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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- for the duration of the peacetime emergency or until rescinded; modified Aug. 4, 2020 by EO 20-79 (MN-026), which ran to the emergency's end (June 30, 2021, when the Legislature's phase-out statute, MN-042, took over)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
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 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for the duration of the peacetime emergency declared in Executive Order 20-01 or until this Executive Order is rescinded, for property owners, mortgage holders, or other persons entitled to recover residential premises after March 1, 2020 because a household remains in the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.