Chapter 325E — Minnesota Agricultural Equipment Dealership Act
Minnesota Statutes Chapter 325E — Minnesota Agricultural Equipment Dealership Act
15.001
Application of Laws 2005, Chapter 56, Terminology Changes
State agencies must adopt updated terminology from Laws 2005 when they replace existing printed materials and signs. …
325E.001
This section has been repealed or relocated. It pointed to section 15.001.
325E.01
Delivery Tickets to Accompany Each Fuel Delivery
Anyone delivering heating fuel must provide a delivery ticket showing the weight or volume of fuel, the buyer's name, …
325E.015
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.02
Customer Deposits
This section governs customer deposits that a privately or publicly owned water, gas, telephone, cable television, …
325E.021
Utility Delinquency Charges
This section applies to utilities (a public utility, a municipality, a cooperative electric association, or a telephone …
325E.025
Landlords and Tenants; Utility Bills
This section protects landlords and property owners from being held responsible for a tenant's unpaid utility bills. A …
325E.026
Unauthorized Use of Utility Meters
This section lets a utility sue people who steal utility service by bypassing or tampering with a meter, making an …
325E.027
Discrimination Prohibition
This section bars discrimination by dealers and distributors of liquid propane gas or number 1 or number 2 fuel oil who …
325E.028
Utility Payment Arrangements for Military Service Personnel
This section protects a household from utility disconnection when a member has been ordered into active duty, …
325E.03
Sale of Beverage Containers Having Detachable Parts
This section bans selling or offering for sale in Minnesota any carbonated soft drink, beer, other malt beverage, or tea …
325E.031
Immigration Services
This section regulates nonlawyers who charge a fee to provide immigration assistance services in Minnesota. Such …
325E.035
This section has no operative statutory text. The page contains only the section number and a historical reference …
325E.04
Free Samples; Distribution
This section restricts the door to door delivery of advertising, merchandise samples, or promotional material (other …
325E.041
Sensory Testing Research
This section lets "sensory testing firms" (businesses that test consumer reactions to products for third-party clients) …
325E.042
Prohibiting Sale of Certain Plastics
This section bans selling, offering for sale, or giving consumers a beverage packaged in a plastic can (a single serving …
325E.044
Plastic Container Labeling
This section requires labeling of plastic containers (individual plastic bottles, cans, or jars holding 16 ounces or …
325E.045
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.046
Standards for Labeling Bags, Food or Beverage Products, and Packaging
This section sets standards for labeling bags, food or beverage products, and packaging as "biodegradable," …
325E.05
Agricultural Implement Dealerships; Return of Stock
When a franchised agricultural machinery or implement dealership is discontinued for economic reasons, the company that …
325E.06
Repurchase of Farm Machinery, Implements, Attachments and Parts Upon Termination of Contract
When a farm implement or outdoor power equipment dealer's contract with a wholesaler, manufacturer, or distributor is …
325E.061
Definitions
This section defines the key terms used in sections 325E.061 to 325E.065, the Minnesota laws governing farm equipment …
325E.062
Terminations or Cancellations
A farm equipment manufacturer may not terminate, cancel, fail to renew, or substantially change the competitive …
325E.063
Violations
This section lists practices that violate the farm equipment dealership laws in sections 325E.061 to 325E.065. A farm …
325E.0631
Warranties
This section sets the rules for warranty claims a farm equipment dealer submits to a manufacturer when the dealer has …
325E.064
Status of Inconsistent Agreements
This section makes void and unenforceable any term of a farm equipment dealership agreement, whether written or implied, …
325E.065
Remedies
This section gives a farm equipment dealer the right to sue a farm equipment manufacturer that violates sections …
325E.066
Citation
This section gives a short title to the farm equipment dealership law. It provides that sections 325E.061 to 325E.065 …
325E.067
Applicability
This section sets out when the farm equipment dealership law applies. Sections 325E.061 to 325E.065 took effect April …
325E.068
Definitions
This section defines the terms used in the heavy and utility equipment dealership law (sections 325E.068 to 325E.0684). …
325E.0681
Terminations or Cancellations
This section governs how an equipment manufacturer may end a dealership agreement with an equipment dealer (heavy and …
325E.0682
Violations
This section lists practices by an equipment manufacturer that count as violations of the equipment dealership law …
325E.0683
Status of Inconsistent Agreements
This section makes any part of a dealership agreement unenforceable if it conflicts with the equipment dealership law …
325E.0684
Remedies
This section gives an equipment dealer the right to sue an equipment manufacturer that violates the dealership law …
325E.07
Cigarette Vending Machines, Notice Relating to Sales
This section requires a warning notice on every cigarette vending machine used in Minnesota. The owner, lessee, or …
325E.075
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.08
Service for Disabled Persons at Gasoline Stations
This section requires gasoline service stations that offer both full service and self-service dispensing to provide an …
325E.085
Motor Vehicle Fuel Payment
This section bars any local unit of government from restricting the sale of motor fuel based on the payment method that …
325E.09
This section has been repealed or relocated and no longer contains operative statutory text. The page retains only a …
325E.095
Computation of Sales by Small Retailers
This section allows a small retail business that sells less than 50,000 gallons of motor vehicle fuel per year to …
325E.0951
Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Systems
This section prohibits tampering with, altering, or disconnecting a motor vehicle's air pollution control system, which …
325E.0952
Mandatory Air Bag Replacement
This section requires that, when someone knows a vehicle's air bag has deployed or is missing, they may not perform …
325E.10
Definitions
This section is the definitions section for the used motor oil and motor oil filter provisions in sections 325E.11 to …
325E.11
Collection Facilities; Notice
This section requires anyone selling motor oil or motor oil filters at retail in Minnesota to post a notice telling …
325E.112
Used Motor Oil and Used Motor Oil Filter Collection
This section requires motor oil and filter manufacturers and retailers to provide public collection sites for used motor …
325E.113
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.115
Lead Acid Batteries; Collection for Recycling
Retailers who sell lead acid batteries in Minnesota must accept used lead acid batteries back from customers at the …
325E.1151
Lead Acid Battery Purchase and Return
A person who buys a lead acid battery at retail (other than a boat motor battery bought at the same time) must either …
325E.12
Penalty
This section sets the penalty for violating sections 325E.10 through 325E.1151. A violation of those sections is a petty …
325E.125
General and Special Purpose Battery Requirements
This section regulates the manufacture and sale of batteries in Minnesota. It requires labeling of button cell and …
325E.1251
Penalty Enforcement
This section sets the penalties for violating section 325E.125. A violation is a misdemeanor, and a manufacturer who …
325E.127
Notice for Fluorescent Lamps Containing Mercury
A person who sells fluorescent lamps at retail must post a notice, clearly visible to a consumer examining the lamps, …
325E.13
Tampering With Odometers; Definitions
This section provides the definitions that apply to Minnesota's odometer-tampering law, sections 325E.13 to 325E.16. It …
325E.14
Prohibited Acts
This section lists the acts prohibited under Minnesota's odometer law. No person may tamper with or alter an odometer to …
325E.15
Transfer of Motor Vehicle; Mileage Disclosure
This section requires anyone transferring a motor vehicle to disclose the true mileage on the odometer to the person …
325E.16
Penalties; Remedies
This section sets the penalties and remedies for violating sections 325E.13 to 325E.16. A violation is a gross …
325E.165
Definition
This section defines "farm tractor" for purposes of sections 325E.165 to 325E.167. A farm tractor is a self-propelled …
325E.166
Clock-hour Meters; Prohibited Acts
This section makes it illegal to mess with the clock-hour meter on a farm tractor. With intent to defraud, no one may …
325E.167
Penalties and Remedies
This section sets the penalties and remedies for violating the farm tractor clock-hour meter rules in sections 325E.165 …
325E.169
Definitions
This section defines the key terms used in sections 325E.169 to 325E.201, which deal with recorded sounds and images. …
325E.17
Unlawful Transfers or Sales of Recordings
This section makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly transfer sounds or images from one recording to another …
325E.18
Identity of Transferor
This section makes it unlawful to sell, distribute, or possess for sale any recording for commercial purposes unless the …
325E.19
Exemptions
This section lists the exemptions to the recording transfer rules in sections 325E.169 to 325E.201. Those rules do not …
325E.20
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.201
Violations; Punishment
This section makes a violation of section 325E.17 or 325E.18 a felony, with penalties that increase based on the number …
325E.21
Dealers in Scrap Metal; Records, Reports, and Registration
Minnesota requires scrap metal dealers to register with the Commissioner of Public Safety, keep detailed purchase …
325E.22
This section number contains no operative statutory text. Section 325E.22 was repealed (2009 c 83 art 3 s 24). There is …
325E.23
Definitions
This section defines the terms used in sections 325E.23 to 325E.25, which govern outdoor advertising. It defines an …
325E.24
Furnishing of Space; Exceptions
This section makes it unlawful for anyone in the business of outdoor advertising to discriminate, directly or …
325E.25
Violations
This section sets the penalty for the outdoor advertising provisions. Any person who violates sections 325E.23 to …
325E.26
Definitions
This section defines the terms used in sections 325E.26 to 325E.30, the Minnesota laws governing automatic …
325E.27
Use of Prerecorded or Synthesized Voice Messages
This section restricts the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices that deliver prerecorded or synthesized voice …
325E.28
Requirements on Automatic Dialing-announcing Devices
This section sets a technical requirement for automatic dialing-announcing devices. A caller may not use such a device …
325E.29
Message Requirements
This section sets disclosure requirements for messages preceded by a live operator. At the outset of the message, the …
325E.30
Time of Day Limit
This section sets a time-of-day limit on automated and solicitation calls. A caller may not use an automatic …
325E.31
Remedies
Anyone who violates Minnesota's deceptive trade practices law (sections 325E.27 to 325E.30, covering false advertising …
325E.311
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.312
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.313
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.314
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.315
This section has been repealed and no longer contains operative statutory text. The page shows only a session law …
325E.316
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.3161
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.317
Definitions
This section defines the terms used in sections 325E.317 and 325E.318, which govern wireless telephone directories. It …
325E.318
Wireless Directories
This section protects the privacy of wireless phone numbers in directories. A wireless provider may not list a …
325E.319
Wireless Communications Devices; Acquisition for Resale
This section regulates dealers who buy used wireless communications devices (such as cell phones) for resale. Dealers …
325E.32
Waste Tires; Collection
This section requires anyone who sells automotive tires at retail to accept waste tires back from customers for …
325E.33
Misconduct of Athletic Agents
This section regulates athletic agents who seek to represent student athletes and bars certain misconduct. A student …
325E.34
Free Newspapers; Exclusive Right to Distribute Prohibited
This section bars exclusive distribution arrangements for free newspapers in public places. No contract may give anyone …
325E.35
Definitions
This section is a definitions section whose terms apply to section 325E.36, which deals with agricultural production …
325E.36
Seller-financed Agricultural Input Sales
This section applies when a seller sells agricultural production inputs at retail on credit and charges the buyer an …
325E.37
Termination of Sales Representatives
This section protects commission-based wholesale sales representatives from unfair termination by a manufacturer, …
325E.38
Sale of Certain Cfc Products Prohibited
This section prohibits the sale of several products that contain or use CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). It bars selling CFC …
325E.381
Perchloroethylene Prohibition
This section bans the use of perchloroethylene as a dry cleaning solvent. The prohibition takes effect after December …
325E.385
Products Containing Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether
This section provides the definitions used in the Minnesota laws (sections 325E.386 to 325E.388) that regulate products …
325E.386
Products Containing Certain Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Banned; Exemptions
Beginning January 1, 2008, this section bans manufacturing, processing, or distributing in Minnesota any product or …
325E.387
Review of Decabromodiphenyl Ether
This section directs the commissioner, working with the commissioners of health and public safety, to study commercial …
325E.388
Penalties
This section sets the penalties for a manufacturer that violates sections 325E.386 to 325E.388 (the polybrominated …
325E.389
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.3891
This section has been repealed or relocated.
325E.3892
Lead and Cadmium in Consumer Products; Prohibition
This section bans selling, importing, manufacturing, distributing, or offering for use in Minnesota any covered consumer …
325E.39
Telephone Advertising Services
This section governs telephone advertising services in Minnesota, meaning services that let advertisers make recorded …
325E.395
Facsimile Transmission of Unsolicited Advertising Materials
This section regulates sending unsolicited advertising by fax (facsimile) to recipients in Minnesota. A business that …
325E.40
Sale of Petroleum-based Sweeping Compound Products Prohibited
This section prohibits a person from offering for sale or selling any sweeping compound product that the person knows …
325E.41
Deceptive Trade Practices; Environmental Marketing Claims
This section governs environmental marketing claims made by manufacturers, packagers, wholesalers, or retailers for …
325E.42
Deceptive Trade Practices; Gambling Advertising and Marketing Claims
This section regulates advertising and marketing for legal gambling in Minnesota. All such materials must be clear …
325E.491
Definitions
This section defines terms used in section 325E.492, the law governing how musical groups may advertise live …
325E.492
Production
This section makes it unlawful to advertise or conduct a live musical performance in Minnesota using a false, deceptive, …
325E.50
Definitions
This section defines terms used in sections 325E.50 to 325E.57, which govern dealings between performing rights …
325E.51
Licensing Negotiations
This section sets disclosure rules a performing rights society must follow before signing a royalty contract with a …
325E.52
Royalty Contract Requirements
This section requires that any contract for the payment of royalties between a proprietor and a performing rights …
325E.53
Improper Licensing Practices
This section bars a performing rights society, or any of its agents or employees, from certain improper licensing …
325E.54
Investigation
This section clarifies that nothing in sections 325E.50 to 325E.57 prevents a performing rights society from …
325E.55
Remedies
This section gives a person harmed by a violation of sections 325E.50 to 325E.57 the right to sue. The person may …
325E.56
Remedies Cumulative
This section states that the rights, remedies, and prohibitions in sections 325E.50 to 325E.57 are in addition to, and …
325E.57
Exceptions
This section lists exceptions to sections 325E.50 to 325E.57. Those sections do not apply to contracts between copyright …
325E.58
This section no longer contains operative statutory text. It has been renumbered, and the material is now found at …
325E.59
Use of Social Security Numbers
Restricts how businesses may use Social Security numbers. Prohibits publicly displaying them, printing them on cards or …
325E.60
Restroom Access
This section, the Restroom Access Act, requires a retail establishment that has an employee restroom to let a customer …
325E.61
Data Warehouses; Notice Required for Certain Disclosures
Requires businesses that own or license personal information to notify Minnesota residents of data breaches. 'Personal …
325E.63
Credit Issued to Minors
This section prohibits creditors from knowingly offering or providing credit to a minor (someone under the age of 18) …
325E.64
Access Devices; Breach of Security
Prohibits businesses that accept credit or debit cards from retaining card security codes, PINs, PIN verification codes, …
325E.65
Sale of American Flags
This section bars any retailer from selling or offering to sell an American flag in Minnesota unless the flag was …
325E.66
Insurance Claims for Residential Contracting Goods and Services
Prohibits residential contractors (roofers, builders, remodelers) from offering to pay a homeowner's insurance …
325E.67
Post-loss Assignment of Benefits
This section sets the rules for when a homeowner assigns insurance rights or benefits to a residential contractor (a …
325E.70
Estate Sale Conductors; Bonding Required
This section requires people who conduct estate sales to post a surety bond before agreeing to run one. An "estate sale" …
325E.72
Digital Fair Repair
This section, the "Digital Fair Repair Act," requires manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to give independent …
325E.80
Abnormal Market Disruptions; Unconscionably Excessive Prices
Minnesota's price gouging law. During a governor-declared abnormal market disruption (tied to a state of emergency), …
326B.865
Sign Contractor; Bond
This section lets a sign contractor post a single statewide compliance bond with the commissioner of labor and industry …