Minn. Stat. § 609.62

DEFEATING SECURITY ON PERSONALTY.

Known as the Criminal Code

The act spans §§ 609.01 to 609.912 (377 sections).

Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case United States v. Matter (1987)

Most recently applied in State v. Larson (February 2000)

1963 c 753 art 1 s 609 .62; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 290 art 6 s 21

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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.

Subdivision 1. Definition.

In this section "security interest" means an interest in property which secures payment or other performance of an obligation.

Subd. 2. Acts constituting.

Whoever, with intent to defraud, does any of the following may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than three years or to payment of a fine of not more than $6,000, or both:

(1) conceals, removes, or transfers any personal property in which the actor knows that another has a security interest; or

(2) being an obligor and knowing the location of the property refuses to disclose the same to an obligee entitled to possession thereof.

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.