AI-assisted research summary: This section sets the design and symbolism of Minnesota’s Great Seal and requires state agencies and departments using it to make every effort to update existing seals, impressions, or likenesses to match this section and section 4.04.
§Subdivision 1.Purpose.This section prescribes the design and states the historical symbolism of the Great Seal of the State of Minnesota. §Subd. 2.Official seal.The seal described in subdivision 3a is the "Great Seal of the State of Minnesota." When the seal, the impression of the seal, the scene within the seal, or its likeness is reproduced at state expense, it must conform to subdivision 3a and section 4.04. A seal, impression, scene, or likeness which does not conform to these provisions is not official. §Subd. 3.MS 2022 [Repealed, 2023 c 62 art 2 s 133] §Subd. 3a.Official seal; May 11, 2024, and thereafter.The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota is the design as certified in the report of the State Emblems Redesign Commission, as established by Laws 2023, chapter 62, article 2, section 118. §Subd. 4.Additional effects; size.Every effort shall be made to reproduce the seal with justification to the 12 o'clock position. This section does not prohibit the enlargement, proportioned reduction, or embossment of the seal for its use in unofficial acts. §Subd. 5.MS 2022 [Repealed, 2023 c 62 art 2 s 133] §Subd. 6.State's duties.State agencies and departments using the seal, its impression, or its likeness shall make every effort to bring any seal, impression, or likeness currently fixed to a permanent object into accordance with this section and section 4.04. Expendable material to which the seal in effect prior to May 11, 2024, or any impression, scene, or likeness of that seal is currently affixed may be used until the supply is exhausted or until January 1, 2025, whichever occurs first. All unused dies and engravings of the Great Seal shall be given to the Minnesota Historical Society, along with all historical information available about the seal, to be retained in the society's permanent collection.