Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 503.03
Whenever a party has the right or is required to do some act or take some proceedings within a prescribed period after the service of a notice or other document upon the party, and the notice or document is served upon the party bv United States Mail. 3 days shall be added to the prescribed period.
If service is made bv anv means other than United States Mail and accomplished after 5:00 p.m. local Minnesota time on the dav of service. 1 additional dav shall be added to the prescribed period.
Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 503.03
This amended Rule 503 is drawn directly to Rule 6.01 as amended as part of the extensive revamping in 2019 of the timing rules for all civil matters. These amendments implement the adoption of a standard "day" for counting deadlines under the rules- counting all days regardless of the length of the period and standardizing the time periods, where practicable, to a 7-, 14-, 21- or 28-day schedule. The most important establishes "a day is a day"-all days during a period under the rules, regardless of length, are included, including weekends and legal holidays. This change mirrors a set of changes made in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and is intended to create substantial similarity between "state days" and "federal days." The amended rule also adopts the same definition of "legal holidays" as set used in Minn. R. Civ. P. 6. Rule 503.01(f) is an important provision that will affect many deadlines. It establishes an explicit rule for how days are counted when counting "backwards" from a deadline. The rule requires that, when counting backwards from an event, and the last day falls on a weekend or holiday, the counting continues to the next earlier date that is not a weekend or holiday. This rule is modeled on its federal counterpart and is intended to create greater uniformity in timing between all state and federal court matters.