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Chapter 645 — Interpretation Of Statutes And Rules
Section 645.001 — Applicability To Rules. - The provisions of this chapter, unless specifically provided to the...
Section 645.01 — Words And Phrases. - Subdivision 1. Scope. When used in this chapter the following...
Section 645.02 — Effective Date And Time Of Laws. - Each act, except one making appropriations, enacted finally at any...
Section 645.021 — Special Laws. - Subdivision 1. Name required. A special law as defined in...
Section 645.023 — Special Laws; Enactment Without Local Approval. - Subdivision 1. Classes of law covered. A special law enacted...
Section 645.024 — Special Laws; Local Approval As Requirement Of Act. - Section 645.023 does not apply to a special law which...
Section 645.071 — Standard Of Time. - Every mention of, or reference to, any hour or time...
Section 645.08 — Canons Of Construction. - In construing the statutes of this state, the following canons...
Section 645.09 — Numerals. - Roman and Arabic numerals are parts of the English language....
Section 645.10 — Bonds. - A law requiring a bond or undertaking with sureties to...
Section 645.11 — Published Notice. - Unless otherwise specifically provided, the words "published notice," when used...
Section 645.12 — Posted Notice. - Subdivision 1. Definition. The term "posted notice," when used in...
Section 645.13 — Time; Publication For Successive Weeks. - When the term "successive weeks" is used in any law...
Section 645.14 — Time; Computation Of Months. - When, in any law, the lapse of a number of...
Section 645.15 — Computation Of Time. - Where the performance or doing of any act, duty, matter,...
Section 645.151 — Timely Delivery Or Filing. - When an application, payment, return, claim, statement, or other document...
Section 645.16 — Legislative Intent Controls. - The object of all interpretation and construction of laws is...
Section 645.17 — Presumptions In Ascertaining Legislative Intent. - In ascertaining the intention of the legislature the courts may...
Section 645.18 — Grammar; Syntax; Ellipsis. - Grammatical errors shall not vitiate a law. A transposition of...
Section 645.19 — Construction Of Provisos And Exceptions. - Provisos shall be construed to limit rather than to extend...
Section 645.20 — Construction Of Severable Provisions. - Unless there is a provision in the law that the...
Section 645.21 — Presumption Against Retroactive Effect. - No law shall be construed to be retroactive unless clearly...
Section 645.22 — Uniform Laws. - Laws uniform with those of other states shall be interpreted...
Section 645.24 — Penalties For Each Offense. - When a penalty or forfeiture is provided for the violation...
Section 645.241 — Punishment For Prohibited Acts. - When the performance of any act is prohibited by a...
Section 645.25 — Intent To Defraud. - When an intent to defraud is required in any law...
Section 645.26 — Irreconcilable Provisions. - Subdivision 1. Particular controls general. When a general provision in...
Section 645.27 — State Bound By Statute; When. - The state is not bound by the passage of a...
Section 645.28 — Existing Laws; Effect Of Revision Or Code. - Except as provided in section 645.39, laws in force at...
Section 645.29 — Manner Of Amendment. - Bills introduced at any legislative session purporting to amend or...
Section 645.30 — Effect Of Separate Amendments On Code Provisions Enacted At Same Session. - When any existing law incorporated into and repealed by a...
Section 645.31 — Construction Of Amendatory And Reference Laws. - Subdivision 1. Amendatory laws. When a section or part of...
Section 645.32 — Merger Of Subsequent Amendments. - When a law has been more than once amended, the...
Section 645.33 — Two Or More Amendments To Same Section; One Overlooking The Other. - When two or more amendments to the same provision of...
Section 645.34 — Repeal Of Amendatory And Original Laws Subsequently Amended. - The repeal of an amendatory law does not revive the...
Section 645.35 — Effect Of Repeal. - The repeal of any law shall not affect any right...
Section 645.36 — Effect Of Repeal Of Repealer. - When a law is repealed which repealed a former law,...
Section 645.37 — Repeal And Reenactment. - When a law is repealed and its provisions are at...
Section 645.38 — Effect Of Reenactment On Intervening Law. - A law which reenacts the provisions of an earlier law...
Section 645.39 — Implied Repeal By Later Law. - When a law purports to be a revision of all...
Section 645.40 — Nonexistence Of Reason For Law Does Not Repeal It. - A law shall not be deemed repealed because the reason...
Section 645.41 — No Implied Repeal By Nonuser. - A law shall not be deemed repealed by the failure...
Section 645.42 — Effect Of Separate Repeals On Code Provisions Enacted At Same Session. - When a law repeals any provision of a law incorporated...
Section 645.43 — Effect Of Repeal On Limitations. - When a limitation or period of time, prescribed in any...
Section 645.44 — Words And Phrases Defined. - Subdivision 1. Scope. The following words, terms, and phrases used...
Section 645.445 — Small Business; Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Scope. Wherever the term "small business" is used...
Section 645.446 — Health Plan Companies. - The term "health plan company" or "health plan companies," when...
Section 645.45 — Definitions, Continued. - The following words and phrases, when used in any law...
Section 645.451 — Definitions, Continued. - Subdivision 1. Application and scope. The terms defined in the...
Section 645.452 — Disabilities Of Minority; Termination At Age 18. - Except as otherwise provided by statutes, every disability of minority...
Section 645.46 — Reference To Subdivision. - Wherever in the Minnesota Statutes or any legislative act a...
Section 645.47 — Reference To Paragraph. - Wherever in the Minnesota Statutes or any legislative act a...
Section 645.48 — Reference To Section Series. - Wherever in the Minnesota Statutes or any legislative act a...
Section 645.49 — Headnotes. - The headnotes printed in boldface type before sections and subdivisions...
Section 645.51 — Gender Revision Of 1986. - The amendments adopted by Laws 1986, chapter 444, section 1,...