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MN Stat § 574.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.23 — Examination Of Accounts Of Public Officers.

574.23 EXAMINATION OF ACCOUNTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS. In case of the filing of a new official bond or other security, the expiration of the term of office, or the death, resignation, or removal of the officer, the officer, board, committee, or body required or permitted to accept or approve such bond or other security, having jurisdiction or being authorized or required to examine the accounts of such officer, shall make or cause to be made a thorough examination of the bonded officer's accounts and, if any shortage or irregularity is discovered, shall at once notify such officer and sureties of the amount claimed to be due, or the nature of the irregularity. Such statement shall be in writing, and be served upon such officer and sureties, or their agents or attorneys, by mail, addressed to their residences, if known; but failure to make the examination or give such notice shall not discharge the sureties. History:  (9697) RL s 4532; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 574.24 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.24 — Official Bonds, Security To Whom; Actions.

574.24 OFFICIAL BONDS, SECURITY TO WHOM; ACTIONS. The official bond or other security of a public officer, whether with or without sureties, shall be security to all persons severally for the official delinquencies against which it is intended to provide, as well as to the obligee designated therein, and when no other provision is made by law it shall run to the state. When a public officer, by official misconduct or neglect, forfeits the bond or renders the officer's sureties liable thereon, any person injured thereby, or who is by law entitled to the benefit of the security, may bring an action thereon, in the person's own name, against the officer and the sureties, to recover the amount to which the person is entitled by reason of the delinquency; and a judgment in favor of a party for one delinquency does not preclude the same or another party from an action on the same security for another delinquency. History:  (9698) RL s 4533; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 574.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.25 — Leave To Bring Action; Endorsement On Execution.

574.25 LEAVE TO BRING ACTION; ENDORSEMENT ON EXECUTION. Before an action shall be brought by a plaintiff other than the state or body politic named in the bond, leave shall be obtained of the district court of the county in which the action is triable, or a judge thereof, by the production of a copy of the bond and an affidavit showing the delinquency; and, if the delinquency be such that, if established on the trial, it would entitle the applicant to recover, leave shall be granted. Upon the execution issued on a judgment recovered upon the official security of a public officer, against the officer and a surety, there shall be endorsed a direction to the officer to whom the same is delivered to collect the same out of the property of the principal, if sufficient can be found, and, if not, out of the property of the surety. History:  (9699) RL s 4534; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 574.262 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.262 — Small Business.

574.262 SMALL BUSINESS. Subdivision 1. Bonds. To carry out the programs, established elsewhere by law, for awarding certain portions of state construction and procurement contracts and subcontracts to small businesses and small businesses owned by economically and socially disadvantaged persons, the commissioners of administration and transportation may, when deemed appropriate, arrange, through competitive bidding or negotiation, to partially indemnify bonding companies which provide bid, performance, and payment bonds covering all or any part of the construction and procurement contracts or subcontracts which are designated for award to small businesses and small businesses owned by economically and socially disadvantaged persons. The amount of the indemnity for all the bonds on each contract shall not exceed $100,000. Bonds which are subject to indemnity shall be provided to contractors at a cost which shall not exceed the cost of bid, performance, and payment bonds if purchased in the usual manner by other businesses for similar contract work or procurement. Subd. 2. Participation limit. No small business or small business owned and operated by economically and socially disadvantaged persons shall be eligible for bonding pursuant to this section for a period of more than five years from the date that the small business or small business owned and operated by economically and socially disadvantaged persons received its first bond pursuant to this section. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1989 c 155 s 5] Subd. 4. Encumbrance not applicable. Agreements of indemnity entered into pursuant to subdivision 1 shall not be subject to encumbrance requirements imposed by other provisions of law. History:  1977 c 394 s 1; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1994 c 419 s 3
MN Stat § 574.263 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.263 — Natural Resource Development Projects.

574.263 NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. Subdivision 1. Definition. For the purposes of this section and section 574.264, "natural resource development project" includes site preparation by discing, shearing, rock raking or piling, patch scarification, or furrowing; prairie restoration; creation of wildlife openings and other wildlife habitat improvements; landscape clearing; tree planting; tree seeding; tree pruning; timber stand improvement by thinning or clearing existing forest trees by manual, mechanical, or chemical techniques; or construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of Department of Natural Resources trails, public accesses, water control structures, fish barriers, sewage treatment systems, roads, and bridges. Subd. 2. Contractor's bond. A contract with the state for a natural resource development project may require a performance bond at the discretion of the commissioner of natural resources. If the commissioner determines that a performance bond is required, it shall not be less than five percent of the contract price. Subd. 3. Bid deposit in place of performance bond. For a contract made by the commissioner for a natural resource development project, the commissioner may require a bid deposit in place of a performance bond for charges that may accrue because of doing the specified work and to enforce the terms of the contract. The commissioner may set the amount of the bid deposit, but it may not be less than five percent of the contract price. Subd. 4. Payment bond. A contract with the state for a natural resource development project may require a payment bond at the discretion of the commissioner of natural resources. If the commissioner determines that a payment bond is required, the commissioner also has the discretion to decide whether the bond may be in the form of securities in place of a bond as provided in section 574.264. If so, the securities cannot have less value than five percent of the contract price. History:  1985 c 112 s 3; 1994 c 419 s 4,5; 1999 c 231 s 189
MN Stat § 574.264 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.264 — Natural Resource Project; Security.

574.264 NATURAL RESOURCE PROJECT; SECURITY. Subdivision 1. Natural resource development projects. In place of a performance or payment bond or bid deposit for a state contract for a natural resource development project less than $100,000, the person required to file the bond or bid deposit may deposit in a local designated state depository or with the commissioner of management and budget a certified check, a cashier's check, a postal, bank, or express money order, assignable bonds or notes of the United States, or an assignment of a bank savings account or investment certificate or an irrevocable bank letter of credit, in the same amount that would be required for the bond or bid deposit. If securities listed in this section are deposited, their value shall not be less than the amount required for the bond or bid deposit and the person required to file the bond or bid deposit shall submit an agreement authorizing the commissioner to sell or otherwise take possession of the securities in the event of default under the contract or nonpayment of any persons furnishing labor and materials under, or to perform, the contract. Subd. 2. Claims against securities in place of bid deposits. Securities in place of payment bonds are subject to claims as provided for other deposits in section 574.261, subdivision 2. History:  1985 c 112 s 4; 1989 c 50 s 1; 1994 c 419 s 6; 1999 c 231 s 190; 2000 c 495 s 49; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 574.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.27 — Bidders To Have Right Of Action In Certain Cases.

574.27 BIDDERS TO HAVE RIGHT OF ACTION IN CERTAIN CASES. A public body may require that a bidder provide a bid bond or other security as a proposal guaranty that the bidder will enter into a contract if its bid is accepted. Any bidder upon any public work or public improvement of any kind in this state where bids are received and where, in connection with such bids, a deposit of money, or a certified check, or bid bond or other security must be provided with the bid, the public body causing such public work or other public improvement to be made or done shall be liable to such bidder for a return of the money, certified check, or other thing of value so deposited if the bidder's bid on such public work or improvement is not accepted, or if the bidder's bid is accepted before the bid expires, after the bidder enters into a contract for the work and provides acceptable security in connection with it. This liability exists even though the failure to return the money, certified check, or other thing of value is due to the defalcation or unlawful conversion of the thing of value by the officer of the public body charged with the custody of it. History:  (9701) 1923 c 348 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 419 s 7
MN Stat § 574.28 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.28 — Approval And Filing Of Bond.

574.28 APPROVAL AND FILING OF BOND. Before beginning work on the contract for the public work, the contractor on whose behalf the payment and performance bonds were issued must file both bonds with the treasurer, board, or officer having financial management of the public body named in the bonds. The payment and performance bonds must list the address of the contractor on whose behalf the bonds were issued and of the surety providing the bonds. The payment and performance bonds, if acceptable in form and content, must be approved by the board or officer having financial management of the public body, or by the public body's treasurer. The public body must make the payment and performance bonds available for inspection and copying upon request. An assignment, modification, or change of the contract, or change in the work covered by the contract, or an extension of time to complete the contract, does not release the sureties on the bonds. History:  (9702) RL s 4536; 1907 c 379; 1931 c 157; 1994 c 419 s 8; 1995 c 31 s 3
MN Stat § 574.29 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.29 — Failure To Get Payment Bond.

574.29 FAILURE TO GET PAYMENT BOND. If the state or other public body fails to get and approve a valid payment bond or securities in place of a payment bond as required by the act, the public body for which work is done under the contract is liable to all persons furnishing labor and materials under or to perform the contract for any loss resulting to them from the failure. The public body is not liable if the bond does not list the proper address of the contractor on whose behalf the bond was issued or of the surety providing the bond. History:  (9703) RL s 4537; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 419 s 9
MN Stat § 574.30 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.30 — Insolvent Or Insufficient Sureties.

574.30 INSOLVENT OR INSUFFICIENT SURETIES. When, in the public body's judgment, a surety on a bond required by the act is insolvent, or for any cause is no longer a proper or sufficient surety, the public body may require the contractor to furnish a new or additional bond within ten days; and thereupon, if so ordered by the public body, all work on the contract must cease until the new or additional bonds are furnished. If the bonds are not furnished within the ten days, the public body may, at its option, terminate the contract and complete the same as the agent, and at the expense of the contractor and its sureties. History:  (9704) RL s 4538; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 419 s 10; 1995 c 31 s 4
MN Stat § 574.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.32 — Application Of Payments.

574.32 APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS. If a claimant on a payment bond had actual knowledge or should have known that a payment it received was for labor and materials supplied under, or to perform, public work under which a payment bond was provided, then the claimant must prove that it applied the payment to its account for that public work. Its claim must be reduced to the extent it cannot so prove. History:  (9705-1) 1929 c 369 s 3; 1971 c 293 s 1; 1973 c 241 s 1; 1978 c 674 s 60; 1979 c 2 s 1; 1983 c 289 s 114 subd 1; 1984 c 592 s 90; 1984 c 655 art 1 s 92; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 419 s 12
MN Stat § 574.33 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.33 — Actions For Fines, Forfeitures, And Penalties; Collusion.

574.33 ACTIONS FOR FINES, FORFEITURES, AND PENALTIES; COLLUSION. Actions for fines and forfeitures may be prosecuted by the officers or persons to whom they are by law given, or who by special provisions of law are authorized to recover them; and, whether prosecuted by public officers or by private persons, shall be governed by the same rules as other civil actions, except as herein otherwise prescribed. When an action is brought for a penalty, the amount of which is limited by law, it may be brought for the amount so limited, and upon trial the amount recovered shall be in proportion to the offense. Recovery of a judgment for a penalty or forfeiture, by collusion between the parties and with intent to save the defendant from the consequences contemplated by law, where the same is given wholly or partly to the prosecutor, shall not prevent a recovery of the same by another person. History:  (9706) RL s 4540
MN Stat § 574.34 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.34 — Fines, How Disposed Of.

574.34 FINES, HOW DISPOSED OF. Subdivision 1. General. Fines and forfeitures not specially granted or appropriated by law shall be paid into the treasury of the county where they are incurred, except in a county in a judicial district under section 480.181, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), the fines and forfeitures must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the general fund. Subd. 2. Municipal prosecution; gross misdemeanors. If a city or municipal attorney prosecutes a gross misdemeanor offense, the proceeds of any fine collected by the court shall be disbursed in the same manner as though the offense was a misdemeanor prosecuted by the city or municipal attorney in district court. The county shall pay for any costs associated with incarceration. History:  (9707) RL s 4541; 1983 c 177 s 16; 1998 c 254 art 2 s 64; 1999 c 243 art 11 s 11; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 5 s 20
MN Stat § 574.35 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.35 — Prosecution For Fines; Court; Commitment.

574.35 PROSECUTION FOR FINES; COURT; COMMITMENT. All fines and forfeitures imposed as a punishment for any offense or for the violation of any duty imposed by statute may be prosecuted for and recovered by indictment in the district court. In all cases of the imposition of a fine pursuant to statute, as punishment for any offense, the offender may be committed until it is paid or the offender is otherwise discharged according to law. History:  (9708) RL s 4542; 1983 c 359 s 83; 1986 c 444; 1998 c 254 art 2 s 65
MN Stat § 574.38 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.38 — Letters Of Credit.

574.38 LETTERS OF CREDIT. Whenever this chapter or other law or home rule charter requires a performance bond from a contractor doing a public work project of under $50,000 for a home rule charter or statutory city, county, town, school district or other local government authority, the contractor may be permitted to provide, in lieu of the bond, an irrevocable bank letter of credit in the same amount required for the bond and subject to the same conditions as the bond. History:   1989 c 132 s 1
MN Stat § 574.39 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 574 — Bonds, Fines, Forfeitures|Section 574.39 — Surety Bonds; Public Entities.

574.39 SURETY BONDS; PUBLIC ENTITIES. The state or a county, town, home rule charter or statutory city, school district, or other municipal corporation or political subdivision of this state shall not require a contractor to procure a surety bond from a particular insurance or surety company, agent, or broker on a public improvement which is or has been competitively bid or negotiated. Nothing in this section prohibits a public entity from requiring customized features in its surety bond coverage as considered appropriate and necessary by the public entity or from requiring that the insurer issuing the bond have a minimum financial rating as specified by the public entity. History:   2001 c 76 s 1
MN Stat § 575.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 575 — Proceedings Supplementary To Execution|Section 575.01 — Person Indebted May Pay Sheriff.

575.01 PERSON INDEBTED MAY PAY SHERIFF. After the issuing of an execution against property, any person indebted to the judgment debtor may pay to the sheriff the amount of the debt, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the execution, and the sheriff's receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for the amount so paid. History:  (9449) RL s 4319; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 575.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 575 — Proceedings Supplementary To Execution|Section 575.02 — Order For Examination Of Debtor.

575.02 ORDER FOR EXAMINATION OF DEBTOR. When an execution against property of the judgment debtor, or of any one of several debtors in the same judgment, is issued to the sheriff of the county where the debtor resides, or, if the debtor does not reside in the state, to the sheriff of a county where the judgment roll, or a transcript of a judgment, is filed, is returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part, the judgment creditor is entitled to an order from the judge of the district court of the district where the judgment was originally docketed or is subsequently filed, requiring the judgment debtor, or, if a corporation, any officer thereof, to appear and answer concerning the property, at a time and place specified in the order, before a judge or a referee therein named. If the person required to answer is, at the time of the service of the order, a resident of the state, or has an office in the state for the regular transaction of business in person, that person cannot be compelled to attend, pursuant to the order or to any adjournment, at a place without the county of residence or of the place of business. History:  (9450) RL s 4320; 1979 c 53 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 575.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 575 — Proceedings Supplementary To Execution|Section 575.03 — Warrant Against Debtor.

575.03 WARRANT AGAINST DEBTOR. Instead of the order provided for in section 575.02, upon proof by affidavit that there is danger that the debtor will leave the state or hide, the judge may issue a warrant requiring the sheriff of any county where the debtor is to arrest and bring the debtor before such judge to answer concerning the debtor's property. Upon being brought before the judge, the debtor may be examined on oath, and ordered to give bond that the debtor will attend, from time to time, before the judge or referee, as directed, during the pendency of the proceeding, and will not in the meantime dispose of any portion of property not exempt from execution; and, in default of giving such bond, the debtor may be committed to jail as for a contempt. History:  (9451) RL s 4321; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 575.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 575 — Proceedings Supplementary To Execution|Section 575.04 — Examination.

575.04 EXAMINATION. Upon appearing or being brought before the judge or referee, the judgment debtor, or officer required to answer for a corporation, may be examined under oath, and witnesses may be required to appear and testify on behalf of either party, and the debtor may be represented by counsel; and no person, on such examination, shall be excused from answering any question on the ground that the examination will tend to convict the person of the commission of a fraud, but an answer shall not be used as evidence against the person in any criminal proceeding. If the examination is before a referee, the referee shall certify the testimony and proceedings to the judge. History:  (9452) RL s 4322; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 575.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 570 - 583 — Postjudgment Remedies; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bonds|Chapter 575 — Proceedings Supplementary To Execution|Section 575.05 — Property Applied To Judgment; Receiver.

575.05 PROPERTY APPLIED TO JUDGMENT; RECEIVER. The judge may order any of the judgment debtor's property in the hands of the judgment debtor or of any other person, or due to the judgment debtor, not exempt from execution, to be applied toward the satisfaction of the judgment. The judgment debtor's earnings for personal services within 30 days preceding the order cannot be so applied, when it appears by the judgment debtor's affidavit that they are necessary for the use of a family supported, wholly or partly, by the judgment debtor's labor. The judge may appoint a receiver of the debtor's unexempt property, or forbid a transfer or other disposition thereof, or any interference therewith, until further order therein. History:  (9453) RL s 4323; 1986 c 444