Trade Practices Legislation - Minnesota

Providing for the collection and recycling or reuse of video display devices (VDD's); defining certain terms; establishing a registration program under the pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying certain manufacturer labeling and registration requirements for the sale of new household video display devices, specifying collector and recycler registration requirements, requiring PCA web site information maintenance; establishing the electronic waste account in the environmental fund, requiring annual manufacturer registration fee payment to the department of revenue, appropriating money annually until a certain date from the account to the PCA for administration purposes and for distribution of competitive grants to counties and private entities outside the metropolitan area with preference given to helping manufacturers reach their recycling obligations; specifying manufacturer, recycler and collector annual reporting [...]

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Modifying cable communications regulations; requiring cable communications system providers to make efforts to interconnect systems with state authorized video service provider systems; prohibiting cable communications systems logos or marketing materials placement appearing to favor certain cable communications, regulating advertising; prohibiting cable communications systems program content or public programs access limitations, clarifying liability; requiring persons seeking to provide video service to apply and register with the public utilities commission (PUC) after a certain date, providing for certificate issuance, application fee, service area, final determination and termination; requiring public access capacity equal to public, educational and governmental (PEG) access channels as provided by existing cable communications system providers, specifying content format and PEG fees; requiring provider fees, specifying [...]

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TICLE 1 - TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT Modifying certain definitions, allowing statutory provisions modifications in shareholder control agreements and clarifying scope of shareholder control agreements, clarifying board meeting presence in person, permitting articles of a domestic corporation of a non publicly held corporation to confer certain voting powers on directors and requiring shareholder approval, modifying proxy termination procedure, clarifying special legal counsel requirements and dissolution methods, allowing directors to authorize and commence dissolutions ARTICLE 2 - TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT AND THE UNIFORM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACT OF 2001 Clarifying application to existing relationships, modifying the definition of notice for limited liability companies, clarifying a member requirement, action without a meeting notice and [...]

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