SF 756

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 04/02/2025 09:15 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to animals; providing for civil damages for failing to give notice of finding
an estray; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 346.021.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 346.021, is amended to read:

346.021 FINDER TO GIVE NOTICE.

new text begin (a) new text end A person who finds an estray and knows who owns the estray must notify the estray's
owner within seven days after finding the estray and request that the owner pay all reasonable
charges and take the estray away. A finder who does not know who owns an estray must
either:

(1) within ten days, file a notice with the town or city clerk and post a physical or online
notice of the finding of the estray. The notice must briefly describe the estray or provide a
photograph of the estray, provide the residence or contact information of the finder, and
provide the approximate location and time when the finder found the estray; or

(2) within seven days, surrender the estray to a local animal control agency or to a kennel
as defined in section 347.31, subdivision 2.

new text begin (b) For the failure to give the notice required in paragraph (a), the finder is liable to the
owner of the estray in double the amount of damages sustained by the owner.
new text end