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Chapter 343 — Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals
Section 343.01 — Purposes; Powers; County Organization. - Subdivision 1. Formation authorized. A state federation of county and...
Section 343.06 — Purpose Of Federation. - It shall be the purpose of the state federation of...
Section 343.10 — County And District Societies. - A county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals...
Section 343.11 — Acquisition Of Property, Appropriations. - Every county and district society for the prevention of cruelty...
Section 343.12 — Duties Of Peace Officers. - Upon application of any agent appointed by the federation or...
Section 343.20 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Application. Except as otherwise indicated by the context,...
Section 343.21 — Overworking Or Mistreating Animals; Penalty. - Subdivision 1. Torture. No person shall overdrive, overload, torture, cruelly...
Section 343.215 — Veterinarian Immunity. - A licensed veterinarian acting in good faith and in the...
Section 343.22 — Investigation Of Cruelty Complaints. - Subdivision 1. Reporting. Any person who has reason to believe...
Section 343.23 — Expenses Of Investigation. - The expenses of the investigation authorized by section 343.22, including...
Section 343.235 — Disposition Of Seized Animals. - Subdivision 1. General rule. An animal taken into custody under...
Section 343.24 — Cruelty In Transportation. - Subdivision 1. Penalty. Any person who does any of the...
Section 343.25 — Docking Horses; Penalty. - A person who cuts the bony part of a horse's...
Section 343.27 — Poisoning Animals. - Any person who unjustifiably administers any poisonous, or noxious drug...
Section 343.28 — Animal With Infectious Disease. - An owner or person having charge of any animal who...
Section 343.29 — Exposure Of Animals; Duty Of Officers. - Subdivision 1. Delivery to shelter. Any peace officer, animal control...
Section 343.30 — Injury To Birds. - A person who in any manner maliciously maims, kills, or...
Section 343.31 — Animal Fights And Possession Of Fighting Animals. - Subdivision 1. Penalty for animal fighting; attending animal fight. (a)...
Section 343.315 — Live Lure Greyhound Training Or Racing. - No person may train a greyhound for racing using a...
Section 343.32 — Artificially Colored Animals; Sale. - No chick, duckling, gosling, or rabbit that has been dyed...
Section 343.33 — Use As Advertising Devices. - Chicks, ducklings, and goslings younger than four weeks of age...
Section 343.34 — Care Of Animals Used As Advertising Devices. - Stores, shops, vendors, and others offering chicks, ducklings, or goslings...
Section 343.35 — Violations. - A violation of sections 343.32 to 343.34 is a petty...
Section 343.36 — Greased Pig Contests And Turkey Scrambles. - No person shall operate, run or participate in a contest,...
Section 343.37 — Decompression Chambers Prohibited. - A person may not use a decompression chamber to destroy...
Section 343.40 — Dog Houses. - Subdivision 1. In general. A person in charge or control...
Chapter 344 — Partition Fences
Section 344.01 — Fence Viewers. - Supervisors in their respective towns, city council members in their...
Section 344.011 — Exemption. - A home rule charter or statutory city council or town...
Section 344.02 — Kinds Of Partition Fences. - Subdivision 1. Legal and sufficient fences. The following are legal...
Section 344.03 — Expense; Equal Shares. - Subdivision 1. Adjoining owners. (a) Except as provided in paragraph...
Section 344.04 — Failure To Build Or Repair; Rights Of Complainant. - If a person fails to build, repair, or rebuild a...
Section 344.05 — Repair Costs Recoverable. - If a complainant builds, repairs, or rebuilds a fence according...
Section 344.06 — Controversy; Decision By Fence Viewers. - If a controversy arises concerning the rights in partition fences...
Section 344.07 — Failure To Erect Or Maintain. - If a party fails to erect or maintain the part...
Section 344.08 — Recorded Division; Binding On Heirs And Assigns. - All divisions of fences which are made by fence viewers...
Section 344.09 — Party Erecting More Than Share. - If there is a controversy between occupants of adjoining lands...
Section 344.10 — Lands Bounded By Stream. - If lands of different persons must be fenced and are...
Section 344.11 — Lands Occupied In Common. - If one of the occupants of enclosed lands belonging to...
Section 344.12 — Viewers To Fix Time For Building. - If fence viewers have divided land and assigned fence responsibilities,...
Section 344.13 — Lands First Enclosed. - When unenclosed lands are afterwards enclosed, the owner or occupant...
Section 344.14 — Viewers When Fence On Town Line. - If a partition fence is to be built on a...
Section 344.16 — Division Or Recorded Agreement Runs With The Land. - If the line upon which a partition fence is to...
Section 344.17 — Failure Of Viewer To Perform Duty; Penalty. - A fence viewer who unreasonably fails to perform a duty...
Section 344.18 — Compensation Of Viewers. - Fence viewers must be paid for their services by the...
Section 344.19 — Viewers In Counties Not Organized Into Towns. - In counties not organized into towns, the county commissioners are...
Section 344.20 — City Or Town Option. - (a) If eight or more landowners in a home rule...
Chapter 345 — Unclaimed Property
Section 345.01 — Duty Of Consignee Or Bailee. - When any personal property shall be consigned to or deposited...
Section 345.02 — Unclaimed Property May Be Sold Upon Notice; Summary Sale. - If any property is not claimed or taken away within...
Section 345.03 — Proceedings If Property Not Claimed. - If the owner or person entitled to the property does...
Section 345.04 — Inventory; Order Of Sale. - Upon the delivery of the affidavit, the judge shall cause...
Section 345.05 — Notice And Return Of Sale. - The police officer receiving the inventory and order shall sell...
Section 345.06 — Disposition Of Proceeds. - From the proceeds of the sale the court administrator shall...
Section 345.07 — Money Deposited, How Disposed Of. - If the owner of the property sold, or the owner's...
Section 345.09 — Unclaimed Baggage; Delivery To Warehouse Operator. - Personal baggage remaining in the possession of any carrier of...
Section 345.10 — Storage Liens. - Any storage company receiving such property shall provide suitable storage...
Section 345.11 — Sale; Notice. - If such property is not claimed by the owner or...
Section 345.12 — Sale; Proceeds. - The proceeds of the sale shall be applied to the...
Section 345.13 — Warehouse Operator's Bond. - Before any warehouse operator or storage company shall be entitled...
Section 345.14 — Fees Of Court Administrators. - For services performed under the provisions of this chapter, court...
Section 345.15 — Counties, Unclaimed Property; Disposition; Duty Of Sheriff. - Subdivision 1. Sheriff seizure and public sale. The sheriff of...
Section 345.16 — State; Unclaimed Property; Disposition; Duty Of State Patrol. - Subdivision 1. State Patrol seizure. A State Patrol trooper may...
Section 345.20 — Dies, Molds; Ownership. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section: (a) "Customer"...
Section 345.25 — Bonds Issued By Religious Organizations. - Bonds issued by religious organizations are exempt from sections 345.31...
Section 345.31 — Definitions And Use Of Terms. - Subdivision 1. Scope. As used in sections 345.31 to 345.60,...
Section 345.32 — Property Held By Banking Or Financial Organizations Or By Business Associations. - The following property held or owing by a banking or...
Section 345.321 — Dormancy Charge For Money Orders. - Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a holder may annually...
Section 345.33 — Unclaimed Funds Held By Life Insurance Corporations. - (a) Unclaimed funds, as defined in this section, held and...
Section 345.34 — Deposits Held By Utilities. - Any deposit held or owing by any utility made by...
Section 345.35 — Stock And Other Intangible Interests In Business Associations. - (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (e), stock...
Section 345.36 — Property Of Business Associations And Banking Or Financial Organizations Held In Course Of Dissolution. - All intangible personal property distributable in the course of a...
Section 345.37 — Property Held By Fiduciaries. - All intangible personal property and any income or increment thereon,...
Section 345.38 — Property Held By State Courts And Public Officers And Agencies. - Subdivision 1. Personal property held by court or public authority....
Section 345.381 — Property Held By Minnesota Public Pension Fund. - No amounts of money held or owing by a public...
Section 345.39 — Miscellaneous Personal Property Held For Another Person. - Subdivision 1. Presumed abandonment. All intangible personal property, not otherwise...
Section 345.40 — Reciprocity For Property Presumed Abandoned Or Escheated Under The Laws Of Another State. - If specific property which is subject to the provisions of...
Section 345.41 — Report Of Abandoned Property. - (a) Every person holding funds or other property, tangible or...
Section 345.42 — Notice And Publication Of Lists Of Abandoned Property. - Subdivision 1. Commissioner's duty. Within the calendar year next following...
Section 345.43 — Payment Or Delivery Of Abandoned Property. - Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1996 c 439 art 1 s 27]...
Section 345.44 — Relief From Liability By Payment Or Delivery. - Upon the payment or delivery of abandoned property to the...
Section 345.451 — Crediting Income Or Gain To Owner's Account. - If property other than money is delivered to the commissioner,...
Section 345.46 — Period Of Limitation. - (a) The expiration of a period of limitation on the...
Section 345.47 — Sale Of Abandoned Property. - Subdivision 1. Public sale. Except as provided in subdivisions 3...
Section 345.48 — Deposit Of Funds. - Subdivision 1. Commissioner's duties. All funds received under sections 345.31...
Section 345.485 — Recovery Of Property By Others. - The commissioner may request that the attorney general of another...
Section 345.49 — Claim For Abandoned Property Paid Or Delivered. - Subdivision 1. Filing. (a) Any person claiming an interest in...
Section 345.50 — Determination Of Claims. - Subdivision 1. Commissioner's duties. The commissioner shall consider any claim...
Section 345.51 — Judicial Action Upon Determinations. - Any person aggrieved by a decision of the commissioner or...
Section 345.515 — Agreements To Locate Reported Property. - It is unlawful for a person to seek or receive...
Section 345.52 — Election To Take Payment Or Delivery. - The commissioner, after receiving reports of property deemed abandoned pursuant...
Section 345.525 — Property Having No Apparent Commercial Or Historical Value. - The commissioner may withhold the property from sales under this...
Section 345.53 — Examination Of Records. - Subdivision 1. Commissioner's duties. The commissioner may at reasonable times...
Section 345.54 — Proceeding To Compel Delivery Of Abandoned Property. - If any person refuses to deliver property to the commissioner...
Section 345.55 — Penalties. - Subdivision 1. Misdemeanor. Any person who willfully fails to render...
Section 345.56 — Rules. - The commissioner is hereby authorized to make necessary rules to...
Section 345.57 — Effect Of Laws Of Other States. - Sections 345.31 to 345.60 shall not apply to any property...
Section 345.58 — Cutoff Date. - Except as to property required to be reported pursuant to...
Section 345.59 — Uniformity Of Interpretation. - Sections 345.31 to 345.60 shall be so construed as to...
Section 345.60 — Citation. - Sections 345.31 to 345.60 as enacted and hereafter amended, may...
Section 345.70 — Minnesota Museum Property Act; Definitions. - (a) As used in this section, the terms defined in...
Section 345.71 — Loans Of Property To A Museum Or Archives Repository. - Subdivision 1. Ownership records. Each museum or archives repository shall...
Section 345.72 — Acquiring Title To Abandoned Property. - Subdivision 1. Acquisition. Property loaned to a museum or archives...
Section 345.73 — Acquiring Title To Undocumented Property. - Subdivision 1. Acquisition. Property in the possession of a museum...
Section 345.74 — Conservation Of Museum Property. - Subdivision 1. Protection of loaned property. Unless there is a...
Section 345.75 — Abandoned Tangible Personal Property. - The ownership of abandoned tangible personal property that is not...
Chapter 346 — Animals
Section 346.01 — Who May Take Up. - No person shall take up any estray, except horses or...
Section 346.02 — Finder To Give Notice; Penalty. - A person who finds an estray and knows who owns...
Section 346.03 — Appraisement. - Every finder of an estray of the value of $10...
Section 346.04 — Charges For Keeping. - The person entitled to the possession of any estray, at...
Section 346.05 — Sale Of Estray. - If no claimant for such estray shall cause its return...
Section 346.06 — Money, How Disposed Of. - If the money so deposited be not claimed by the...
Section 346.07 — Removal Of Estray; Neglect To Give Notice. - If any person, without the consent of the finder, shall...
Section 346.08 — Distraint Of Animals Doing Damage. - The owner or occupant of lands may distrain any beast...
Section 346.09 — Animals Doing Damage. - Subdivision 1. Notice; appraisers. The person distraining shall give notice...
Section 346.10 — Appraisement; Procedure. - The appraisers, immediately after their appointment, shall be sworn and...
Section 346.11 — Tender By Owner; Effect. - At any time before proceedings are begun for such appraisement,...
Section 346.12 — Impoundments. - Unless the damages so ascertained, together with the fees of...
Section 346.13 — Poundmaster; Custody; Sale; Time; Notice. - The poundmaster shall receive and keep in the public pound...
Section 346.14 — Sale Of Animal Not Impounded. - If, by reason of there being no pound within such...
Section 346.15 — Redemption. - The purchaser of any animal sold under sections 346.13 and...
Section 346.155 — Possessing Regulated Animals. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) The definitions in this subdivision apply...
Section 346.16 — Running At Large; Defined; Prohibited; Treble Damages. - The herding of any animal of the species of cattle,...
Section 346.17 — Proceeds Of Sale. - From the proceeds of such sale the person making it...
Section 346.18 — Taking Distrained Beasts A Misdemeanor. - If any person, without authority of law, and without first...
Section 346.35 — Citation. - Sections 346.35 to 346.44 may be cited as the "Pet...
Section 346.36 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Scope. Sections 346.35 to 346.44 shall only apply...
Section 346.37 — General Provisions. - Subdivision 1. Abandoned animals. (a) If an animal is left...
Section 346.38 — Equines. - Subdivision 1. Definition. "Equines" are horses, ponies, mules, and burros....
Section 346.39 — Dogs And Cats. - Subdivision 1. Food. Dogs and cats must be provided with...
Section 346.40 — Pet Birds. - Subdivision 1. Food. Birds must be fed at least once...
Section 346.41 — Rodents. - Subdivision 1. Food. Food must be made available to every...
Section 346.42 — Other Animals. - Animals not covered in detail in sections 346.38 to 346.41...
Section 346.43 — Farm Animals Excluded. - Sections 346.35 to 346.44 do not apply to the care...
Section 346.44 — Penalties. - Except where otherwise indicated, a person found guilty of failure...
Section 346.47 — Seized Animals. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (1) "establishment"...
Section 346.50 — Dogs; Identification. - An owner or custodian of a dog who permits the...
Section 346.51 — Bites. - An owner or custodian of a dog which does not...
Section 346.52 — Local Programs. - Sections 346.50 to 346.54 do not prohibit or restrict a...
Section 346.53 — Penalties. - Violation of sections 346.50 and 346.51 is a petty misdemeanor....
Section 346.54 — Notification Of Owners. - Animal shelter personnel who receive animals shall check for identification...
Section 346.55 — Civil Liability. - Subdivision 1. Penalty. The transfer by a person other than...
Section 346.56 — Unauthorized Release Of Animals. - Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1989 c 55 s 3] Subd. 2....
Section 346.57 — Dogs And Cats In Motor Vehicles. - Subdivision 1. Unattended dogs or cats. A person may not...
Section 346.58 — Dogs And Cats; Best Management Standards For Care By Dealers, Commercial Breeders, And Brokers. - The commissioner of agriculture shall consult with interested persons, including...
Chapter 347 — Dogs And Cats
Section 347.01 — Owner's Liability; Penalty. - (a) Owners or keepers of any dog or dogs, that...
Section 347.02 — Keeping After Notice; Penalty. - Every person who shall keep or harbor a dog which...
Section 347.03 — Dogs May Be Killed. - Any owner or caretaker may kill any dog found chasing,...
Section 347.04 — Public Nuisance. - Any dog that habitually worries, chases, or molests teams or...
Section 347.05 — Owner Not Known. - If it appears from the complaint that the owner is...
Section 347.06 — Hearing; Judgment; Execution. - The judge shall hear the evidence in the case. Upon...
Section 347.07 — Costs. - Costs in the first instance shall be paid by the...
Section 347.08 — County Board May License. - Subdivision 1. Establishment of licensing system. The board of county...
Section 347.09 — Licenses. - In every county in which sections 347.08 to 347.21 shall...
Section 347.10 — Owners Of Dogs And Kennels; Licenses. - The term "kennel" shall mean any establishment where dogs are...
Section 347.11 — Dog Collars To Be Tagged. - Subdivision 1. Metal tags and license blanks. The clerk or...
Section 347.12 — Fees Paid To County Treasurer Monthly. - Every town, or city clerk, or clerk's deputy, shall at...
Section 347.13 — Fees, Dog License Fund; Disbursal; Accounting. - The license fees so paid to the county treasurer shall...
Section 347.14 — Unlicensed Dogs. - Subdivision 1. Seizure; impoundment; presumption. Any person may seize, impound,...
Section 347.15 — Persons Damaged, Claims Filed. - Subdivision 1. Presentation and investigation. The owner of any domestic...
Section 347.16 — Claims, Hearings, Notice. - No claim shall be allowed by the county board at...
Section 347.17 — Killing Dogs In Certain Cases. - Any person may kill any dog that the person knows...
Section 347.18 — Tags; Restrictions, Prohibitions. - No person, except the owner or the owner's authorized agent,...
Section 347.19 — Failure To Obtain License. - Every town or city clerk shall notify the county attorney...
Section 347.20 — Exemptions. - Dogs brought into this state temporarily for a period not...
Section 347.21 — Interpretation. - Sections 347.08 to 347.21 are supplemental to all other laws...
Section 347.22 — Damages, Owner Liable. - If a dog, without provocation, attacks or injures any person...
Section 347.31 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Terms. For the purpose of sections 347.31 to...
Section 347.32 — License For Kennel Or Dealer. - No person, firm, or corporation shall establish, maintain, conduct, or...
Section 347.33 — Licensing Procedures; Inspections; Administration. - Subdivision 1. Application. The application for a license to operate...
Section 347.34 — Licenses Required. - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation...
Section 347.35 — Board Of Animal Health Rules. - The Board of Animal Health shall promulgate rules as it...
Section 347.36 — Advertising. - All advertising by any person, firm, or corporation licensed hereunder...
Section 347.37 — Public Access; Notice; Inspection; Enforcement. - The Board of Animal Health shall cause to be inspected...
Section 347.38 — Revocation Of License. - The Board of Animal Health may as hereinafter set forth...
Section 347.39 — Penalties. - Violation of any provision of sections 347.31 to 347.40 or...
Section 347.40 — Exceptions. - Sections 347.31 to 347.40 shall in no way apply to...
Section 347.50 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Terms. For the purpose of sections 347.50 to...
Section 347.51 — Dangerous Dogs; Registration. - Subdivision 1. Requirement. No person may own a dangerous dog...
Section 347.515 — Microchip Identification. - The owner of a dangerous or potentially dangerous dog must...
Section 347.52 — Dangerous Dogs; Requirements. - (a) An owner of a dangerous dog shall keep the...
Section 347.53 — Potentially Dangerous And Dangerous Dogs. - Any statutory or home rule charter city, or any county,...
Section 347.54 — Confiscation. - Subdivision 1. Seizure. (a) The animal control authority having jurisdiction...
Section 347.541 — Disposition Of Seized Animals. - Subdivision 1. Hearing. The owner of any dog declared dangerous...
Section 347.542 — Restrictions. - Subdivision 1. Dog ownership prohibited. Except as provided in subdivision...
Section 347.55 — Penalty. - (a) A person who violates a provision of section 347.51,...
Section 347.56 — Destruction Of Dog In Certain Circumstances. - Subdivision 1. Circumstances. Notwithstanding sections 347.51 to 347.55, a dog...
Section 347.565 — Applicability. - Sections 347.50 to 347.56 must be enforced by animal control...
Section 347.57 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Terms. The definitions in this section apply to...
Section 347.58 — Licensing And Inspections. - Subdivision 1. Licensing. (a) The board may grant an operating...
Section 347.59 — Standards Of Care. - (a) A commercial breeder must comply with chapters 343 and...
Section 347.60 — Investigations. - (a) The board must initiate an investigation upon receiving a...
Section 347.61 — Civil Enforcement. - Subdivision 1. Correction orders. (a) The board may issue a...
Section 347.615 — Biosecurity; Entry Into Facilities. - No law enforcement officer, agent of the board, or other...
Section 347.62 — Penalties. - (a) A violation of section 347.58 or 347.59 that results...
Section 347.63 — Dog And Cat Breeders Licensing Account; Appropriation. - A dog and cat breeders licensing account is created in...
Section 347.64 — Applicability. - Sections 347.57 to 347.63 do not apply to: (1) any...
Section 347.65 — Recognition; Commercial Breeder Excellence. - The Board of Animal Health, in consultation with representatives of...
Chapter 348 — Bounties, Rewards
Section 348.01 — For Timber Growing. - Every person who shall plant one acre or more of...
Section 348.02 — Claim And Proof. - The claimant shall file with the county auditor a plat...
Section 348.04 — Proofs Sent To Commissioner Of Natural Resources. - Before August 1 the county auditor shall examine the proofs...
Section 348.05 — Commissioner Of Management And Budget To Issue Payment. - The commissioner of management and budget shall audit all such...
Section 348.12 — Bounties, Certain Animals. - Any county board or board of town supervisors may, by...
Section 348.125 — Coyote Conflict Management Option. - A county or town board may, by resolution, offer a...
Section 348.13 — Bounties Paid By Towns, Requirements. - The four feet of striped and gray gophers and woodchucks,...