2025 Session Last amended: 2024 session

§ 176.874 — Police Officers Contracting Tuberculosis

Plain-Language Summary

This section gives state, county, or municipal police officers workers' compensation coverage when they contract tuberculosis through work. An officer whose duties bring or brought them into contact with people afflicted with tuberculosis, and who then contracts or becomes ill from it, is entitled to the medical care and compensation provided by sections 176.874 to 176.876. "Contracts tuberculosis" means the development of demonstrable tuberculosis in the officer.

176.874 POLICE OFFICERS CONTRACTING TUBERCULOSIS.

Any police officer of the state or of any county or municipal subdivision of the state whose duties within the scope of employment as a police officer bring or did bring the officer in contact with persons afflicted with tuberculosis, which said police officer contracts or becomes ill from tuberculosis, shall be entitled to the medical care and compensation provided for by sections 176.874 to 176.876. “Contracts tuberculosis” shall be construed to mean the development of demonstrable tuberculosis in the police officer.

History:

1955 c 340 s 1; 1986 c 444; 2024 c 79 art 10 s 1,2; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38

History: History: 1955 c 340 s 1; 1986 c 444; 2024 c 79 art 10 s 1,2; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38

Practical Notes

If you are a state, county, or municipal police officer whose duties brought you into contact with people who have tuberculosis, and you then develop demonstrable tuberculosis, you are entitled to medical care and compensation under sections 176.874 to 176.876. The illness must actually develop as demonstrable tuberculosis, not merely a risk of exposure.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes