MN SF4525

Authorizes townships, home rule charter cities, statutory cities, and counties to accept documents, signatures, and filings by United States mail, electronically, or by facsimile during a peacetime public health emergency.

Applies to planning and zoning applications and permits, land use documents, documents requiring signatures from licensed architects/engineers/landscape architects, birth and death certificate applications, and notary commission recordings.

Eliminates any in-person requirement for submission of these documents during the declared emergency period.

Defines "peacetime public health emergency" as a governor-declared emergency relating to COVID-19.

Expires January 6, 2021, or 60 days after the peacetime public health emergency is terminated, whichever is earlier.