STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION

Abode, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Action, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Adding words, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.18

Administrative rules, Minn. Statutes 2025 14.37, 645.001

Adult, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45, 645.451

Affirm, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Appellate courts, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Appropriations

Effective date, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.02

Multiple enactments in session, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.435

As now provided by law, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

As provided by law, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Assignment, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Attorneys, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 148.5185

Bonds (officers and fiduciaries), bond agents, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.10

Chair, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Charge, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Child, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45, 645.451

Children, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45, 645.451

City, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Conditional sale, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Conflicts of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.26

County, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Court administrators, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Criminal penalties

Penalty for each violation, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.24

Petty misdemeanor in absence of other penalty, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.241

Days, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.15, 645.45

Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 150A.051

Domestic violence death, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 611A.203

Effective dates

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.02

Retroactive effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.21

Special or local laws, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.02, 645.023

Ejusdem generis, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Estimated market value, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Exceptions, interpretation of, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.19

Fee, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Filed for record, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Final enactment

Date, effect on interpretation, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.26, 645.33

Defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.01

Fiscal year, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Folio, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Forfeitures, penalties for each offense, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.24

Gender

Canons of construction, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Commercial Code, Minn. Statutes 2025 336.1-106

Gender revision of 1986, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.51

General and particular words, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.001 to 645.51

Grammar

Errors, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.18

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Singular and plural number, Minn. Statutes 2025 336.1-106, 645.08

Handwriting, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Headnotes, Minn. Statutes 2025 3C.08, 14.47, 645.49

Health plan company, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.446

Health Records Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.2925

Hereafter, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Holidays

Computing time periods including holidays, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.15

Holiday, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Published notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.11

I-35W bridge collapse, survivor compensation, Minn. Statutes 2025 3.7394

In writing, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Incorporations by reference, Minn. Statutes 2025 14.07, 645.31

Inhabitants, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Intent, fraud, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.25

Irreconcilable provisions

Amendments to same section, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.33

Implied repeal, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.39

Joint authority of several public officers, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Judicial sale, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Legal age, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.451

Legislative intent

Object of interpretation, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.16

Presumptions about, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.17

Legislature, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.01

Licensed Professional Counselor Interstate Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 148B.75

Lien, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Majority, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.451

May, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Minnesota Rules, Minn. Statutes 2025 14.37, 645.001

Minnesota Statutes, amendments to

Amendatory laws, effect of repeal, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.34

Citation in bill of statutory section amended, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.29

Merging into text, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.32

Repeal and amendment at same session, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.42

Sections repealed by revision or code, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.30

Simultaneous amendments to same provision, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.33

Minor, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45, 645.451

Minority, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.451

Money, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Months, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.14, 645.44

Mortgage, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Must, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Night time, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Non compos mentis, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Notary, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Now, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Numbers, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08, 645.09

Oath, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 148.645

Paragraphs, references to, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.47

Person, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 148.699

Physician Assistant Licensure Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 147A.35

Pledge, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Population, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Posting (notices), defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.12

Provisos, interpretation of, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.19

Public expression protection lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 554.17, 554.18

Public member, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Public officials, joint authority, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Published notice, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.11

Quorum, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Recorded, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Reenactment

Intermediate law, interpretation, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.38

Repeal and reenactment, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.37

Repeals

Amendatory laws, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.34

Criminal or civil proceedings, effect on, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.35

Implied repeals, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.28, 645.39 to 645.41

Nonexistence of reason for law, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.40

Nonuse of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.41

Repeal and reenactment, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.37, 645.38

Repeal of repeal, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.36

Repeals and amendment at same session, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.42

Statutes of limitations, effect on tolling, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.43

Retroactive effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.21

Revisions or codes

Existing laws, effect on, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.28

Simultaneous amendments, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.30

Rules of grammar, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Saturdays, computing time periods including, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.15, 645.151

Seal, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Section numbers

Bill language, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.29

Range references, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.48

Severability, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.20

Shall, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Sheriffs, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Signatures, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Singular and plural, Minn. Statutes 2025 336.1-106, 645.08

Small business, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.445

Social Work Services Licensure Compact, Minn. Statutes 2025 148E.54, 148E.55

Special or local laws, local approval

Approval by referendum, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.024

Exceptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.023

Procedure, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.021

Specific construction provisions, see specific index headings

State

Defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Effect of statutes on, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.27

Statutes of limitations, repeals, effect on tolling, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.43

Streets and roads, complete streets, Minn. Statutes 2025 174.75

Subdivisions, references to, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.46

Successive weeks, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.13

Sundays, computing time periods including, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.15, 645.151

Swear, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Tax, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Time

Day, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Final enactment of bills, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.01

Fiscal year, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Hereafter, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Heretofore, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Months, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.14, 645.44

Night time, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Now, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Saturdays, computing time periods including, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.15, 645.151

Standard time, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.071

Successive weeks, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.13

Sundays, computing time periods including, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.15, 645.151

Weeks, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.13

Year, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Year of our Lord, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

To, in statutory citations, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.48

Town, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Transfers, multiple enactments in session, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.435

Transposing words, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.18

Unconstitutionality, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.20

Uniform laws, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.22

United States, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Verified, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45

Violate, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Weeks, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.13

Words, general and particular words, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.08

Written, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Year, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44

Year of our Lord, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.44