§ 556.01 — Usurpation of Office, Illegal Act
Plain-Language Summary
This section allows the attorney general to bring a legal action when someone illegally holds a public office or corporate franchise, when a public officer does something that causes forfeiture of their office, or when a group acts as a corporation without being properly incorporated.
556.01 USURPATION OF OFFICE, ILLEGAL ACT.
When the attorney general has reason to believe that a cause of action can be proved, the attorney general may bring an action in the name of the state, upon the complaint of a private person, or upon other information, against the person offending, in the following cases:
(1) when any person usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises any public office or any franchise, or any office in a corporation created by authority of the state;
(2) when any public officer does or suffers an act which by law causes a forfeiture of office; or
(3) when an association or number of persons acts as a corporation without being duly incorporated.
History:
History: History: (9711) RL s 4545; 1986 c 444