Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 178-H.F.No. 1338 
           An act relating to motor vehicles; restricting access 
          to registration information concerning passenger 
          automobile lessees; amending Minnesota Statutes 1988, 
          section 168.345. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 168.345, is 
amended to read:  
    168.345 [MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS; INFORMATION.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [TELEPHONE INFORMATION.] Notwithstanding 
the provisions of any other law, Information concerning motor 
vehicle registrations shall not be furnished on the telephone to 
any person except the personnel of law enforcement agencies, and 
the personnel of federal, state and local governmental units.  
    Subd. 2.  [LESSEES; INFORMATION.] The registrar may not 
furnish information concerning registered owners of passenger 
automobiles who are lessees under a lease for a term of 180 days 
or more to any person except the personnel of law enforcement 
agencies and federal, state, and local governmental units, and, 
at the registrar's discretion, to persons who use the 
information to notify lessees of automobile recalls.  The 
registrar may release information about lessees in the form of 
summary data, as defined in section 13.02, to persons who use 
the information in conducting statistical analysis and market 
research. 
    Presented to the governor May 16, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 19, 1989, 4:25 p.m.