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