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﻿ Ch. 458A MN Statutes
458A.04 [Repealed, 1975 c 32 s 3]
458A.07 LABOR PROVISIONS.
458A.08 COMMISSION; ANNUAL REPORTS.
458A.09 EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION.
458A.10 PROPERTY TAX.
458A.11 WILL COMPLY IF LAW CREATES MULTIPURPOSE AGENCY.
458A.12 ACT EXCLUSIVE.
458A.13 [Expired]
458A.14 SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS.
458A.15 CITATION.
458A.21 CREATION.
458A.22 DIRECTORS.
458A.23 RULES; OFFICERS.
458A.26 ADMINISTRATION.
458A.27 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
458A.28 PUBLIC POWERS; APPEALS.
458A.29 EMPLOYEES.
458A.30 TAX EXEMPTION.
458A.34 PROPERTY ACQUISITION.
458A.35 BIDS.
458A.36 CONFLICTING AUTHORITY.
458A.37 CITATION.
If the commission acquires an existing transit system, the commission shall assume and observe all existing labor contracts and pension obligations. All employees of such system except executive and administrative officers who are necessary for the operation thereof by the commission shall be transferred to and appointed as employees of the commission for the purposes of the transit system, subject to all the rights and benefits of sections 458A.01 to 458A.15. Such employees shall be given seniority credit and sick leave, vacation, insurance, and pension credits in accordance with the records or labor agreements from the acquired transit system. The commission shall assume the obligations of any transit system acquired by it with regard to wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, sick leave, health and welfare and pension or retirement provisions for employees. The commission and the employees, through their representatives for collective bargaining purposes, shall take whatever action may be necessary to have pension trust funds presently under the joint control of the acquired transportation system and the participating employees through their representatives transferred to the trust fund to be established, maintained and administered jointly by the commission and the participating employees through their representatives. No employee of any acquired transportation system who is transferred to a position with the commission shall by reason of such transfer be placed in any worse position with respect to workers' compensation, pension, seniority, wages, sick leave, vacation, health and welfare insurance or any other benefits than the person enjoyed as an employee of such acquired transportation system.
1969 c 1134 s 7; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1986 c 444
The commission on or before November 30, 1969, and annually thereafter, shall prepare a report for the preceding fiscal year, also, so far as practicable, for the further time up to the preparation of the report, containing, in addition to such other matters as the commission may deem proper, the following:
(a) the activities of the commission during the period covered by the report;
(b) the financial condition of public transit systems under the control of the commission;
(c) a complete financial accounting of moneys received and spent by the commission during the fiscal year;
(d) recommendations for improvements of or additions to the mass transit facilities of the area to provide adequate, speedy, and efficient means of transporting people therein;
(e) recommendations for any needed legislation in furtherance of the aforesaid purposes.
Each report shall be filed with the secretary of the commission and a copy shall be filed with the secretary of state. Copies shall be distributed annually to the governor, each county commission, and each elected chief executive of each municipality in the transit area.
1969 c 1134 s 8; 1994 c 411 s 3; 1997 c 7 art 2 s 54
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the properties, moneys, and other assets of the commission, and all revenues or other income of the commission shall be exempt from all taxation, licenses, fees, or charges of any kind imposed by the state or by any county, municipality, political subdivision, taxing district, or other public agency or body of the state, except to the extent that the property is subject to the sales and use tax under chapter 297A.
1969 c 1134 s 9; 1983 c 213 s 16; 2000 c 418 art 2 s 4
The commission shall annually levy a tax not to exceed 0.12089 percent of estimated market value on all the taxable property in the transit area at a rate sufficient to produce an amount necessary for the purposes of sections 458A.01 to 458A.15, other than the payment of principal and interest due on any revenue bonds issued pursuant to section 458A.05. Property taxes levied under this section shall be certified by the commission to the county auditors of the transit area, extended, assessed, and collected in the manner provided by law for the property taxes levied by the governing bodies of cities. The proceeds of the taxes levied under this section shall be remitted by the respective county treasurers to the treasurer of the commission, who shall credit the same to the funds of the commission for use for the purposes of sections 458A.01 to 458A.15 subject to any applicable pledges or limitations on account of tax anticipation certificates or other specific purposes. At any time after making a tax levy under this section and certifying it to the county auditors, the commission may issue general obligation certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of the collection of the taxes as provided by section 412.261.
1969 c 1134 s 10; 1975 c 32 s 1; 1989 c 277 art 4 s 56; 2013 c 143 art 14 s 72
The commission shall so plan and conduct its operations and projects that if the legislature subsequently enacts legislation creating a single multipurpose metropolitan public agency to handle a variety of problems affecting the transit area, and gives such agency powers and duties relating to public transit which are substantially the same as or greater than those given the commission by sections 458A.01 to 458A.15, with provisions which result in making the commission subject to such agency or merging the commission therein or transferring the powers and duties of the commission thereto or terminating the existence of the commission or otherwise disposing of its affairs, the commission will be prepared to comply therewith in accordance with the intent of the legislature.
1969 c 1134 s 11
The exercise by the commission of the powers provided in sections 458A.01 to 458A.15 shall not be subject to regulation by or the jurisdiction or control of any other public body or agency, either state, county, or municipal, except as specifically provided in sections 458A.01 to 458A.15, and further except that in the event a public body or agency shall be created to exercise the powers of the commission as provided in sections 458A.01 to 458A.15, such powers shall be exercised by such other public body or agency.
1969 c 1134 s 12
The provisions of sections 458A.01 to 458A.15 shall be severable, and if any provision thereof or the application of any such provision under any circumstances is held invalid, it shall not affect any other provision of sections 458A.01 to 458A.15 or the application of any provision thereof under different circumstances.
1969 c 1134 s 13
Sections 458A.01 to 458A.15 may be cited as the St. Cloud Metropolitan Transit Commission Act of 1969.
1969 c 1134 s 14
There is hereby created a Duluth Transit Authority for the city of Duluth, hereinafter referred to as the authority, which shall consist of nine directors, who shall be appointed to membership on such authority, and who shall have and exercise the powers, perform the duties, and be subject to the obligations hereinafter set forth in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37. Each of the five council districts within the city shall be represented at all times on the authority, and the director representing such district shall be a resident thereof.
1969 c 720 s 1; 1971 c 524 s 1; 1979 c 169 s 1
The directors shall serve without compensation, and may be reimbursed for authorized out of pocket expenses incurred in the fulfillment of their duties. Directors shall serve until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. Terms of directors shall be for three years and staggered so that three expire on June 30 of each year. Whenever a vacancy on such authority shall occur by reason of resignation, death, removal from the city or the council district, or removal for failure or neglect to perform duties of a director, such vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term. All appointments and removals of directors of the authority shall be made by the mayor, with the approval of the city council, evidenced by resolution. Every appointee who shall fail within ten days after notification of appointment to file with the city clerk an oath or affirmation to perform faithfully, honestly, and impartially the duties of office, shall be deemed to have refused such appointment, and thereupon another person shall be appointed in the manner prescribed in this section.
The city of Superior, Wisconsin shall transmit the name of one person to the mayor and council of the city of Duluth, to be appointed by the city of Duluth to serve as one of the nine directors during any time the city of Superior agrees with the authority to provide transit service to Superior. The term and other conditions of service shall be the same as that of other directors except that the term shall end if the city of Superior ceases to contract for service. If the city of Superior does not transmit a name or the city of Duluth does not appoint the named person, the city of Duluth may appoint another person.
1969 c 720 s 2; 1979 c 169 s 2; 1986 c 444
Within 20 days after the members of the authority shall have qualified for office, the authority shall meet and organize, and adopt, and thereafter may amend such rules and regulations for the conduct of the authority as the authority shall deem to be in the public interest and most likely to advance, enhance, foster, and promote the establishment of a public transportation system for the Duluth area, as hereinafter provided for in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37. Such rules and regulations shall at all times be in harmony with sections 458A.21 to 458A.37.
Such directors shall elect from among their members a president and a vice-president, and shall also elect a secretary, who may or may not be a member of said authority. No two of such offices may be held by one director. The officers shall have the duties and powers usually attendant upon such officers, and such other duties and powers not inconsistent herewith as may be provided by the authority.
1969 c 720 s 3
(a) To adopt and alter all bylaws and rules and regulations which it shall from time to time deem best for the conduct of the business of the authority, and for the use and operation of the bus transportation system and the facilities of the authority, and for the purposes of carrying out the objects of sections 458A.21 to 458A.37; but such bylaws, rules and regulations shall not be in conflict with the terms of sections 458A.21 to 458A.37.
(b) To appoint and remove an executive director, and such other executive and administrative employees as the authority may deem necessary, including the appointment of consultants, except attorneys; and to prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of such executive director and other executive and administrative employees or consultants. Neither the executive director nor any executive or administrative employees of the authority shall be within the civil service classifications of the city of Duluth, whether such employees were employees of the system acquired, or were appointed by the authority after the system was acquired by the authority. The provisions of sections 197.455 through 197.46, shall not be applicable to any such employees of the authority under this section.
(c) To prescribe or provide for a policy or policies of insurance for the defense and indemnification of the city of Duluth, its officers and employees, and directors, executive director, and administrative employees of the authority, against claims arising against them out of the performance of duty, whether such claims be groundless, or otherwise. Premiums for any policies of insurance required by sections 458A.21 to 458A.37 shall be paid for out of the funds of the Duluth Transit Authority.
(d) To utilize the services and facilities of the Department of Management and Budget and the city treasurer of the city of Duluth in the implementation of sections 458A.21 to 458A.37; and to pay the city for all charges and costs for such services. The city attorney and the purchasing agent shall be the attorney and the purchasing agent, respectively, for the authority; and the authority shall reimburse the city for all charges and costs incurred by the city therefor.
(e) To authorize and direct the city treasurer to invest, in the manner provided by law, any funds held in reserve, or sinking funds, or any funds not required for immediate disbursement.
(f) To establish and determine routes, and the scheduling of service, for the transportation system.
(g) To fix, alter, change, and collect fares, fees, rentals, and all other charges to be made for all services or facilities furnished by the authority to the public, or to any persons, or public or private agencies; provided, however, that no change in fares shall be made except upon public hearing before the city council, and approval by the city council, of any such change in fares.
1969 c 720 s 6; 1995 c 186 s 119; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
The executive director of the authority shall be responsible for the custody and control of all moneys received and collected from the operations of the bus transportation system provided for in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37 until such moneys are delivered to the city treasurer and the executive director shall have obtained a receipt therefor, or until such moneys are deposited in a bank account under the control of the city treasurer, subject, however, to the right of the city council, by resolution, to enter into a management contract under terms and conditions different from those provided for in this section.
The executive director shall give bond in favor of the city of Duluth in a sum equal to twice the amount of money which the executive director will probably handle at any time during any one year, that amount to be determined annually by the authority; such bond to be conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the executive director's official duties, and approved as to form, correctness and validity by the city attorney, and filed with the city auditor. Premiums for such bonds shall be paid for out of the funds of the Duluth Transit Authority. In addition, the authority may require bonds in favor of the city of Duluth for any other of its employees, in such amount, and with such surety or sureties, as it may deem necessary and proper for the protection of the city. Premiums for any such bonds shall be paid for out of funds of the Duluth Transit Authority. The authority shall, in addition to other insurance provisions of sections 458A.21 to 458A.37, provide for insurance on any of its property, rights, revenue, workers' compensation, public liability, or any other risk or hazard arising from its activities; and the premiums for any such insurance shall be paid for out of funds of the Duluth Transit Authority.
1969 c 720 s 7; 1986 c 444
There shall be transferred to and vested in the authority and the city council all of the powers and functions of the Public Service Commission of the state of Minnesota with respect to any bus transportation system, or part thereof, which shall have been constructed or acquired by and is owned by the city of Duluth and operated under the direction of the Duluth Transit Authority provided for in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37; and with respect to any such bus transportation system so constructed, acquired and owned by the city and operated by said authority, the exercise of such powers and functions by the authority and the city council shall be exclusive, and the Public Service Commission shall not have authority to exercise such powers and functions with respect thereto.
An appeal from any order or decision of the authority and the city council may be taken by any party aggrieved thereby in like manner and with like effect as provided by law for appeals in corresponding cases from orders or decisions of the Public Service Commission.
1969 c 720 s 8
If the authority, on behalf of the city of Duluth, acquires an existing bus transportation system, all employees of such system who are necessary for the operation thereof by the authority may be transferred to and appointed as employees of the authority for the purposes of such bus transportation system, subject to all the rights and benefits of sections 458A.21 to 458A.37. Employees of the authority shall not be within the civil service classifications of the city of Duluth.
The employees of the authority, except executive or administrative employees appointed pursuant to the provisions of sections 458A.21 to 458A.37, shall in case of any dispute arising under any existing or new collective bargaining agreement relating to the terms and conditions of their employment, have the right, for the purpose of resolving such disputes, to invoke the processes of final and binding arbitration as provided by chapter 572, subject to any applicable provisions of the agreement not inconsistent with law.
1969 c 720 s 9
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the property, moneys, and other assets of the authority, or revenues or other income of the authority, and all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, or other obligations issued by the authority, with the approval of the city council, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all taxation, licenses, fees, or charges of any kind imposed by the state of Minnesota, or by any county, municipality, political subdivision, taxing district, or other public agency or body of the state, including but not limited to the excise tax on gasoline or special fuel under chapter 296A, except to the extent that the property is subject to the sales and use tax under chapter 297A.
1969 c 720 s 10; 1998 c 299 s 30; 2000 c 418 art 2 s 5
Subdivision 1.Eminent domain by city.
In the event that it shall become necessary for any of the purposes enumerated in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37 to exercise the power of eminent domain, such power shall not be exercised by the authority, but the city of Duluth may acquire any of the properties hereinbefore provided for in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37 necessary for the conduct of a bus transportation system, or for the purpose of acquiring any land, waters, easements, or other rights or interests therein by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, either as provided for under the home rule charter of the city of Duluth, or under chapter 117, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. Any such exercise of the power of eminent domain by the city shall be at the request and expense of the authority. The fact that any such property is owned by a public service corporation organized for the purpose specified in section 301B.01, or is already devoted to a public use, or to use by a corporation, or was acquired therefor by condemnation, shall not prevent its acquisition by the city for the authority by condemnation. The city, on behalf of the authority, may take possession of any property for which condemnation proceedings have been commenced at any time after the filing of the petition describing the property in the proceedings.
Subd. 2.Facilities from public body.
Any state department or other agency of the state government, or any county, municipality, or other public agency, may sell, lease, grant, transfer, or convey to the authority, upon approval of the city council, evidenced by resolution, with or without consideration, any facilities or any part or parts thereof, or any real or personal property or interest therein, which may be useful to the authority for any authorized purpose.
1969 c 720 s 14; 2005 c 69 art 1 s 21
The authority shall regulate the making of bids and letting of contracts through procedures established by the authority, in which case the authority would be substituted for the city council insofar as the conditions as set forth in section 31 of the home rule charter of the city of Duluth are concerned.
1969 c 720 s 15
The exercise by the authority and the city council of the powers provided in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37 shall not be subject to regulation by or the jurisdiction or control of any other public body or agency, either state, county, or municipal, except as specifically provided in sections 458A.21 to 458A.37.
1969 c 720 s 16
Sections 458A.21 to 458A.37 may be cited as the Duluth Transit Authority Act of 1969.
1969 c 720 s 17