8.01 APPEARANCE. The attorney general shall appear for the state in all causes in the supreme and federal courts wherein the state is directly interested; also in all civil causes of like nature in all other courts of the state whenever, in the attorney general’s opinion, the interests of the state require it. Upon request […]
8.02 DEPUTIES, ASSISTANTS. Subdivision 1. Appointment of deputies and assistants. The attorney general may appoint, and at pleasure remove, six deputy attorneys general and 35 assistant attorneys general. The appointees shall render such aid as is required of them in the discharge of the official duties of the attorney general. To the extent authorized in […]
8.025 PART-TIME SPECIAL ATTORNEYS, PAYMENT ON HOURLY BASIS. No part-time special attorney assigned to any professional or occupational licensing board of state government, after having received $10,000 for performing official duties in any fiscal year, regardless of the fund from which the payment is made, shall be paid an hourly amount exceeding the equivalent amount […]
8.03 PROSECUTIONS. The attorney general shall cause to be prosecuted all assessors and other officials for such delinquencies in connection with revenue laws as may become known; also all bonds of officers and others upon which any liability to the state has accrued. When any corporation shall have offended against the laws of the state, […]
8.04 PUBLIC LANDS. The attorney general shall begin and prosecute actions against all persons claiming to own any portion of the school or other public lands adversely to the state, whenever, in the attorney general’s opinion, an action can be sustained, and shall cause an appearance to be entered for the state on learning of […]
8.05 FORMS PREPARED; OPINIONS. The attorney general shall prepare forms for bonds and other contracts and instruments for the use of state officials, boards, and commissions and give legal advice in all matters relating to their official duties, whenever required by the governor, auditor, or secretary of state, or any board or commission created by […]
8.06 ATTORNEY FOR STATE OFFICERS, BOARDS, OR COMMISSIONS; EMPLOY COUNSEL. The attorney general shall act as the attorney for all state officers and all boards or commissions created by law in all matters pertaining to their official duties. When requested by the attorney general, it shall be the duty of any county attorney of the […]
8.065 PRIVATE ATTORNEY CONTRACTS. The attorney general may not enter into a contract for legal services in which the fees and expenses paid by the state exceed, or can reasonably be expected to exceed, $1,000,000 unless the attorney general first submits the proposed contract to the Legislative Advisory Commission, and waits at least 20 days […]
8.07 OPINIONS: QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The attorney general on application shall give an opinion, in writing, to county, city, town, public pension fund attorneys, or the attorneys for the board of a school district or unorganized territory on questions of public importance; and on application of the commissioner of education shall give […]
8.08 REPORT. The attorney general shall report to the governor biennially on or before October 1 of each even-numbered year the number, character, and result of all actions and proceedings in which the attorney general has appeared for the state, the expense incurred by the state in each, and the amount of fines, penalties, and […]
8.09 CLAIMS OF STATE AGAINST UNITED STATES; RETAIN COUNSEL. The attorney general is hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to retain attorneys to take exclusive charge of prosecuting, collecting, and recovering from the United States any such claim which may be developed, and to prosecute, at their own expense, any claim before such tribunal of the […]
8.10 COMPENSATION OF ATTORNEYS. The compensation of these attorneys for this service shall be 25 percent of the sums and amounts collected and received by the state, such compensation to be contingent upon collection and payment thereof to the state, with no further liability on the part of the state, and the amount of such […]
8.11 BRINGING ACTION TO RECOVER ON BONDS. The attorney general is hereby authorized, with the approval of the governor, to commence any action or proceeding, in the name of the state, to recover upon any bonds or obligations of any other state of the United States which may now or hereafter be held or owned […]
8.12 SOLICITOR GENERAL; DUTIES. There shall be in the Office of the Attorney General a solicitor general who shall be appointed by the attorney general from within the limitations of the authorized staff, and who shall perform such duties in the place and stead of the attorney general as may lawfully be assigned. History: 1955 […]
8.13 CONTEST OF BARRIERS ON DAIRY PRODUCTS. The attorney general is authorized to take such action as the attorney general deems necessary in order to contest or oppose existing statutes, ordinances, rules, orders or other trade barriers which may restrict the sale in other states of milk or other dairy products produced in Minnesota; to […]
8.14 ACTIONS CHALLENGING STATE EXPENDITURES; INTERVENTION. In any action in which the state of Minnesota or any of its officers is a party and the amount of state expenditures for a particular purpose is challenged on the ground that the expenditure is insufficient to enable the state or any of its agencies to comply with […]
8.15 ATTORNEY GENERAL COSTS. Subdivision 1. Fee schedules. The attorney general in consultation with the commissioner of management and budget shall develop a fee schedule to be used by the attorney general in developing the agreements authorized in subdivision 3. The attorney general must submit a billing rate for the next biennium to the commissioner […]
8.16 ATTORNEY GENERAL; ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENAS. Subdivision 1. Authority. The attorney general, or any deputy, assistant, or special assistant attorney general whom the attorney general authorizes in writing, has the authority in any county of the state to subpoena and require the production of any records of telephone companies, cellular phone companies, paging companies, subscribers of […]
8.20 DELEGATION OF CONTRACT REVIEW. The attorney general may delegate the power to approve contracts as to form and execution to any state official if it is determined that the delegation will produce a significant, demonstrable improvement in the efficiency or operation of state government. The attorney general may condition the delegation as the attorney […]
8.30 COMPROMISE OF TAX AND FEE CLAIMS. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the attorney general shall have authority to compromise taxes, fees, surcharges, assessments, penalties, and interest in all cases, whether reduced to judgment or not, where the debt is being reduced by an amount exceeding $50,000 and, in the attorney […]
