Chapter 626 — Peace Officers

299C.03 Superintendent; Rules This section gives the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) the power to make rules and run the … 299C.04 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.05 Crime Data Collection This section requires the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) to collect and keep records about crimes in Minnesota, … 299C.06 Division Powers and Duties; Cooperation This section requires a wide range of officials (including sheriffs, chiefs of police, prison wardens, probation and … 299C.07 Restoration or Disposal of Stolen Property This section governs abandoned or stolen property recovered by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). For 90 days … 299C.08 Oath of Superintendent and Employees This section requires the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and each employee the superintendent … 299C.09 System for Identifying Criminals; Record, Index This section requires the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to set up systems for identifying criminals, including a … 299C.10 Identification Data Required This section requires sheriffs, peace officers, and certain juvenile detention agencies to take fingerprints, … 299C.11 Identification Data Furnished to Bureau This section requires each sheriff and chief of police to furnish the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension with the … 299C.12 Record Kept by Peace Officer; Report This section requires every peace officer to keep a permanent written record of all felonies reported to or discovered … 299C.13 Information Furnished to Peace Officer This section directs the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, upon receiving data on an arrested person, to immediately … 299C.14 Information on Released Prisoner This section requires officials in charge of the state's penal institutions to give the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension … 299C.15 Cooperation; Criminal Identification Organizations This section directs the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to cooperate and exchange information with other criminal … 299C.16 Information Broadcast to Peace Officers This section requires the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to broadcast information to peace officers by mail, wire, and … 299C.17 Report by Court Administrator This section requires the court administrator of every court that sentences a defendant for a felony, gross misdemeanor, … 299C.18 Bureau Operations Report This section requires the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to submit a detailed biennial report to … 299C.19 This section has no operative statutory text. The page contains only the section number and a session law citation (2014 … 299C.20 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.21 Penalty on Local Officer Refusing Information This section penalizes any public official who neglects or refuses to furnish the bureau with required fingerprint … 299C.30 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.31 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.32 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.33 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.34 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.35 Bureau to Broadcast Criminal Information This section requires the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to broadcast all police dispatches and reports it receives … 299C.36 This section has been repealed or relocated. 299C.37 Police Communication Equipment; Use, Sale This section regulates who may equip a motor vehicle with radio equipment capable of receiving police emergency … 299C.38 Priority of Police Communications; Misdemeanor This section makes it a misdemeanor to willfully make any false, misleading, or unfounded report to a public safety … 299C.45 This section has no operative statutory text and appears to have been repealed or renumbered. The page contains only the … 299C.46 Criminal Justice Data Communications Network This section directs the commissioner of public safety to establish a criminal justice data communications network that … 299C.47 This section has no operative statutory text. The page contains only the section number and a session law reference … 299C.48 Connection by Authorized Agency; Fee, Appropriation This section lets an authorized agency connect to and use the state criminal justice data communications network, but … 626.001 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.01 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.02 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.03 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.04 Property; Seizure, Keeping, and Disposal This section governs property seized by an officer, with or without a warrant, which is kept by court direction as … 626.05 Definitions This section defines three terms. A "search warrant" is an order in writing, in the name of the state, signed by a court … 626.06 Jurisdiction to Issue This section identifies which courts have the authority to issue a search warrant. A search warrant may be issued by any … 626.07 Grounds for Issuance This section lists the grounds on which a search warrant may be issued. A warrant may issue when the property or things … 626.08 Probable Cause This section sets the requirements a search warrant must meet to be issued. A warrant can only be issued upon probable … 626.085 Search Warrant Required for Electronic Communication Information This section requires a government entity to obtain a search warrant before requiring disclosure of electronic … 626.09 Examination of Parties Making Request This section allows the court, before issuing a search warrant, to question the person seeking the warrant and any … 626.10 Affidavit; Content This section describes what the affidavit supporting a search warrant must contain. The affidavit must set forth the … 626.11 Issuance of Warrant This section governs the issuance of a search warrant. If the judge is satisfied that the grounds for the application … 626.12 Applicants; Names on Warrant This section sets an additional content requirement for a search warrant. The warrant must include the names of the … 626.13 Service; Persons Making This section governs who may serve and execute a search warrant and where. A warrant may be served anywhere within the … 626.14 Time and Manner of Service; No-knock Search Warrants This section limits when a search warrant may be served and tightly restricts no-knock warrants. A warrant may be served … 626.15 Execution and Return of Warrant; Time This section sets deadlines for carrying out a search warrant. A search warrant generally must be executed and returned … 626.16 Delivery of Copy of Warrant and Receipt This section requires an officer conducting a search to deliver a copy of the warrant and, when property is taken, a … 626.17 Return and Inventory This section governs what an officer must do after executing a search warrant. The officer must immediately return the … 626.18 Search Warrants Relating to Electronic Communication Services and Remote Computing Services This section sets rules for search warrants seeking records from companies that provide electronic communication … 626.19 Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles This section regulates how law enforcement agencies may use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones). Police generally … 626.21 Return of Property and Suppression of Evidence This section lets a person harmed by an unlawful search and seizure ask the district court to return the seized property … 626.22 Maliciously Procuring Search Warrant; Misconduct in Use This section makes certain abuses of the search warrant process a misdemeanor. It is a crime for any person to … 626.223 Odor of Cannabis; Search Prohibited This section says that a peace officer smelling cannabis cannot use that odor, by itself, as the only reason to search a … 626.311 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.312 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.313 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.314 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.315 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.316 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.317 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.318 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.319 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.32 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.33 This section has been repealed or relocated. Its content was moved to section 299C.03. 626.34 This section has been repealed or relocated. Its content was moved to section 299C.04. 626.35 This section has been repealed or relocated. 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Its content was moved to section 299C.21. 626.52 Suspicious Wounds; Reporting by Health Professionals This section requires doctors, nurses, and other health professionals to report gunshot wounds, bullet wounds, and other … 626.53 Report by Telephone and Letter This section explains how health professionals must make wound reports -- first by phone or in person, then followed up … 626.54 Application of Sections 626.52 to 626.55 This section says that a nurse who works for a doctor or hospital does not need to make a separate wound report if their … 626.55 Penalty This section makes it a gross misdemeanor to violate any provision of sections 626.52 to 626.55, except for section … 626.553 Gunshot Wounds; Peace Officers, Discharging Firearms; Investigations; Reports This section requires the sheriff or police chief who receives a gunshot wound report to determine the cause, and if the … 626.5531 Reporting of Crimes Motivated by Bias This section requires police officers to report any crime that appears to be motivated by bias based on the victim's … 626.5532 Pursuit of Fleeing Suspects by Peace Officers This section requires a peace officer's department head to file a notice with the commissioner of public safety within … 626.5533 Reporting Potential Welfare Fraud This section requires a peace officer to report every arrest where the person possesses more than one welfare electronic … 626.5534 Use of Force Reporting; Independent Investigations Required This section requires law enforcement agencies to report every incident where an officer uses force that causes serious … 626.5535 Carjacking; Reporting Required This section requires each local or state law enforcement agency to forward the prior year's carjacking data from its … 626.5536 Law Enforcement Required to Register for Etrace System and Trace and Report on Recovered or Confiscated Firearms This section requires every law enforcement agency in Minnesota to register for the federal eTrace system and report all … 626.554 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.555 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.5551 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.5552 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.556 This section has been repealed or relocated. All subdivisions were repealed in 2020 and the child protection reporting … 626.5561 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.5562 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.5563 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.5565 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.557 Reporting of Maltreatment of Vulnerable Adults This law requires certain people — called mandated reporters — to report suspected abuse, neglect, or financial … 626.5571 Multidisciplinary Adult Protection Team This section allows counties to create teams of professionals -- including social workers, prosecutors, sheriffs, and … 626.5572 Definitions This section defines key terms used in the vulnerable adult protection laws, including what counts as 'abuse,' … 626.5573 Negligence Actions This section addresses how violations of the vulnerable adult protection laws are treated in negligence lawsuits. A … 626.558 Section 626.558 was repealed by 1Sp2020 c 2 art 7 s 39 and no longer contains operative statutory text. There is no … 626.559 This section no longer has operative statutory text. All of its subdivisions have been repealed. Most were repealed in … 626.5591 This section no longer has operative statutory text. It was repealed by the legislature in 2020. There is no current … 626.5592 This section no longer has operative statutory text. It carries only a session law citation and no current requirement … 626.5593 This section no longer has operative statutory text. It carries only a session law citation and no current requirement … 626.56 This section no longer has operative statutory text. It carries only a cross-reference to another statute and no … 626.561 This section contains no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.562 This section contains no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.563 This section contains no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.57 This section contains no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a cross-reference to … 626.58 This section contains no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a cross-reference to … 626.59 This section contains no operative statutory text. The material formerly at section 626.59 has been renumbered to … 626.60 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.61 This section contains no operative statutory text. The material formerly at section 626.61 has been renumbered to … 626.62 This section contains no operative statutory text. The material formerly at section 626.62 has been renumbered to … 626.63 This section has been repealed or relocated. 626.64 This section contains no operative statutory text. The body indicates the provision has been repealed or renumbered, … 626.65 Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit; Reciprocal This section lets an out-of-state peace officer who enters Minnesota while in fresh pursuit of someone believed to have … 626.66 Arrest; Hearing When an out-of-state officer makes a fresh-pursuit arrest in Minnesota under section 626.65, the officer must take the … 626.67 Construction of Section 626.65 This section is a savings clause for the fresh-pursuit law in section 626.65. It clarifies that section 626.65 must not … 626.68 State Includes District of Columbia This section is a definition that applies to the fresh-pursuit statutes in sections 626.65 to 626.69. For those … 626.69 Fresh Pursuit This section defines "fresh pursuit" as the term is used in sections 626.65 to 626.69. It includes fresh pursuit as … 626.70 Citation; Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit This section provides the short title for sections 626.65 to 626.70. It states that those sections may be cited as the … 626.71 Fresh Pursuit in Nonfelony Situations This section governs fresh pursuit into Minnesota by out-of-state peace officers in nonfelony situations. Subdivision 1 … 626.72 Peace Officers; Transportation for Law Enforcement Purposes This section gives out-of-state peace officers authority to transport persons in legal custody through Minnesota for law … 626.74 Compensation for Damage Caused by Peace Officers in Performing Law Enforcement Duties This section sets rules for compensating an innocent third party whose property is damaged by a peace officer executing … 626.76 Rules and Regulations; Aiding Other Officers; Exchange Programs This section lets a law enforcement agency or office adopt rules and enter agreements with other agencies to help each … 626.77 Peace Officers From Adjoining States; Federal Law Enforcement Officers This section gives a peace officer from a state next to Minnesota, or a federal law enforcement officer, the same … 626.80 This section has been repealed or relocated. Its content was moved to section 299C.45. 626.81 This section has been repealed or relocated. Its content was moved to section 299C.46. 626.82 This section has been repealed or relocated. Its content was moved to section 299C.47. 626.83 This section has been repealed or relocated. Its content was moved to section 299C.48. 626.84 Definitions and Scope This section defines key terms used in the peace officer licensing laws, including who qualifies as a 'peace officer,' … 626.841 Board; Members This section sets the composition of the Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST Board), which has 17 … 626.842 Terms; Meetings; Compensation; Removal; Vacancies This section covers procedural matters for the Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST Board). Meetings are … 626.843 Rules, Standards; Executive Director This section requires the Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST Board) to adopt rules governing peace … 626.8431 Automatic License Revocation This section provides that a peace officer's license is automatically revoked if the officer is convicted of a felony. … 626.8432 Revocation; Suspension; Denial This section lists the grounds on which the POST Board may refuse to issue, refuse to renew, refuse to reinstate, … 626.8433 Eyewitness Identification Policies Required This section requires the POST Board to develop a statewide model policy on eyewitness identification best practices by … 626.8434 Warrior-style Training Prohibited This section prohibits "warrior-style training" for peace officers, defined as training that dehumanizes people or … 626.8435 Public Safety Advisory Council This section establishes the 15-member Public Safety Advisory Council under the Peace Officer Standards and Training … 626.8436 Hate or Extremist Groups This section prohibits a peace officer from joining, supporting, advocating for, maintaining membership in, or … 626.8437 Training in Excited Delirium and Similar Terms Prohibited This section prohibits peace officer training on the term "excited delirium" and similar terms, which it defines as a … 626.844 This section was repealed and has no operative statutory text. The page retains only the section number and a … 626.8441 This section has no operative statutory text. Subdivision 1 was repealed in 2011 (2011 c 76 art 1 s 80), and subdivision … 626.8442 Policies on Sexual Assaults This section requires the chief law enforcement officer of every state and local law enforcement agency to establish and … 626.8443 Opiate Antagonists; Training; Carrying; Use This section requires each chief law enforcement officer to train peace officers on identifying narcotics overdoses and … 626.845 Powers and Duties This section sets out the powers and duties of the Peace Officer Standards and Training Board. The board certifies … 626.8451 Training in Identifying and Responding to Certain Crimes This section requires the board to approve and maintain training courses that help peace officers identify, respond to, … 626.8452 Deadly Force and Firearms Use; Policies and Instruction Required This section requires every law enforcement agency in Minnesota to have a written policy on use of force, including … 626.8453 Qualified Federal Law Enforcement Officers; Special State and Federal Task Forces; Peace Officer Authority This section gives certain federal law enforcement officers the authority of Minnesota peace officers when they serve on … 626.8454 Manual and Policy for Investigating Cases Involving Children Who Are Missing and Endangered This section requires the state to create tools for investigating cases of missing and endangered children. The Bureau … 626.8455 Training in Community Policing This section requires the POST Board, with the Minnesota Institute of Community Policing, to prepare a training course … 626.8456 Training in Fire Scene Response and Arson Awareness This section requires the POST Board, in consultation with the Division of Fire Marshal, to prepare objectives for a … 626.8457 Professional Conduct of Peace Officers This section governs the professional conduct of peace officers. By March 1, 1996, the POST Board had to develop a model … 626.8458 Vehicle Pursuits; Policies and Instruction Required This section requires policies and training for peace officers who pursue vehicles. By July 1, 1999, the POST Board had … 626.8459 Post Board; Compliance Reviews Required This section requires the POST Board to conduct compliance reviews each year on all state and local law enforcement … 626.846 Attendance, Forfeiture of Position This section makes a POST Board license a condition of holding a peace officer or part-time peace officer position. An … 626.8461 Part-time Peace Officers; Policy This section states the legislature's policy on part-time peace officers. It declares that minimum training requirements … 626.8462 This section has no operative statutory text. The only content is the section number and a history reference (2014 c 244 … 626.8463 Part-time Peace Officers This section sets the appointment requirements for part-time peace officers. Before being appointed or employed, the … 626.8464 This section has no operative statutory text and appears to have been repealed or renumbered. The body shows only the … 626.8465 Part-time Officers; Limitations This section governs part-time peace officers and their limitations. A law enforcement agency may use a part-time peace … 626.8466 Reserve Officers This section governs reserve officers. It provides that, despite any other provision of this chapter or board rule, a … 626.8467 This section has no operative statutory text and appears to have been repealed or renumbered. The body shows only the … 626.8468 Part-time Peace Officers; Continued Employment This section governs continued employment of part-time peace officers. A law enforcement agency that employed a licensed … 626.8469 Training in Crisis Response, Conflict Management, and Cultural Diversity This section requires every state and local law enforcement agency to provide in-service training to its peace officers … 626.847 Compulsory Program; Exemptions This section says that the peace officer licensing requirements apply to all officers, including those who were … 626.8471 Avoiding Racial Profiling; Policies and Learning Objectives Required This section requires every law enforcement agency in Minnesota to have a written policy against racial profiling. The … 626.8472 Automated License Plate Reader Policy This section requires every state and local law enforcement agency that maintains an automated license plate reader to … 626.8473 Portable Recording Systems Adoption; Written Policy Required This section requires every state and local law enforcement agency that uses or proposes to use a portable recording … 626.8474 Autism Training This section directs the POST Board to develop learning objectives, by January 1, 2021, for training peace officers to … 626.8475 Duty to Intercede and Report This section requires a peace officer, regardless of rank or tenure, to intercede when present and physically or … 626.8476 Confidential Informants; Required Policy and Training This section required the POST Board to adopt, by January 1, 2022, a model policy governing how law enforcement … 626.8477 Mental Health and Health Records; Written Policy Required This section requires the chief officer of every state and local law enforcement agency that seeks or uses mental health … 626.8478 Wellness Training This section requires the POST Board to create learning objectives that prepare peace officers for the stress and trauma … 626.848 Training Courses, Locations This section directs the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to provide training courses at convenient … 626.8481 Extreme Risk Protection Order; Development of Model Procedures This section required the Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to develop model procedures and standards for … 626.8482 School Resource Officers; Duties; Training; Model Policy This section governs school resource officers, the peace officers assigned by contract to work in elementary, middle, or … 626.849 This section has no operative statutory text. The only content is the section number and a history reference (1987 c 358 … 626.85 Instructors; Donations This section covers instructors and donations for police training run through the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. It … 626.851 Eligibility of Officers This section sets who is eligible to attend peace officer training courses. Any peace officer or part-time peace officer … 626.8515 Certain Baccalaureate Degree Holders Eligible to Take Licensing Examination This section allows certain college graduates to sit for the peace officer licensing examination. A person who holds a … 626.8516 Intensive Comprehensive Peace Officer Education Training Program This section creates the intensive comprehensive peace officer education and training program within the Department of … 626.8517 Eligibility for Reciprocity Examination Based on Relevant Military Experience This section lets people with relevant military experience take the peace officer reciprocity examination. Relevant … 626.852 Tuition; Salary and Expenses This section covers pay and expenses for officers attending Bureau of Criminal Apprehension continuing education … 626.853 This section has no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a session law citation (1978 c … 626.854 This section has no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a session law citation (1977 c … 626.855 This section has no operative statutory text. The page shows only the section number and a session law citation (1996 c … 626.8555 Peace Officer Education Programs This section directs Metropolitan State University and Minneapolis Community and Technical College, working with the … 626.856 School of Law Enforcement This section directs the state university system to develop a school of law enforcement in the metropolitan area (as … 626.857 This section contains no operative statutory text and appears to have been repealed, renumbered, or reserved. The body … 626.86 This section contains no operative statutory text. The body shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.861 This section contains no operative statutory text. The body shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.862 Powers of Law Enforcement Officers This section limits certain law enforcement powers to peace officers and part-time peace officers, unless a statute … 626.863 Unauthorized Practice This section makes it a misdemeanor for a person who is not a peace officer or part-time peace officer to claim to be … 626.87 Law Enforcement Background Investigations This section requires a law enforcement agency to conduct a thorough background investigation, including a state and … 626.88 Uniforms; Peace Officers, Security Guards; Color This section sets the uniform colors that peace officers must wear statewide: municipal and county sheriff officers wear … 626.89 Peace Officer Discipline Procedures Act This section sets procedures for internal investigations of peace officers, often called the 'Peace Officers Bill of … 626.891 Cooperation With Postsecondary Institutions This section requires local law enforcement agencies, including those run by statutory cities, home rule charter cities, … 626.892 Peace Officer Grievance Arbitration Selection Procedure This section sets the procedure for selecting arbitrators who decide grievances over discipline, discharge, or … 626.90 Law Enforcement Authority; Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa This section gives the federally recognized Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians the powers of a law enforcement agency, … 626.91 Law Enforcement Authority; Lower Sioux Indian Community Peace Officers This section gives the Lower Sioux Indian Community the powers of a law enforcement agency, but only if it meets four … 626.92 Enforcement Authority; Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa This section gives the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa the powers of a law enforcement agency, but only if it … 626.93 Law Enforcement Authority; Tribal Peace Officers This section lets a federally recognized Indian tribe in Minnesota exercise concurrent state law enforcement authority … 626.94 Conservation Law Enforcement Authority This section lets an Indian conservation enforcement authority (a federally recognized Minnesota tribe with the power to … 626.951 This section contains no operative statutory text. The body shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.9513 This section contains no operative statutory text. The body shows only the section number and a session law reference … 626.9514 Toll-free Telephone Number This section requires the Minnesota attorney general to operate and maintain a toll-free telephone number for complaints … 626.9517 Grant Program for Installation of Video Cameras in Police Vehicles This section governs a grant program through which the commissioner of public safety funds the purchase, installation, … 626.96 Blue Alert System This section directs the commissioner of public safety to establish a Blue Alert system to help identify, locate, and …