Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                        CHAPTER 612-S.F.No. 1330 
           An act relating to landlords and tenants; providing 
          for recovery by the tenant from the landlord of 
          damages and attorney's fees for unlawful ouster or 
          exclusion from residential premises; proposing new law 
          coded in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 504. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [504.255] [UNLAWFUL OUSTER OR EXCLUSION; 
DAMAGES.] 
    If a landlord, his agent, or a person acting under the 
landlord's direction or control, unlawfully and in bad faith 
removes or excludes a tenant from a residential premises, the 
tenant may recover from the landlord up to treble damages and 
reasonable attorney's fees.  
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 applies to causes of action arising on or after 
August 1, 1984. 
    Approved May 2, 1984