Section 168.345 Use of Vehicle Registration Information - Minnesota Statutes

168.345 USE OF VEHICLE REGISTRATION INFORMATION.

Subdivision 1.Information by telephone.

Information about vehicle registrations shall not be furnished on the telephone to any person except the personnel of law enforcement agencies and the personnel of governmental motor vehicle and registration offices.

Subd. 2.Lessees; information.

The commissioner may not furnish information about registered owners of passenger automobiles who are lessees under a lease for a term of 180 days or more to any person except the personnel of law enforcement agencies and federal, state, and local governmental units, and, at the commissioner's discretion, to persons who use the information to notify lessees of automobile recalls. The commissioner may release information about lessees in the form of summary data, as defined in section 13.02, to persons who use the information in conducting statistical analysis and market research.

Subd. 3.

[Repealed, 1Sp2005 c 6 art 2 s 48]

Subd. 4.

[Repealed, 1Sp2005 c 6 art 2 s 48]

History:

1965 c 901 s 68; 1989 c 178 s 1; 1993 c 266 s 17; 1993 c 326 art 11 s 2,4; 1996 c 328 s 1,2; 1996 c 440 art 1 s 40,41; 1997 c 250 s 4; 1Sp2005 c 6 art 2 s 27,28