| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to animals; providing for civil damages for failing to give notice of finding |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 an estray; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 346.021. |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 346.021, is amended to read: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 346.021 FINDER TO GIVE NOTICE. |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 (a) A person who finds an estray and knows who owns the estray must notify the estray's |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8owner within seven days after finding the estray and request that the owner pay all reasonable |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9charges and take the estray away. A finder who does not know who owns an estray must |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10either: |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11 (1) within ten days, file a notice with the town or city clerk and post a physical or online |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12notice of the finding of the estray. The notice must briefly describe the estray or provide a |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13photograph of the estray, provide the residence or contact information of the finder, and |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14provide the approximate location and time when the finder found the estray; or |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15 (2) within seven days, surrender the estray to a local animal control agency or to a kennel |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16as defined in section 347.31, subdivision 2. |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17 (b) For the failure to give the notice required in paragraph (a), the finder is liable to the |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18owner of the estray in double the amount of damages sustained by the owner. |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 20 | 20 | | 25-02228 as introduced01/17/25 REVISOR BD/EN |
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| 21 | 21 | | SENATE |
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| 22 | 22 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 23 | 23 | | S.F. No. 756NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 24 | 24 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: KUPEC, Lieske, Maye Quade, Wesenberg and Westlin) |
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| 25 | 25 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | Introduction and first reading01/30/2025 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Referred to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development |
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