Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Minnesota

Re: Pets

YES. He can also BAN pets, restrict the # or SIZE, or species.

Re: Pets

The statute permits the landlord to impose "reasonable rules". It sounds to me as though your landlord is saying that these rules are for public health, and are therefore reasonable. I don't know about neutered, but rabies shots would probably sound "reasonable" to a judge. The statute is:

327C.05 Rules.

Subdivision 1. Unreasonable rules prohibited. No

park owner shall adopt or enforce unreasonable rules. No park

owner may engage in a course of conduct which is unreasonable in

light of the criteria set forth in section 327C.01, subdivision

8.

Subd. 2. Presumptively unreasonable rules. In any

action in which the reasonableness of a rule is challenged, any

rule which violates any provision of Laws 1982, chapter 526,

article 2 or of any other law shall be deemed unreasonable, and

the following rules shall be presumed unreasonable unless the

park owner proves their reasonableness by clear and convincing

evidence:

(a) any rule which prohibits the placing of a "for sale"

sign on a resident's home by the resident;

(b) any rule which requires a resident or prospective

resident to purchase any particular goods or services from a

particular vendor or vendors, including the park owner;

(c) any rule which requires a resident to use the services

of a particular dealer or broker in an in park sale; and

(d) any rule requiring that more than one occupant of a

home have an ownership interest in that home.

Subd. 3. Other unreasonable rules. In addition to

the rules listed in subdivision 2, a court may declare

unreasonable any park rule if the court finds that the rule

fails to meet the standard of section 327C.01, subdivision 8.

The absence of a rule from the list contained in subdivision 2

is not evidence or proof of the rule's reasonableness.

Subd. 4. Density restrictions. Subject to section

327C.02, subdivision 2, a park owner may adopt and enforce a

reasonable rule that places limits on the maximum number of

persons permitted to reside in a manufactured home if the

limitation is reasonably related to the size of the home and the

number of rooms it contains.