Office of the Revisor of Statutes
1945 Minnesota Statutes Annotated
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Table of Chapters
| Chapters | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sovereignty and jurisdiction |
| 2 | Territorial divisions |
| 3 | The legislature |
| 4 | The governor |
| 5 | Secretary of state |
| 6 | State auditor |
| 7 | State treasurer |
| 8 | Attorney general |
| 9 | Executive council |
| 10 | General provisions relating to executive departments |
| 11 | State board of investment |
| 15 | Departments of state in general |
| 16 | Department of administration |
| 17 | Department of agriculture, dairy, and food |
| 18 | Entomology; nurseries; insects; diseases |
| 19 | Apiaries |
| 20 | Noxious bushes and weeds |
| 21 | Seeds and potatoes |
| 22 | Cooperative marketing |
| 23 | Cooperative credits |
| 24 | Insecticides, acids, paints, and canning compounds |
| 25 | Animal foods |
| 26 | Produce warehouses |
| 27 | Wholesale produce dealers |
| 28 | Cold storage |
| 29 | Eggs |
| 30 | Vegetables and fruits |
| 31 | Foods and frozen foods |
| 32 | Butter, cheese, cream, and milk |
| 33 | Butter substitutes |
| 34 | Non-alcoholic beverages x |
| 35 | State live stock sanitary board |
| 36 | Poultry breeding and inspection |
| 37 | State agricultural society |
| 38 | County agricultural societies, fairs, and farm bureaus |
| 39 | Stallions and jacks |
| 40 | Soil conservation |
| 41 | Conservator of rural credit |
| 43 | Department of civil service |
| 45 | Department of commerce |
| 46 | Banking division |
| 47 | Financial corporations |
| 48 | Banks and trust companies |
| 49 | Liquidation, reorganization, and consolidation |
| 50 | Savings banks |
| 51 | Savings, building, and loan act |
| 52 | Credit unions |
| 53 | Industrial loan and thrift companies |
| 54 | Farm mortgage debenture, certain investment, and mortgage loan and land companies |
| 55 | Safe deposit companies |
| 56 | Small loans |
| 59 | Certain investment companies |
| 60 | Insurance division |
| 61 | Life insurance |
| 62 | Accident and health insurance |
| 63 | Assessment benefit associations |
| 64 | Fraternal beneficiary associations |
| 65 | Fire insurance companies |
| 66 | Mutual companies |
| 67 | Township mutual companies |
| 68 | Title insurance companies |
| 69 | Fire and police department aid and firemen's and policemen's relief |
| 70 | Compensation insurance division |
| 71 | Fire insurance rating bureaus; reciprocal exchanges; foreign companies, miscellaneous |
| 72 | Prohibitions and penalties |
| 73 | State fire marshal |
| 74 | Protection of buildings generally |
| 75 | Theatres and halls |
| 76 | Dry cleaning and dyeing establishments |
| 77 | Matches |
| 80 | Securities division |
| 81 | Colonization |
| 84 | Department of conservation |
| 84A | Lands dedicated to conservation purposes |
| 85 | Division of state parks |
| 88 | Division of forestry |
| 89 | Forests; state forests; tree planting |
| 90 | Timber lands |
| 91 | Logs and lumber |
| 92 | Sales of lands and investment of proceeds |
| 93 | Mineral lands |
| 94 | United States and other lands and state forests |
| 97 | Division of game and fish; general provisions |
| 98 | Licenses |
| 99 | Game refuges and game and fur farms |
| 100 | Quadrupeds and birds |
| 101 | Fish |
| 102 | Commercial fishing |
| 105 | Division of water resources and engineering |
| 106 | Drainage |
| 107 | Liens, bonds, and refunding |
| 108 | County and Judicial |
| 109 | Town |
| 110 | Dams; lake water levels |
| 111 | Conservancy |
| 112 | Flood control |
| 113 | Irrigation, other provisions |
| 114 | Dakota-Minnesota controlled boundary waters |
| 117 | Eminent domain |
| 118 | Depositories of public funds |
| 120 | State department of education |
| 121 | Administration and supervision |
| 122 | School districts; organization; consolidation; dissolution |
| 123 | School districts; ten or more townships; county units; unorganized territory |
| 124 | School districts; meetings; elections |
| 125 | School boards; powers and duties |
| 126 | Actions and penalties |
| 127 | School taxes; schqol funds |
| 128 | State and federal school aids |
| 130 | Teachers |
| 131 | Conduct of schools |
| 132 | Admission and attendance |
| 133 | Text books |
| 134 | Libraries |
| 135 | Teachers retirement fund |
| 136 | State teachers colleges |
| 137 | University of Minnesota |
| 138 | Minnesota Historical Society |
| 139 | Minnesota State Art Society |
| 140 | Law libraries |
| 141 | Private trade schools |
| 144 | Department of health |
| 145 | Provisions relating to public health |
| 146 | Basic science act |
| 147 | Physicians and surgeons |
| 148 | Occupations in protection of public health |
| 149 | Embalmers |
| 150 | Dentists; dental hygienists |
| 151 | Pharmacy |
| 152 | Pharmacy; prohibited drugs |
| 153 | Chiropody |
| 154 | Barbers |
| 155 | Beauticians |
| 156 | Veterinarians |
| 157 | Regulation and protection of hotels, restaurants, lodging and boarding houses |
| 158 | University of Minnesota Hospitals |
| 159 | Voluntary nonprofit medical service plan corporations |
| 160 | General provisions relating to roads |
| 161 | Department of highways |
| 162 | County roads |
| 163 | Town roads |
| 164 | Bridges on roads |
| 165 | Ferries |
| 166 | Roads or cartways jointly constructed or improved |
| 167 | Reimbursement of municipalities for moneys expended on trunk highways |
| 168 | Motor vehicles |
| 169 | Highway traffic regulation |
| 170 | Safety responsibility |
| 171 | Drivers licenses |
| 172 | Retirement of highway patrolmen |
| 175 | Department of labor and industry |
| 176 | Workmen's Compensation Act |
| 177 | Minimum wages |
| 178 | Master and apprentice |
| 179 | Minnesota labor relations |
| 180 | Inspectors of mines |
| 181 | Wages, conditions, hours, and restrictions of employment |
| 182 | Regulation of equipment and places of employment |
| 183 | Regulation as to foundries, elevators and boilers |
| 184 | Employment agencies |
| 185 | Injunctions and restraining orders relating to labor disputes |
| 186 | Unfair practices affecting public health |
| 190 | The military forces |
| 191 | Unorganized militia |
| 192 | National guard |
| 193 | Armories |
| 194 | Naval militia |
| 196 | Department of veterans affairs |
| 197 | Veterans rewards and privileges |
| 198 | Minnesota Soldiers Home |
| 200 | General provisions and definitions |
| 201 | Registration of voters |
| 202 | Primary elections; general provisions |
| 203 | Absent and disabled voters |
| 204 | Presidential electors |
| 205 | General provisions |
| 206 | Conduct of elections and manner of voting |
| 207 | Nomination and selection of U. S. Senators |
| 208 | Election contests |
| 209 | Voting machines |
| 210 | Penal provisions |
| 211 | Corrupt practices |
| 212 | Town, village and certain city elections |
| 215 | Public examiner |
| 216 | Railroad and warehouse commission |
| 217 | General provisions relating to carriers |
| 218 | Common carriers; transportation |
| 219 | Common carriers; regulations and liabilities |
| 220 | Street, suburban, and interurban railways |
| 221 | Motor vehicle transportation for hire; common carriers; contract carriers |
| 222 | General provisions relating to railway companies and utilities |
| 223 | Commission merchants |
| 224 | Live stock dealers, exchanges, and commission merchants |
| 225 | Public stock yards |
| 226 | Packing house certificates |
| 227 | Uniform warehouse receipts |
| 228 | Uniform bills of lading |
| 229 | Public hay tracks |
| 230 | Sites for public warehouses, elevators, and coal sheds |
| 231 | Warehouses in certain cities and villages |
| 232 | Public local grain warehouses |
| 233 | Public terminal warehouses |
| 234 | Storage of grain on farms |
| 235 | General provisions relating to grain |
| 237 | Telephone and telegraph companies |
| 239 | Weights and measures |
| 245 | Department of social security |
| 246 | Division of public institutions |
| 247 | State public school for dependent children |
| 248 | Schools for the deaf and the blind |
| 249 | State training schools for boys and girls |
| 250 | State hospital for crippled children |
| 251 | Care of consumptives in state and county sanatoria, and after discharge therefrom |
| 252 | School for the feeble-minded; and colonies for the feeble-minded and epileptics |
| 253 | Hospitals and asylums for the insane |
| 254 | Hospital farm for inebriates and asylum for the insane |
| 255 | Senile persons |
| 256 | Division of social welfare |
| 257 | Children; custody of; illegitimate |
| 258 | Maternity hospitals |
| 259 | Adoption; change of name |
| 260 | Dependent, neglected, and delinquent children |
| 261 | General provisions |
| 262 | County system |
| 263 | Town system |
| 264 | St. Louis county |
| 265 | County old age pension system |
| 268 | Division of employment and security |
| 270 | Department of taxation |
| 271 | Board of tax appeals |
| 272 | General provisions relating to taxation |
| 273 | Taxes; listing and assessment |
| 274 | Review, correction, and equalization of assessments |
| 275 | Levy and extension of taxes |
| 276 | Collection, accounting, and distribution |
| 277 | Delinquent personal property taxes; defenses |
| 278 | Objections and defenses to taxes on real estate |
| 279 | Delinquent real estate taxes |
| 280 | Real estate tax judgment sales |
| 281 | Redemption from real estate tax sales |
| 282 | Tax-forfeited land sales |
| 283 | Refundment |
| 284 | Actions involving tax titles |
| 285 | Taxes on money and credits |
| 286 | Tax on handling grain |
| 287 | Registry tax on mortgages on real estate |
| 288 | Personal property tax on transient merchants |
| 289 | Tonnage tax on vessels navigating international waters |
| 290 | Income tax and franchise tax on corporations measured by net income |
| 291 | Tax on inheritances, devises, and bequests |
| 292 | Gift taxes |
| 293 | Tax on income from exempt property of educational institutions |
| 294 | General provisions relating to gross earnings |
| 295 | Railroad, express, freight line, sleeping car, telephone and telegraph, and trust companies |
| 296 | Tax on gasoline and gasoline substitutes |
| 298 | Occupation tax on mining |
| 299 | Tax upon royalties received for permission to remove ore from land |
| 300 | General provisions relating to corporations |
| 301 | Minnesota business corporations |
| 302 | Uniform stock transfer act |
| 303 | Minnesota foreign corporation act |
| 304 | Corporations organized for reclaiming timber lands |
| 305 | Boom companies |
| 306 | Public cemetery associations |
| 307 | Private cemeteries |
| 308 | Cooperative associations |
| 309 | Social and charitable organizations |
| 310 | Corporations organized to acquire and manage public land and provide recreation facilities |
| 311 | Chambers of commerce; trading exchanges |
| 312 | Lodges, fraternal orders, and similar organizations |
| 313 | Societies for securing homes for children |
| 314 | Corporations to maintain homes for the aged |
| 315 | Religious corporations and associations |
| 316 | Actions respecting corporations |
| 322 | Limited partnerships |
| 323 | Partnersnips |
| 325 | Regulation of manufactures and sales |
| 326 | Employments licensed by state boards |
| 327 | Hotels and public resorts |
| 328 | Chain stores and mail order companies |
| 329 | Hawkers, peddlers, and transient merchants |
| 330 | Auctioneers |
| 331 | Newspapers |
| 332 | Aids to liquidation of debts |
| 333 | Trade names and registration of insignia |
| 334 | Money and rates of interest |
| 335 | Uniform negotiable instruments |
| 340 | Intoxicating liquors |
| 341 | Athletic commission |
| 343 | Societies for the prevention of cruelty |
| 344 | Partition fences |
| 345 | Unclaimed property |
| 346 | Estrays and animals at large or doing damage |
| 347 | Dogs |
| 348 | Bounties and rewards |
| 350 | Salaries of certain state officers and employees |
| 351 | Resignations, vacancies, removals |
| 352 | State employees retirement association |
| 353 | Public employees retirement association |
| 354 | State geographic board |
| 355 | Commission on interstate cooperation |
| 356 | Legislative advisory committee |
| 357 | Fees |
| 358 | Seals, oaths, and acknowledgments |
| 359 | Notaries public |
| 360 | Aeronautics |
| 361 | Vessels navigating lakes and waters |
| 362 | Minnesota resources commission |
| 365 | General provisions relating to towns |
| 366 | Town board and board of audit |
| 367 | Town officers |
| 368 | Special provisions |
| 370 | New counties and change of boundaries |
| 371 | Consolidation of counties |
| 372 | Changing county-seats |
| 373 | Powers, duties, and privileges |
| 374 | Power to unite with city to build court-house and city hall |
| 375 | County boards |
| 376 | County hospitals and sanatoriums |
| 377 | County and city hospitals |
| 378 | Bodies of water |
| 379 | Organization, formation, and partition of towns, and alteration of boundaries thereof |
| 380 | County boards of certain counties |
| 381 | Establishing section lines |
| 382 | County officers |
| 383 | Counties with population over 150,000 |
| 384 | County auditor |
| 385 | County treasurer |
| 386 | Register of deeds |
| 387 | Sheriff |
| 388 | County attorney |
| 389 | County surveyor |
| 390 | Coroner; morgue |
| 391 | County assessor |
| 392 | County purchasing agent |
| 393 | County welfare board |
| 394 | County building and planning commissions |
| 395 | Agricultural assistance and development |
| 396 | Building restrictions |
| 410 | Classification; charters |
| 411 | General incorporation, cities fourth class |
| 412 | Villages incorporated under R. L. 1905, Chapter 9 |
| 413 | Formation; change in territorial limits or name |
| 415 | Governing bodies |
| 416 | Public buildings |
| 418 | Officers and employees |
| 419 | Police public service commissions |
| 420 | Firemen's civil service commissions |
| 421 | Civil service commissions |
| 422 | Retirement, allowances, cities first class |
| 423 | Police pensions |
| 424 | Firemen's relief associations and retirement pensions |
| 425 | Bureau of health pensions |
| 426 | Finance and taxation |
| 427 | Depositories of city and village funds |
| 428 | Public improvements in cities of second and third classes |
| 429 | Public improvements in villages, burroughs, and cities of fourth class |
| 430 | Land for streets and parks ( Elwell law ) |
| 431 | Sewers and sewage disposal |
| 432 | Water-works, water-mains, and appurtenances |
| 433 | Sprinkling streets and boulevards |
| 434 | Pavements, curbs, and gutters |
| 435 | Other provisions relating to public improvements |
| 436 | Law enforcement |
| 437 | Police regulations |
| 438 | Prevention of and protection from, fires |
| 439 | Board of fire and police commissioners |
| 440 | Work or works on or in streets |
| 441 | Streets, bridges |
| 442 | Winona sewage disposal plant; village water and sewer systems |
| 443 | Sewage and rubbish disposal |
| 444 | Sewers and drains; storm sewers |
| 445 | Minneapolis - St. Paul sanitary district |
| 446 | Other provisions relating to public works |
| 447 | Hospitals and welfare activities |
| 448 | Parks and parkways; park districts; park boards |
| 449 | Entertainment |
| 450 | Playgrounds, tourist camps, bath-houses and parks, museums, art galleries |
| 451 | Franchises and permits |
| 452 | Municipal ownership |
| 453 | Management of municipally owned utilities |
| 454 | Public enterprises |
| 455 | Electrical |
| 456 | Water-works |
| 457 | Water and light plants |
| 458 | Docks; quays; levees; wharves; landing and loading places; water freight and passenger stations; and |
| 459 | Employment bureaus; markets; forests; wagon scales; parking places; and rest rooms |
| 460 | Housing act |
| 461 | Health regulations |
| 462 | Planning and zoning |
| 463 | Other regulations |
| 465 | General provisions |
| 470 | Municipalities emergency act |
| 471 | Several political subdivisions |
| 475 | Public indebtedness |
| 476 | State loans |
| 477 | Refunding |
| 480 | Supreme court |
| 481 | Attorneys at law |
| 482 | Revisor of statutes |
| 483 | Judicial council |
| 484 | District courts |
| 485 | Clerks of the district court |
| 486 | Court reporters |
| 487 | Probation department, Hennepin county |
| 488 | Municipal courts |
| 489 | Court commissioner |
| 490 | Retirement of judges |
| 491 | Conciliation courts |
| 500 | Estates in real property |
| 501 | Uses and trusts |
| 502 | Powers |
| 503 | Official trustees for the purpose of conveying townsite lands |
| 504 | Landlords and tenants |
| 505 | Plats |
| 507 | Conveyancing and recording |
| 508 | Conveyancing and registration |
| 509 | Registration of certain trade-marks |
| 510 | Homestead exemptions |
| 511 | Chattel mortgages; conditional sale contracts; seed loans |
| 512 | Sale of goods |
| 513 | Frauds |
| 514 | Liens for labor and material |
| 517 | Marriage |
| 518 | Divorce |
| 519 | Rights and privileges of married women |
| 520 | Uniform fiduciaries act |
| 521 | Assignments of accounts receivable |
| 522 | Uniform trust receipts |
| 525 | Probate code |
| 526 | Probate general provisions |
| 530 | Courts of justices of the peace |
| 531 | Actions and proceedings in civil cases |
| 532 | Executions; extraordinary remedies and appeals |
| 540 | Parties to actions |
| 541 | Limitation of time for commencing actions |
| 542 | Venue of actions |
| 543 | Commencement of civil actions |
| 544 | Pleadings |
| 545 | Motions and orders |
| 546 | Trials |
| 547 | New trials |
| 548 | Judgments |
| 549 | Costs and disbursements |
| 550 | Executions; levy; sale; redemption; exemptions |
| 555 | Uniform declaratory judgment act |
| 556 | Actions to prevent usurpation, and to vacate charters and letters patent |
| 557 | Actions relating to real property |
| 558 | Partition of real estate |
| 559 | Actions to determine adverse claims to real estate |
| 560 | Actions by part owners to operate mines |
| 561 | Actions in damages for nuisance, trespass, and waste |
| 565 | Claim and delivery |
| 566 | Forcible entry and unlawful detainer |
| 570 | Attachment |
| 571 | Garnishment |
| 572 | Arbitration and award |
| 573 | Actions by or against personal representatives and heirs |
| 574 | Bonds, fines, and forfeitures |
| 575 | Proceedings supplementary to execution |
| 576 | Receivers, property of absentees |
| 577 | Assignments for -benefit of creditors |
| 579 | Actions against boats and vessels |
| 580 | Foreclosure of real estate mortgages by advertisement |
| 581 | Foreclosure of real estate mortgages by action |
| 582 | Foreclosure of real estate mortgages; general provisions |
| 585 | Injunctions |
| 586 | Mandamus |
| 587 | Writs of prohibition |
| 588 | Contempts |
| 589 | Habeas corpus |
| 593 | Juries and jurors |
| 595 | Witnesses |
| 596 | Subpoenas |
| 597 | Depositions |
| 598 | Perpetuation of testimony |
| 599 | Judicial notice arid proof; judicial records and decisions |
| 600 | Documents as evidence |
| 601 | Lost instruments |
| 602 | Construction statutes relating to evidence |
| 603 | Procuring evidence; inspection |
| 605 | Appeal from district court |
| 606 | Review of decisions of administrative boards; certiorari |
| 607 | Supreme court; costs and disbursements |
| 610 | General provisions relating to crimes |
| 611 | Rights of accused |
| 612 | Offenses against the sovereignty of the state |
| 613 | Offenses against public justice |
| 614 | Offenses against public policy |
| 615 | Offenses against public peace |
| 616 | Offenses against public health and safety |
| 617 | Offenses relating to chastity, morals, and decency |
| 618 | Offenses relating to narcotics |
| 619 | Crimes against the person |
| 620 | Offenses against property by fraud |
| 621 | Offenses against property by force |
| 622 | Larceny |
| 623 | Unlawful business practices |
| 625 | Prevention of crime |
| 626 | Investigation, apprehension; records |
| 627 | Jurisdiction |
| 628 | Accusation |
| 629 | Extradition, arrest, and bail |
| 630 | Pre-trial procedure |
| 631 | Trial, judgment, sentence |
| 632 | New trials, appeals, and writs of error |
| 633 | In Justice court |
| 634 | Special rules relating to evidence; privilege of witnesses |
| 636 | Juvenile offenders |
| 637 | Indeterminate sentences and paroles |
| 638 | Board of pardons |
| 640 | State prison and reformatories |
| 641 | County jails |
| 642 | Lockups |
| 643 | Work farms |
| 645 | Interpretation of statutes |
| 646 | Express repeals by Revised Laws 1905 |
| 647 | Curative Acts |
| 648 | Publication of Minnesota Statutes and Annotations |