Corrections

Reporting an error#

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The owner must authorize and publish a publicly reachable channel and a responsible recipient before we can offer public intake. This page is a log, not a submission form, and it does not promise that feedback can currently be delivered.

Authorized collaborators can open an issue or pull request in the private repository. For any future public report, or a collaborator report now, include:

1. the page address;
2. the sentence that is wrong or out of date;
3. what you believe is correct, and the primary source that shows it (a statute section, a form, an agency page).

You do not need to be a lawyer to identify an error. A broken source link is worth correcting as well as a legal misreading; the delivery limitation above still applies.

What we do#

• For a report received through an authorized channel, compare the cited source with the page.
• Correct established errors, change the page's updated date and add a dated entry to this log. Keep its review status and last-verified date unchanged unless the required review or full source check actually occurred.
• Where a question remains unresolved, explain the uncertainty rather than presenting a proposed answer as established authority.
• Our extraction or commentary error: if the Revisor's page is correct but our parser omitted operative text, misclassified a section, or displayed it incorrectly, we repair our parser/capture and annotations. The Revisor does not need to change for us to fix our mistake.
• Possible official-source error: identify the exact official text and supporting authority before attributing an error to the source. We do not silently rewrite an official quotation to make it say something else. Source corrections and our publication corrections are distinct.

Log#

2026-10-16 — Operative law restored after an extraction error#

Our parser mistook historical subdivision repeal notices for whole-section repeals and hid operative registered-office provisions in § 308B.115 and § 308A.025. The capture now retains those provisions and their section histories, and § 308B.115 has an unreviewed annotation. § 308B.151 remains repealed. This is our extraction/publication correction, not a legislative amendment or a correction by the Revisor.

2026-10-16 — Annotation coverage denominator corrected#

The missing operative § 308B.115 had also made the annotation coverage claim incomplete. After restoring it, the captured chapter has 87 live sections and 87 annotations, rather than a denominator that excluded that section. An annotation's existence is not proof of legal accuracy or attorney review. See the official Chapter 308B index, Chapter 308B at a glance and How we verify what we publish. All annotations remain unreviewed.

2026-10-16 — Filing fee explanations corrected#

We had described current filing totals as unexplained differences from Chapter 308B's base fees. Fees and forms for 308B cooperatives and the related formation, renewal and fee annotations now explain the additional authority: § 5.14 authorizes the $20 expedited-service surcharge; § 5.60 authorizes an additional late penalty up to $40 for qualifying renewal defaults. The current Secretary of State fee schedule and cooperative renewal form show $60 mail/$80 expedited articles and $65 mail/$85 expedited reinstatement. The latter combines the $25 base with the current $40 late penalty, plus $20 if expedited. Repealed § 5.22 is not current authority for those charges. This correction does not claim that all other fees or tax references were reverified.

2026-10-16 — Private repository and unavailable public intake disclosed#

We incorrectly called the repository public and directed ordinary readers to issues, edits and history they could not access. Owner-authorized GitHub metadata inspection confirmed the repository is private. Repository links now say they require authorized collaborator access; Contribute, Editorial policy and Independence, disclaimer and what this site is distinguish public reading from contribution access. No authorized public correction intake was found in the inspected configuration and documentation, so this page and the site interface disclose that none is currently available. No mailbox, profile-based delivery promise or replacement service has been invented. The repository metadata endpoint is access-restricted; it is not offered as anonymous evidence or an intake route.

2026-10-16 — Extraction and verification assurances qualified#

The footer and statute display had described our extracted text as verbatim or untouched. They now disclose formatting/whitespace normalization and the possibility of extraction errors, while preserving the official Revisor links and identifying official text as controlling. Editorial policy now distinguishes editorial standards and structural checks from verified source support or legal accuracy. A hash or a passing structural check does not prove a complete capture, a correct legal interpretation, or an attorney's review. See How we verify what we publish for verification scope and limitations.

The verification documentation also now distinguishes configured automation from observed operation. The inspected hosted run reported startup_failure with no jobs or check runs; its cause is not established, and that private link requires authorized repository access. A configured watcher is not proof of successful monitoring. Its scope is the configured Chapters 308B, 308A and 308C plus selected § 80A.461, not every source on this site. The capture-differences page now distinguishes changed stored text from proven legislative amendments.

2026-10-16 — Formation and governance cross-references corrected#

The formation/governance guides, references and commentary have been compared with the retrieved primary text, with page-level scope and remaining gaps recorded in the repository research report. Material corrections include:

• The officer-authority exception is the CEO, not the chair, under § 308B.475, subdivision 1(c).
• § 308B.525 supplies minimum member quorum rules, not a categorical bar on higher requirements. § 308B.535, subdivision 3, and § 308B.241, subdivision 5, permit greater member-adopted requirements and protect the greater existing or proposed threshold when those provisions are amended; the board cannot simply adopt that bylaw itself.
• A board's membership majority and exclusive patron-election majority under § 308B.411 are separate defaults. Patron-elected board voting protections are a separate requirement.
• § 308B.611, subdivision 5, measures its alternative one-year class/series-statement period from acceptance of contributions, not creation of the class.
• Financial-rights percentages under § 308B.601 must not be conflated with annual allocation and distribution requirements under § 308B.721.
• Publication 225's qualified-notice discussion uses the 20-percent cash requirement plus either the redemption route or qualifying consent, not both routes cumulatively. See Allocate patronage and make distributions.
• The no-fee address correction in § 5.36 is narrower than a blanket waiver for office changes. Cooperatives considering agricultural production or land also need the separate, conditional § 500.24 inquiry described in Organize a producer or marketing cooperative under chapter 308B.

2026-10-16 — Tax, securities and local-government statements corrected#

Understand cooperative tax basics now separates entity classification from Subchapter T treatment, the narrower § 521 agricultural status, conditional patronage deductions and state return instructions for the actual tax year. Its BOI statement is supported by FinCEN's published August 14, 2026 final rule, not just an announcement ^C14.

Understand securities rules before raising money distinguishes the cooperative exemption's disclosure, eligible-recipient and after-sale filing conditions from federal law. It documents the current Commerce “at least” versus statutory “within” 15 days after-sale discrepancy ^G9, adds five actually examined MNvest rule parts ^C15, and identifies selected 2026 securities amendments without claiming complete statutory currency ^C16.

Giving a cooperative a loan, grant or other local assistance no longer turns the absence of bank powers into a blanket prohibition on cooperative advances, limited deposits or lending: § 308B.301, subdivisions 7–9, supplies specific powers alongside subdivision 1(b)'s limitation. Local-government pages also distinguish business-subsidy thresholds and criteria, contract types covered by procurement law, entity good standing and applicant authority. The SOS example is accurately identified as an inactive Chapter 308A record, not proof of an active 308B entity.

2026-10-16 — Historical and judicial research added with limits#

Research findings and limits — October 2026 now explains the 2003 enactment and 2010 office/agent amendment, a bounded 2026 regular-session table check, and the holdings and limits of Reves, Forman, Bot and Elliott. It distinguishes Johanns' incidental statutory comparison from a Chapter 308B governance holding. The note identifies unofficial opinion mirrors and unsuccessful archive access; it does not claim comprehensive case-law coverage or later-treatment review.

2026-10-16 — Statutory annotations and glossary audited page by page#

All 87 statute annotations were compared with their captured text; contested provisions and selected external cross-references were reopened. All 56 glossary pages were substantively compared with the identified statutory and other primary material. The audit corrected 48 annotation pages and 28 glossary pages while retaining the remaining scoped explanations—not certifying them as current law.

Material corrections include the articles/bylaws condition for a smaller board under § 308B.405; the difference between original-articles authorization for profit allocation and the separate distribution rule in § 308B.721; required member-control-agreement signatories under § 308B.627; actual notice-certificate timing under § 308B.515 and § 308B.521; and the merger notice and abandonment rules in § 308B.805 and § 308B.835. Small-board and quorum qualifications were also propagated into guide, FAQ and comparison summaries. All affected pages remain unreviewed, and existing partial-audit lastVerified dates were preserved.

These entries record the specific repairs and research described, not a legal certification of the whole site. The statute repairs concern the published Revisor text inspected, not proof that every session-law amendment or effective-date issue through October 16, 2026 has been examined. Agency sources support the identified facts as inspected, not blanket freshness of all guidance. All affected content remains unreviewed.