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“Minnesota ‘Unsession’ Dumps 1,175 Obsolete, Silly Laws”

It’s no longer a crime in Minnesota to carry fruit in an illegally sized container. The state’s telegraph regulations are gone. And it’s now legal to drive a car in neutral — if you can figure out how to do it.

Those were among the 1,175 obsolete, unnecessary and incomprehensible laws that Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature repealed this year as part of the governor’s “unsession” initiative. His goal was to make state government work better, faster and smarter….

Now they need to institute a constitutional mandatory sunset provision on new laws.  Every law expires in 5 years.  No blanket extension; rewriting to be mandatory.