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12/29/88 [REVISOR ] XX/MC 89-0652 <br />0 1 Subd. 2. [PRELIMINARY INQUIRY:] Upon receiving a complaint <br />2 or becoming aware of an apparent or potential violation, the <br />3 board shall direct the executive director to make a preliminary <br />4 inquiry to determine whether sufficient facts have been alleged <br />5 in the complaint or have otherwise become known to the board to <br />6 indicate a reasonable cause for belief that a violation of this <br />7 chapter has occurred. The executive director shall notify the <br />8 subject of the inquiry and the attorney general of the alleged <br />9 or potential violation and of the sta:t of the preliminary <br />10 inquiry, but may not reveal to either the identity of the <br />11 complainant, if any. If the executive director finds no <br />12 reasonable cause for belief that a violation has occurred, the <br />13 executive director shall notify the board, the subject of the <br />14 inquiry, the attorney general, and the complainant, if an ` of <br />15 that finding. Any action taken or evidence received by the <br />16 board cp to this point in a t)rcceedigg is nonpublic data, excerpt. <br />17 that the executive director may issue the notifications required <br />18 by this subdivision and: <br />19 (1) the board shall make the result of a preliminary <br />20 inquiry puhlic at the request of the subject of the inquiry; <br />21 (2) the board may report the information required by <br />22 section 2, subdivision 7 so long as the report does not contain <br />23 the name of the subject of a preliminary inquiry or an other <br />ther <br />24 information that might identify the subject; <br />25 13) the board may turn information received through a <br />26 preliminary inquiry over to the attorney general, the United <br />27 States attorney, or a county attorney, who may use it in a <br />28 zriminal proceeding; and <br />29 �4) the attorney general nay initiate a criminal proceeding <br />30 on the basis of the notification of a preliminary inquiry <br />31 received from the execw-ive director under this subdivision. <br />32 Subd. 3. [FINDING OF REASONABLE CAUSE.) If at the <br />33 conclusion of a preliminary inquiry the executive director finds <br />34 reasonable cause for belief that a violation of this chapter has <br />35 occurred the executive director may negotiate a settlement of <br />36 the violation in accordance with subdivision 4. If the director <br />