See also FOUNDATIONS
Accounting and bookkeeping, accounting year, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.52
Addresses, registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Advertising
Outdoor advertising, Minn. Statutes 2024 173.02, 173.08
Solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Affiliated agencies
Annual reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Agents, registered agents, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.56
Amateur Sports Commission, authority to establish, Minn. Statutes 2024 240A.03
Annual reports
Contributors, publication of names, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Data, classification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515
Filing, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515
Area offices
Annual reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515 to 309.55
Registration, see same under this topic
Assumed names, duplication or similarity to other names, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Attorney fees, violations of laws or rules, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Attorney general, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.59
Audits and examinations
Annual revenue in excess of 350,000 dollars, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Contributions in excess of 100,000 dollars, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Informant reward programs, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Barbers and barbering, registration exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 154.04
Board of directors
Certificates and certification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Directors, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53, 309.55
Resolutions by, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Branch offices
Annual reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515 to 309.55
Registration, see same under this topic
Brochures, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Cemeteries, abandoned, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243
Center for Arts Education, charitable foundation, Minn. Statutes 2024 129C.10
Certificates and certification, professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Chapter offices
Annual reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515 to 309.55
Registration, see same under this topic
Charitable agencies, affiliated agencies, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Charitable corporations, see CHARITABLE CORPORATIONS
Charitable purposes, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Charitable trusts, see CHARITABLE TRUSTS
Charity bureaus, statutory cities, establishing, Minn. Statutes 2024 447.04
Chief executive officer, registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Combined charitable organizations, see Registered combined charitable organizations under this topic
Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Conservation easements, see under EASEMENTS
Contempts, assurance of discontinuance of violations, noncompliance, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Contracts and agreements
Copies, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
False statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.581
Information exchange agreements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.60
Professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Contributions, see CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributors, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Copies, contracts, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Corporations, see CHARITABLE CORPORATIONS
Costs and disbursements (courts), Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Data, classification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Definitions
Lawful gambling and gambling devices, Minn. Statutes 2024 349.12
Solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Unemployment Insurance Law, Minn. Statutes 2024 268.035
Dental practice donation program, Minn. Statutes 2024 256.959
Directors, see Board of directors under this topic
Disbursements, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Disclosure
Compensation and salaries, highest paid directors, officers, and employees, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Individual contributors, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531, 309.556
Solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.556
Donors, restrictions on use of funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.755
Duties delegated to, abandoned cemeteries, improvement and maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243
Employees
Highest paid employees, disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Professional fund raisers, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Employers, charitable organizations defined as, Minn. Statutes 2024 268.035
Endorsements, registration not deemed endorsement by state, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Enforcement of law
Attorney general, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57, 309.582
Information exchange, reciprocal agreements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.60
Escrow, assurance of discontinuance of violations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Excluded organizations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
False advertising, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
False representation, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
False statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
Financial statements
False statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.581
Informant reward programs, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Requirements, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
501(c)(3) organizations
Authorizing, charter schools, Minn. Statutes 2024 124E.05
Chili and soup cook-offs, Minn. Statutes 2024 157.22
Contributions to, political candidates or committees, Minn. Statutes 2024 211B.12
Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2024 349.12
Federal income tax exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 349.12
Food, beverage, and lodging regulations, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 157.22
Gifts from, limited use motor vehicles, Minn. Statutes 2024 297B.01
Gifts to, motor vehicles, Minn. Statutes 2024 168.27, 297B.01
Leased motor vehicles, Minn. Statutes 2024 168.27, 297B.03
Nonprofit charitable organizations, see same under this topic
Registered combined charitable organizations, see same under this topic
Sales by, occasional motor vehicle sales, Minn. Statutes 2024 168.27
Support Our Troops grants, Minn. Statutes 2024 168.1253, 190.19
Work for, by household goods carriers, Minn. Statutes 2024 221.171
Food assistance programs, venison distribution and reimbursement to programs, Minn. Statutes 2024 17.035
Foreign charitable organizations, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.56
Fraternal benefit societies, see FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
Fraud, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
Fund raising
Abandoned cemeteries, improvement and maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50 to 309.61
Sales and use taxes, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 297A.70
Funds and accounts
Management, uniform act
Application of law to existing funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.765
Citation, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.73
Compliance, review, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.76
Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.735
Delegation to external agent, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.75
Electronic signatures, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.77
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.745
Restrictions on use, release or modification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.755
Standards of conduct, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.74
Professional fund-raisers, registration, auctioneers exempted, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515
Gambling, see GAMBLING
Health equity, procuring grants and contracts, Health Department, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.9821
Income, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Informant reward programs, Minn. Statutes 2024 13.82, 309.52, 309.53
Injunctions, violations of laws or rules, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Insignia, duplication or similarity to other insignia, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Inspections, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Investigations
Attorney general, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.533
Commerce Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 45.027
Costs, payment, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Judgments, violations of laws or rules, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Jurisdiction, district court, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Life insurance, charitable organizations as beneficiaries or owners, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.72
Liquor licenses, Minn. Statutes 2024 340A.403, 340A.404
Mail and mailing, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Management and general costs, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Managing group
Certificates and certification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Resolutions by, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Misrepresentation, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
Motor vehicles, motor carrier insurance, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 221.141
Names, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.55
Nonprofit charitable organizations
Distressed food donations, Minn. Statutes 2024 604A.10
Healthy eating, here at home program, grants, Minn. Statutes 2024 138.912
Motor vehicles, Minn. Statutes 2024 168.012
Rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Small business loans, Minn. Statutes 2024 334.011
Nonprofit corporations law, election of application, Minn. Statutes 2024 317A.021
Nonresident charitable organizations, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.56
Oaths, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531, 309.533
Officers
Chief executive officer, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Execution by, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Highest paid officers, disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Names, using in public solicitation literature, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Professional fund raisers, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Orders, violations of laws or rules, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Organization (formation), registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Parent organizations
Annual reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Defined, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Patents, bad faith claim of infringement, Minn. Statutes 2024 325D.72
Payments by
Abandoned cemeteries, money raised for, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243
Annual reports, late fees, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Investigations, costs, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Registration fees, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Restitution, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Solicited contributions, nonregistered organizations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Personal property taxes, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 272.02
Prescription drugs, sale, purchase, or trade, Minn. Statutes 2024 151.441
Private foundations law, Minn. Statutes 2024 317A.113
Professional fund raisers
Attorney general, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.59
Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Contracts, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.531
Data, classification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Defined, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531, 309.556
Enforcement of law, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.582, 309.60
Exclusions, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Inspections, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Investigations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.533
Nonresident professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.56
Records, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515, 309.52, 309.531
Reports given, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515, 309.531
Rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.591
Service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 5.25, 309.56
Severability of law, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.61
Violations and penalties, see same under this topic
Program services, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Property taxes, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 272.02
Public information and education programs
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.556
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Purchasing, cooperative agreements, state contracts, Minn. Statutes 2024 16C.105
Radio advertising, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Raffles, see RAFFLES
Receipts, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Receivers, appointment, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Records and record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Registered agents, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.56
Registered combined charitable organizations
Contributions to, see CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
Cooperative purchasing agreements, state contracts, Minn. Statutes 2024 16C.105
Fund raising, sales and use taxes, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 297A.70
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 43A.04, 43A.50
State employee contributions, Minn. Statutes 2024 43A.04
Registration
Auctioneers, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515
Charitable gambling organizations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Data, classification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.54
Exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515, 309.52
Fees, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Informant reward programs, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Not deemed endorsement by state, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515, 309.52, 309.531
Suspension, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Reports given
Annual reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515 to 309.55
False statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.581
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53, 309.581
Professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515, 309.531
Restitution, violations of laws or rules, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Revenues, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Sales by, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Service club and religious notices, outdoor advertising, Minn. Statutes 2024 173.02, 173.08
Service of process on, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 5.25, 309.56
Signatures, officers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Signs, outdoor advertising, Minn. Statutes 2024 173.02, 173.08
Solicitation of charitable funds
Campaigns, reports about, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531, 309.556
Effect on service of process, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.56
Firefighters, Minn. Statutes 2024 465.90
Income, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Methods, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Payment or contribution to nonregistered charitable organizations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Professional fund raisers, see same under this topic
Receipts, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Reports about, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Solicitation notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Telephone calls, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Transfer of funds solicited by others, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.515
Uniformed public employees, soliciting prohibited, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Violations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 609.2336
State employees, see Registered combined charitable organizations under this topic
Statutory cities, charity bureaus, establishing, Minn. Statutes 2024 447.04
Statutory rule against perpetuities, nonvested property, interests, Minn. Statutes 2024 501A.04
Stipulations, violations, assurance of discontinuance, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Subscriptions, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Surety bonds, professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Tax deductions, charitable contributions, disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.556
Tax returns, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Taxes
Exemptions, generally, Minn. Const. art 10 s 1
Tax-exempt status, registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Telegrams, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Telephone calls, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Television advertising, solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Tickets (events), solicitation of charitable funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50, 309.556
Trademarks and trade names, duplication or similarity to other marks or names, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Transfers of money or property
Out of Minnesota, financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.53
Transfers to, exclusions from Fraudulent Transfer Act, Minn. Statutes 2024 513.41
Trustees
Certificates and certification, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Names, using in public solicitation literature, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55
Registration, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52
Resolutions by, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.52, 309.53
Trusts, others treated as qualified beneficiaries for notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 501C.0110
Trusts for benefit of, see CHARITABLE TRUSTS
Unfair and deceptive practices, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
Violations and penalties
Discontinuance of violations, assurance, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.55, 309.581
Injunctions, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Laws or rules violations, investigations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.533
Solicitation of charitable contributions, criminal penalties, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.581, 609.2336
Volunteers, professional fund raisers, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50
Wine tastings, Minn. Statutes 2024 340A.418
Writing requirements
Assurance of discontinuance of violations, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.57
Laws or rules violations, statements of, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.533
Professional fund raisers, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.531
Public disclosure documents, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.556
Written requests, solicitation of charitable funds
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.556
Methods, Minn. Statutes 2024 309.50