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609.06.1

Statute ID: 19945

Statute Function ID: 39874

Use of Force - Reasonable Force Authorized

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Statute Number:

609.06.1

Enactment Date:

May 24, 2024

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2024

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Use of Force - Reasonable Force Authorized

Statute ID:

19945

Created:

Jul 9, 2024 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 9, 2024 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

2024 amended c123 art6 sect4; Effective 08/01/2024

Summary Text:

Use of Force - Reasonable Force Authorized

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/06.html

Legislative Session:

2024 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 9, 2024

Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions 2 to 4, reasonable force may be used upon or toward the person of another without the other's consent when the following circumstances exist or the actor reasonably believes them to exist:

(1) when used by a public officer or one assisting a public officer under the public officer's direction:

(i) in effecting a lawful arrest; or

(ii) in the execution of legal process; or

(iii) in enforcing an order of the court; or

(iv) in executing any other duty imposed upon the public officer by law; or

(2) when used by a person not a public officer in arresting another in the cases and in the manner provided by law and delivering the other to an officer competent to receive the other into custody; or

(3) when used by any person in resisting or aiding another to resist an offense against the person; or

(4) when used by any person in lawful possession of real or personal property, or by another assisting the person in lawful possession, in resisting a trespass upon or other unlawful interference with such property; or

(5) when used by any person to prevent the escape, or to retake following the escape, of a person lawfully held on a charge or conviction of a crime; or

(6) when used by a parent, guardian, or other lawful custodian of a child, in the exercise of lawful authority, to restrain or correct such child; or

(7) when used by a teacher, school principal, school employee, school bus driver, or other agent of a district in the exercise of lawful authority, to restrain a child or pupil, to prevent bodily harm or death to the child, pupil, or another; or

(8) when used by a common carrier in expelling a passenger who refuses to obey a lawful requirement for the conduct of passengers and reasonable care is exercised with regard to the passenger's personal safety; or

(9) when used to restrain a person with a mental illness or a person with a developmental disability from self-injury or injury to another or when used by one with authority to do so to compel compliance with reasonable requirements for the person's control, conduct, or treatment; or

(10) when used by a public or private institution providing custody or treatment against one lawfully committed to it to compel compliance with reasonable requirements for the control, conduct, or treatment of the committed person.