Unless a different penalty or punishment is specifically prescribed, a person who willfully violates a provision of this chapter or a rule or order having the force and effect of law issued under authority of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days.
Minn. Stat. § 12.45
VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES.
Known as the Minnesota Emergency Management Act
The act spans §§ 12–12 (37 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Manteuffel v. City of North St. Paul (1997)
Most recently applied in Petra Brokken v. Hennepin County (June 2025)
1951 c 694 s 405; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1996 c 344 s 30; 2004 c 228 art 1 s 72
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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.
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.