Source: http://www.mncourts.gov/GovernmentPartners/Local-Ordinances.aspx
Timestamp: 2019-04-18 18:24:53+00:00

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This information is intended for use by criminal justice agencies.
Since July 14, 2014, the MNCIS Offense Table has included individual offense codes for ordinance and administrative rule violations. The offense codes enable ordinance and administrative rule violations to be charged on a citation, complaint, or juvenile petition.
Users must submit a Request to Add/Modify/Repeal Ordinance Form or an Ordinance Add/Modify/Requests Spreadsheet Template to add, modify or repeal ordinance or administrative rule offense codes in the MNCIS Offense Table.
Use the single request form for adding, modifing or repealing one or two ordinances.
Use the spreadsheet for multiple ordinances.
Submit the request form or spreadsheet to the court administrator's office in your county. The court administrator's office will submit a Service Desk Ticket including the form(s) or spreadsheet.
To verify whether the ordinance offense code(s) already exist in MNCIS and to obtain the ordinance offense code(s) information needed to modify or repeal existing ordinance offense code(s), generate a MNCIS Offense Table for Ordinance and Administrative Rule Violations report for the jurisdiction before completing the ordinance request form or spreadsheet for multiple requests.
Indicate whether you want to Add, Modify or Repeal an ordinance offense code.
Add if the ordinance offense code does not exist in MNCIS (please verify by searching for codes already in MNCIS by running a MNCIS Offense Table for Ordinance and Administrative Rule Violations.
Modify if the ordinance offense code in MNCIS needs to be changed, e.g., change the description or change the amount of a payable fine. Any other changes require an ordinance to be repealed and then add a new ordinance.
Repeal if the ordinance offense code has been repealed.
The ordinance number has changed or is being corrected, i.e., when a city code is recodified/renumbered.
The degree of the offense changes from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor or from a petty misdemeanor to a misdemeanor.
Tip: Use the Search feature in MNCIS Offense Table for Ordinance and Administrative Rule Violations to identify the existing ordinance offense codes in MNCIS.
Export search results to Excel.
Identify the ordinance offense codes to be repealed or modified.
Delete any ordinance offense codes you don’t want to change from the spreadsheet.
Check Modify Ordinance or Repeal Ordinance as appropriate.
Complete the Prepared By, Date, and Jurisdiction fields.
Complete the Repeal Date field if the request is to Repeal ordinance offense codes.
Enter “See attached spreadsheet” in the Description field.
Enter the name and title of person preparing the form.
Enter the date the form is submitted to Court Administration.
Enter the name of the subdivision of government that enacted the ordinance. Check the type of subdivision of government, City, County, Township or Other.
For example: If the ordinance is one enacted by the city of Faribault, enter "Faribault" and check the box next to "city".
If the ordinance is one enacted by the county of Faribault, enter "Faribault" and check the box next to "county".
Enter the number identifying the ordinance violation.
If ordinances are codified, i.e., in a city code, use the number assigned in the code. If there are multiple offenses in a single section, distinguish the separate offenses by paragraph or clause applicable to the particular offense.
If the ordinances are not codified, use the number of the ordinance with any paragraph or clause as applicable.
If the ordinance adopts or incorporates a statute, administrative rule, or chapter by reference, then the ordinance number should be the number of the ordinance, dash, followed by the statute number, e.g., 70.01-169.14.2(a)(3).
See Does this ordinance adopt or incorporate a statute, administrative rule, or chapter by reference? below.
Enter the Reference ID number of an existing ordinance offense code being modified or repealed.
Tip: This number will begin with the letter "R" and can be found by using the Search feature. Leave this field blank if the request is to add an ordinance offense code.
Enter the date the ordinance offense code should be effective.
2/1/1900 may be entered if the date the ordinance became effective is unknown.
the first date an ordinance became payable (if the offense is changing from court required to payable).
NOTE: The ordinance offense code will be available for use for all offenses that occur on or after the effective date. Use an actual effective date whenever possible. When one ordinance offense code is being repealed and replaced by a new one, the effective date of the new one must be the first date the new ordinance offense code can be used. The effective date on the repealed offense code cannot be the same as the effective date on the new ordinance offense code. A citation or complaint will be rejected if the offense date is before the effective date of the ordinance offense code submitted.
Enter the first date the ordinance offense code cannot be used.
For example: if the last date the ordinance offense code can be used to charge an offense is September 30, the repeal date should be October 1.
Note: The ordinance offense code will be available for use for all offenses that occur on or after the effective date and before the repeal date. A citation or complaint will be rejected if the offense date is on or after the repeal date of the ordinance offense code submitted.
Select the applicable ordinance offense code classification.
Select Charging if a person can be charged with an offense.
Select Non-charging if the ordinance offense code is a penalty provision or a definition or something else a person cannot be charged for violating. This non-charging offense code may not be used alone as a charge.
Select Both if the ordinance offense code can be charged with an offense and the offense also includes a penalty.
Enter a summary description of the offense, penalty, or definition.
Note: The description cannot be longer than 100 characters, including spaces.
Select the degree of the offense provided in the ordinance.
Note: The degree is set by the subdivision of government enacting the ordinance. A payable fine amount does not determine the degree of the offense. It is important that the correct degree is identified as it impacts the rights of a defendant. Petty misdemeanors are payable as a matter of Judicial Council Policy 506.1.
Tip: If the applicable penalty provision indicates the offense is a misdemeanor, select Misdemeanor; if it indicates the offense is a petty misdemeanor, select Petty Misdemeanor.
Identify the ordinance in which the penalty for an ordinance violation is set.
Tip: The penalty provision may be in the same ordinance as the offense, in a different ordinance in the same title/chapter, or in a different title/chapter.
13.	Is this a Parking Violation?
Select Yes if the ordinance is a parking violation.
If it is a parking violation, enter No to the following question, "Does this ordinance regulate the operation of a motor vehicle".
Select No if it is not.
Minn. Stat. §357.021, subd. 6: The parking surcharge applies to parking violations.
Minn. Stat. §171.16: The court is not required to send convictions for parking violations to the Department of Public Safety.
14.	Does this ordinance regulate the operation of a motor vehicle?
Select No if it does not.
Select No if the ordinance is a Parking Violation.
Minn. Stat. §171.16: The court is required to send convictions to the Department of Public Safety for ordinances that regulate the operation of a motor vehicle.
15.	Is this a defective vehicle equipment or vehicle size or overweight violation?
Select Yes if it does.
Minn. Stat. §171.16: The court is not required to send convictions for for defective vehicle equipment or vehicle overweight violations to the Department of Public Safety.
16.	Does this ordinance adopt or incorporate a statute, administrative rule or chapter by reference?
If Yes, an ordinance offense code is required for every offense that will be charged as an ordinance violation instead of a statutory violation.
See “Ordinance Number” above for information on how to cite to an ordinance offense that adopts or incorporates a statute or administrative rule or chapter.
Note: If Yes, then the ordinance violation is payable as a matter of policy if the statute or administrative rule adopted is payable on the Statewide Payables List. The ordinance violation is court required as a matter of policy if the statute or administrative rule adopted is not payable.
Complete this only field if the request is to Add or Modify an ordinance offense code, and the ordinance is a misdemeanor.
Select Yes if the recommendation is that the offense should be payable or if the recommendation is to change the payable fine amount.
Select No if the recommendation is that the misdemeanor offense should require court appearance, or should change from payable to court required.
Note: This section of the form does not need to be completed for petty misdemeanor ordinances. All petty misdemeanor ordinance violations are payable as a matter of Judicial Council Policy 506.1.
Identify the attorney representing the subdivision of government who approved the recommendation.
After consultation with the prosecuting authority, other misdemeanor ordinance violations may be made payable without court appearance only if the district court in which an ordinance applies designates it as a payable offense and sets a payable fine amount.
Enter the amount of the payable fine effective on the Base Fine Effective Date entered.
Note: Enter the fine amount only. Do not include the surcharge or law library fee in the fine amount entered. The applicable surcharge and law library fee are assessed separately from the fine. If you include the amounts in the base fine amount, the surcharge and law library fee will be assessed twice.
Submit the request to the designated judge for review and approval if a prosecutor recommends that a misdemeanor ordinance be payable. The judge should confer with the prosecutor if there are questions or concerns about the request.
If a misdemeanor ordinance is recommended as payable, but the recommendation has not been approved by the prosecutor, send the form to the prosecutor for review. Otherwise, the judge will need to confer with the prosecutor before setting the payable fine.
See Judicial Council Policy 506.1,G, d.
Enter the date an ordinance becomes payable.
If the ordinance is already payable, enter the date the fine amount is changed.
Tip: An error message will result if the offense date is on or after the effective date, but before the fine effective date.
If a court required offense code already exists in MNCIS, then the offense code needs to be repealed and replaced with a new payable offense code. The effective date and the fine effective date on the new payable offense code should be the same.
If a court required offense code does not already exist and the request is to Add an offense code, but the fine effective date is after the effective date of the ordinance, it is recommended that two offense codes be added -- one for the time period in which the offense required a court appearance and one for the time period when the offense is payable. The court required offense code will be an Add and Repeal request. The payable offense code will be an Add request. The effective date and the fine effective date on the new payable offense code should be the same.
If the request is to Modify the fine amount, the fine amount assessed on the charge will depend on the date of offense compared to the fine effective dates. For example, if there is an existing payable offense code with an effective date of 1/1/2012 and a fine effective date of 1/1/2012 with a fine of $25 and the request is to increase the fine to $50 beginning 11/1/2015, then the offense code should be modified with a second fine effective date of 11/1/2015 and a fine amount of $50. For an offense that occurred on 10/31/2015 the fine amount of $25 will assess. For an offense that occurred on 11/10/2015 the fine amount of $50 will assess.
Enter the payable fine amount approved by a judge.
Enter the full name (not the initials) of the judge who set the amount of the payable fine.
Enter the date the payable amount was set by the judge.
Users must enter specific information in the search fields to generate results when searching for ordinances and administrative rules in the MNCIS Offense Table.
The following information explains each field and suggests best practices.
Enter a Begin Date: The date entered in this field will return ordinances and administrative rules with an effective date on or after this date. The default Begin Date is 1/1/1900.
Please note: Many ordinances in MNCIS have an effective date of 1/1/1900 or 1/2/1900.
Enter an End Date: The date entered in this field will return ordinances and administrative rules with an effective date up to and including this date. The current date automatically is entered in this field.
Offense Type: This field is required. Local Ordinances and Administrative Rules are Offense Types. Use the check boxes in the menu to select an option.
Selecting "(Select All)" will return both local ordinances and administrative rules.
Selecting "Administrative Rules" will only return administrative rules.
Selecting "Local Ordinance" will only return local ordinances.
Owner/Jurisdiction: Use the Owner/Jurisdiction field to search for ordinances enacted by a specific unit of government. Administrative rules are enacted by the State of Minnesota.
Click on the “NULL” box to remove the checkmark and enter the name of the unit of government in the field to use this search field.
If the box is checked, this field cannot be edited and and the tool will return statewide data. By default, the "NULL" box is checked.
For Example: If a user wants ordinance information for the City of Red Wing, they must type “Red Wing” and select View Report.
If “Red” is typed, the report returns information for Red Lake Falls, Red Wing, Sacred Heart and Redwood Falls. This search returns for all possible matches that contain the word entered.
View Report: Use the "View Report" button to view the search results.
If you have questions and/or comments about the search feature, please contact statestandardcitation@courts.state.mn.us.
Use the arrows to page through the report or use the search bar to search by keyword.
If Yes displays, the offense is court required.
If blank and the Classification is Charging or Both, the offense is payable.
The fine amount will display if a flat fine amount is set.
The fine amount will display as $0.00 if the fine amount depends on a specific factor, for example: speed driven above a set limit or the number of animals taken.
For offense codes with a classification of “Non-charging” this field will be blank.
Use the "save" icon to export the report to a XML file; CSV; PDF; MHTML (web archive); Excel; TIFF file; or Word file.
The search tool does not have a print function, the file must be exported to print.
If you have questions and/or comments about this Search feature, please send them to StateStandardCitation@courts.state.mn.us .
1. How do I get an ordinance added to the offense table?
Submit a request to add the ordinance with the Request to Add/Modify Ordinance Form.
2. How do I request a modification to an ordinance offense code?
Submit a request to modify the ordinance with the Request to Add/Modify Ordinance Form.
3. What will happen if an ordinance violation is charged but it is not in the MNCIS offense table?
processing of paper citations and complaints will be delayed until the issue is resolved.
4. Will there be a unique reference identification number for ordinances like there is for statutes? If so, who assigns that number?
A unique reference identification number will be assigned by the courts to each ordinance offense code entered into the MNCIS Offense Table. The reference identification numbers assigned by the courts will always begin with the letter "R". This will prevent any duplication of reference identification numbers assigned by the Minnesota Criminal Justice Statute Service (MNCJSS).
If the ordinance has a separate subdivision, paragraph, or clause that specifies differing penalties for 1st versus subsequent violations of the same offense, separate offense codes with separate, specific ordinance numbers and reference ids will be added to the MNCIS Offense Table for those violations.
6. Who determines if an ordinance violation is payable and the payable fine amount?
District Court Judges have the authority to designate an ordinance violation as a payable offense and set the payable fine amount. Minn. R. Crim. P. 23.03, subd. 2(2). The prosecuting agency for the subdivision of government that adopted an ordinance may recommend whether an ordinance violation should require a court appearance or be payable and the amount of the fine.
7. When is a conviction of an ordinance sent to the Department of Public Safety (DPS)?
Under Minn. Stat. § 171.16, the courts are required to notify DPS when a person is convicted of an ordinance that regulates the operation of a motor vehicle, except for parking, defective vehicle equipment, and vehicle size or weight violations.
Minn. Stat. § 171.16 states that "Every court having jurisdiction over offenses committed under any law of this state or ordinance of a political subdivision regulating the operation of motor vehicles, shall forward to the department, within ten days, a record of the conviction of any person in the court for a violation of any laws or ordinances, except parking violations and defective vehicle equipment or vehicle size or weight violations."
8. Where can I find a jurisdiction’s published ordinances?

References: §357
 §171
 §171
 §171
 § 171
 § 171