Charitable Solicitation Registration in Minnesota: The $25,000 Exemption Is Four Tests, Not One

Every board I have sat across from believes the same thing about Minnesota charitable registration: that a nonprofit taking in less than $25,000 a year does not have to register with the Attorney General. The number is real. It appears twice in Minnesota Statutes chapter 309. But it is one of four conditions that must all be satisfied at once, and the condition that actually disqualifies most small organizations has nothing to do with money. It is this: every function and activity of the organization, fundraising included, must be performed by people who are not paid for it. Hire a part-time bookkeeper at $600 a month and the exemption is gone, no matter how little the organization raises.

That single clause is why I open every nonprofit formation conversation with the registration question rather than closing with it.

Who has to register, and when?

Minnesota Statutes § 309.52, subdivision 1, is a prohibition, not a filing suggestion:

No charitable organization, except as otherwise provided in section 309.515, shall solicit contributions from persons in this state by any means whatsoever unless, prior to any solicitation, there shall be on file with the attorney general upon forms provided by the attorney general, a registration statement containing, without limitation, the following information …

Read the timing. The registration must be on file before the first solicitation, not before the first dollar arrives. And “solicit” is defined at § 309.50, subdivision 10, to mean “the request directly or indirectly for any contribution, regardless of which party initiates communication, on the plea or representation that such contribution will or may be used for any charitable purpose.” The definition then lists the covered methods: oral or written request; handbills, advertisements, and publications; announcements to the press, over radio, television, telephone, or telegraph about an event the public is asked to patronize; and the sale of advertising, books, cards, magazines, merchandise, subscriptions, or tickets where the pitch is that some part of the proceeds goes to a charitable purpose. That last clause reaches the ticket table and the coupon book, not just the donation letter.

There is a second, independent trigger that catches organizations that started out exempt. Under § 309.52, subdivision 1a, a charitable organization whose total contributions in any accounting year exceed $25,000 — excluding the direct cost of prizes given to the public in lawful gambling under chapter 349 — must file a registration statement within 30 days after the date the total was exceeded. Thirty days. Not by the end of the fiscal year, and not with the next tax return. I have seen organizations blow through the threshold in a single successful gala and never register at all, because nobody on the board was watching a running total.

One more definitional trap. “Contribution” under § 309.50, subdivision 5, does not include funds obtained through grants from any governmental agency — but it does include, for an organization selling goods or services to the public, “the difference between the direct cost of the goods and services to the charitable organization and the price at which the charitable organization or any person acting on its behalf resells those goods or services to the public.” A thrift store’s margin counts toward the $25,000. A county grant does not.

The small-charity exemption is four tests joined by “and”

Section 309.515, subdivision 1, is the exemption section. Its first clause is the one everybody half-remembers. Here is what it actually says:

(a) Charitable organizations:

(1) which did not receive total contributions in excess of $25,000, exclusive of the direct cost of prizes given to the public by the charitable organization in connection with lawful gambling conducted in compliance with chapter 349, from the public within or without this state during the accounting year last ended, and

(2) which do not plan to receive total contributions in excess of such amount from the public within or without this state during any accounting year, and

(3) whose functions and activities, including fundraising, are performed wholly by persons who are unpaid for their services, and

(4) none of whose assets or income inure to the benefit of or are paid to any officer.

Four conditions, three conjunctions, no severability. An all-volunteer neighborhood association that raised $9,000 last year qualifies. The same association the day it puts a paid part-time coordinator on the payroll does not — and it is now soliciting in violation of § 309.52, subdivision 1, with no grace period written anywhere in the chapter.

The same subdivision closes with a rule that defeats the pass-through structure: for purposes of the chapter, a charitable organization is “deemed to receive in addition to contributions solicited from the public by it, the contributions solicited from the public by any other person and transferred to it,” and an organization receiving an allocation from a community chest, united fund, or similar organization is deemed to have solicited that allocation from the public. You cannot stay under the threshold by having a friendly affiliate do the asking.

The remaining exemptions in subdivision 1 are narrow and specific, and I enumerate all of them because the boundaries matter:

• (b) A religious society or organization exempt from filing a federal annual information return under Internal Revenue Code § 6033(a)(2)(A)(i) and (iii) and § 6033(a)(2)(C)(i). This is a federal-status test, not a self-description test. A faith-based nonprofit that files a Form 990 is not covered by paragraph (b).
• (c) An educational institution under the general supervision of the commissioner of education, the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, or the University of Minnesota, or accredited by the University of Minnesota, the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, or any other national or regional accrediting association.
• (d) A fraternal, patriotic, social, educational, alumni, professional, trade, or learned society “which limits solicitation of contributions to persons who have a right to vote as a member” — and the statute expressly says “member” excludes anyone “granted a membership upon making a contribution as the result of a solicitation.” Selling memberships to donors does not convert public solicitation into member solicitation.
• (e) An organization soliciting for a person specified by name at the time of the solicitation, if all contributions are transferred to that named person with no restrictions on expenditure “and with no deductions whatsoever.” The benefit fund for a named neighbor fits here only if the organizers take nothing off the top.
• (f) A private foundation as defined in Internal Revenue Code § 509(a) that did not solicit contributions from more than 100 persons during the accounting year last ended.
• (g) A licensed and bonded auctioneer under chapter 330 conducting a live auction who has no access to the auction proceeds. That auctioneer is also not a professional fundraiser for purposes of subdivision 2.

Hiring a fundraiser deletes the exemption outright

Subdivision 2 of § 309.515 is short and it is the sentence I quote to boards most often. Where a group described in subdivision 1, clause (a) or (d) — the small all-volunteer charity, or the members-only society — “employs a professional fundraiser to solicit or assist in the solicitation of contributions, sections 309.52 and 309.53 shall apply,” and the group must register and file annual reports.

Note the scope. Retaining a fundraiser knocks out the paragraph (a) and paragraph (d) exemptions. It does not touch (b), (c), (e), (f), or (g). And “professional fundraiser” is defined at § 309.50, subdivision 6, far more broadly than the phrase sounds. It covers not only anyone compensated to solicit, but “any person who for compensation or profit plans, manages, advises, consults, or prepares material for, or with respect to, the solicitation in this state of contributions for a charitable organization.” A consultant who never speaks to a donor and only writes the appeal letter is a professional fundraiser. The statute then carves back out: licensed investment advisers, investment adviser representatives, broker-dealers, and agents under chapter 80A, and lawyers, accountants, and bankers advising in the ordinary course of a profession or business, are not professional fundraisers by reason of that advice — and neither is “a bona fide salaried officer, employee, or volunteer of a charitable organization.”

That last carve-out is worth pairing with the exemption test above. A salaried development director does not make the organization’s consultant problem, but she does make the § 309.515, subdivision 1(a)(3), problem, because the organization’s functions are no longer performed wholly by unpaid persons. The two provisions pull in opposite directions and both of them apply.

What the registration statement contains, and what it costs

Subdivision 1 of § 309.52 lists sixteen items, lettered (a) through (p). The ones that surprise clients: total annual compensation paid to officers, directors, trustees, and the chief executive officer (clause (f)); any denial “at any time by any governmental agency or court of the right to solicit contributions” (clause (h)); the methods by which solicitation will be made (clause (l)); copies of contracts with professional fundraisers (clause (m)); the board, group, or individual having final discretion over distribution and use of contributions (clause (n)); and total contributions received during the accounting year last ended (clause (o)). Clause (p) is an open grant of authority to the Attorney General to require more by rule or order.

Clause (m) carries its own clock: where a fundraiser contract is executed after the registration statement is filed, a copy must be filed within seven days of the date of execution.

The fee is $25 under subdivision 2, along with a financial statement covering the organization’s most recent 12-month period. Execution is not a one-signature job — subdivision 3 requires two duly constituted officers, acknowledging that the filing was made pursuant to a resolution of the board or managing group, and certifying that the board has assumed and will continue to assume responsibility for policy and supervision of finances.

Chapter 309 also supplies a records rule that outlives any single filing. Under § 309.54, subdivision 2, every person subject to §§ 309.50 to 309.61 must maintain accurate and detailed books and records for not less than three years from the date of preparation, open to inspection by the Attorney General at all reasonable times. Registration statements and annual reports become public records in the Attorney General’s office under subdivision 1.

The annual report is where organizations actually fall out of compliance

Registration is a one-time act. Section 309.53 is the recurring one, and it is where I see lapses.

Every charitable organization required to file or that files a registration statement must file an annual report with the Attorney General on or before July 15 if its books are on a calendar year, or on or before the 15th day of the seventh month following the close of its fiscal year. For cause shown, the Attorney General may extend the deadline for a period not to exceed four months.

Three numbers govern the rest of it:

• $50. An organization that fails to file the annual report on or before the date required or allowed pays a late fee of $50, in addition to all other fees, costs, and penalties (subdivision 2).
• $25. A reregistration fee due with every annual report (subdivision 8).
• $750,000. A financial statement of an organization that received total revenue in excess of $750,000 for the 12 months covered must be accompanied by an audited financial statement, prepared under generally accepted accounting principles, examined by an independent certified public accountant for the purpose of expressing an opinion (subdivision 3). In calculating that threshold, the value of donated food to a nonprofit food shelf is excluded if the food is donated for subsequent distribution at no charge and not for resale.

Subdivision 3 also requires a compensation disclosure I would not want a board to learn about from a reporter: a list of the five highest paid directors, officers, and employees of the organization and its related organizations who receive total compensation of more than $100,000, with the compensation paid to each — defined as the amount reported in Form W-2 Box 5 or Form 1099-MISC Box 7 — plus a separate item for the value of fringe benefits and deferred compensation. Related organizations are defined by reference to § 317A.011, subdivision 18.

The enforcement mechanism for a missed annual report sits in the registration section rather than the reporting section, which is why it gets overlooked. Section 309.52, subdivision 7, provides that registration does not continue in effect past the date the annual report was due, and an organization in default “shall not be eligible to file a new registration statement until it shall have filed the required annual report with the attorney general.” An organization that skips a July 15 is not merely late. It is unregistered, and every solicitation it makes after that date violates subdivision 1.

Minnesota has one fundraiser category, not two

Many states run parallel registration tracks for “professional fund raisers” who handle money and “fund-raising counsel” who only advise. Minnesota does not. Chapter 309 has a single defined term — professional fundraiser — and § 309.50, subdivision 6, sweeps the consultant and the caller into it together. What Minnesota does instead is condition the bond on custody rather than on job title.

Registration for a professional fundraiser lives in § 309.531. The requirements:

• No person may act as a professional fundraiser unless registered with the Attorney General. The statement must be in writing, under oath, on the Attorney General’s form, with a $200 registration fee. Each registration runs not more than 12 months and in any event expires on April 30 next following the date of registration. Late registration or a late financial report costs $300, on top of everything else (subdivision 1).
• A $20,000 bond, required only if the fundraiser — or anyone the fundraiser employs, obtains, or engages — at any time has custody of or access to contributions. The fundraiser is the principal obligor; the bond must be in effect for the full term of the registration; it may ride on a larger blanket liability bond; and it “shall run to the state and to any person who may have a cause of action against the principal obligor . . . .”
• A solicitation notice on the Attorney General’s form, disclosing the projected start and end dates, the location and telephone number the solicitation will run from, the name and residence address of each person responsible for directing and supervising the campaign, whether the fundraiser will ever have custody of contributions, and a description of the charitable program. The charitable organization must certify that the notice and its attachments are true and complete to the best of its knowledge.
• The contract itself, filed as part of the registration statement. It must be in writing, must identify the services the fundraiser will provide including whether it will have custody of contributions, and — where anyone solicits in this state — must disclose the percentage or a reasonable estimate of the percentage of the total amount solicited from each person that the charity will actually receive for charitable purposes. Those stated percentages exclude any amount the charity pays as campaign expenses, including the cost of merchandise or services sold or events staged.
• Written authorization from two officers of the charitable organization before the fundraiser uses the charity’s name or solicits on its behalf, with a copy filed with the Attorney General (subdivision 3).
• A campaign financial report within 90 days after a solicitation campaign is completed, and again 90 days following each anniversary of a campaign lasting more than one year, showing gross revenue and an itemization of all expenses, signed and certified under oath by an authorized official of both the fundraiser and the charity (subdivision 4).

One citation-form note for anyone drafting or briefing this section right now. The 2026 Legislature amended § 309.531, subdivision 2, in the technical corrections act — 2026 Minn. Laws ch. 88, art. 1, § 182 — and the amendment is purely structural: former paragraphs (a) through (d) are renumbered as clauses (1) through (4), and the contract requirements formerly at (c)(1)–(3) become (3)(i)–(iii). The act carries no effective-date clause for that section, so the default in § 645.02 controls and it took effect August 1, 2026. Nothing substantive moved. But a brief that cites “§ 309.531, subd. 2(c)” today is citing a paragraph designation that no longer exists.

The prohibited practices go well past fraud

Section 309.55 enumerates seven prohibitions, and only one of them is a fraud provision:

1. Use of names (subd. 1). No charitable organization or person acting for one may use the name of any other person — except an officer, director, or trustee of the soliciting charity — in public solicitation literature without that person’s written consent.
2. Confusing or misleading names, symbols, or statements (subd. 2). No organization may use a name, symbol, or statement so closely related or similar to that of another charitable organization or governmental agency that the use would tend to confuse or mislead the public.
3. Misrepresentation of registration (subd. 3). Registration is not an endorsement by the State of Minnesota, and no person may directly or indirectly misrepresent the registration to any donor or prospective donor.
4. Use of uniformed government personnel (subd. 4), with an express exception for firefighters soliciting in uniform.
5. False or deceptive practices (subd. 5) — the long one. It bars fraud, false pretense, false promise, misrepresentation, misleading statement, misleading name, mark or identification, or deceptive practice, method, or device, with the intent that others rely on it. It specifically reaches conduct designed to make a donor believe the organization is a different organization with the same or like purposes; conduct designed to make a donor believe the funds are or will be used for programs conducted within or for persons located within Minnesota “when such is not the case”; and presenting purposes and uses of funds that are not as stated in the organization’s registration.
6. Sale of a contributor list (subd. 6) without the contributor’s consent to the transaction.
7. Payments to an unregistered affiliate (subd. 7). Money solicited in Minnesota may not be paid to a related unregistered charitable organization whose purposes, policies, articles, or bylaws conflict on any material matter with those of the soliciting organization, unless the recipient agrees to be bound by the soliciting organization’s purposes, policies, articles, and bylaws.

Separately, § 309.556 imposes affirmative disclosure duties at the moment of the ask. Before orally requesting a contribution, or contemporaneously with a written request, the solicitation must clearly disclose the name and location by city and state of each charitable organization on whose behalf it is made, the tax deductibility of the contribution, and a description of the charitable program the campaign is for — plus, if different, a description of the programs and activities of the organization on whose behalf the campaign is run. In direct personal contact, that information must also appear prominently on a written document exhibited to the person solicited. A professional fundraiser must additionally disclose its own name as on file with the Attorney General and that the solicitation is being conducted by a “professional fundraiser.”

Who can sue? Only the Attorney General — and that changes the strategy

This is the part that dictates how these disputes actually get resolved, and I want to be blunt about it: chapter 309 contains no private right of action.

Enforcement runs through § 309.57, subdivision 1. On the Attorney General’s application, the district court has jurisdiction to restrain, enjoin, and redress violations, and may order injunctions, restitution, appointment of a receiver for the defendant or the defendant’s assets, suspension of registration, reasonable attorney fees, and costs of investigation and litigation. The court “may award to the state civil penalties up to $25,000 for each violation of sections 309.50 to 309.61.” And the statute strips out the ordinary injunction showing: “In ordering injunctive relief, the attorney general shall not be required to establish irreparable harm but only a violation of statute or that the requested order promotes the public interest.” Subdivision 2 lets the Attorney General accept an assurance of discontinuance, filed with the district court, enforceable by contempt and not an admission of a violation.

The investigative apparatus sits at § 309.533, which lets the Attorney General conduct public or private investigations within or outside the state and obtain discovery from any person under the procedures of § 8.31. And § 309.581 makes a willful and knowing violation — or willfully and knowingly giving false information to the Attorney General in a required statement, report, or contract — a misdemeanor.

For everyone else, the routes are indirect and each has a limit worth understanding.

The fundraiser’s bond. Section 309.531, subdivision 2, states that the bond runs to the state “and to any person who may have a cause of action against the principal obligor of the bond for any liabilities resulting from the obligor’s conduct of any activities subject to sections 309.50 to 309.61 or arising out of a violation of the statutes or a rule adopted under the statutes.” That is a payment source, not a cause of action. The claimant still has to own an independent claim.

The private attorney general statute. Section 8.31, subdivision 3a, lets “any person injured by a violation of any of the laws referred to in subdivision 1” sue for damages, costs and disbursements, costs of investigation, reasonable attorney’s fees, and equitable relief. Go read subdivision 1. It lists the Nonprofit Corporation Act, §§ 317A.001 to 317A.909; the Act Against Unfair Discrimination and Competition; the Unlawful Trade Practices Act; the Antitrust Act; § 325F.67 and other laws against false or fraudulent advertising; § 325D.67; § 325D.68; § 325E.39; the Prevention of Consumer Fraud Act, §§ 325F.68 to 325F.70; and chapter 53A. Chapter 309 is not on that list. I will not oversell that, because subdivision 1 enumerates those laws “specifically, but not exclusively,” so the list is a floor rather than a ceiling and a creative plaintiff will argue a solicitation violation is one of the state’s laws “respecting unfair, discriminatory, and other unlawful practices in business, commerce, or trade.” The harder obstacle sits downstream: Ly v. Nystrom, 615 N.W.2d 302, 314 (Minn. 2000), limits the private remedy to claimants whose suit benefits the public, and a donor suing over an unfiled registration statement has to clear that gate before the fee-shifting matters. I would not build a case on § 8.31 here. Our article on the private attorney general statute walks the mechanics.

The Consumer Fraud Act. A deceptive solicitation can still reach § 325F.69, subdivision 1, which is on the § 8.31 list — but only in connection with “the sale of any merchandise.” “Merchandise” is defined at § 325F.68, subdivision 2, as objects, wares, goods, commodities, intangibles, real estate, loans, or services, and “sale” at subdivision 4 as any sale, offer for sale, or attempt to sell merchandise for any consideration. A bare donation is not a sale for consideration. A fundraising campaign built on selling tickets, coupon books, magazines, or merchandise is — and that is exactly the conduct § 309.50, subdivision 10, clause (4), treats as solicitation. The overlap is real but partial. Our guide to the Consumer Fraud Act and deceptive trade practices covers the elements.

And the public-benefit gate. Even where the Consumer Fraud Act applies, the Minnesota Supreme Court held in Ly v. Nystrom, 615 N.W.2d 302, 314 (Minn. 2000), “that the Private AG Statute applies only to those claimants who demonstrate that their cause of action benefits the public.” A mass solicitation to thousands of Minnesota households satisfies that. A single misled donor in a one-on-one conversation, on Ly’s reasoning, does not.

The second register nobody mentions

Here is the trap that catches the exact organizations that correctly concluded they were exempt from chapter 309.

Minnesota maintains a separate register of charitable trusts and trustees in the Attorney General’s office under § 501B.37. The registration and reporting provisions of §§ 501B.37 and 501B.38 apply to “a charitable trust, including an organization with a charitable purpose, that has gross assets of $25,000 or more at any time during the year” (§ 501B.36). Note the measure: gross assets, not contributions. An endowed foundation that solicits nothing and receives nothing still crosses this line if it holds $25,000.

The exemption list in § 501B.36 has eight clauses, and clause (6) is the one that stitches the two chapters together: the charitable-trust registration requirements do not apply to “an organization registered with the attorney general pursuant to sections 309.52 and 309.53.” So an organization registered under chapter 309 is done. An organization exempt from chapter 309 is not — it has simply been routed to the other register.

Two further chapter 501B duties belong on any nonprofit’s calendar. Section 501B.41, subdivision 2, gives the Attorney General the right to be notified of and to participate as a party in proceedings to terminate a charitable trust or liquidate or distribute its assets, to apply cy pres, to construe a charitable trust instrument, to review a trustee’s accounting, or involving a charitable trust where the interests of uncertain or indefinite charitable beneficiaries may be affected. Subdivision 4 supplies teeth I do not see anywhere else in this area: if proceedings are commenced without service of process and the pleadings on the Attorney General, “a judgment or order rendered in the proceedings is voidable, unenforceable, and, upon the attorney general’s motion seeking relief, may be set aside,” and no compromise, settlement agreement, contract, or judgment among the interested parties is valid unless the Attorney General was made a party and joined it or waived participation in writing.

And under § 317A.811, a nonprofit corporation that holds assets for a charitable purpose, or that is exempt under Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3), must notify the Attorney General of an intent to dissolve, merge, consolidate, convert, or transfer all or substantially all of its assets, with a nine-item disclosure, and may not transfer or convert until 45 days after the notice — extendable by the Attorney General for one additional 30-day period. Then read subdivision 6 before you calendar any of it. Subdivisions 1 to 4 “do not apply to a merger with, consolidation into, conversion into, or transfer of assets to an organization exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any successor section” — which lifts the notice and the waiting period off the most common nonprofit combination there is. The exempt corporation still owes the Attorney General a copy of the certificate of merger, consolidation and incorporation, or conversion. What the 45 days actually catch is the dissolution, and the deal that moves charitable assets to someone who is not another 501(c)(3). Our overview of Minnesota nonprofit corporations under chapter 317A sets out the entity side, and the fiduciary duties article covers what directors owe while all of this is pending.

What I tell a board in the first meeting

Run the exemption as four questions, not one — under $25,000 last year, no plan to exceed it, every function performed by unpaid people, nothing inuring to or paid to an officer. A “no” anywhere means register before the next ask.

Put July 15 on the calendar permanently and treat it as a registration deadline, because under § 309.52, subdivision 7, that is what it functions as.

Before signing with a fundraising consultant, apply § 309.50, subdivision 6, and decide whether the counterparty is a professional fundraiser. If it is, the contract is in writing, carries the percentage disclosure, gets filed — within seven days if it postdates the registration statement — and, where the consultant touches money, is backed by a $20,000 bond.

And if the organization is exempt from chapter 309, ask in the same breath whether it holds $25,000 in gross assets. Exemption from one register is enrollment in the other. If it solicits under any name but its legal one, the assumed name filing is a third obligation, and § 309.52, subdivision 1, clause (b), requires the registration statement to disclose every name under which it solicits.

Madgett Law, LLC advises Minnesota nonprofit boards and executive directors on charitable solicitation registration and annual reporting under chapter 309, charitable trust registration under chapter 501B, professional fundraiser contracts and bonding, and responses to Attorney General inquiries and civil investigative demands. We also handle governance disputes, dissolution and asset-transfer notices, and the fiduciary questions that surface when a registration problem is discovered mid-campaign. Call 612-470-6529 or send us a message.

Sources: Minn. Stat. § 309.50, subds. 4, 5, 6, 10 (definitions of charitable organization, contribution, professional fundraiser, and solicitation); § 309.515, subd. 1(a)(1)–(4), (b)–(g) (registration and reporting exemptions), subd. 2 (loss of exemption on employing a professional fundraiser); § 309.52, subd. 1 and clauses (a)–(p) (pre-solicitation registration statement and contents), subd. 1a (30-day filing after contributions exceed $25,000), subd. 2 ($25 fee and financial statement), subd. 3 (execution by two officers), subd. 7 (registration lapse for failure to file annual report); § 309.53, subd. 1 (July 15 annual report and four-month extension), subd. 2 ($50 late fee), subd. 3 ($750,000 audit threshold; five highest paid over $100,000), subd. 8 ($25 reregistration fee); § 309.531, subd. 1 ($200 fee, April 30 expiration, $300 late fee), subd. 2 ($20,000 bond, solicitation notice, contract filing and percentage disclosure), subd. 3 (written authorization from two officers), subd. 4 (90-day campaign financial report); § 309.533, subd. 1 (Attorney General investigation powers), subd. 5 (discovery from any person under the procedures of § 8.31); § 309.54, subds. 1–2 (public records; three-year records retention); § 309.55, subds. 1–7 (prohibited practices); § 309.556, subds. 1–2 (public disclosure at solicitation); § 309.57, subd. 1 (district court jurisdiction; $25,000 civil penalty per violation; no irreparable-harm showing), subd. 2 (assurance of discontinuance); § 309.581 (willful and knowing violation is a misdemeanor); § 501B.36 (charitable trust registration trigger at $25,000 gross assets and eight exemptions, including clause (6) for organizations registered under §§ 309.52 and 309.53); § 501B.37, subds. 2–3 (three-month initial filing; $25 fee); § 501B.38, subds. 1, 1a, 3 (annual information filing, deadline and six-month extension, $25 fee); § 501B.41, subds. 2, 4 (Attorney General participation rights; judgment voidable for failure to serve); § 317A.811, subds. 1–3 (notice of dissolution, merger, conversion, or asset transfer; 45-day waiting period; 30-day extension), subd. 6 (subdivisions 1 to 4 inapplicable to a merger with, consolidation into, conversion into, or transfer of assets to a § 501(c)(3) organization; exempt corporation must still send the attorney general a copy of the certificate); § 8.31, subd. 1 (enumerated laws, which do not include chapter 309), subd. 3a (private remedies); § 325F.68, subds. 2, 4 (definitions of merchandise and sale); § 325F.69, subd. 1 (unlawful practices in connection with the sale of merchandise); § 645.02 (August 1 default effective date); 2026 Minn. Laws ch. 88, art. 1, § 182 (technical renumbering of § 309.531, subd. 2); Ly v. Nystrom, 615 N.W.2d 302, 314 (Minn. 2000) (public-benefit requirement under the private attorney general statute).

This article is general legal information about Minnesota law. It is not legal advice, it does not create an attorney–client relationship, and no particular outcome is promised or implied. Statutes change and their application depends on facts; consult a lawyer about your own situation.