Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

211B.045 NONCOMMERCIAL SIGNS EXEMPTION. All noncommercial signs of any size may be posted in any number beginning 46 days before the state primary in a state general election year until ten days following the state general election. Municipal ordinances may regulate the size and …

211B.05 PAID ADVERTISEMENTS IN NEWS. § Subdivision 1.Acceptance of paid advertisements. A newspaper, periodical, or magazine may not intentionally accept for insertion in the newspaper, magazine, or periodical a political advertisement unless the words "PAID ADVERTISEMENT," and t…

211B.066 DISTRIBUTION OF ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATIONS AND SAMPLE BALLOTS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Person or entity" means any individual, committee, or association as defined in section 10A.0…

211B.07 UNDUE INFLUENCE ON VOTERS PROHIBITED. A person may not directly or indirectly use or threaten force, coercion, violence, restraint, damage, harm, loss, including loss of employment or economic reprisal, undue influence, or temporal or spiritual injury against an individua…

211B.075 INTIMIDATION AND INTERFERENCE WITH THE VOTING PROCESS; PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Intimidation. (a) A person may not directly or indirectly use or threaten force, coercion, violence, restraint, damage, harm, or loss, including loss of employment or economic reprisal agai…

211B.076 INTERFERENCE RELATED TO THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES BY AN ELECTION OFFICIAL; PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For the purposes of this section, "election official" means a member of a canvassing board, the county auditor or municipal clerk charged with duties relatin…

211B.09 PROHIBITED PUBLIC EMPLOYEE ACTIVITIES. An employee or official of the state or of a political subdivision may not use official authority or influence to compel a person to apply for membership in or become a member of a political organization, to pay or promise to pay a p…

211B.10 INDUCING OR REFRAINING CANDIDACY; TIME OFF FOR PUBLIC OFFICE MEETINGS. § Subdivision 1.Inducing or refraining from candidacy. A person may not reward or promise to reward another in any manner to induce the person to be or refrain from or cease being a candidate. A person…

211B.11 ELECTION DAY PROHIBITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Soliciting near polling places. (a) A person must not: (1) ask, solicit, or in any manner try to induce or persuade a voter to vote for or refrain from voting for a candidate or ballot question; or (2) wear, exhibit, or distribut…

211B.12 LEGAL EXPENDITURES. Use of money collected for political purposes is prohibited unless the use is reasonably related to the conduct of election campaigns, or is a noncampaign disbursement as defined in section 10A.01, subdivision 26. The following are permitted expenditur…

211B.13 BRIBERY, TREATING, AND SOLICITATION. § Subdivision 1.Bribery, advancing money, and treating prohibited. A person who willfully, directly or indirectly, advances, pays, gives, promises, or lends any money, food, liquor, clothing, entertainment, or other thing of monetary v…

211B.14 DIGEST OF LAWS. The secretary of state, with the approval of the attorney general, shall prepare and print an easily understandable digest of this chapter and annotations of it. The digest may include other related laws and annotations at the discretion of the secretary o…

211B.15 CORPORATE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the terms defined in this subdivision have the meanings given. Unless otherwise provided, the definitions in section 10A.01 also apply to this section. (b) "Chief executive o…

211B.16 PROSECUTION. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2004 c 277 s 13] § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 2004 c 277 s 13] § Subd. 3.County attorney authority. A county attorney may prosecute any violation of this chapter. History: 1988 c 578 art 3 s 16; 2004 c 277 s 5

211B.17 FORFEITURE OF NOMINATION OR OFFICE; CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE NOT FORFEITED. § Subdivision 1.Forfeiture of nomination or office. Except as provided in subdivision 2, if a candidate is found guilty of violating this chapter or section 609.771 or an offense was committed by anoth…

211B.18 DISQUALIFIED CANDIDATE NOT TO HOLD VARIOUS POSITIONS. A candidate whose election to office has been set aside for a violation of this chapter or section 609.771 may not be appointed, during the period fixed by law as the term of the office, to fill a vacancy in that offic…

211B.19 PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION. A violation of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided is a misdemeanor. History: 1988 c 578 art 3 s 19

211B.20 DENIAL OF ACCESS BY POLITICAL CANDIDATES TO MULTIPLE UNIT DWELLINGS. § Subdivision 1.Prohibition. (a) It is unlawful for a person, either directly or indirectly, to deny access to an apartment house, dormitory, nursing home, manufactured home park, other multiple unit fac…

211B.205 PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC PARADES. If a public parade allows candidates, a candidate must be allowed to participate for a fee that is not greater than the amount that is charged to other units participating in the parade. History: 1Sp2001 c 10 art 18 s 40

211B.21 APPLICABILITY. Nothing in section 211B.17 or 211B.18 may be construed to limit the ability of each house of the legislature to act as judge of the election returns and eligibility of its own members. History: 1988 c 578 art 3 s 21

211B.31 DEFINITION. As used in sections 211B.32 to 211B.36, "office" means the Office of Administrative Hearings. History: 2004 c 277 s 6

211B.32 COMPLAINTS OF UNFAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES. § Subdivision 1.Administrative remedy; exhaustion. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), a complaint alleging a violation of chapter 211A or 211B must be filed with the office. The complaint must be finally disposed of …

211B.33 PRIMA FACIE REVIEW. § Subdivision 1.Time for review. The chief administrative law judge must randomly assign an administrative law judge to review the complaint. Within one business day after the complaint was filed with the office, when practicable, but never longer than…

211B.34 PROBABLE CAUSE HEARING. § Subdivision 1.Time for review. The assigned administrative law judge must hold a probable cause hearing on the complaint no later than three business days after determining the complaint sets forth a prima facie violation of chapter 211A or 211B,…

211B.35 EVIDENTIARY HEARING BY PANEL. § Subdivision 1.Deadline for hearing. When required by section 211B.33, subdivision 2, paragraph (c), or by section 211B.34, subdivision 2 or 3, the chief administrative law judge must assign the complaint to a panel of three administrative l…

211B.36 PROCEDURES. § Subdivision 1.Evidence and argument. The administrative law judge or panel may consider any evidence and argument submitted until a hearing record is closed, including affidavits and documentation, or may continue a hearing to enable the parties to submit ad…

211B.37 COSTS ASSESSED. Except as otherwise provided in section 211B.36, subdivision 3, the chief administrative law judge shall assess the cost of considering complaints filed under section 211B.32 as provided in this section. Costs of complaints relating to a statewide ballot q…