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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
1953 Minnesota Statutes Annotated
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Table of Chapters
| Chapters | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sovereignty, jurisdiction |
| 2 | Territorial divisions |
| 3 | Legislature |
| 4 | Governor |
| 5 | Secretary of state |
| 6 | State auditor |
| 7 | State treasurer |
| 8 | Attorney general |
| 9 | Executive council |
| 10 | General provisions |
| 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, potatoes |
| 22 | Cooperative marketing |
| 23 | Cooperative credits |
| 24 | Insecticides, acids, paints, canning compounds |
| 25 | Animal foods |
| 27 | Wholesale produce dealers |
| 28 | Cold storage |
| 29 | Eggs |
| 30 | Vegetables, fruits |
| 31 | Foods, frozen foods |
| 32 | Butter, cheese, cream, milk |
| 33 | Butter substitutes |
| 34 | Nonalcoholic beverages |
| 35 | Livestock sanitation |
| 37 | State agricultural society |
| 38 | County agricultural societies, fairs, farm bureaus |
| 39 | Stallions, jacks |
| 40 | Soil conservation |
| 41 | Conservator of rural credit |
| 43 | Department of civil service |
| 44 | Municipal civil service merit system |
| 45 | Department of commerce |
| 46 | Banking division |
| 47 | Financial corporations |
| 48 | Banks, trust companies |
| 49 | Liquidation, reorganization, consolidation |
| 50 | Savings banks |
| 51 | Savings, building, and loan |
| 52 | Credit unions |
| 53 | Industrial loan and thrift companies |
| 54 | Investment and loan 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; firemen's and policemen's relief |
| 70 | Rate regulations |
| 71 | Foreign companies; mutual companies; hail insurance; fidelity and surety companies |
| 72 | Prohibitions; penalties; regulation of trade practices |
| 73 | State fire marshal |
| 74 | Protection of buildings |
| 75 | Theaters and halls |
| 76 | Dry cleaning and dyeing establishments |
| 79 | Compensation insurance |
| 80 | Securities division |
| 81 | Colonization |
| 84 | Department of conservation |
| 84A | Lands dedicated for conservation purposes |
| 85 | Division of state parks |
| 88 | Division of forestry |
| 89 | State forests; tree planting |
| 90 | Timber lands |
| 91 | Logs and lumber |
| 92 | Sales of lands, investment of proceeds |
| 93 | Mineral lands |
| 94 | Lands, state forests |
| 97 | Division of game and fish |
| 98 | Licenses |
| 99 | Game refuges, game and fur farms |
| 100 | Quadrupeds, birds |
| 101 | Fish |
| 102 | Commercial fishing |
| 105 | Division of waters |
| 106 | Drainage |
| 107 | Liens, bonds, refunding |
| 108 | County, 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, supervision |
| 122 | School districts; organization; consolidation; dissolution |
| 123 | School districts; ten townships, county units, unorganized territory |
| 124 | School districts; meetings, elections |
| 125 | School boards; powers, duties |
| 126 | Actions and penalties |
| 127 | School taxes, school funds |
| 128 | State and federal school aids |
| 130 | Teachers |
| 131 | Schools; classification, conduct |
| 132 | Admission and attendance |
| 133 | Text books |
| 134 | Libraries |
| 135 | Teachers retirement fund |
| 136 | State teachers colleges |
| 137 | University of Minnesota |
| 138 | Historical societies; historic sites; archives |
| 140 | Law libraries |
| 141 | Private trade schools |
| 144 | Department of health |
| 145 | Provisions relating to public health |
| 146 | Basic sciences |
| 147 | Physicians and surgeons |
| 148 | Occupations in protection of public health |
| 149 | Embalmers |
| 150 | Dentists, dental hygienists |
| 151 | Pharmacy |
| 152 | Prohibited drugs |
| 153 | Chiropody |
| 154 | Barbers |
| 155 | Beauticians |
| 156 | Veterinarians |
| 157 | Hotels; regulation, protection |
| 158 | University of Minnesota hospitals |
| 159 | Voluntary nonprofit medical service |
| 160 | Roads, general provisions |
| 161 | Department of highways |
| 162 | County roads |
| 163 | Town roads |
| 164 | Bridges on roads |
| 165 | Ferries |
| 166 | Roads or cartways jointly constructed or Improved |
| 168 | Motor vehicles |
| 169 | Highway traffic regulation |
| 170 | Safety responsibility |
| 171 | Drivers licenses |
| 172 | Highway patrolmen, retirement |
| 175 | Department of labor and industry |
| 176 | Workmen's compensation |
| 177 | Minimum wages |
| 178 | Master and apprentice |
| 179 | Labor relations |
| 180 | Mine inspectors |
| 181 | Employment; wages, conditions, hours, restrictions |
| 182 | Equipment, places of employment; regulation |
| 183 | Foundries, elevators, boilers; regulation |
| 184 | Employment agencies |
| 185 | Labor disputes; injunctions, restraining orders |
| 190 | The military forces |
| 192 | National guard |
| 193 | Armories |
| 194 | Naval militia |
| 196 | Department of veterans affairs |
| 198 | Minnesota Soldiers Home |
| 200 | General provisions, definitions |
| 201 | Registration of voters |
| 202 | Primary elections |
| 203 | Absent and disabled voters |
| 204 | Presidential electors |
| 205 | General provisions |
| 206 | Conduct of elections, manner of voting |
| 207 | U. S. senator; nomination, selection |
| 208 | Election contests |
| 209 | Voting machines |
| 210 | Penal provisions |
| 211 | Corrupt practices |
| 212 | Elections; towns, villages, certain cities |
| 215 | Public examiner |
| 216 | Railroad and warehouse commission |
| 217 | Carriers, general provisions |
| 218 | Common carriers; transportation |
| 219 | Common carriers; regulations, liabilities |
| 220 | Railways; street, suburban, interurban |
| 221 | Common carriers; contract carriers |
| 222 | Railways, utilities; general provisions |
| 224 | Livestock; dealers, exchanges, commission merchants |
| 225 | Public stockyards |
| 227 | Uniform warehouse receipts |
| 228 | Uniform bills of lading |
| 230 | Public warehouses, elevators, coal sheds; sites |
| 231 | Warehouses |
| 232 | Public local grain warehouses |
| 233 | Public terminal warehouses |
| 234 | Storage of grain on farms |
| 235 | Grain, general provisions |
| 237 | Telephone and telegraph companies |
| 239 | Weights, measures |
| 245 | Department of public welfare |
| 246 | Public institutions |
| 247 | Owatonna state school |
| 248 | Schools; deaf, blind |
| 249 | State training schools; boys, girls |
| 250 | State hospital, crippled children |
| 251 | Consumptives, care, in state and county sanatoria, after discharge |
| 252 | Feebleminded, epileptics; schools, colonies |
| 253 | Hospitals and asylums for insane |
| 254 | Asylums, hospitals, inebriate farm |
| 255 | Senile persons |
| 256 | Social welfare |
| 257 | Children; custody of, illegitimate |
| 259 | Change of name, adoption |
| 260 | Dependent, neglected, delinquent children |
| 261 | General provisions |
| 262 | County system |
| 263 | Town system |
| 264 | St. Louis county |
| 265 | County old age pension system |
| 268 | Department of employment security |
| 270 | Department of taxation |
| 271 | Board of tax appeals |
| 272 | Taxation, general provisions |
| 273 | Taxes; listing, assessment |
| 274 | Assessments; review, correction, equalization |
| 275 | Levy, extension |
| 276 | Collection, accounting, distribution |
| 277 | Delinquent personal property taxes, defenses |
| 278 | Real estate taxes; objections, defenses |
| 280 | Real estate tax judgment sales |
| 281 | Real estate tax sales, redemption |
| 282 | Tax forfeited land sales |
| 283 | Refundment |
| 284 | Actions involving tax titles |
| 285 | Money and credits |
| 287 | Registry tax, real estate mortgages |
| 289 | Registered tonnage |
| 290 | Income taxes, franchise taxes |
| 291 | Inheritances, devises, bequests |
| 292 | Gift taxes |
| 293 | Educational institutions; exempt property, income |
| 294 | General provisions |
| 295 | Railroad, express, freight line, sleeping car, telephone, telegraph, trust companies |
| 296 | Gasoline, gasoline substitutes |
| 297 | Sales taxes |
| 298 | Occupation taxes |
| 299 | Ore; tax upon royalties |
| 300 | General provisions |
| 301 | Minnesota business corporations |
| 302 | Uniform stock transfer act |
| 303 | Foreign corporation |
| 304 | Corporations organized for reclaiming timber lands |
| 305 | Boom companies |
| 306 | Public cemeteries |
| 307 | Private cemeteries |
| 308 | Cooperative associations |
| 309 | Social and charitable organizations |
| 310 | Corporations organized to acquire and manage public lands 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 associations |
| 316 | Actions respecting |
| 317 | Nonprofit corporations |
| 322 | Limited partnerships |
| 323 | Partnerships |
| 325 | Manufactures and sales |
| 326 | Employments licensed by state |
| 327 | Hotels, public resorts |
| 328 | Chain stores, mail order companies |
| 329 | Hawkers, peddlers, transient merchants |
| 330 | Auctioneers |
| 331 | Newspapers |
| 332 | Aids to liquidation of debts |
| 333 | Trade names and registration of insignia |
| 334 | Money, rates of interest |
| 335 | Uniform negotiable instruments |
| 340 | Intoxicating liquors |
| 341 | Athletic commission |
| 343 | Prevention of cruelty |
| 344 | Partition fences |
| 345 | Unclaimed property |
| 346 | Estrays; animals, doing damage, at large |
| 347 | Dogs |
| 348 | Bounties, rewards |
| 350 | State officers and employees, salaries |
| 351 | Resignations, vacancies, removals |
| 352 | State employees retirement association |
| 353 | Public employees retirement association |
| 356 | Legislative advisory committee |
| 357 | Fees |
| 358 | Seals, oaths, acknowledgments |
| 359 | Notaries public |
| 360 | Aeronautics |
| 361 | Vessels navigating lakes and waters |
| 362 | Business research and development |
| 365 | General provisions |
| 366 | Town board; board of audit |
| 367 | Town officers |
| 368 | Special provisions |
| 370 | New counties; change of boundaries |
| 373 | Powers, duties, privileges |
| 374 | Courthouse and city hall |
| 375 | County boards |
| 376 | Hospitals, sanatoriums, nursing homes |
| 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 | Section lines |
| 382 | County officers |
| 383 | Counties 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 | Building commission, planning board |
| 395 | Agricultural assistance, development |
| 396 | Building restrictions |
| 410 | Classification; charters |
| 411 | Incorporation, cities fourth class |
| 412 | Villages |
| 413 | Change in limits or name |
| 415 | Governing bodies |
| 416 | Public buildings |
| 418 | Officers, 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 and retirement |
| 425 | Bureau of health, pensions |
| 426 | Finance, taxation |
| 427 | Depositories, city and village funds |
| 428 | Public improvements, certain cities |
| 429 | Local improvements, special assessments |
| 430 | Land for streets and parks ( Elwell law ) |
| 431 | Sewers and sewage disposal |
| 432 | Waterworks, water mains, appurtenances |
| 433 | Sprinkling; streets, boulevards |
| 434 | Pavements, curbs, gutters |
| 435 | Public improvements, other proceedings |
| 436 | Law enforcement |
| 437 | Police regulations |
| 438 | Fire prevention |
| 439 | Board of Fire and Police Commissioners |
| 440 | Work or works on or in streets |
| 441 | Streets, bridges |
| 442 | Sewage disposal; water and sewage |
| 443 | Sewage and rubbish disposal |
| 444 | Sewers, drains, storm sewers |
| 445 | Minneapolis - St. Paul sanitary district |
| 447 | Hospitals, welfare activities |
| 448 | Parks, parkways; park districts; park boards |
| 449 | Entertainment |
| 450 | Recreational facilities |
| 451 | Franchises, permits |
| 452 | Municipal ownership |
| 453 | Municipally-owned utilities |
| 454 | Public enterprises |
| 455 | Electrical |
| 456 | Waterworks |
| 457 | Water and light plants |
| 458 | Docks; quays; levees; wharves; landing and loading places; water freight, passenger stations; termin |
| 459 | Municipal activities |
| 460 | Housing |
| 461 | Health regulations |
| 462 | Planning, zoning |
| 463 | Other regulations |
| 465 | Rights, powers |
| 470 | Municipalities emergency act |
| 471 | Provisions relating to two or more political subdivisions |
| 475 | Public indebtedness |
| 476 | State loans |
| 477 | Refunding |
| 480 | Supreme court |
| 481 | Attorneys at law |
| 482 | Revisor of statutes |
| 484 | District courts |
| 485 | Clerks of district court |
| 486 | Court reporters |
| 487 | Probation department, Hennepin county |
| 488 | Municipal courts |
| 489 | Court commissioner |
| 490 | Retirement of judges |
| 491 | Conciliation courts |
| 492 | Traffic violations bureaus |
| 500 | Estates in real property |
| 501 | Uses and trusts |
| 502 | Powers of appointment |
| 503 | Official trustees for the purpose of conveying townsite lands |
| 504 | Landlords and tenants |
| 505 | Plats; coordinates |
| 507 | Conveyancing, recording |
| 508 | Conveyancing, registration |
| 509 | Registration; marks, brands |
| 510 | Homestead exemptions |
| 511 | Chattel mortgages; conditional sales; pledges; seed loans |
| 512 | Sale of goods |
| 513 | Frauds |
| 514 | Liens; labor, material |
| 517 | Marriage |
| 518 | Divorce |
| 519 | Married women; rights, privileges |
| 520 | Uniform fiduciaries |
| 521 | Assignments of accounts receivable |
| 522 | Uniform trust receipts |
| 525 | Probate code |
| 526 | Probate general provisions |
| 530 | Justice courts |
| 531 | Civil cases |
| 532 | Executions, appeals, extraordinary remedies |
| 540 | Parties to actions |
| 541 | Limitation of time, commencing actions |
| 542 | Venue of actions |
| 543 | Civil actions, commencement |
| 544 | Pleadings |
| 545 | Motions, orders |
| 546 | Trials |
| 547 | New trials |
| 548 | Judgments |
| 549 | Costs, disbursements |
| 550 | Executions; redemption; exemptions |
| 555 | Uniform declaratory judgments |
| 556 | Usurpation, prevention; charters, letters patent; vacation |
| 557 | Actions relating to real property |
| 558 | Partition of real estate |
| 559 | Adverse claims to real estate |
| 561 | Nuisance, trespass, waste; damages |
| 565 | Claim and delivery |
| 566 | Forcible entry and unlawful detainer |
| 570 | Attachment |
| 571 | Garnishment |
| 572 | Arbitration and award |
| 573 | Personal representatives, heirs; actions |
| 574 | Bonds, fines, forfeitures |
| 575 | Proceedings supplementary to execution |
| 576 | Receivers, property of absentees |
| 577 | Assignments for benefit of creditors |
| 579 | Boats, vessels; actions against |
| 580 | Real estate mortgages; foreclosure; advertisement |
| 581 | Real estate mortgages; foreclosure, action |
| 582 | Real estate mortgages; foreclosure, general provisions |
| 585 | Injunctions |
| 586 | Mandamus |
| 587 | Writs of prohibition |
| 588 | Contempts |
| 589 | Habeas corpus |
| 593 | Juries, jurors |
| 595 | Witnesses |
| 596 | Subpoenas |
| 597 | Depositions |
| 598 | Perpetuation of testimony |
| 599 | Judicial notice, proof; judicial records, decisions |
| 600 | Documents as evidence |
| 602 | Construction statutes, evidence |
| 603 | Procuring evidence; inspection |
| 605 | Appeal from district court |
| 606 | Administrative boards, decisions; certiorari |
| 607 | Supreme court; costs and disbursements |
| 610 | Crimes, general provisions |
| 611 | Rights of accused |
| 612 | Offenses against sovereignty |
| 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, 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, bail |
| 630 | Pre-trial procedure |
| 631 | Trial, judgment, sentence |
| 632 | New trials, appeals, writs of error |
| 633 | Justice court |
| 634 | Special rules, evidence; privileges, witnesses |
| 636 | Juvenile offenders |
| 637 | Indeterminate sentences, paroles |
| 638 | Board of pardons |
| 640 | State prison and reformatories |
| 641 | County jails |
| 642 | Lockups |
| 643 | Work farms |
| 645 | Interpretation of statutes |
| 648 | Publication of Minnesota Statutes and Annotations |