2004 Minnesota Statutes

     508.05 Application, how signed and verified. 

    The application shall be in writing and signed and verified 
 by the applicant, or by an agent thereunto lawfully authorized 
 in writing.  If the application is signed and verified by any 
 agent, except an officer of a corporation, the authority of such 
 agent shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner required 
 for the execution and acknowledgment of a deed and recorded with 
 the county recorder for the county wherein the land is situated 
 before the filing of the application.  If the application is 
 made by a corporation, it shall be verified by some officer of 
 the corporation.  If the applicant is married, the spouse of the 
 applicant may assent thereto in writing by a duly acknowledged 
 endorsement thereon, or by a separate instrument duly 
 acknowledged and filed with the application, but otherwise the 
 spouse shall be made a defendant and served with summons. 

    HIST: (8251) RL s 3374; 1905 c 305 s 5; 1935 c 16 s 1; 1976 c 
 181 s 2; 1986 c 444