1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 500 - 515B Property Interests and Liens
Chapter 504 Landlords and Tenants
Section 504.255 Unlawful ouster or exclusion; damages.
504.255 Unlawful ouster or exclusion; damages.
If a landlord, an agent, or other person acting under the landlord's direction or control, unlawfully and in bad faith removes, excludes, or forcibly keeps out a tenant from a residential premises, the tenant may recover from the landlord treble damages or $500, whichever is greater, and reasonable attorney's fees.
HIST: 1984 c 612 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 328 art 2 s 1
* NOTE: This section is repealed by Laws 1998, chapter 253, *section 80, effective July 1, 1999. Laws 1998, chapter 253, *section 81.
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