HF 2498

as introduced - 87th Legislature (2011 - 2012) Posted on 02/27/2012 01:04pm

A bill for an act
relating to public safety; extending statute of limitations for financial exploitation
of a vulnerable adult; amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 628.26.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 628.26, is amended to read:

628.26 LIMITATIONS.

(a) Indictments or complaints for any crime resulting in the death of the victim may
be found or made at any time after the death of the person killed.

(b) Indictments or complaints for a violation of section 609.25 may be found or
made at any time after the commission of the offense.

(c) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.282 may be found or made
at any time after the commission of the offense if the victim was under the age of 18 at
the time of the offense.

(d) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.282 where the victim
was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense, or 609.42, subdivision 1, clause
(1) or (2), shall be found or made and filed in the proper court within six years after
the commission of the offense.

(e) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections 609.342 to 609.345 if the
victim was under the age of 18 years at the time the offense was committed, shall be found
or made and filed in the proper court within the later of nine years after the commission of
the offense or three years after the offense was reported to law enforcement authorities.

(f) Notwithstanding the limitations in paragraph (e), indictments or complaints for
violation of sections 609.342 to 609.344 may be found or made and filed in the proper
court at any time after commission of the offense, if physical evidence is collected and
preserved that is capable of being tested for its DNA characteristics. If this evidence is not
collected and preserved and the victim was 18 years old or older at the time of the offense,
the prosecution must be commenced within nine years after the commission of the offense.

(g) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections 609.466 and 609.52,
subdivision 2, clause (3), item (iii), shall be found or made and filed in the proper court
within six years after the commission of the offense.

(h) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.2335, 609.52, subdivision
2, clause (3), items (i) and (ii), (4), (15), or (16), 609.631, or 609.821, where the value of
the property or services stolen is more than $35,000, shall be found or made and filed in
the proper court within deleted text begin five deleted text end new text begin ten new text end years after the commission of the offense.

(i) Except for violations relating to false material statements, representations or
omissions, indictments or complaints for violations of section 609.671 shall be found or
made and filed in the proper court within five years after the commission of the offense.

(j) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections 609.561 to 609.563, shall
be found or made and filed in the proper court within five years after the commission
of the offense.

(k) In all other cases, indictments or complaints shall be found or made and filed in
the proper court within three years after the commission of the offense.

(l) The limitations periods contained in this section shall exclude any period of time
during which the defendant was not an inhabitant of or usually resident within this state.

(m) The limitations periods contained in this section for an offense shall not include
any period during which the alleged offender participated under a written agreement in a
pretrial diversion program relating to that offense.

(n) The limitations periods contained in this section shall not include any period
of time during which physical evidence relating to the offense was undergoing DNA
analysis, as defined in section 299C.155, unless the defendant demonstrates that the
prosecuting or law enforcement agency purposefully delayed the DNA analysis process in
order to gain an unfair advantage.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective August 1, 2012, and applies to crimes
committed on or after that date.
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