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     617.295 Exemptions.  

    The following are exempt from criminal or other action 
 hereunder: 

    (a) Recognized and established schools, churches, museums, 
 medical clinics and physicians, hospitals, public libraries, 
 governmental agencies or quasi governmental sponsored 
 organizations, and persons acting in their capacity as employees 
 or agents of such organization.  For the purpose of this section 
 "recognized and established" shall mean an organization or 
 agency having a full time faculty and diversified curriculum in 
 the case of a school; a church affiliated with a national or 
 regional denomination; a licensed physician or psychiatrist or 
 clinic of licensed physicians or psychiatrists; and in all other 
 exempt organizations shall refer only to income tax exempted 
 organizations which are supported in whole or in part by tax 
 funds or which receive at least one-third of their support from 
 publicly donated funds.  

    (b) Individuals in a parental relationship with the minor.  

    (c) Motion picture machine operators, stagehands, or other 
 theatre employees such as cashiers, doorkeepers, ushers, and 
 concession employees, if such person or persons have no 
 financial interest in the entertainment presented other than the 
 salary or wage, or in any theatre or place where such employee 
 has no financial interest when the employee's services are 
 obtained solely for salary or wage; provided, that such employee 
 is under the direct supervision of a theatre manager who is a 
 resident of this state and who is not exempt from action under 
 sections 617.291 to 617.297.  

    HIST: 1969 c 1071 s 5; 1986 c 444 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.