic And Long-range Planning|Section 4A.06 — Firearms Report Required.

4A.06 FIREARMS REPORT REQUIRED. The Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center of the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning shall report to the legislature no later than January 31 of each year on the number of persons arrested, charged, convicted, and sentenced for violations of each state law affecting the use or possession of firearms. The report must include complete statistics, including the make, model, and serial number of each firearm involved, where that information is available, on each crime committed affecting the use or possession of firearms and a breakdown by county of the crimes committed. History:   1994 c 636 art 3 s 44
MN Stat § 4A.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4A — Strategic And Long-range Planning|Section 4A.07 — Sustainable Development For Local Government.

4A.07 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) "Local unit of government" means a county, statutory or home rule charter city, town, or watershed district. (b) "Sustainable development" means development that maintains or enhances economic opportunity and community well-being while protecting and restoring the natural environment upon which people and economies depend. Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Subd. 2. Planning guide. The Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning must develop and publish a planning guide for local units of government to plan for sustainable development, based on the principles of sustainable development adopted by the Environmental Quality Board with advice of the Governor's Round Table on Sustainable Development. The office must make the planning guide available to local units of government within the state. Subd. 3. Model ordinance. The Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning, in consultation with appropriate and affected parties, must prepare a model ordinance to guide sustainable development. Subd. 4. Specificity and distribution. The model ordinance must specify the technical and administrative procedures to guide sustainable development. When adopted by a local unit of government, the model ordinance is the minimum regulation to guide sustainable development that may be adopted. Upon completion, the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning must notify local units of government that the model ordinance is available, and must distribute it to interested local units. Subd. 5. Periodic review. At least once every five years, the planning office must review the model ordinance and its use with local units of government to ensure its continued applicability and relevance. History:   1996 c 454 s 1
MN Stat § 4A.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 4A — Strategic And Long-range Planning|Section 4A.11 — Milestones Report.

4A.11 MILESTONES REPORT. The commissioner must review the statewide system of economic, social, and environmental performance measures in use under section 16A.10, subdivision 1c, and known as Minnesota milestones. The commissioner must provide the economic, social, and environmental information necessary to assist public and elected officials with understanding and evaluating Minnesota milestones. The commissioner must report on the trends and their implications for Minnesota milestones each year and provide the commissioner of management and budget with recommendations for the use of Minnesota milestones in budget documents. The commissioner may contract for the development of information and measures. History:  2009 c 101 art 2 s 8,109
MN Stat § 5.001 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.001 — Definitions.

5.001 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Applicability. As used in this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. Subd. 1a. Attempt to provide notice. "Attempt to provide notice," "attempting to provide notice," or "attempted to provide notice" as used in sections 303.17, subdivisions 2, 3, and 4; 321.0809; 321.0906; and 323A.1004, means that the secretary of state has sent notice by mail or transmitted an e-mail to the e-mail address provided by the business entity. Subd. 2. Business entity. "Business entity" means an organization that is formed under chapter 300, 301, 302A, 303, 308, 308A, 308B, 315, 317, 317A, 319, 319A, 321, 322A, 322B, 322C, 323, or 323A and that has filed documents with the secretary of state. Subd. 3. Business entity filings. "Business entity filings" means any filing from a business entity and also includes filings made under chapter 333. Subd. 4. Bulk data. "Bulk data" means data that has commercial value and is a substantial or discrete portion of or an entire formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, process, database, or system. History:  2009 c 101 art 2 s 9; 2011 c 106 s 1,2; 2016 c 135 art 4 s 1; 2019 c 50 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 5.002 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.002 — E-mail Addresses.

5.002 E-MAIL ADDRESSES. (a) The secretary of state is authorized to provide a field on each of the forms and on each online entry screen, used to file business entity filings, Uniform Commercial Code records, and central notification system filings, for the collection of an e-mail address to which the secretary of state can forward official notices required by law and other notices to the business entity, assumed name, or the person filing the Uniform Commercial Code or central notification system record. The e-mail address may be updated by or on behalf of the business entity by sending a notification of the change to the secretary of state. No fee shall be charged for an e-mail address update. (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), the business entity, holder of assumed name, or other person providing the e-mail address under this section may indicate on the screen that they do not wish the e-mail address provided under this section to be provided as bulk data. (c) If the e-mail address in paragraph (b) is provided to the requester as a portion of a digitally scanned or digitally created image, as part of a specific request for the records of the entity or of a specific lien debtor, the e-mail address on that image is public. History:  2009 c 101 art 2 s 10; 2013 c 110 s 1
MN Stat § 5.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.01 — Custodian Of Records And State Seal.

5.01 CUSTODIAN OF RECORDS AND STATE SEAL. The secretary of state shall be the custodian of the state seal and of all records and documents of the state not expressly required by law to be kept by other state officials. History:  (59) RL s 30
MN Stat § 5.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.02 — Assistants.

5.02 ASSISTANTS. The secretary of state shall appoint an assistant secretary of state, who shall perform all the duties of the office when the secretary is absent or disabled. The secretary may also employ a chief clerk, a recording clerk, and a stenographer, who, besides the duties indicated by their titles, shall perform such services in connection with the office as the secretary or the assistant may require. History:  (60) RL s 31; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 5.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.05 — Duties Of Secretary.

5.05 DUTIES OF SECRETARY. The secretary of state shall attend at the beginning of each legislative session, to call the members of the house of representatives to order and to preside until a speaker is elected. History:  (63) RL s 32; 1961 c 561 s 1
MN Stat § 5.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.06 — Amendment To United States Constitution; Ratification, Notice.

5.06 AMENDMENT TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION; RATIFICATION, NOTICE. When the legislature shall ratify any amendment to the Constitution of the United States which shall be proposed by Congress, as provided by the Constitution of the United States, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state forthwith to transmit to the administrator of general services of the United States government official notice thereof. Such notice shall include the official certificate of the secretary of state of the action of the legislature ratifying any such amendment under the hand of the secretary of state and attested by the great seal of the state. History:  (64) Ex1912 c 13 s 1; 1979 c 50 s 1
MN Stat § 5.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.07 — Oaths, Acknowledgments.

5.07 OATHS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The secretary of state shall have power to administer oaths and take acknowledgments and to certify the same, appending the great seal of the state as the seal of office. History:  (64-1) 1927 c 60 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 5.071 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.071 — Secretary Of State's Duties.

5.071 SECRETARY OF STATE'S DUTIES. The secretary of state shall secure, file, and retain custodial control over a description, photograph, and reproduction proof of the impression of the seal for viewing by the public. The secretary shall also secure and file all historical information pertaining to the reproduction and use of the seal. The Department of Administration shall respond to any inquiries about duplication of the seal for state agencies. History:   1983 c 119 s 3
MN Stat § 5.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.08 — Legislative Manual.

5.08 LEGISLATIVE MANUAL. Subdivision 1. Preparation. The secretary of state shall prepare, compile, edit, and distribute for use at each regular legislative session, a convenient manual, properly indexed, and containing: The federal and state constitutions; the acts of Congress relating to the organization of the territory and state; the rules of order and joint rules of the two houses, and lists of their members, committees and employees; the names of all state officials, whether elected or appointed, and of all persons holding office from this state under the national government; the places where the said several officials reside, and the annual compensation of each; and statistical and other information of the kind heretofore published in the legislative manuals. Subd. 2. Distribution. 10,000 copies of the legislative manual shall be printed and distributed as follows: (1) up to 20 copies shall be available to each member of the legislature on request; (2) 50 copies to the State Historical Society; (3) 25 copies to the state university; (4) 60 copies to the state library; (5) two copies each to the Library of Congress, the Minnesota veterans homes, the universities, the high schools, academies, seminaries, and colleges of the state, and the public libraries of the state; (6) one copy each to other state institutions, the elective state officials, the appointed heads of departments, the officers and employees of the legislature, the justices of the supreme court, the judges of the court of appeals and the district court, the senators and representatives in Congress from this state, and the county auditors, recorders, and attorneys; (7) one copy to each school, to be distributed through the superintendent of each school district; and (8) the remainder may be disposed of as the secretary of state deems best. History:  1943 c 337 s 1,2; 1947 c 108 s 1; 1967 c 148 s 2; 1975 c 204 s 65; 1975 c 321 s 2; 1977 c 455 s 67; 1979 c 333 s 59; 1981 c 356 s 252; 1983 c 247 s 4; 2004 c 293 art 2 s 1
MN Stat § 5.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.09 — Legislative Manual, Students' Edition.

5.09 LEGISLATIVE MANUAL, STUDENTS' EDITION. The secretary of state may prepare, compile, edit, and distribute a brief edition of the legislative manual, as provided in section 5.08, suitable for school pupils. History:  1959 c 415 s 1; 1977 c 455 s 68; 1992 c 513 art 3 s 18
MN Stat § 5.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.12 — Certificates And Certifications.

5.12 CERTIFICATES AND CERTIFICATIONS. Subdivision 1. Fees. The secretary of state shall charge a fee of $5 for each certificate or certification of a copy or electronically transmitted image of any document filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. The secretary of state shall charge a fee of $3 for a copy or electronically transmitted image of an original business entity filing. The secretary of state shall charge a fee of $3 for a copy or electronically transmitted image of each subsequent business entity filing. The secretary of state shall charge a fee of $3 for a copy or electronically transmitted image of any other document filed with the secretary of state. At the time of filing, the secretary of state may provide at the public counter, without charge, a copy of a filing, ten or fewer pages in length, to the person making the filing. Subd. 2. Certificate of good standing. Upon payment of the proper fee, the secretary of state shall issue a certificate of good standing to a person when a business entity is in good standing as defined in section 5.26. Subd. 3. Certificate of not in good standing. Upon payment of the proper fee, the secretary of state shall issue a certificate of not in good standing to a person when a business entity is not in good standing as defined in section 5.26. Subd. 4. Certificate of registration. Upon payment of the proper fee, the secretary of state shall issue a certificate of registration to a person when a business filing with the secretary has been made that does not create a separate legal entity. History:  3Sp1981 c 2 art 1 s 9; 1988 c 682 s 1; 1997 c 137 s 1; 2000 c 395 s 1; 2007 c 148 art 2 s 5; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 11
MN Stat § 5.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.14 — Transaction Surcharge.

5.14 TRANSACTION SURCHARGE. The secretary of state may impose a surcharge of $20 on each transaction involving expedited service that is provided by the Office of the Secretary of State. History:  1987 c 404 s 68; 1992 c 513 art 3 s 19; 1995 c 224 s 48; 2000 c 395 s 2
MN Stat § 5.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 4 - 9 — Constitutional Offices And Duties|Chapter 5 — Secretary Of State|Section 5.15 — Online Signatures, Acknowledgment Or Notarization On Documents; Penalties Of Perjury.

5.15 ONLINE SIGNATURES, ACKNOWLEDGMENT OR NOTARIZATION ON DOCUMENTS; PENALTIES OF PERJURY. (a) No document submitted to the Office of the Secretary of State shall be required to be notarized. Signing a document submitted to the secretary of state constitutes "acknowledgment" as defined in section 358.52, subdivision 2, and "verification upon oath or affirmation" as defined in section 358.52, subdivision 3. A person who signs a document submitted to the secretary of state without authority to sign that document or who signs the document knowing that the document is false in any material respect is subject to the penalties of perjury set forth in section 609.48. (b) Any document submitted to the Office of the Secretary of State online may be signed by any person as agent of any person whose signature is required by law. The signing party must indicate on the application that the person is acting as the agent of the person whose signature would be required and that the person has been authorized to sign on behalf of the applicant. The name of the person signing, entered on the online application, constitutes a valid signature by such an agent. (c) Any document relating to a filing by a business entity or assumed name, or the filing of a document under chapter 270C, 272, 336, or 336A, submitted to the Office of the Secretary of State on paper may be signed by any person as agent of any person whose signature is required by law. The signing party must indicate on the document that it is acting as the agent of the person whose signature would be required and that it has been authorized to sign on behalf of that person. History:  1988 c 682 s 2; 2009 c 98 s 1; 2010 c 250 art 2 s 1; 2011 c 76 art 1 s 1; 2018 c 176 art 2 s 1