Minnesota Statutes 2025 - Chapter 645 - Interpretation of Statutes and Rules

Aug 27, 2026

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Minnesota Statutes 2025, Chapter 645, establishes rules for interpreting statutes and rules, including how particular words and phrases are applied within the chapter. It defines key terms, specifies standards for time and effective dates, and sets approaches for construing legislative intent, grammar, and provisos or exceptions. The chapter also addresses canons of construction, presumptions about retroactive effects, and the consequences of amendments, repeals, and reenactments on existing laws and code provisions.

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645.001 Applicability to Rules

645.01 Words and Phrases

Subdivision 1. Scope

Subdivision 2. Final enactment or enacted finally

Subdivision 3. Legislature

645.02 Effective Date and Time of Laws

645.021 Special Laws

Subdivision 1. Name required

Subdivision 2. Local approval required

Subdivision 3. Filing required

1 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2025 645.001 CHAPTER 645 INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES AND RULES 645.001 APPLICABILITY TO RULES. GENERAL PROVISIONS 645.01 WORDS AND PHRASES. 645.02 EFFECTIVE DATE AND TIME OF LAWS. 645.021 SPECIAL LAWS. 645.023 SPECIAL LAWS; ENACTMENT WITHOUT LOCAL APPROVAL. 645.024 SPECIAL LAWS; LOCAL APPROVAL AS REQUIREMENT OF ACT. 645.071 STANDARD OF TIME. CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS AND PHRASES 645.08 CANONS OF CONSTRUCTION. 645.09 NUMERALS. 645.10 BONDS. 645.11 PUBLISHED NOTICE. 645.12 POSTED NOTICE. 645.13 TIME; PUBLICATION FOR SUCCESSIVE WEEKS. 645.14 TIME; COMPUTATION OF MONTHS. 645.15 COMPUTATION OF TIME. 645.151 TIMELY DELIVERY OR FILING. CONSTRUCTION OF LAWS 645.16 LEGISLATIVE INTENT CONTROLS. 645.17 PRESUMPTIONSIN ASCERTAINING LEGISLATIVE INTENT. 645.18 GRAMMAR; SYNTAX; ELLIPSIS. 645.19 CONSTRUCTION OF PROVISOS AND EXCEPTIONS. 645.20 CONSTRUCTION OF SEVERABLE PROVISIONS. 645.21 PRESUMPTION AGAINST RETROACTIVE EFFECT. 645.22 UNIFORM LAWS. 645.24 PENALTIES FOR EACH OFFENSE. 645.241 PUNISHMENT FOR PROHIBITED ACTS. 645.25 INTENT TO DEFRAUD. 645.26 IRRECONCILABLE PROVISIONS. 645.27 STATE BOUND BY STATUTE; WHEN. 645.28 EXISTING LAWS; EFFECT OF REVISION OR CODE. 645.29 MANNER OF AMENDMENT. 645.30 EFFECT OF SEPARATE AMENDMENTS ON CODE PROVISIONS ENACTED AT SAME SESSION. 645.31 CONSTRUCTION OF AMENDATORY AND REFERENCE LAWS. 645.32 MERGER OF SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS. 645.33 TWO OR MORE AMENDMENTS TO SAME SECTION; ONE OVERLOOKING THE OTHER. 645.34 REPEAL OF AMENDATORY AND ORIGINAL LAWS SUBSEQUENTLY AMENDED. 645.35 EFFECT OF REPEAL. 645.36 EFFECT OF REPEAL OF REPEALER. 645.37 REPEAL AND REENACTMENT. 645.38 EFFECT OF REENACTMENT ON INTERVENING LAW. 645.39 IMPLIED REPEAL BY LATER LAW. 645.40 NONEXISTENCE OF REASON FOR LAW DOES NOT REPEAL IT. 645.41 NO IMPLIED REPEAL BY NONUSER. 645.42 EFFECT OF SEPARATE REPEALS ON CODE PROVISIONS ENACTED AT SAME SESSION. 645.43 EFFECT OF REPEAL ON LIMITATIONS. 645.435 APPROPRIATIONS GIVEN EFFECT ONCE. DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES 645.44 WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED. 645.445 SMALL BUSINESS; DEFINITIONS. 645.446 HEALTH PLAN COMPANIES. 645.45 DEFINITIONS, CONTINUED. 645.451 DEFINITIONS, CONTINUED. OTHER PROVISIONS 645.452 DISABILITIES OF MINORITY; TERMINATION AT AGE 18. 645.46 REFERENCE TO SUBDIVISION. 645.47 REFERENCE TO PARAGRAPH. 645.48 REFERENCE TO SECTION SERIES. 645.49 HEADNOTES. 645.51 GENDER REVISION OF 1986. 645.001 APPLICABILITY TO RULES. The provisions of this chapter, unless specifically provided to the contrary by law or rule, govern all rules becoming effective after June 30, 1981. History: 1981 c 253 s 35 Official Publication of the State of Minnesota Revisor of Statutes 645.01 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2025 2 GENERAL PROVISIONS 645.01 WORDS AND PHRASES. Subdivision 1. Scope. When used in this chapter the following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. Subd. 2. Final enactment or enacted finally. "Final enactment" or "enacted finally" for a bill passed by the legislature and signed by the governor means the date and time of day the governor signed the bill. For a bill passed by the legislature and allowed to become law without signature by the governor, it means the end of the last day on which the governor could have returned the bill with a veto to the legislature. Fora bill passed by the legislature but vetoed and reconsidered and approved by the legislature after the veto, it means the date and time of day of the final legislative vote approving the vetoed bill. Subd. 3. Legislature. "Legislature" means the senate and the house of representatives of the state of Minnesota. History: 1941 c 492 s 1; 1988 c 479 s 5 645.02 EFFECTIVE DATE AND TIME OF LAWS. Each act, except one making appropriations, enacted finally at any session of the legislature takes effect on August 1 next following its final enactment, unle

FAQs

When do rules under this chapter become effective?

Provisions of Chapter 645 govern all rules becoming effective after June 30, 1981, unless a law or rule specifically provides otherwise.

How is the effective date determined for laws enacted at a legislative session?

Generally, an act becomes effective on the following August 1 unless the act specifies a different date; special laws may require local approval before becoming effective, and appropriation acts generally take effect at the beginning of the first day of July next following final enactment.

What is required for a special law to apply to local government units?

A special law must name the local government unit (or applicable counties in certain cases) and requires local approval, typically by majority resolution of the affected governing body, unless an exception is provided in section 645.023.

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