Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

12.09 DUTIES OF DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Coordination. The division shall coordinate state agency preparedness for and emergency response to all types of natural and other emergencies and disasters, including discharges of oil and hazardous substances. § …

12.11 STATE DIRECTOR; PERSONNEL. § Subdivision 1.Division created in Department of Public Safety. A Division of Emergency Management is established within the Department of Public Safety under the supervision and control of the governor and a state director of emergency managemen…

12.13 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING. § Subdivision 1.Plan development. The state director, in cooperation with the commissioner of health and affected political subdivisions, shall develop the state and local portions of the emergency operations plans specified …

12.14 ASSESSMENT FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY PREPAREDNESS ACT. A person in the business of owning or operating a nuclear power plant or dry cask storage facility located in Minnesota, shall pay quarterly assessments to cover the cost of nuclear power plant emergency response programs nece…

12.21 GOVERNOR. § Subdivision 1.General authority. The governor (1) has general direction and control of emergency management, (2) may carry out the provisions of this chapter, and (3) during a national security emergency declared as existing under section 12.31, during the exist…

12.22 ASSISTANCE, ACCEPTANCE, RULES. § Subdivision 1.Federal aid. Whenever the federal government, or an agency or officer of the federal government, offers to the state, or through the state to any political subdivision of the state, services, equipment, supplies, materials, or …

12.221 MINNESOTA NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE. § Subdivision 1.Disaster assistance agreement. The Division of Emergency Management may enter into an agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the maintenance of the Minnesota natural disaster assistance progr…

12.23 FACILITIES, UTILIZATION. In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the governor and the governing bodies of the political subdivisions of the state shall utilize the services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing departments, offices, and agencies of the st…

12.24 REGIONAL DISASTER OFFICES. § Subdivision 1.Authorization. The state director may create and establish such number of regional disaster offices as may be necessary to provide both administrative assistance and operational support following a disaster, and with due considerat…

12.25 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS; DIRECTORS, DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Political subdivisions; director, responsibilities. Each political subdivision shall establish a local organization for emergency management in accordance with the state emergency management program, but no town shall …

12.26 POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; TAXATION, APPROPRIATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Appropriation for expenses. Each political subdivision may make appropriations in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the political subdivision for the payment of…

12.27 MUTUAL AID, ARRANGEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Authority; organizations in Minnesota. The director of each local organization for emergency management may, in collaboration with other public and private agencies within this state, develop or cause to be developed mutual aid arra…

12.28 GOVERNOR'S ORDERS, RULES; ENFORCEMENT. Every organization for emergency management established pursuant to this chapter and its officers shall execute and enforce orders and rules as may be made by the governor under authority of this chapter or section 216C.15. Each organi…

12.29 DECLARATION OF LOCAL EMERGENCY. § Subdivision 1.Authority to declare emergency. A local emergency may be declared only by the mayor of a municipality or the chair of a county board of commissioners or their legal successors. It may not be continued for a period in excess of…

12.301 COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS; GOVERNOR'S AUTHORITY. Whenever, at the request of the governor, the president has declared a major disaster to exist in this state, the governor is authorized to take the following actions: (a) Upon the governor's determination that a political su…

12.31 NATIONAL SECURITY OR PEACETIME EMERGENCY; DECLARATION. § Subdivision 1.Declaration of national security emergency. When information from the President of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Defense, or the National Warning System in…

12.32 GOVERNOR'S ORDERS AND RULES, EFFECT. Orders and rules promulgated by the governor under authority of section 12.21, subdivision 3, clause (1), when approved by the Executive Council and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, have, during a national security emergenc…

12.33 ASSISTANCE BETWEEN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. § Subdivision 1.Authority of governor. When the public interest requires it because of an imminent emergency, the governor may authorize and direct the police, firefighting, health, or other force of a political subdivision, called…

12.331 LOCAL ASSISTANCE BETWEEN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. § Subdivision 1.Authority between political subdivisions. When the public interest requires it because of an emergency, a political subdivision may request the assistance of another political subdivision. Upon receiving such…

12.34 ASSISTANCE REQUIRED; COMPENSATION FOR PROPERTY TAKEN; PENALTY. § Subdivision 1.Emergency powers. When necessary to save life, property, or the environment during a national security emergency or during a peacetime emergency, the governor, the state director, or a member of …

12.35 ACTIVATING EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL. § Subdivision 1. MS 1994 [Repealed by amendment, 1996 c 344 s 24] § Subd. 2.Personnel rights, duties, privileges. Emergency response personnel, while activated by the state, are considered state employees and have the powers, duties,…

12.351 SPECIALIZED EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM. The state director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management shall determine if, in response to an emergency or disaster, activation of a specialized emergency response team for deployment to any political subdivisio…

12.36 GOVERNOR'S POWERS TO FAST PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID. (a) The governor, during an emergency or disaster and notwithstanding any other law, may: (1) enter into contracts and incur obligations necessary to combat the disaster by protecting the health and safety of persons, the saf…

12.37 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION'S POWERS TO FAST PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID. During an emergency or disaster, each political subdivision, notwithstanding any statutory or charter provision to the contrary, and through its governing body acting within or without the corporate limits of the…

12.38 STATE AGENCIES; TEMPORARY WAIVER OF FEES. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a state agency as defined in section 16B.01, subdivision 2, with the approval of the governor, may waive fees that would otherwise be charged for agency services. The waiver of fees must be c…

12.381 SAFE DISPOSITION OF DEAD HUMAN BODIES. § Subdivision 1.Powers for safe disposition. Notwithstanding chapter 149A, in connection with deaths related to a declared emergency, the governor may: (1) direct measures to provide for the safe disposition of dead human bodies as ma…

12.39 INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT; NOTICE, REFUSAL, CONSEQUENCE. § Subdivision 1.Refusal of treatment. Notwithstanding laws, rules, or orders made or promulgated in response to a national security emergency or peacetime emergency, individuals have a fundamental right to refuse medical t…

12.42 OUT-OF-STATE LICENSE HOLDERS; POWERS, DUTIES. During a declared emergency, a person who holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or a province of Canada evidencing the meeting of qualifications for profe…

12.43 SUBVERSIVES; HIRING, USING; OATH. No person may be employed or associated in any capacity in an emergency management organization established under this chapter who advocates or has advocated a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the Government of the …

12.44 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES. No organization for emergency management established under the authority of this chapter shall participate in any form of political activity, nor be employed directly or indirectly for political purposes, nor be employed in a legitimate labor dispute. …

12.45 VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES. Unless a different penalty or punishment is specifically prescribed, a person who willfully violates a provision of this chapter or a rule or order having the force and effect of law issued under authority of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor an…

12.46 LIMITATION OF POWERS. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the governor or the director: (1) by subpoena or otherwise to require any person to appear before any person or to produce any records for inspection by any person, or to examine any person under oath; and (2) to remo…

12.61 TEMPORARY MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES; LIABILITY. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For purposes of this section: (a) "Emergency plan" includes: (i) any plan for managing an emergency threatening public health developed by the commissioner of health or a local public health agency; …