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Emergency Executive Order 20-14

Suspending Evictions and Writs of Recovery During the COVID-19 Peacetime Emergency

Governor Tim Walz · Minnesota (State)

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Jurisdiction
Minnesota
Level
State
Authority
Minn. Stat. 12.21, subd. 3 (orders with the force and effect of law during a peacetime emergency); EO 20-01
Issued
2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
Effective
2020-03-24 5:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-24)
End
for the duration of the peacetime emergency or until rescinded; modified Aug. 4, 2020 by EO 20-79 (MN-026), which ran to the emergency's end (June 30, 2021, when the Legislature's phase-out statute, MN-042, took over) (read as 2020-08-04)
In force
Mar. 24, 2020 to Aug. 4, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Courts and public officesOther
Addressees
  • property owners, mortgage holders and persons entitled to recover residential premises
  • courts (writs of recovery)
Functions reached
  • SV (post-redemption evictions by mortgage holders suspended; rental-property collections)
  • CB
Collection
Financial Services SEC-13

Operative words

1. Beginning no later than March 24, 2020 at 5:00 pm, and continuing for the duration of the peacetime emergency declared in Executive Order 20-01 or until this Executive Order is rescinded, for property owners, mortgage holders, or other persons entitled to recover residential premises after March 1, 2020 because a household remains in the property after a notice of termination of lease, after the termination of the redemption period for a residential foreclosure, after a residential lease has been breached, or after nonpayment of rent, the ability to file an eviction action under Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 504B.285 or 504B.291 is suspended.

Enforcement

Minn. Stat. 12.45 (misdemeanor for willful violation)

Notes

Same instrument as MN-006. Reaches mortgage holders by name.