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SJ GN~FJC,MNT CITY ISST~ES <br /> <br />A. Restricting Gtms on Pubhc ?r~perl3, <br /> <br />1. Banning Guns <br /> <br />Posted Notice Not Applicable <br />(1) Minn. Stat. 624.714, <br /> <br />(2) <br /> <br />(3)- <br /> <br /> sub& 17 (sec. ;~2) authorizes pr/¥ate <br />establishments to ban guns by complying with specific notice <br />requ~-ements. <br />Not applicable to publ/c property-- "th.is provision sets forth the <br />exclusive criteria to notify a permit holder when otherw/se law-fizd <br />.5.rearm possession is not allowed Ln a -~r/va~e establishment..." <br />Implicitly prok/bit bans on public property? <br />Enjoined as applied to Edina. Commurfity Church. Claimed notice <br />requirement in~r'imged freedom of reli~on and speech. "Blessed are <br />the peacemakers. Firearms are prob./bred in th_is place of sanctuary." <br />Derfed claim that as an employer, church could regulate employees' <br />ca.w35~g of weapons/n parking lot. <br /> <br />b) <br /> <br />Preemption of Local Re~mxlation of Gum <br />(~.) MAnn. Stat. § I524.717 preempts local re=m~lation of the "cra'Tying or <br /> possessing of pistols." <br />(2) MLrm. Stat. § 471.633, enacted in 1985, broadly preempts "all <br /> authority of [mun/cipahdes]" to r%m~late :firearms "to the complete <br /> exclusion of any order, ordinance or re~m~la~ion." Municipalit/es may <br /> o~y. terra,late the discharge of 5_rearms and adopt re~m_~lafions <br /> "identica/to state law." J_nconsistent local re~mAafion is void. <br /> Section 27 of the Personal Protection Act provides that state law <br /> establishes the "nature and scope" of ~mm-pe~n:aits. Murfcipalities <br /> may not "lLm/t the exercise ora perm/t to carry." <br /> <br />Author/fy To Regulate "Public Business" <br />(1) MLrm. Stat. § 624.72, sub& 1, authorizes governmental bodies and <br /> agencies to promulgate "rules and regulations for the governance of <br /> public property and business" in order to "remain free from <br /> orgar2zed or calculated confusion, disturbance or delay." <br />(2) M2rm. Stat. {} 624.72, sub& 3 authorizes "any public o~fcer, agency <br /> or board havfag the supervision" of public property to "promulgate <br /> reasonable rules and regulations!' for the purpose of "protecting the <br /> conduct of public business therein or thereon, free ~rom Lnte~erence, <br /> or disruption or the threat thereo£" <br />(3) Notably, th_is authority is estabL/shed in the Chapter 624. <br /> <br /> Kennedy & Graven <br />200 South Sixth Street, Suke 470 <br /> .M/nneapokis, M:N 55402 <br /> <br /> <br />