No person may be charged with or convicted of the offense of drunkenness or public drunkenness. Nothing herein prevents the prosecution and conviction of an intoxicated person for offenses other than drunkenness or public drunkenness nor does this section relieve a person from civil liability for an injury to persons or property caused by the person while intoxicated.
Minn. Stat. § 340A.902
DRUNKENNESS NOT A CRIME.
Known as the Liquor Act
The act spans §§ 340A.101 to 340A.910 (95 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Meehan v. Thompson (2014)
Most recently applied in 102 F. Supp. 3d 1065 - United States v. Weller (May 2015)
1985 c 305 art 11 s 2; 1987 c 152 art 1 s 1
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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.