PURPOSE.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Card v. KANDIYOHI CTY. BD. OF COM'RS (2006)
Most recently applied in Citizens Advocating Responsible Development v. Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners (May 2006)
1973 c 412 s 1; 1986 c 444
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The purposes of Laws 1973, chapter 412, are:
(1) to declare a state policy that will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between human beings and their environment;
(2) to promote efforts that will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of human beings; and
(3) to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the state and to the nation.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.