Bill Text: MN HF2479 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-6)

Status: (Passed) 2014-05-08 - Secretary of State Chapter 205 05/06/14 [HF2479 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-HF2479-Engrossed.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to courts; allowing housing courts and housing calendars to use referees
1.3almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases;amending Minnesota Statutes
1.42012, section 484.013, subdivision 3.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 484.013, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
1.7    Subd. 3. Referee. The chief judge of district court may appoint a referee for the
1.8housing calendar program. The referee must be learned in the law. The referee must be
1.9compensated according to the same scale used for other referees in the district court.
1.10Section 484.70, subdivision 6, applies does not apply to the housing calendar program.
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