Lakeville, MN

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-3-2 flatly bars anyone from disposing of refuse by open burning or from causing, allowing, or permitting refuse to be burned in…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, selling fireworks is unlawful except for state-defined legal fireworks sold under a license issued by the city and processed through the fire…

Lakeville allows backyard recreational fires without a permit as long as the fire is no more than three feet in diameter, sits at least 25 feet from any structure, and stays at least…

Minnesota DNR designates statewide and regional wildfire restriction zones during elevated fire danger, suspending all burning permits. Restrictions apply uniformly within designated…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 7-5-12-2 sets an odd/even sprinkling schedule every year from May 1 through September 30: addresses with odd numbers water on odd…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-3 makes weeds or grass over eight inches (8") tall a public nuisance on any lot with a building. After seven days' written…

Lakeville requires a tree preservation plan approved by the city forester before land disturbance or tree removal on properties tied to a subdivision, site plan, or new residential…

Lakeville homeowners in residential districts can grow native grasses and forbs taller than the normal eight inch height limit by obtaining a natural landscaping permit from the Zoning…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, backyard compost structures and neatly stacked firewood are allowed as accessory uses only in rear yards and must sit back 10 feet from all…

Minnesota does not restrict collecting rainwater in barrels for gardens and landscaping, but plumbed nonpotable rainwater catchment systems that supply fixtures, water features, or…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-4-1 bars operating a radio, stereo, musical instrument, or other sound device loudly enough to unreasonably disturb nearby…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-4-1 makes it a violation to operate a car stereo or other sound device inside a motor vehicle so it is plainly audible fifty…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-4-2 prohibits grading, heavy equipment start-up, power tool construction work, and vehicle repair between 10:00 P.M. and 7:00…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-4-2(A)(3) bans running a leaf blower or other domestic power maintenance equipment, including lawn mowers, hedge clippers…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, the zoning code has no general community decibel table; the only numeric sound limit applies to commercial car washes approved by conditional use…

City Code section 5-1-9(D) makes it unlawful in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota to keep or harbor a dog that habitually barks or cries. The code defines habitual barking as barking or…

Aircraft noise in Minnesota is governed primarily by federal aviation rules, with state oversight through the Metropolitan Airports Commission and MnDOT airport zoning standards. Local…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no owner may leave a vehicle, trailer, boat, snowmobile or seasonal vehicle on a street or alley between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. from November 1…

Lakeville City Code § 6-1-9 lets the City Council designate loading zones marked "LOADING ZONE, NO PARKING" where commercial vehicles may load and unload. Parking there for any other…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, keeping a junk motor vehicle on any property, public or private, is a declared public nuisance under City Code Section 4-1-6. The zoning code's…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, single-family, two-family, and townhouse properties may not park anywhere in the front, side, or rear yard except on a driveway surfaced with…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code § 11-19-15 allows Level 1 and Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations as an accessory use in every zoning district, while Level 3…

Lakeville bans parking or storing any commercial vehicle or equipment in a rural or residential district under City Code section 11-22-3.B. The only exception is while the vehicle is…

Lakeville lets a homeowner keep up to two licensed, operable recreational vehicles or boats outside a building under City Code section 11-22-5.A.2. Front yard storage has to sit…

City Code section 6-1-1-3(A) bars leaving any vehicle, trailer, boat, snowmobile or seasonal vehicle on a City of Lakeville, Minnesota street, alley or city lot for more than forty…

City Code section 6-1-1-3(D) makes it unlawful in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota to park a vehicle, trailer, boat, snowmobile or seasonal vehicle so it blocks a driveway or a…

Minnesota Statutes chapter 168B governs nonconsensual towing and impoundment. It sets no cap on hookup, mileage, storage, or gate fees, and it creates no drop fee for an owner who…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, every short-term rental permit holder must certify before approval that no property taxes, special assessments or city utility fees are delinquent…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a short-term rental permit requires that noise not carry beyond the property line, with reduced noise levels required between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, short-term rental permits follow a three-strike suspension and revocation ladder under City Code section 9-10-8: a first offense draws a correction…

City Code § 9-10-7.D confines every short-term rental guest's vehicle to a passenger car parked in the garage or on a compliant driveway, and bars any transient vehicle from a public…

Since Ordinance 1120 took effect February 17, 2026, no one may rent out or even advertise a Lakeville dwelling as a short-term rental of 31 days or less without a permit from the…

City Code § 9-10-7.B caps every permitted Lakeville short-term rental at two adults per bedroom, plus their dependent children, counting any permanent occupants who are present at the…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, any modular block retaining wall built as part of a subdivision grading plan must meet MN/DOT design requirements, and any retaining wall with a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, most fences need zoning administrator approval under City Code § 11-21-5(A), while any fence seven feet or taller requires a full building permit…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code § 11-21-5(B) puts the burden of verifying property lines on the fence owner before construction, requiring a registered land surveyor's…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code § 11-21-5(C) bars barbed-end security fences citywide and limits electric and barbed wire fencing to agricultural use. Electric fences…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code § 11-21-5(F) caps residential fences at six feet, allowing up to eight feet in the rear yard with added setbacks, and only four feet with…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, pet shops selling live dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, reptiles, or fish are allowed only as a conditional use in certain commercial districts, and…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, keeping backyard chickens requires an administrative permit under City Code chapter 8 and section 11-35-3.C. Ordinance 1126, adopted August 3…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, honey bees and apiaries were newly authorized by Ordinance 1126, adopted August 3, 2026, adding section 11-35-3.D to the Zoning Ordinance…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, pet grooming is regulated as part of a pet shop conditional use permit in commercial zoning districts: City Code section 11-65-7.N requires…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, veterinary clinics are a conditional use in commercial and mixed-use zoning districts: City Code section 11-65-7.R requires soundproofed indoor…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no owner may let a dog run at large; on any city park, street, trail or sidewalk a dog must be on a leash no longer than twenty five feet. If a…

Lakeville has no breed-specific ban; instead, City Code section 5-1-9(B) lets a police officer or animal control officer designate any dog as potentially dangerous or dangerous based…

Lakeville, Minnesota has no general pet microchip mandate; the requirement applies only after a dog is declared potentially dangerous or dangerous under City Code section 5-1-9(B). A…

City Code section 5-1-19 bars anyone in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota from keeping wild cats, wild canines, wolf-dog hybrids, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, venomous or constricting…

Minnesota Statute 343.21 establishes statewide animal cruelty offenses including overworking, depriving food or water, and torture. Hoarding cases are prosecuted as cruelty and apply…

Minnesota Statute 97B.106 restricts deer feeding statewide in counties affected by chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis. DNR rules supplement the law and apply uniformly…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, Ordinance 1126 added an accessory living quarters standard to the RS-CBD district at City Code section 11-54-11.G that stops short of allowing a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, an accessory dwelling unit for housing multiple generations is allowed by administrative permit in single-family zoning districts under City Code…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a detached shed up to 200 square feet needs only a zoning permit and a 6-foot setback from other structures, while anything larger needs a building…

Minnesota's tiny-home statute, Minn. Stat. § 327.30, legalizes "micro units", permanent dwellings of 400 gross square feet or less, but only when placed within a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code § 11-21-5(G)(3) requires every permitted swimming pool to have a physical barrier at least four feet tall with gaps no larger than four…

Lakeville requires Zoning Administrator approval under City Code section 11-21-9.G before anyone builds a swimming pool twenty four inches deep or deeper with more than 150 square feet…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a home daycare serving fourteen or fewer persons inside a single-family detached dwelling is a permitted accessory use in every residential…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, running a home occupation such as a hair salon, massage therapy or tutoring service inside a house requires an administrative permit under City…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a home-based business may not display any exterior sign, or any interior sign visible from outside the house, except for a single sign no larger…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a home occupation cannot serve more than one pupil, client or customer on the premises at a time, and instructional classes face the same one-pupil…

Minnesota Statutes section 28A.152 establishes the statewide cottage food exemption, allowing home producers to sell certain non-potentially-hazardous foods directly to consumers after…

Minnesota has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, and its food code closes the door from the other side. Minn. R. 4626.1425 says a private home, a room used as living…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, anyone conducting business as a peddler or transient merchant must hold both a county license under Minnesota Statutes chapter 329 and a city…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, residents can block door-to-door sales by posting a placard reading No Peddlers, Solicitors, or Transient Merchants at least 3 3/4 inches square…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, plumbing work is governed through the city's adoption of the Minnesota State Building Code under City Code section 9-1-1. Before installing a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 9-6-6 requires an electrical permit for every installation, alteration, addition or repair of electrical work for light, heat and…

Lakeville enforces the Minnesota State Building Code under City Code section 9-1-2 through a City-appointed, State-certified building official. Site and construction plans need…

Lakeville adopts the Minnesota State Building Code by reference in City Code section 9-1-1, and section 9-1-3 ties every permit and fee to Minnesota Statutes section 16B.62, plus a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 11-38-7.G requires every cannabis business operating in the I-1 or I-2 Industrial Districts to install deadbolt locks on all…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, any parade, march, procession or outdoor entertainment event with more than 20 participants requires a permit from the Lakeville Chief of Police…

Lakeville City Code § 7-1-4-7 governs groups using a rented city park: if any member of the group violates a city ordinance, the entire group faces immediate expulsion from the park…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, restaurants in the C-CBD downtown district can place tables and chairs on the public sidewalk directly abutting their business property under…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 4-1-3 treats weeds or grass over eight inches (8") as a public nuisance on any vacant lot, outlot, or parcel under one acre that…

Lakeville City Code § 7-3-8 requires property owners and occupants to clear snow and ice from sidewalks abutting their property within 48 hours. After written notice, the city can…

City Code § 9-8-3 amends the International Property Maintenance Code to require every structure's exterior, foundation, walls and roof to stay in sound condition and repair. A building…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, any retailer selling tobacco, tobacco products or electronic delivery devices and e-cigarettes must hold a city license under City Code § 3-6-3…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, operating any sexually oriented business, adult bookstore, adult theater, escort agency, adult cabaret, nude model studio or sexual encounter…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no person may operate as a pawnbroker without a license issued under City Code section 3-15-3. Licensees must post a $10,000 bond, pay council-set…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, anyone buying secondhand items containing gold, silver or platinum, such as jewelry or watches, must be licensed as a precious metal dealer under…

Lakeville City Code § 6-1-4 lets the police chief have any vehicle parked in violation of the city's parking rules towed and stored by a contracted garage or filling station business…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no person may operate a massage therapy center, alone or alongside another business, without a license issued under City Code Chapter 3-21. The…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a home occupation cannot include repair service or manufacturing that needs equipment beyond what is normally found in a house, which rules out…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 7-3-8 puts the duty to clear ice and snow from public sidewalks on the owner or occupant of the abutting property, not the city…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, blocking or tending to block passage on a public sidewalk, street, alley, or other public ground is a declared nuisance under City Code Section…

City Code section 7-17-1 bars anyone but the City from disturbing land or placing improvements, materials, a structure, or a building on City-owned easements, rights-of-way, parcels…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 7-8-3 requires bicycles on a roadway with a designated bike lane to stay in that lane except to turn, cross the roadway, or…

Minnesota runs two separate tracks. A motorized golf cart, ATV, utility task vehicle or mini truck may use a public road only where the county, city or town has passed an ordinance…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 3-24-8 bars using cannabis flower, cannabis products, lower potency hemp edibles, or hemp-derived consumer products in any public…

Lakeville City Code § 6-1-7 adopts Minnesota's open bottle law and makes it a crime to possess an opened or resealed container of alcohol, distilled spirits or 3.2 percent malt liquor…

Lakeville City Code § 7-1-7 bans smoking, including vaping and other electronic delivery devices, in every city park, in public parking lots adjacent to a park, and inside any motor…

Lakeville City Code § 7-1-2 makes it unlawful to be in any city park between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., with narrow exceptions for designated camping areas, activities covered by a…

City Code chapter 5-3 sets nighttime curfew hours for minors in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota. Under fifteen, a minor cannot be in public between 10 PM and 5 AM Sunday through…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, hotels, motels, rooming houses, tourist courts and resorts must collect a three percent local lodging tax on the gross receipts charged for…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no one may operate a mobile food unit, whether a truck, trailer or self-propelled cart, without a license issued under City Code Chapter 3-23…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, mobile food units within the Commercial Central Business District may vend only on private or public parking lots with the property owner's written…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a cannabis retail business, other than a lower-potency hemp business, may not operate within five hundred feet of a school under City Code section…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, cannabis retail and other licensed cannabis businesses are confined to the O-P Office Park District among commercial zones and to the I-1 and I-2…

Minnesota Statutes section 342.09 allows adults 21 and older to cultivate up to eight cannabis plants per residence, with no more than four mature, statewide. Cities cannot prohibit…

Every household in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota must be under contract with a licensed hauler for regular trash pickup under City Code Section 4-2-2. Single-family, two-family, and…

Owners and managers of multiple, or apartment, dwellings in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota must build weekly recycling collection into every trash contract under City Code Section…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, trash and recycling containers must sit near the street, clear of the traveled roadway, and can only stay out for twenty-four hours around…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, licensed haulers must refuse mixed trash that contains yard waste and can only collect yard waste, bagged in compostable ASTM D6400 bags or a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, it is unlawful for any person or business to scavenge, collect, or remove recyclable materials once they are set out for pickup without a City…

Large event venues in the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, gatherings of at least 300 people generating at least one ton of trash and back-of-house organics, must provide recycling and…

Dumping mixed municipal solid waste, yard waste, or recyclables on Lakeville streets, alleys, parks, or vacant lots violates City Code section 4-2-3(B), and placing trash in someone…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, single-family homes are exempt from the full dumpster enclosure rule but must still keep garbage and recycling receptacles in a side or rear yard…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, commercial and multifamily dumpsters must sit in a side or rear yard enclosure at least 6 feet tall, set back 10 feet from the property line and…

Minnesota state law bans appliances, electronics, tires, lead-acid batteries, and mercury-containing devices from solid waste disposal. These items must be recycled through approved…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, development must follow erosion and sediment control best management practices under the Minnesota Stormwater Manual and the state NPDES general…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, City Code section 7-16-3 bans illegal dumping and illicit discharges into the storm drain system. Property owners must dechlorinate pool water for…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, land within the FW Floodway, FF Flood Fringe, or GFD General Floodplain overlay districts is closed to any use, structure, or fill that is not…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, new construction in the floodplain overlay district must be built to the regulatory flood protection elevation, which Lakeville City Code section…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, piers and docks in the S, Shoreland district are exempt from the ordinary high water level setback that otherwise applies to shoreland structures…

Development along Minnesota's Lake Superior shoreland outside Duluth must meet the standards in the North Shore Management Plan, set statewide by Minnesota Rules 6120.2800, subpart 1a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a heritage tree is a healthy hardwood deciduous tree at least thirty inches in diameter or a healthy conifer at least forty feet tall; the tree…

Lakeville's zoning code singles out heritage trees, hardwood deciduous trees thirty inches or more in diameter or conifers at least forty feet tall, for the strongest protection in its…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, data centers are a defined permitted use under City Code section 11-2-3, allowed in the C-2, C-3, O-P and I-1 zoning districts. Section 11-19-13.A…

Lakeville's Fire Prevention Code exempts wood smokers, charcoal grills, manufactured hibachis, and propane or natural gas cooking devices from the definition of open burning under City…

In buildings with three or more dwelling units sharing a hallway or exit, Lakeville bans any fire, open flame, barbecue, or fuel storage on balconies and within 15 feet of a…

Lakeville adopted the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code by City Code § 9-8-3, and its own amendments force every landlord who lets a dwelling or sleeping unit to supply heat…

City Code § 9-9-5 makes it unlawful to rent any dwelling unit in Lakeville without first registering it with the city and receiving a certificate of registration. Every owner or their…

Since a 2023 amendment, Minn. Stat. Sec. 504B.321, subd. 1a requires a landlord to give a tenant 14 days' written notice before filing an eviction for nonpayment of rent. The notice…

Under Minn. Stat. Sec. 504B.211 a landlord must give reasonable notice of not less than 24 hours before entering a tenant's unit and may enter only for a reasonable business purpose…

Minn. Stat. Sec. 504B.177 caps late fees on residential rent at 8% of the overdue rent payment and allows a late fee only if landlord and tenant agreed to it in writing. The statute…

Under Minn. Stat. Sec. 504B.135, either party may end a tenancy at will with written notice at least as long as the rent interval or three months, whichever is less. For monthly rent…

Minnesota has no statewide rent cap and generally bars local rent control under Minn. Stat. § 471.9996, but it carves out one exception: a city, county, or town may control rents if…

Minnesota has no rent control statute and no dollar cap on rent increases. A rent change on a month-to-month tenancy takes effect at a new term, so notice follows the termination rule…

Minnesota sets no statutory cap on residential security deposits under Minn. Stat. § 504B.178. The landlord must return the deposit, plus 1% simple interest, within three weeks after…

Minn. Stat. Sec. 541.02 sets a 15-year limitations period to recover real estate, the basis for adverse possession. For platted, taxed land the claimant must also have paid the…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, garage and rummage sales in residential zoning districts are capped at four consecutive days per sale and no more than two sales per calendar year…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, exterior lighting must not spill onto neighboring land. City Code caps cumulative light at 115 foot-candles on the lit property and 1 foot-candle…

Lakeville caps window signs at twenty five percent of a window's total area under City Code section 11-23-7.H. Because the rule sits in the chapter's permit-not-required section, a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, electronic changeable copy or graphic display signs are allowed only in the C-2 and C-3 zoning districts, one per site, and require a sign license…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, freestanding signs within the Freeway Corridor District along I-35 get larger and taller allowances than elsewhere. Within the M-1, C-2, C-3, O-P…

Minnesota Statute 211B.045 preempts municipal regulation of noncommercial signs during a defined election window. From 46 days before the state primary through 10 days after the…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, solar energy systems are a permitted accessory use in every zoning district, but installation still requires a building permit before any work…

Minn. Stat. 500.216 bars homeowners associations and other private entities from prohibiting a roof-mounted solar energy system on a qualifying single-family home. Effective July 1…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, every permitted, conditional, interim, and administrative-permit use inside the RH-CBD zoning district must match the property's guidance under the…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, the Agricultural Preserve (A-P) zoning district blocks new residential dwellings within 1,000 feet of an existing animal feedlot, protecting…

Minnesota's Right to Farm law in Minn. Stat. 561.19 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when they have operated for at least two years and comply with…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, the RS-1 single-family district caps principal buildings at three stories or 35 feet, whichever is less, under City Code section 11-50-15. RS-2 and…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, the RS-1 single-family district requires 30-foot front and rear yard setbacks and side yards of 10 feet per side (20 feet abutting a right-of-way)…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, the O-P, Office Park zoning district caps how much of a lot can be covered by anything other than landscaping. Lakeville City Code section…

Minnesota Statutes Chapter 360 classifies unmanned aircraft as aircraft subject to FAA regulation and state aeronautics rules. The Department of Transportation Office of Aeronautics…

Minnesota's Earned Sick and Safe Time law in Minn. Stat. 181.9445 to 181.9448 provides statewide accrual rights, while a separate state Paid Leave program under chapter 268B begins…

Minnesota issues permits to carry pistols under the Minnesota Citizens' Personal Protection Act, codified at Minn. Stat. 624.714, with sheriffs administering shall-issue permitting for…

Minnesota statute 471.633 broadly preempts local firearms regulation, reserving authority over the lawful sale, transfer, possession, carrying, transportation, storage, and use of…

Minnesota law treats open carry of a pistol the same as concealed carry, requiring a permit under Minn. Stat. 624.714, while long-gun open carry is generally lawful absent local…

Minnesota requires a permit to carry a pistol on or about the person or in a vehicle under Minn. Stat. 624.714, with state preemption barring stricter local rules under Minn. Stat…

Nonprofit, fraternal, veterans', and religious organizations need a license from the Gambling Control Board before running bingo, raffles, paddlewheels, tipboards, or pull-tabs. Minn…

Minnesota's gambling statute excludes "a private social bet not part of or incidental to organized, commercialized, or systematic gambling" from the legal definition of a bet. Under…

Minnesota has never authorized a licensed sportsbook. Placing a bet is a misdemeanor under Minn. Stat. § 609.755(1), and taking bets crosses into gross-misdemeanor or felony territory…

Under the Minnesota Common Interest Ownership Act (Minn. Stat. Ch. 515B), an association gets an automatic lien for unpaid assessments. Section 515B.3-116 gives it a six-month…

The Minnesota Common Interest Ownership Act requires open board meetings (Minn. Stat. § 515B.3-103), annual meetings with director elections (§ 515B.3-108), and gives owners broad…

Minnesota law overrides HOA covenants in two areas. Minn. Stat. § 500.216 bars associations from prohibiting roof-mounted solar on qualifying single-family homes, and Minn. Stat. §…

Minnesota Statutes section 500.215 makes void and unenforceable any deed restriction, restrictive covenant, homeowners association document, lease term, contract, or even a local…

Minnesota Statutes section 515B.3-102(a)(11) lets a common interest community association levy reasonable fines for violations of the declaration, bylaws, and rules, but only after…

A Minnesota common interest community association can foreclose on your home without ever going to court. Minn. Stat. § 515B.3-116(h)(1) gives the association a power of sale to…

Minnesota is one of the states that runs the opposite way on this question. Nothing in the Minnesota Common Interest Ownership Act caps how far an association may restrict leasing…

Minnesota does not run sobriety checkpoints, and it never legislated for them. The words checkpoint and roadblock do not appear anywhere in chapter 169A, the impaired driving chapter…

Minnesota is a one-party consent state. Minn. Stat. section 626A.02, subdivision 2, paragraph (d) makes it lawful for a person not acting under color of law to record a wire…

Minnesota has never enacted a general stop-and-identify statute. Neither chapter 609, the criminal code, nor chapter 629, the arrest chapter, creates an offence of refusing to give a…

Minnesota wrote the rule into the search chapter, not the legalisation act. Minn. Stat. section 626.223, added by 2024 Laws chapter 123, article 3, section 5 and effective 1 August…

Minnesota previously preempted local plastic bag bans under Minn. Stat. 325E.045, but the legislature repealed that preemption in 2023, allowing cities like Minneapolis to enforce bag…

Minnesota raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco and electronic delivery devices to 21 in 2020 through changes tied to Minn. Stat. 461.12 and 609.685, aligning with federal Tobacco…

Minnesota does not impose a statewide flavored tobacco ban, but Minn. Stat. 461.12 authorizes cities and counties to adopt stricter local rules including restrictions on menthol and…

Minnesota allows extra forward lighting but counts and measures it. Minn. Stat. 169.56 lets any motor vehicle carry no more than two spot lamps, two fog lamps mounted 12 to 30 inches…

Minnesota answers the dash cam question with a closed list rather than a measurement. Minn. Stat. 169.71, subd. 1(a)(2) bars any object suspended between the driver and the windshield…

Minnesota motorcyclists may split and filter, but only in slow traffic. Minn. Stat. § 169.974, subd. 5(f) still prohibits riding between lanes, riding abreast of another vehicle in the…

Minnesota leaves no room for a tinted, smoked or even perfectly clear plate cover. Minn. Stat. § 169.79, subd. 7 says it is unlawful to cover the assigned letters and numbers, or the…

Minnesota has never written a radar detector statute. A full-text search of the 2025 Minnesota Statutes on the Revisor of Statutes site returns zero occurrences of the phrase "radar…

Minnesota does not have a studded-tire season. Minn. Stat. § 169.72, subd. 1(c) bars any tire on a highway from carrying a block, stud, flange, cleat or spike of any material other…

Minnesota applies one light-transmittance figure to the whole car. Minn. Stat. 169.71, subd. 4(3) bars driving a Minnesota-registered vehicle whose side or rear windows pass less than…