Index

Abbreviations: Avoiding; Definitions, use in; References, prohibited; "Subd."
"Abode"
Accounts: Dedicated receipt accounts; Names
"Action"
Active voice
Addresses: Paragraph form
Adjournment: Concurrent resolution; Deadlines for governor's action; Reconsidered bills; Resolutions
Administration Department: State lands, control
Administrative rules: Agencies, creating; Amendments (1), (2); Corrections, rules on; Effective dates and; Exempt rules; Laws about; Preemptions by statute; Repeals of rules; "Rule," defined; Rulemaking authority; Statutory authority of rules, repeal
Adoption: Definition of "child"; Special laws
Adoptions by reference: See Incorporations by reference
"Adult" (1), (2)
Adult Release Office: Duties; Rules on
Advisory bills: Example; Form
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
"Affirm"
"Affirmation"
Age: Statutory definitions (1), (2)
"Agency"
Aircraft: Constitutional provisions
Airports: Constitutional provisions (1), (2)
A.M.: Abbreviations; With figures
Ambiguity: Defined; "May not"; Passive voice
Amendments to amendments: Form (1), (2)
Amendments to bills: Bills from other house; Committee amendments; "Delete everything" amendments; - - Form; - - Generally (1), (2); - - House committee reports (1), (2); - - Senate committee reports (1), (2), (3); Deletions (1), (2)
Engrossing, see Engrossments
Floor amendments, see Floor amendments: House (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); Most recent engrossment (1), (2); Motions in committee (1), (2); "Page and line" amendments; - - Basic operations; - - Examples (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7); - - Generally; - - Structure; Page and line references; "Partial delete" amendments; Punctuation; Renumbering and relettering; Rule 49 amendments (1), (2), (3); Senate; - - Committee amendments; - - - - Generally; - - - - To House files; - - Floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7); - - Rules on; - - Rule 49 amendments (1), (2), (3), (4); Striking, see Strikeouts; Titles; Unengrossable amendments; Unofficial engrossments
Amendments to statutes: Appropriations bills; Bill form, requirements (1), (2); Chapter 473, list of affected counties; Choice of amendment or repeal; Headnote changes (1), (2); Introductory language (1), (2), (3); List of sections, in title; Numerical order; References in bill title
American Heritage Dictionary
"An act" (1), (2)
"And": Lists; Resolutions
Apostrophes
Appellate courts
Application of laws: To state
Appropriations: Account names; Allocation by fiscal year; Allotments and encumbrances; "Appropriated"; Capital improvements; Carryforward (1), (2); Claims bill (1), (2); Claims by individuals, legality; Constitutional provisions; Dedicated receipts; Defined; Effective dates (1), (2), (3), (4); Elements of (1), (2); Even-numbered year; Fund names; Lapse; Line-item vetoes (1), (2); Minnesota Historical Society; Odd-numbered year; Omnibus appropriations bills, see Omnibus appropriations bills; Open appropriations (1), (2); Position in bill (1), (2); Reinstatement; Requirement for payments; Resolutions, prohibited; Riders, see Omnibus appropriations bills; Standing appropriations (1), (2); State bond fund; State budget system; Titles (1), (2); Words of appropriation
Archaeological approach
Articles: Headings, example; Numbering; Use in bill drafting
"As now provided by law"
"As provided by law"
"Assignment"
Athletic honors: Resolutions (1), (2)
"Attorney at law"
Attorney general: Criminal justice functions; Opinions; Vacancy in office
"Attorney of record": Audience
Authors: Rule 49 amendments
Battered women: Services
Bill jackets: Endorsement of approval
Bills: Amendments, see Amendments to bills; Articles; Definitions, see Definitions; Drafting; - - Manual (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); - - Models, finding; - - Standards; - - Textbooks; Enacting clauses, see Enacting clauses; Form approval by revisor; House of origin (1), (2); Policy statements (1), (2); Presentment to governor (1), (2), (3), (4); Purpose statements (1), (2); Readings; Repealers, see Repeals; Sections, see Sections of bills; Subdivisions, see Subdivisions; Titles, see Titles
Bills of attainder
Boards: See State agencies
Bonds: Agencies with bonding power, creating; Bonding bills; - - Authority to issue bonds (1), (2); - - Examples (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); - - Generally; - - Issuing procedure (1), (2); - - Law on; - - Local government bonds; - - New political subdivisions; - - Payment assurances (1), (2), (3); - - Payment method; - - Policy or purpose statements; Constitutional provisions (1), (2); Debt limits; Impairment of contracts; Jargon; Maturity; Permanent university fund; Refunding bonds; State bond fund
Boundaries: County boundaries, moving (1), (2); Erroneous; Legislative districts
Brackets: Headnotes (1), (2), (3); Proposed coding (1), (2), (3)
Budgets: Approved complements Laws on; Process, appropriations; Program budgeting; Project budgeting
Capital improvements: Appropriations, lapse
Capitalization: Generally; Headnotes; Resolutions (1), (2); "Sections"; "Subdivisions"; Tables
Cases: AFSCME Councils, 6, 14, 65 and 96 v. Sundquist; Americans United Inc. v. Independent School District No. 622; Apartment Operators Assn. v. City of Minneapolis; Arens v. Village of Rogers; Barlau v. Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Co.; Beltrami, County of, v. Marshall; Board of Education for the Unorganized Territory of St. Louis County v. Borgen; Butler v. Hatfield; Cashman v. Hedberg; Christgau v. Woodlawn Cemetery Association (1), (2); Cold Spring Granite Co., in re; Commonwealth v. Maxwell; Contos v. Herbst; Dissolution of School District No. 33, in re,; Duxbury v. Donovan; Elwell v. County of Hennepin; Essling v. Brubacker; Garberg v. Hennepin County; Gardner v. Holm; Guilliams v. Commissioner of Revenue; Halverson v. Elsberg; InterFaculty Organization v. Carlson; Johnson v. Carlson; Karger's Estate, in re; La Crescent Constant Care Center, Inc. v. State Department of Public Welfare; Layne-Minnesota Co. v. Regents of the University of Minnesota; Lenz v. Coon Creek Watershed District; Lifteau v. Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission (1), (2); Little Earth of United Tribes, Inc., v. Hennepin County; Lund v. Hennepin County; McCannel, matter of; Minneapolis Eastern Ry. Co. v. Minneapolis; Minneapolis Gas Company v. L. P. Zimmerman; Minnegasco, Inc. v. County of Carver; Minnesota Energy and Economic Development Authority v. Printy; Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority v. Hawke; Minnesota Housing Finance Agency v. Hatfield (1), (2); Minnesota Microwave v. Public Service Commission; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency v. Hatfield; Minnesota Recipients Alliance v. Noot (1), (2); Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co.; Monaghan v. Armatage; New Brighton, City of, v. Metropolitan Council; Northern Pacific Ry. Co. v. Duluth; Olson v. Griffith Wheel Company; Peterson v. Humphrey et al.; Petition of S.R.A., Inc., in re; Randall Jacques v. Pike Power Co.; Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Lord; Rio Vista Nonprofit Housing Group v. Ramsey County; State ex rel. Chase v. Preus; State ex rel. Foster v. Naftalin; State ex rel. Paff v. Kelley; State ex rel. Peterson v. Quinlivan; State ex rel. University of Minnesota v. Chase; State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., in the matter of; State v. Arnold; State v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.; State v. City of Duluth; State v. Coolidge; State v. Hartmann; State v. Keith; State v. Mower County; State v. Suess; State v. Walsh; State v. Wasgatt; State v. Wingo; Thomas v. Housing and Redevelopment Authority of Duluth (1), (2); United States Fire Insurance Co. v. Minnesota State Zoological Board; Visina v. Freeman (1), (2); Wallace v. Commissioner of Taxation (1), (2); Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld; Welsch v. Likins
Celsius: Spelling out
Certificates of indebtedness: Constitutional provisions
"Chair"
Chapters: Session laws; - - Assignment; - - Repeal
Chicago Manual of Style (1), (2)
Chief Clerk of the House: Engrossments (1), (2); Enrollments; Floor amendments
"Child": Child, Barbara
Children: Defined; Special laws
Christie, George
Chronological order
Citations: See References
Cities: Bonds; - - Generally; - - Railroad bonds (1), (2); "City" defined (1), (2); "Home rule charter city" defined; Home rule charters; Land sales to; Organization; Police; Special laws; "Statutory city," defined; Taxes
Claims against the state: Claims bill (1), (2); Legality
Clauses: Lettering or numbering; Numbers, punctuation; Renumbering
Code of Federal Regulations
Coding: Generally; Joint rules on; Proposed, see Proposed coding; Renumbering
Colons: In amendments; Uses
Commas
Commissioners: Absence of capitalization
Commissions: See State agencies
Committee of the whole: Floor amendments
Committee reports: Attaching to bill; Conference committees, see Conference committee reports; Form; House; - - Examples (1), (2), (3); - - On Senate file; Senate; - - Examples (1), (2), (3); - - On Senate file
Committees: Amendments in, Senate; Chair, duties; Committee bills; House ways and means committee; Meetings, tape recordings (1), (2); Motions in (1), (2); Reports, see Committee reports; Secretaries; Senate finance committee
Common law: Comparison with new law, evidence; Crimes, abolished
Community Corrections Act: Administration; Rules
Companion bills: Absent for omnibus bills
Compass points: Abbreviations
Computations
Computer searches: Drafting aid
"Conditional sale"
Conditions
Condolences
Conference committee reports: Accounting for matters in dispute; Amendments in (1), (2), (3), (4); Form
Congressional districts: Boundaries
Consistency of terms
Constitution of Minnesota: Amendments; - - Examples (1), (2), (3); Resolutions not used; Appropriations; Bill of rights; Bills of attainder; Contracts, impairment; County boundaries; County seats; Due process; Ex post facto laws; Freedom of religion (1), (2); index52Headnotes; Involuntary servitude; Local laws; Mineral taxes (1), (2); One-subject rule (1), (2); References to; Religious schools, public money (1), (2); Rules of each house; Slavery; Special laws; Swamplands; Taxation provisions (1), (2); Tax cases; Titles of bills, requirements; Trust fund lands
Constitution of the United States: Amendments to; - - Proposing; - - Ratifying (1), (2), (3); Freedom of religion
Contracts: Impairment of
Copper: Constitutional provisions
Copper-nickel: Constitutional provisions
Corporations: Special laws
Corrections Department: Criminal justice functions; Statutes
Council of State Governments: Bills of other states
Counties: Bonds; - - Generally; - - Railroad bonds (1), (2); Boundaries; - - Moving (1), (2); Contiguous counties; - - Local laws; "County" defined; County seats, moving; Metropolitan area counties; Names, "county" uncapitalized; Special laws (1), (2)
County attorneys: Duties; Statutes
County Attorneys' Council (1), (2)
"Court administrator"
Court of appeals: Constitution; Jurisdiction
Court rules: Criminal procedure, see Rules of criminal procedure; References to
Courts: Court of appeals, see Court of appeals; Judges, see Judges; Rules, see Court rules; Specific courts, laws regarding; Supreme court, see Supreme Court
Credit: Loan of the state's credit
Crimes: Bibliography on; Criminal penalties, mention in title; Criminal procedure (1), (2); Driving while intoxicated (1), (2); Effective dates; Ex post facto laws; Juvenile offenders; Law on (1), (2); Rules of criminal procedure, see Rules of criminal procedure; Victims; - - Services; - - Statutes; Violations, defined
Crime Victims Reparation Board
Criminal Apprehension Bureau: Functions; Rules
Criminal Justice Information System: Function
Cross-references: In statutes; - - Changing by revisor's instruction; - - Table
DARE program: Resolutions
Dashes
Dates: Commas with; Form
"Day"
Debate: Recordings; Resolutions
Debt: See Public debt
Decimals: Figures or words
Definitions: Common errors; Examples; "Means"; Minnesota Statutes, chapter 645; Needless, omitting; Position in bill; Quotation marks; Substituting for initialisms; Terms defined by statute
Degree: Spelling out
"Delete" (1), (2)
Dickerson, Reed: Ambiguity (1), (2); Shall and may; Singular and plural in drafting
District court: Districts; Jurisdiction
"District of Columbia"
Divorce: Special laws
Driving while intoxicated: Laws on; Prosecutions
Due process: Constitutional provisions; Interstate business
Duties: Voice and
Education: Education revenue bill; Schools, see Schools
Effective dates: Amendments affecting; Appropriations (1), (2), (3), (4); Drafting (1), (2), (3); Examples (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); General laws; Headnotes; Immediate effective dates; Income tax laws, example (1), (2); Local laws (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8); Position in bill; Property tax laws, example (1), (2); Retroactive; - - Example; - - Statutory construction; Special laws; Statutes governing (1), (2), (3); Tax laws (1), (2), (3), (4); Time
Ejusdem Generis
Eminent Domain
Employment: Impairment of contracts; State agency employees
Enacting clauses: Colons with; Constitutional requirement; Form (1), (2); Position in bills; Retaining, in delete everything amendments
Enactment: Date, and statutory construction
Engrossments: Changes; Checking; Chief Clerk of the House (1), (2); Conference committee reports (1), (2), (3), (4); Engrossing files; Engrossing secretary; Floor amendments (1), (2), (3); Identifying, in amendments; Most recent engrossment; Numbering; Official, house of origin (1), (2); Process (1), (2); Secretary of the Senate; Unengrossable amendments; Unofficial; - - Discussion (1), (2), (3); - - Senate committee amendments to House files; - - Senate floor amendments to (1), (2); - - Subcommittee reports drafted to
Enrollments
Equal protection
Errors: Engrossing
Eulogies (1), (2), (3)
Evidence: Statutes and court rules
Examples: Adjournment; Advisory bills; Amendments to amendments; Appropriations (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9); Ballot question; Bills; - - Adding a subdivision (1), (2); - - Amending a section; - - Amending a subdivision (1), (2); - - Amending Minnesota Statutes, Supplement, and session laws; - - Amending Minnesota Statutes Supplement (1), (2); - - Amending session law (1), (2); - - New law; - - - - - Statutory section without subdivisions; - - - - - Statutory section with subdivisions; - - - - - Uncoded without subdivisions (1), (2); - - - - - Uncoded with subdivisions (1), (2); - - Titles (1), (2); Bonding authorization, single state project; Bond issues, by reference to other law; Committee reports (1), (2), (3), (4); Conference committee reports (1), (2), (3), (4); Constitutional amendments (1), (2), (3); Definition section; Effective dates (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); Eulogies (1), (2), (3); Floor amendments (1), (2), (3); House advisory bills; - - House committee reports (1), (2), (3); - - House floor amendments (1), (2), (3); House motions in committee; Instructions to revisor (1), (2), (3); Joint convention; Joint resolutions; Lakeshore auction sales; Lakeshore private sales; Land sales (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); Legislative findings; Local approval provisions (1), (2), (3), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8); - - Motions striking rule 49 amendment; Omnibus appropriation bills; - - Appropriation language; - - Approved complement; - - Authority to use in either year; - - Bill subdivisions; - - Deficiencies; - - From several funds; - - New permanent law; - - Not general fund; - - Program budgeting; - - Project budgeting; - - Proposed coding; - - Riders (1), (2), (3); - - Substantive rider; - - Supplementary appropriation; - - Temporary law; - - Title; Policy statements (1), (2); Proposed coding; Public hearing requirement; Purpose statements (1), (2); Repeals (1), (2), (3), (4); Resolutions; - - Adjournment; - - Athletic honors (1), (2); - - Concurrent resolutions (1), (2), (3), (4); - - Condolences; - - DARE program; - - Eulogies (1), (2), (3); - - House deceased member's salary; - - House freshman orientation; - - House members' living expenses and mileage; - - Joint rules; - - Memorial resolutions (1), (2), (3), (4); - - Personal honor; - - Senate rules, adoption; - - Special observance day; - - Study commissions, establishing; - - Vacancy; Reverse referendum; Revisor instructions (1), (2), (3); Sections without subdivisions, new law; Sections with subdivisions, new law; Senate committee reports (1), (2), (3), (4); Senate floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); Senate floor motions; Senate motions in committee; Special laws (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14); State park boundary changes; Tax-forfeited land sales (1), (2); Titles (1), (2); Veto overrides; - - House; - - Senate
Exceptions
Executive branch: Constitution of Minnesota
Executive orders: Evidence of legislative intent
Expiration of laws
Ex post facto laws
Expressio Unius Est Exclusio Alterius
"Fahrenheit": Spelling out
"Federal": Not capitalized
Federal Law: Incorporations by reference; - - Future amendments; Internal Revenue Code (1), (2), (3); References to
Federal Register: References to
Felker, Daniel
"Filed for record"
File numbers: Converting to revisor numbers
Finance Department: Appropriations carried forward
Fiscal years: "Fiscal year", defined; State agency budgets
Floor amendments: Bills from other house (1), (2); Committee of the whole; Engrossing (1), (2); Examples (1), (2), (3); Form; House (1), (2), (3); Procedure; Senate (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Flowage easements: Erroneous
Folio: Defined
Foreign states: Laws; - - Incorporations by reference; - - Sources
Forests: Public debt for; Taxes
Formality
Forms: See Examples
Fractions: Figures or words; Slashes with
Freedom of religion: Constitutional provisions
Frozen possessives: Uses
Fuel taxes: Constitutional provisions (1), (2)
Full age: Defined
Gambling: Statutes
Gender
Gender-specific language: General fund; - - Appropriations from (1), (2); "General laws"
General orders: Rule 49 amendments
Gopen, George: Legal writing
Governor: Appointments, notaries; Approval of bills (1), (2); Capitalization; Executive orders; Presentment to; - - Constitutional provisions (1), (2); - - Enrollment process; - - Legislative business; - - Resolutions; Special sessions, message calling; State of the state message; Vacancies, filling; Vetoes, see Vetoes
Grammar: Statutory construction
Gross earnings taxes: Constitutional provisions
Halfway houses
"He" (1), (2)
Headings: Articles, use with; Example; Grouping bill sections; Numbering
Headnotes: Amending; Brackets; Capitalization (1), (2); Constitutional amendments; Drafting tips; Effective dates; Examples; Joint rules on; Legal effect; New law (1), (2); Punctuation; Readability; Revisor's instructions; Statutory construction (1), (2); Uncoded law
"Hereafter"
"Heretofore"
Highways: Bonds; Trunk highways system, bonds
Highway User Tax Distribution Fund: Constitutional provisions
History notes: State parks
"Holiday"
House advisories: See Advisory bills
House Index: Bill indexing
House Journal: Committee reports; Evidence of legislative intent; Governor's objections to bills; Library holdings; Research in
House of Representatives: Amendments, see Amendments to bills; Appropriations committee; Chief Clerk of the House, see Chief Clerk of the House; Committee amendments, to Senate files; Deceased member's salary; Freshman orientation; Impeachment; Index department, see House Index; Journals, see House Journal; Members' living expenses and mileage; Motions in committee; Research department; Rules, see House Rules
House Research Department: Criminal justice publications
House Rules: Advisory bills; Determining; Evidence of legislative intent; Memorial resolutions; Motion adopting (1), (2); Officers; Rule 6.07; Rule 7.01; Rule 7.04; Human Services Department; - - State lands, control
Hyphens: Treatment
Impeachment
Incorporations by reference: Capitalization in titles; Future amendments (1), (2)
"Inhabitants"
Initialisms
In pari materia
"Insert" (1), (2)
Insurance: Impairment of contracts
Internal improvements: Constitutional provisions (1), (2)
Internal Revenue Code: References to (1), (2), (3)
Interpretation of law, see Statutory construction
Interpretive approach: Defined
Interrupters: Sentence length and
Involuntary Servitude: Constitutional provisions
In Writing: Defined
Italics
Jails
Jargon: Avoiding; Bonds
Joint rules: Adoption; Amendments, subdivisions, smallest unit; Amendments to statutes, full text; Appropriations; Bill titles; Coding; Evidence of legislative intent; Numbers in titles; Rule 2.01 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11); Rule 2.02 (1), (2); Sections and subdivisions, arrangement, numbering; Strikeouts; Supplement, references to; Titles; Underscoring
Journals: House, see House Journal; Senate, see Senate Journal
Judges: Removal; Retirement
Judicial districts
"Judicial sale"
Juvenile offenders: Disposition (1), (2); Statutes and court rules
Land descriptions: Abbreviations; Land transfers
Land exchanges: Constitutional provisions (1), (2)
Land sales: See State lands
Last antecedent
Laws of Minnesota: See Session Laws
"Legal age"
Legislative commissions: Reports; - - Evidence of statutory construction
Legislative districts: Boundaries
Legislative findings: Examples; Generally
Legislative history: Limits on use; Notes, state parks; Statutory construction
Legislative intent: Archaeological approach; Comparison of new law with common law; Comparison of new law with old; Extrinsic aids to interpretation; Latest enactment date; Legislative history; Statements; - - Examples; - - Position in bill; Statutory construction
Legislative Reference Library: Bills; Engrossments; Holdings
Legislative sessions: Last three days (1), (2); Statutory construction
Legislature
Licensing boards: Creating
"Lien"
Line-item veto: Cases; Constitutional provisions (1), (2)
Lists: Colons with; Commas with; Conjunctions; Parallel form
Llewellyn, Karl: Canons of construction
Local laws: See Special laws
Majority: Defined
"May": Defined; Permissions; Statutory construction
"Means": Definitions
Measurements
Mellinkoff, David
Mining: Constitutional provisions (1), (2); Lands, reservation of rights to state; Taxes (1), (2)
Minneapolis: See Twin Cities
MinnesotaCare: Omnibus bill
Minnesota Historical Society: Appropriations to; Land, status
Minnesota Rules: References to; Rulemaking, see Administrative rules
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees: State lands, control
Minnesota Statutes: Amendments to, see Amendments to statutes; Computer data base; Cumulative local laws table; Headnotes; Price indexes, use in drafting; Publication; Recodifications; References to; - - Form; - - In introductions to amendatory language; - - In text of bills; - - Joint rules on
Sections numbers: Coding, see Proposed coding; State parks laws; Tables
Minnesota Statutes Supplement: Amending, examples (1), (2); Referring to, in amendments; Revisor's instructions
"Minor"
"Minority"
Modifiers
Money: Defined; Numbers
Month: Days, counting; Defined
"Mortgage"
Motions: Example; Floor amendments; Form; House rules, adoption; In committee (1), (2); Oral; Rule 49 amendments, striking (1), (2)
Motor vehicles: Taxes
"Moves, moved" (1), (2)
"Must"
Names: Abbreviations; Capitalization; Changing, by revisor's instruction (1), (2); Official titles; Special laws
National Conference of State Legislatures
Natural Resources Department
New law: Examples (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7); Format; Headnotes (1), (2); Order in bill; Proposed, references to; Underscoring (1), (2)
Nickel: Constitutional provisions
"Night time"
Nominal style
"Non compos mentis"
Nonresidents
Nonrestrictive clauses: Commas with
Nonsavings clauses
Nonseverability: Example; Nonseverability clauses, omitting
Noscitur a sociis
Notaries: Appointment; Notary, defined
Nouns: Repeating
Noun strings
"Now"
Number (grammatical)
Numbers: Figures or words; Statutory construction; Temperature; Time of day; Titles
"Oath"
Occupation taxes (1), (2)
Official titles
Ombudsman for Corrections: Duties
Omnibus appropriations bills: Appropriation language; Budgets, see Budgets; Cases; Examples (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11); Format; "For the biennium"; Generally; Line-items (1), (2); No companion; Riders (1), (2), (3), (4); Underscore omitted
One-subject rule: Generally (1), (2); Omnibus appropriations bills
"Or": In lists
Overdrafting
Overgenerality
Page and line numbers
Paragraphs: Length; Lettering or numbering (1), (2); References to (1), (2); Relettering
Pardons Board: Duties; Rules; Statutes
Parentheses
Parole
Passive voice: Defined; Gender-neutral language
Peace Officer Standards and Training Board: Duties; Rules
Penalties: Mention in titles
: Buy-back laws (1), (2); Impairment of contracts; Judges' retirement; Local police and fire funds; Plans (1), (2)
"Percent": Spelled out
Periods: Use in headnotes; Uses generally
Permanent University Fund: Constitutional provisions
"Person"
Person (grammatical)
Pharmacy Board
Photocopies: Use in drafting
Plain English: Contract laws
Plain meaning rule: Statutory construction
"Pledge"
Plurals
P.M.: Abbreviations; With figures
Police: Local services, and criminal law
Policy or purpose statements: Bonding bills (1), (2); Generally
Political subdivisions: Local laws, see Special laws; New, creating
Popular Names: Capitalization; Federal laws; Short titles
"Population"
Possessives
Price indexes: Examples
Proposed coding: Brackets (1), (2); Chapters, in titles; Example; Generally; Permanent law; References to; Underscoring
Provisios: Avoiding; Statutory construction
Public debt: Bonds, see Bonds; Constitutional provisions; Loan of the state's credit; Power to contract, creating
Public defenders: Duties; System; Public laws (1), (2)
"Public member"
Public Safety Department: Criminal justice agencies; Statutes
"Public waters"
Punctuation: In amendments; Statutory construction; Striking and underscoring
Purpose statements: See Policy or purpose statements
Quotation marks: Double, in amendments to amendments; Generally; In amendments
Railroads: Bonds (1), (2); Constitutional provisions
Range references: "To"
Readings of bills: Three times, and delete everything amendments
Recodifications: Bill titles for; Evidence of legislative intent
"Recorded"
References: Capitalization in; Commas with; Constitution of Minnesota; Federal laws (1), (2); Federal regulations (1), (2); Internal Revenue Code; Laws of Minnesota; Minnesota Rules; Minnesota Statutes; Range references; Semicolons in; To paragraphs, without specifying section; To paragraphs, without specifying subdivision; To subdivisions, without specifying section (1), (2), (3)
"To"
"Reinstate" (1), (2)
Relative clauses: Gender neutral; Rule of last antecedent
Rental agreements
Renumbering: Amendments; Revisor's instructions
Repeals: Administrative rules; Chapters of laws; Checking Table IV of statutes; Choice of repeal or amendment; Delayed repealers; Examples (1), (2), (3), (4); Form; General repealers; Minnesota Statutes, provisions about; Position in bill; References in bill title (1), (2); Section numbers in; Session laws; Statutory interpretation
Resolutions: Adjournment (1), (2); Concurrent; - - Adjournment; - - Example; - - Generally (1), (2); - - Joint conventions; Congratulatory; Internal business (1), (2); Joint conventions; Joint resolutions; Joint rules, adoption; Memorial; - - Examples (1), (2), (3), (4); - - Generally; - - Presentment to governor (1), (2); - - Procedure; - - Uses; Nonbinding; Preambles (1), (2), (3), (4); Presentation resolutions; Resolving clauses; Simple; Titles; "Whereas"
Retirement: See Pensions
Retroactivity: Ex post facto laws; Retroactive effective dates; - - Example; - - Statutory construction
Revisions: Evidence of legislative intent
Revisor of Statutes: Bill drafting manual; Computer data base; Engrossing files; Engrossment checking; Form approval of bills; Gender neutral language; Publications; Revisor's instructions, see Revisor's instructions
Revisor's instructions: Cross-reference changes; Examples (1), (2), (3), (4); Headnote changes; Name changes; Renumbering; Tables in
Revolving accounts: Appropriations bills
Road easements: Erroneous
"Rule"
Rulemaking: See Administrative rules
Rule of last antecedent
Rules of criminal procedure: Cases; Enabling law; Rule 29; Superseding statutes
Rule 49 amendments: Procedure
Safety codes: References to (1), (2), (3)
Saint Paul: See Twin Cities
Sales agreements: Impairment of contracts
Savings clauses: Omitting; Position in bill; Statutory construction
School districts: Number, example
School lands: Constitutional provisions
Schools: Education revenue bill; Religious schools; - - Public funds (1), (2); School lands; Tax exemptions
"Seal"
Searches: Drafting aid
Secretary of State: Filing with; - - End of enrollment process; - - Last three days of session; - - Local laws; Vacancy in office
Secretary of the Senate: Copies of resolutions, transmitting; Engrossments (1), (2); Enrollments; Floor amendments
Sections of bills: Introductions (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); Joint rules, arrangement in bills; Length; References to (1), (2); Renumbering; Repealers, see Repeals; "Section" (1), (2); Statutory order
Sections of Statutes: See Minnesota Statutes
Security interests: Definitions
Semicolons
Semitaconite: Constitutional provisions
Senate: Advice and consent; Finance committee; Floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6); Floor motions (1), (2); Index department (1), (2); Journals, see Senate Journal; Motions in committee; Rules, see Senate rules; Secretary, see Secretary of the Senate
Senate Index: Bill indexing
Senate Journal: Committee reports; Evidence of legislative intent; Governor's objections to bills; Library holdings; Research in
Senate rules: Amendments; Determining; Evidence of legislative intent; Memorial resolutions; Officers; Resolutions; Rule 38; Rule 41; Rule 49; Rule 53; Rule 55; Rule 61; Rule 65 (1), (2)
Sentences: Within sentences
Sentencing: Bibliography on
Sentencing Guidelines Commission: Duties
Separation of powers: Constitutional provisions; Court rules and statutes
Session Laws: Amendments to; - - Drafting; - - In bills (1), (2), (3); - - Table 1; Chapter numbers; Citing to, in repealer (1), (2), (3); Publication; Repeals of (1), (2), (3); Tables
Severability: Severability clauses, omitting
Shall: Defined; Reasons to use; Statutory construction
"She" (1), (2)
Sheriffs: Defined; Duties; Statutes
Short Titles: Form; Position in bill; Purpose
Signature pages
Singular
Slashes
Slavery
Special laws: Ballot question; Constitutional prohibition (1), (2); Courts; Defined; Effective dates (1), (2); Examples (1), (2), (3), (4); Local approval provisions (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8); Local laws; - - Amendments, inserting names; - - Constitutional provisions; - - Contiguous counties; - - Discussion; - - Effective dates (1), (2), (3), (4); - - Examples (1), (2), (3), (4), (5); - - Local approval; - - - - - Generally; - - - - - Metropolitan area, exception; - - Name of unit; Public hearing; Reverse referendum; Tables
Special sessions: Governor's message calling
Spelling
"State": Capitalization; Defined
State agencies: "Agency," defined; Appropriations; Approved complements; Changes in existing agencies; Commissioners, no capitalization; Creation; - - Employees' rights, protecting; - - Interpretations of statutes; - - Licensing boards; Names, uncapitalized; Rulemaking, see Administrative rules
State auditor: Taxes for bonds; Vacancy in office
State lands: Constitutional provisions; Exchanges (1), (2); Sales; - - Example; - - Lakeshore property (1), (2), (3); - - Tax-forfeited lands; - - Trespass correction; Transfers
State Law Library
State parks
State patrol
State treasurer
Statutes at Large (1), (2)
Statutory construction: Bill drafting texts; Effective dates; Headnotes; Interpretation sections (1), (2); Interpretive approach; Judges' approaches; Plain meaning rule; Prior judicial construction; Reference works (1), (2), (3); Rules of; - - Codified in Minnesota Statutes; - - Discussion; State agency interpretations
Street names: Abbreviations; Special laws
"Strike" (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Strikeouts: Amending text; Examples; Headnotes; House rules, motion adopting; Joint rules on; Punctuation; Uses
Study commissions: Establishing
Subcommittees: Amendments in; Reports; - - Drafted as "delete everything" amendments; - - Generally
Subdivisions: Adding (1), (2); Amending; - - Examples (1), (2), (3), (4); - - Separate bill sections; Capitalization; Complete sentences; Dividing into paragraphs and clauses; Headnotes; Joint rules, arrangement in bill; Length; New; - - Numbering; - - Statutory sections without subdivisions, example; - - Statutory sections with subdivisions, example; - - Underscoring (1), (2); References to (1), (2); Renumbering (1), (2); Repeals (1), (2), (3); Smallest unit amended (1), (2); Spelling out; "Subdivision" or "subd." (1), (2); Underscoring (1), (2)
Sundays: Reconsidered bills, return
Supervised release
Supreme Court: Constitution; Jurisdiction
Surcharges
Sutherland statutory construction
Swamp Land Fund: Constitutional provisions
"Swear"
"Sworn"
Symbols
Tables: Abbreviations; Capitalization in; Uses
Table 2: In session laws, checking
Taconite: Constitutional provisions
Tax anticipation certificates: Constitutional provisions (1), (2)
Taxes: Agencies with taxing power, creating; Aircraft; Bonds; Case law; Classifications; Constitutional provisions (1), (2), (3); Effective dates; Exemptions (1), (2); Federal tax exemptions for bonds; Interstate business, due process; Mineral taxes (1), (2); Motor vehicles; Occupation taxes (1), (2); Power of taxation; Public purpose doctrine; Special laws; Timber; Trunk highways; Uniformity (1), (2), (3); Wheelage taxes
Temperature
Tense: Generally; Senate floor amendments (1), (2)
Textualist approach
Third person: Requirement in drafting
Timber: Lands; School or state forests; Taxes
Time: Abbreviations; "Day," defined; Days, counting; Definitions; Effectiveness of statutes; Figures with; Months, counting; Standard time
Titles: Advisory bills (1), (2); Amended statutory sections, citing; Amendments; - - Discussion; - - Examples; - - - - Delete everything (1), (2), (3); - - - - Page and line (1), (2); Appropriations; Constitutional requirements; Criminal penalties; Examples (1), (2); Existing sections amended, list (1), (2); "Expression in the title" rule; Form; Joint rules on (1), (2), (3); New law, proposed chapters; Numbers in; - - Joint rules; Omnibus bills (1), (2); "One subject" rule (1), (2), (3); Position in bill; Repealed statutory sections, citing (1), (2); Resolutions; Semicolons in; Short titles, see Short Titles
"To": Defined; Inclusive numbers
Towns: Bonds; - - Generally; - - Railroad bonds (1), (2); Organization; Police; "Town," defined (1), (2)
"Township," defined: Transportation Department
Trunk Highway Fund
Twin Cities: Counties; Metropolitan Council and commissions
Uncoded Law: Examples (1), (2), (3); Headnotes; References in; Underscoring
Underscoring: Appropriation bills; Examples (1), (2); Headnotes (1), (2); House rules, motion adopting; In amendments; - - Engrossing; - - Generally, (2), (3); Joint rules on; New law; Proposed coding; Punctuation; Uncoded law; Uses
Uniform Commercial Code: Headnotes (1), (2); Security interests, definitions
Uniform laws: Commercial code, see Uniform Commercial Code; Interpretation clauses; Names, capitalization; Statutory construction
Uniform System of Citation: Forms not recommended Popular name citations of federal law
United States: Defined; Federal tax exemptions for bonds
United States Code (1), (2)
University of Minnesota: Board of regents; Charter; Constitutional provisions; Independence; Land, status; Peace officers; Permanent university fund
Vagueness
Verbs: Generally; Interrupters; Tense; - - Generally; - - Senate amendments (1), (2); Voice
"Verified"
Vetoes: Appropriations, line-item veto; Objections accompanying (1), (2); Override; - - House file; - - Senate file; Reconsideration after; Resolutions
"Violate"
Voice
Water power: Reservation of rights to state
Webster's Third New International Dictionary: Uses (1), (2)
"Whereas": In resolutions
Word choice (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6): Wordiness (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Work farms
Work release
"Writing"
Years: Commas with
"Year," defined

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