Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

3.9221 INDIAN TRIBES; COMPACTS TO BE NEGOTIATED. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "act" means the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Public Law 100-497, and future amendments to it. § Subd. 2.Negotiations authorized. The governor or the governor's designated r…

3.9224 MEDICAL CANNABIS; COMPACTS TO BE NEGOTIATED. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Medical cannabis law" or "medical cannabis program" means the regulatory framework for cultivation, production, distribu…

3.9228 ADULT-USE CANNABIS; COMPACTS TO BE NEGOTIATED. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Adult-use cannabis flower" means cannabis flower approved for sale to adults under the law of a Minnesota Tribal gover…

3.93 DEFINITION. As used in sections 3.93 to 3.96, "attack" means an action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiolog…

3.94 PLACE OF SESSION. Whenever, in the event of an attack, or a finding by the executive council that an attack may be imminent, the governor deems the place of the legislative session then prescribed to be unsafe, the governor may change it to any other place within or without …

3.95 SPECIAL SESSION IN EVENT OF ATTACK. In the event of an attack, if the legislature is not in session, the governor shall convene a special session as soon as practicable, but within 30 days after the inception of the attack. If the governor fails to issue the call, the legisl…

3.96 QUORUM AND VOTE REQUIREMENTS. In the event of an attack the quorum requirement for the legislature is a majority of the members of each house who convene for the session. If the affirmative vote of a specified proportion of members of the legislature would otherwise be requi…

3.97 LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COMMISSION. § Subdivision 1.Policy. Continuous legislative review of the spending of public funds and financing at all levels of government is required in the public interest to enable the enactment of appropriate legislation. § Subd. 2.Membership; terms; m…

3.971 LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR. § Subdivision 1.Appointment and term. The legislative auditor is the executive secretary of the commission. The legislative auditor shall be appointed by the commission for a six-year term and serve in the unclassified service. When in office, the legis…

3.972 AUDITS OF AGENCIES. § Subdivision 1.Public accountant. For the purposes of this section, "public accountant" means a certified public accountant or certified public accounting firm licensed in accordance with chapter 326A. § Subd. 2.Audits of state and semistate agencies. T…

3.974 DISTRIBUTION OF WRITTEN REPORT. For each audit, evaluation, or other review completed, the legislative auditor shall provide a written report to the organization or individual audited, evaluated, or reviewed; the Legislative Reference Library; and the Legislative Audit Comm…

3.9741 COST OF CERTAIN AUDITS. § Subdivision 1.Metropolitan Commission. Upon the audit of the financial accounts and affairs of a commission under section 473.595, 473.604, or 473.703, the affected Metropolitan Commission is liable to the state for the total cost and expenses of …

3.975 DUTIES CONCERNING MISUSE OF PUBLIC MONEY OR OTHER RESOURCES. If a legislative auditor's examination discloses that a state official or employee has used money for a purpose other than the purpose for which the money was appropriated or discloses any other misuse of public m…

3.978 AUXILIARY POWERS. § Subdivision 1.Subpoena power. In all matters relating to official duties, the legislative auditor has the powers possessed by courts of law to issue and have subpoenas served. § Subd. 2.Inquiry and inspection power; duty to aid legislative auditor. All p…

3.979 DATA CLASSIFICATION AND DISCLOSURE. § Subdivision 1.Data practices. The legislative auditor is subject to the Government Data Practices Act, chapter 13, and shall protect from unlawful disclosure data classified as not public. If data provided by the legislative auditor to …

3.98 FISCAL NOTES. § Subdivision 1.Preparation; duties. (a) The head or chief administrative officer of each department or agency of the state government, including the supreme court, shall prepare a fiscal note consistent with the standards and procedures adopted under section 3…

3.985 RULE NOTES. The governor or the chair of a standing committee to which a bill delegating rulemaking authority has been referred may require an agency to which the rulemaking authority is granted under a bill to prepare a rulemaking note on the proposed delegation of authori…

3.986 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The terms used in sections 3.986 to 3.989 have the meanings given them in this section. § Subd. 2.Local fiscal impact. (a) "Local fiscal impact" means increased or decreased costs or revenues that a political subdivision would incur as a …

3.987 LOCAL IMPACT NOTES FOR STATE-MANDATED ACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Local impact notes. The Legislative Budget Office shall coordinate the development of a local impact note for any proposed legislation upon request of the chair or the ranking minority member of either legislati…

3.988 EXCEPTIONS TO LOCAL IMPACT NOTES. § Subdivision 1.Costs resulting from inflation. A local impact note need not be prepared for increases in the cost of providing an existing service if the increases result directly from inflation. "Resulting directly from inflation" means a…

3.989 REIMBURSEMENT TO LOCAL POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS FOR COSTS OF STATE MANDATES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. In this section: (1) "Class A state mandates" means those laws under which the state mandates to political subdivisions, their participation, the organizational structure…

3A.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Purposes. Each of the terms defined in this section, for the purposes of this chapter has the meaning ascribed. § Subd. 1a.Actuarial equivalent. (a) "Actuarial equivalent" means the condition of one allowance or benefit having an equal actuarial…

3A.011 ADMINISTRATION OF PLANS. The executive director and the board of directors of the Minnesota State Retirement System shall administer the plans specified in this chapter consistent with this chapter and chapters 356 and 356A. History: 1989 c 319 art 8 s 1; 2006 c 271 art 10…

3A.02 RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. § Subdivision 1.Qualifications. (a) A former legislator is entitled, upon written application to the director, to receive a retirement allowance monthly, if the person: (1) has either served at least six full years, or has served during all or part of …

3A.021 OPTIONAL DIVISION OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. § Subdivision 1.Election of division. Notwithstanding section 518.58, subdivision 4, paragraph (a), clause (5), a former legislator or the former spouse of a former legislator, if a portion of the former legislator's retirement al…

3A.03 CONTRIBUTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Percentage. (a) Every member of the legislature shall contribute nine percent of total salary. (b) The contribution must be made by payroll deduction and must be paid into the state treasury and deposited in the general fund. (c) The director …

3A.04 SURVIVOR BENEFIT. § Subdivision 1.Surviving spouse. (a) Upon the death of a member of the legislature while serving as a member, or upon the death of a former member of the legislature with at least six full years of service or service in all or part of four regular legisla…

3A.05 APPLICATION FOR SURVIVOR BENEFIT. (a) Applications for survivor benefits under section 3A.04 must be filed with the director by the surviving spouse and dependent child or children entitled to benefits under section 3A.04, or by the guardian of the estate, if there is one, …

3A.07 APPLICATION. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) and section 3A.17, this chapter applies to members of the legislature in service after July 1, 1965, who otherwise meet the requirements of this chapter. (b) Members of the legislature who were elected for the first time …

3A.10 SERVICE CREDIT. § Subdivision 1.Service credit for legislative term. (a) In the case of a member of the house of representatives, one full term of office must be considered two full years of service, notwithstanding the fact that the oath of office was taken on different da…

3A.115 RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE APPROPRIATION; POSTRETIREMENT ADJUSTMENT. (a) The amount necessary to fund the retirement allowance granted under this chapter to a former legislator retiring after June 30, 2003, or to that legislator's survivor, and the retirement allowance granted u…

3A.13 EXEMPTION FROM PROCESS AND TAXATION; HEALTH PREMIUM DEDUCTION. (a) The provisions of section 356.401 apply to the plans specified in this chapter. (b) The executive director of the Minnesota State Retirement System must, at the request of a retired legislator or constitutio…

3A.15 PROGRAMS OF THE LEGISLATORS RETIREMENT PLAN. The provisions of sections 3A.01 to 3A.13 apply to the coordinated and basic programs of the legislators retirement plan. History: 2002 c 392 art 15 s 1; 2013 c 111 art 2 s 7

3A.17 CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS. § Subdivision 1.Application. (a) This section specifies the retirement plan applicable to a former constitutional officer who was first elected to a constitutional office after July 1, 1967, and before July 1, 1997. The plan includes the applicable …

3C.01 APPOINTMENT OF REVISOR. The Legislative Coordinating Commission shall appoint a qualified person to the position of revisor of statutes. The revisor shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The commission shall fix the revisor's salary. History: 1984 c 480 s 1

3C.02 REVISOR'S POWERS. § Subdivision 1.Regular staff; hiring and salaries. The revisor shall employ and may fix the salaries of drafters and technical, research, and clerical assistants necessary to do the work of the revisor's office. § Subd. 2.Additional staff; contractors. Wh…

3C.03 DRAFTING DUTIES OF REVISOR'S OFFICE. § Subdivision 1.Limitation. As far as personnel and available appropriations permit, the revisor's office shall perform the drafting duties described in subdivisions 2 to 4. § Subd. 2.Drafting department. The revisor's office shall maint…

3C.035 BILL DRAFTING FOR DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES. § Subdivision 1.Deadlines. A department or agency intending to urge the legislature to adopt a bill shall deliver the drafting request for the bill to the revisor of statutes by November 1 before the regular session of the legisl…

3C.04 OTHER OFFICE DUTIES DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. § Subdivision 1.Advice concerning effect of bills. The revisor's office shall give members of the legislature advice concerning the legal effect of bills or proposed bills, but only at the request of the members. § Subd. 2.Inf…

3C.05 PROHIBITIONS AND LIMITATIONS. § Subdivision 1.General. The revisor, employees of the revisor's office, and persons assisting the office as part-time employees or independent contractors are subject to the following prohibitions and limitations: (a) They may not reveal to an…

3C.06 LAWS OF MINNESOTA. § Subdivision 1.General requirements. As soon as possible after a session of the legislature has adjourned each year, the revisor shall publish the laws of the session in a publication called "Laws of Minnesota." It must be identified by the year of the s…

3C.07 MINNESOTA STATUTES, HISTORICAL STATUS. § Subdivision 1.Minnesota Revised Statutes. The compilation and revision of the general and permanent statutes of Minnesota, prepared by the revisor under the provisions of Laws of Minnesota 1943, chapter 545, and filed with the secret…

3C.08 MINNESOTA STATUTES; CONTENTS. § Subdivision 1.Permanent required contents. The revisor's office shall publish editions of Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Statutes must contain the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Minnesota, all general and permanent stat…

3C.09 MINNESOTA STATUTES; SUPPLEMENTATION. If the revisor's office does not publish an edition of Minnesota Statutes in a given year, it may publish a supplement to Minnesota Statutes. The supplement must be identified by the year of publication and to the extent possible must ot…

3C.10 PUBLICATION POWERS. § Subdivision 1.Editorial powers for statutes. The revisor's office, in preparing printer's copy for editions of statutes, may not alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any legislative act, but may: (a) renumber sections or subdivisions and parts of sec…

3C.11 GENERAL PUBLICATION DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Certificate of correctness. In preparing an edition of Minnesota Statutes, a supplement to Minnesota Statutes, or an edition of Laws of Minnesota, the revisor's office shall compare each section in the edition with the original se…