Section 599.13 — Municipal And County Ordinances.
599.13 MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ORDINANCES. Copies of the ordinances, bylaws, resolutions, and regulations of any city, town, or county, certified by the mayor or president of the council, and the city clerk under its seal in the case of a city, or the chair of the town board and the town clerk in the case […]
Section 599.14 — Records Of Surveys, Evidence When.
599.14 RECORDS OF SURVEYS, EVIDENCE WHEN. Records of surveys made by any municipality, including field notes, profiles, plats, plans, and other files and records of such department, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the correctness of the facts shown and statements made therein. History: (9857) RL s 4703; 1998 c 324 s […]
Section 599.15 — Copies Of Decisions, Certified By Librarian.
599.15 COPIES OF DECISIONS, CERTIFIED BY LIBRARIAN. Copies of judicial decisions contained in any of the law or equity reports in the state library, and of any other papers or documents contained in such library, certified by the state librarian, shall be received in evidence in like manner and with like effect as the originals. […]
Section 595.08 — Perjury; Action Against Witness.
595.08 PERJURY; ACTION AGAINST WITNESS. When it shall appear probable to a court of record, having general jurisdiction, that a person who has testified in an action or proceeding before it has committed perjury in any testimony so given, it may, by order or process for that purpose, immediately commit the person to prison, or […]
Section 599.01 — Laws Of Foreign Countries.
599.01 LAWS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. The existence and the tenor or effect of all foreign laws may be proved as facts by parol evidence; but, if it appears that the law in question is contained in a written statute or code, the court may, in its discretion, reject any evidence of such law which is […]
Section 599.02 — Statutes Of Other States.
599.02 STATUTES OF OTHER STATES. Printed copies of the statute laws of any other state, or of a foreign country, which purport to be published under the authority of their respective governments, or if commonly admitted as evidence in their courts, are admissible as prima facie evidence of such laws in all cases in this […]
Section 595.021 — News Media; Protection Of Sources; Citation.
595.021 NEWS MEDIA; PROTECTION OF SOURCES; CITATION. Sections 595.021 to 595.025 may be cited as the “Minnesota Free Flow of Information Act.” History: 1973 c 735 s 1; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 181
Section 595.022 — Public Policy.
595.022 PUBLIC POLICY. In order to protect the public interest and the free flow of information, the news media should have the benefit of a substantial privilege not to reveal sources of information or to disclose unpublished information. To this end, the freedom of press requires protection of the confidential relationship between the news gatherer […]
Section 595.023 — Disclosure Prohibited.
595.023 DISCLOSURE PROHIBITED. Except as provided in section 595.024, no person who is or has been directly engaged in the gathering, procuring, compiling, editing, or publishing of information for the purpose of transmission, dissemination or publication to the public shall be required by any court, grand jury, agency, department or branch of the state, or […]
Section 595.024 — Exception And Procedure.
595.024 EXCEPTION AND PROCEDURE. Subdivision 1. Disclosure; application. A person seeking disclosure may apply to the district court of the county where the person employed by or associated with a news media resides, has a principal place of business or where the proceeding in which the information sought is pending. Subd. 2. Disclosure allowed; conditions. […]