2004 Minnesota Statutes

     363A.17 Business discrimination. 

    It is an unfair discriminatory practice for a person 
 engaged in a trade or business or in the provision of a service: 

    (a) to refuse to do business with or provide a service to a 
 woman based on her use of her current or former surname; or 

    (b) to impose, as a condition of doing business with or 
 providing a service to a woman, that a woman use her current 
 surname rather than a former surname; or 

    (c) to intentionally refuse to do business with, to refuse 
 to contract with, or to discriminate in the basic terms, 
 conditions, or performance of the contract because of a person's 
 race, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, or 
 disability, unless the alleged refusal or discrimination is 
 because of a legitimate business purpose. 

    Nothing in this section shall prohibit positive action 
 plans. 

    HIST: 1955 c 516 s 5; 1961 c 428 s 5; 1965 c 585 s 2; 1965 c 
 586 s 1; 1967 c 897 s 12-16; 1969 c 9 s 80; 1969 c 975 s 3-5; 
 1973 c 296 s 1; 1973 c 729 s 3,16; 1974 c 354 s 1; 1975 c 206 s 
 2-5; 1977 c 351 s 5-7; 1977 c 408 s 3; 1980 c 531 s 4; 1980 c 
 540 s 1,2; 1981 c 330 s 1; 1982 c 517 s 8; 1983 c 216 art 1 s 
 59; 1983 c 276 s 7-10; 1984 c 533 s 2,3; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 
 444; 1987 c 23 s 3; 1987 c 129 s 3; 1987 c 141 s 2; 1987 c 245 s 
 1; 1988 c 660 s 4; 1989 c 280 s 9-14,21; 1990 c 567 s 3-6; 1992 
 c 527 s 12-16; 1993 c 22 s 8-15; 1993 c 277 s 5-7; 1994 c 630 
 art 12 s 1; 1995 c 212 art 2 s 10; 1997 c 171 s 1; 2001 c 186 s 
 1; 2001 c 194 s 2