HF 13

Subdivision 1.

When authorized.

new text begin (a) new text end Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions 2
to 4, reasonable force may be used upon or toward the person of another without the other's
consent when the following circumstances exist or the actor reasonably believes them to
exist:

(1) when used by a public officer or one assisting a public officer under the public
officer's direction:

(i) in effecting a lawful arrest; or

(ii) in the execution of legal process; or

(iii) in enforcing an order of the court; or

(iv) in executing any other duty imposed upon the public officer by law; or

(2) when used by a person not a public officer in arresting another in the cases and in
the manner provided by law and delivering the other to an officer competent to receive the
other into custody; or

(3) when used by any person in resisting or aiding another to resist an offense against
the person; or

(4) when used by any person in lawful possession of real or personal property, or by
another assisting the person in lawful possession, in resisting a trespass upon or other
unlawful interference with such property; or

(5) when used by any person to prevent the escape, or to retake following the escape,
of a person lawfully held on a charge or conviction of a crime; or

(6) when used by a parent, guardian, or other lawful custodian of a child, in the exercise
of lawful authority, to restrain or correct such child; or

(7) when used by a teacher, school principal, school employee, school bus driver, or
other agent of a district in the exercise of lawful authority, to restrain a child or pupil to
prevent bodily harm or death to the child, pupil, or another; or

(8) when used by a common carrier in expelling a passenger who refuses to obey a lawful
requirement for the conduct of passengers and reasonable care is exercised with regard to
the passenger's personal safety; or

(9) when used to restrain a person with a mental illness or a person with a developmental
disability from self-injury or injury to another or when used by one with authority to do so
to compel compliance with reasonable requirements for the person's control, conduct, or
treatment; or

(10) when used by a public or private institution providing custody or treatment against
one lawfully committed to it to compel compliance with reasonable requirements for the
control, conduct, or treatment of the committed person.

new text begin (b) An actor may use reasonable force under the circumstances described in paragraph
(a), clause (3), regardless of whether a reasonable possibility of retreat to avoid the danger
exists.
new text end