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504B.225

Statute ID: 11806

Landlord Tenant - Intentional Ouster and Interruption of Utilities

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Statute Number:

504B.225

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 1999

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Landlord Tenant - Intentional Ouster and Interruption of Utilities

Statute ID:

11806

Created:

Oct 3, 2007 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Oct 3, 2007 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

Added per MNCIS Configuration Request

Summary Text:

Landlord Tenant - Intentional Ouster and Interruption of Utilities

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/504B/225.html

Legislative Session:

1999 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Oct 3, 2007

A landlord, an agent, or person acting under the landlord's direction or control who  unlawfully and intentionally removes or excludes a tenant from lands or tenements or intentionally interrupts or causes the interruption of electrical, heat, gas, or water services to the tenant with intent to unlawfully remove or exclude the tenant from lands or tenements is guilty of a misdemeanor. In any trial under this section, it shall be presumed that the landlord, agent, or other person acting under the landlord's direction or control interrupted or caused the interruption of the service with intent to unlawfully remove or exclude the tenant from lands or tenements, if it is established by evidence that the landlord, an agent, or other person acting under the landlord's direction or control intentionally interrupted or caused the interruption of the service to the tenant. The burden is upon the landlord to rebut the presumption.The remedies provided in this section are in addition to and shall not limit other rights or 
remedies available to landlords and tenants. Any provision, whether oral or written, of any lease or other agreement, whereby any provision of this section is waived by a tenant, is contrary to public policy and void. The provisions of this section also apply to occupants and owners of residential real property which is the subject of a mortgage foreclosure or contract for deed cancellation and as to which the period for redemption or reinstatement of the contract has expired.