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﻿ Ch. 12 MN Statutes
12.01 CITATION.
DIVISION ORGANIZATION, DUTIES
12.04 DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
12.05 [Repealed, 1982 c 560 s 65]
12.06 [Repealed, 1996 c 344 s 34]
12.07 [Repealed, 1996 c 344 s 34]
12.08 [Repealed, 1996 c 344 s 34]
12.11 STATE DIRECTOR; PERSONNEL.
12.12 [Repealed, 1975 c 61 s 26]
12.13 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING.
12.14 ASSESSMENT FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY PREPAREDNESS ACT.
POWERS, DUTIES OF GOVERNOR AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
12.23 FACILITIES, UTILIZATION.
12.24 REGIONAL DISASTER OFFICES.
12.25 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS; DIRECTORS, DUTIES.
12.26 POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; TAXATION, APPROPRIATIONS.
12.28 GOVERNOR'S ORDERS, RULES; ENFORCEMENT.
12.311 MS 2004 [Expired, 2002 c 402 s 21; 2004 c 279 art 11 s 7; 2005 c 149 s 7; 2005 c 150 s 14]
12.312 MS 2004 [Expired, 2002 c 402 s 21; 2004 c 279 art 11 s 7; 2005 c 149 s 7; 2005 c 150 s 14]
12.32 GOVERNOR'S ORDERS AND RULES, EFFECT.
12.351 SPECIALIZED EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM.
12.36 GOVERNOR'S POWERS TO FAST PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID.
12.38 STATE AGENCIES; TEMPORARY WAIVER OF FEES.
12.39 INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT; NOTICE, REFUSAL, CONSEQUENCE.
12.41 [Repealed, 1963 c 798 s 16]
12.42 OUT-OF-STATE LICENSE HOLDERS; POWERS, DUTIES.
12.43 SUBVERSIVES; HIRING, USING; OATH.
12.44 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
12.45 VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES.
12.46 LIMITATION OF POWERS.
12.51 [Expired]
12.52 [Expired]
12.53 [Expired]
12.56 [Repealed, 1978 c 762 s 9]
12.57 [Repealed, 1978 c 762 s 9]
This chapter may be cited as the "Minnesota Emergency Management Act of 1996."
1951 c 694 s 1; 1996 c 344 s 1
Subdivision 1.Division created.
A division in the Department of Public Safety to be known as the Division of Emergency Management is hereby created, under the supervision and control of a state director. The commissioner of public safety may place the director's position in the unclassified service if the position meets the criteria established in section 43A.08, subdivision 1a.
[Repealed by amendment, 1996 c 344 s 4]
1969 c 1129 art 1 s 14; 1974 c 428 s 5; 1982 c 560 s 4; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 71 s 1; 1996 c 344 s 4
Subdivision 1.Division created in Department of Public Safety.
A Division of Emergency Management is established within the Department of Public Safety under the supervision and control of the governor and a state director of emergency management. The commissioner of public safety shall appoint the state director, who shall not hold any other state office.
(a) As may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the state director may:
(1) employ technical, clerical, and other personnel; and
(2) with the approval of the governor, make expenditures within the appropriation made for that purpose or, with the approval of the Executive Council, from other funds made available to the state director for purposes of emergency management.
(b) Division personnel, except the director of emergency management, must be in the classified service of the state civil service.
Subd. 3.Facilities and resources provided.
The state director and other personnel of the Division of Emergency Management must be provided with appropriate facilities and resources in the same manner as provided for personnel of other state agencies.
1951 c 694 s 101; 1957 c 227 s 1; 1961 c 3 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 1 s 14; 1974 c 428 s 5; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 71 s 2; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1996 c 344 s 6
Subdivision 1.Plan development.
The state director, in cooperation with the commissioner of health and affected political subdivisions, shall develop the state and local portions of the emergency operations plans specified in the licensing of each nuclear power plant located in Minnesota.
Subd. 2.Need assessment; program development.
In addition to requirements imposed by federal law, the state director shall assess the need for protective actions required to mitigate the effect of an incident at a nuclear power plant, and carry out nuclear power plant emergency operations planning including, but not limited to:
(1) purchasing equipment for the state and political subdivisions, including public warning systems, protective devices, and communication systems, and preparing public information materials and educational programs;
(2) coordinating the development of a detailed state and local nuclear emergency operations planning information system for areas surrounding each nuclear plant;
(3) training state and local emergency response personnel;
(4) developing accident scenarios and exercises for nuclear emergency operations plans; and
(5) providing other specialized response equipment necessary.
Subd. 3.Assistance.
The director shall provide necessary assistance to other state agencies and political subdivisions to improve the state's nuclear power plant emergency response capacity.
1980 c 611 s 2; 1996 c 344 s 7
A person in the business of owning or operating a nuclear power plant or dry cask storage facility located in Minnesota, shall pay quarterly assessments to cover the cost of nuclear power plant emergency response programs necessary to deal with incidents resulting from either facility. An assessment of up to one quarter of the projected annual cost must be paid to the state director on July 1 of each year. An assessment must be billed by the state director based on actual costs for each quarter of the fiscal year starting with the first quarter ending September 30. The July 1 assessment must be deducted from the final quarterly billing for the fiscal year. The assessment collected must be credited to the nuclear safety preparedness account in the special revenue fund.
1980 c 611 s 5; 1981 c 357 s 24; 1983 c 293 s 28; 1Sp1985 c 10 s 37; 1987 c 358 s 38; 1989 c 269 s 36; 1991 c 233 s 37; 1996 c 344 s 8
In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the governor and the governing bodies of the political subdivisions of the state shall utilize the services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing departments, offices, and agencies of the state and of the political subdivisions of the state to the maximum extent practicable. The officers and personnel of the departments, offices, and agencies shall cooperate with and extend services and facilities to the governor and to the emergency management organizations of the state upon request.
1951 c 694 s 203; 1996 c 344 s 12
The state director may create and establish such number of regional disaster offices as may be necessary to provide both administrative assistance and operational support following a disaster, and with due consideration of the plans of the federal government and of other states. The director shall designate staff for each regional disaster office who shall have primary responsibility for the organization, administration, and operation of the office.
Subd. 2.Personnel training, expenses.
When the state director considers it necessary to send (1) an employee of the Division of Emergency Management or any other individual, whether or not that individual is a state employee, to a school, training or indoctrination program, or place for training or indoctrination in matter legitimately connected with emergency management, or (2) any individual, whether or not a state employee, to any place in this or another state for any purpose connected with emergency management, the state director may authorize the payment of travel expenses and reasonable subsistence for the period that the employee or other individual is required to remain at the place. These payments must be made from money appropriated to the department. Upon certification by the state director of the purpose and amount of the payment, the commissioner of management and budget shall pay the amount so certified. The stipulations in this section are subject to section 43A.18.
The state director may devise and formulate a procedure for the processing and certification of travel and subsistence expenses that allows the employee or other individual to submit monthly statements of expenses incurred during the preceding month.
1951 c 694 s 204; 1953 c 745 s 6; 1969 c 1129 art 1 s 14; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1974 c 428 s 5; 1977 c 410 s 1; 1981 c 210 s 54; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 71 s 2; 1996 c 344 s 13; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
Subdivision 1.Political subdivisions; director, responsibilities.
Each political subdivision shall establish a local organization for emergency management in accordance with the state emergency management program, but no town shall establish a local organization for emergency management without approval of the state director. Each local organization for emergency management must have a director appointed forthwith: in a city by the mayor, in a town by the town board, and for a public corporation organized and existing under sections 473.601 to 473.679 by its governing body. The local director is directly responsible for the organization, administration, and operation of the local organization for emergency management, subject to the direction and control of the local governing body.
Subd. 2.Counties; director, responsibilities.
(a) Each county emergency management organization must have a director and one or more deputy directors. They must be appointed by the county board.
(b) A county organization for emergency management has jurisdiction throughout the county outside of a city or of a town that has a local emergency management organization.
(c) In addition to the other powers granted by this subdivision, county organizations shall:
(1) coordinate the activities of and may assist in the training of emergency management organizations of political subdivisions throughout the county;
(2) plan for the emergency operations of county government in cooperation with the county attorney, who shall give legal advice to the county organization, and with other appropriate county government officials and private sector representatives;
(3) acquire equipment necessary in connection with these activities; and
(4) expend funds provided by the county board out of general revenue funds for such purposes.
Subd. 3.Territorial limits.
Each local and county organization for emergency management shall perform emergency management functions within the territorial limits of the political subdivision within which it is organized and, in addition, shall conduct these functions outside of its territorial limits as may be required pursuant to sections 12.23, 12.27, and 12.32 or any other applicable law.
[Repealed, 1979 c 65 s 3]
Subd. 5.Common organization agreements.
With approval of the state director, two or more political subdivisions may enter into agreements determining the boundaries of the geographic areas of their respective emergency management responsibilities or providing for a common emergency management organization, which for the purposes of this chapter must be a local emergency management organization.
1951 c 694 s 205; 1957 c 626 s 1; 1959 c 459 s 1; 1963 c 678 s 2; 1965 c 660 s 2,3; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 3; 1996 c 344 s 14
Subdivision 1.Appropriation for expenses.
Each political subdivision may make appropriations in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the political subdivision for the payment of expenses of its local organizations for emergency management, and any local contingent of the civil air patrol.
Subd. 2.Power to tax; emergency management expenditures.
To provide money for the emergency management purposes authorized by this chapter, a political subdivision may levy annually upon all taxable property in the political subdivision, except as provided in subdivision 4, a tax in excess of and over and above all taxing limitations in an amount as may be necessary to pay expenditures incurred for emergency management purposes.
Subd. 3.Power to tax; organizational equipment.
(a) To provide money to purchase organizational equipment that is to be paid for in part by the federal government, a political subdivision may levy a tax upon all taxable property in the political subdivision, except as provided in subdivision 4, in excess of and over and above all taxing limitations, including those provided in subdivision 2, in an amount as may be necessary to pay its share of the cost of the organizational equipment, provided that the governor has approved the purchase.
(b) Each political subdivision that has initiated the purchase of organizational equipment may:
(1) pay into the state treasury, in trust, its share of the cost of organizational equipment required by the federal government to be paid in advance;
(2) pay into the state treasury, in trust, its share of the reimbursement of the federal government by the state as part of its share of the cost of organizational equipment purchased for the political subdivision and initially wholly paid for from the federal treasury;
(3) pay the entire cost of organizational equipment from funds derived from tax levies authorized by this section, but within the limitations of subdivision 2. Organizational equipment purchased entirely from funds of a political subdivision need not be in excess of equipment provided for normal operation of a political subdivision and may be of a type and kind usable for both local and emergency management purposes.
Subd. 4.Power to tax by county.
When levied by a county, the taxes authorized in subdivisions 2 and 3, respectively, must be spread wholly and exclusively upon property within the portion of the county over which the county local organization for emergency management has jurisdiction as provided in section 12.25, subdivision 1; provided, however, that a county may levy annually a tax upon all taxable property within any city or town within the county that has a local emergency management organization.
Subd. 6.Minneapolis; exception.
Notwithstanding the limitation contained in subdivision 2, the limitation applicable to the city of Minneapolis continues at 20 cents per capita, and no levy may be made by Hennepin County on property within the city of Minneapolis pursuant to subdivision 4.
1951 c 694 s 206; 1955 c 737 s 1; 1961 c 364 s 1; 1969 c 700 s 1-3; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 583 s 1,2; 1994 c 505 art 3 s 1; 1996 c 344 s 15
Every organization for emergency management established pursuant to this chapter and its officers shall execute and enforce orders and rules as may be made by the governor under authority of this chapter or section 216C.15. Each organization must have available for inspection at its office all orders and rules made by the governor, or under the governor's authority.
1951 c 694 s 208; Ex1979 c 2 s 7; 1981 c 356 s 248; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 312 art 1 s 10 subd 1; 1996 c 344 s 17
1951 c 694 s 302; Ex1979 c 2 s 8; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1996 c 344 s 21; 2002 c 402 s 12,21; 2004 c 279 art 11 s 7; 2005 c 149 s 7; 2005 c 150 s 7,14
1951 c 694 s 303; 1986 c 444; 1996 c 344 s 22; 1999 c 86 art 1 s 5
1998 c 383 s 19
2009 c 59 art 5 s 2
(b) All contracts must be in writing, executed on behalf of the state by the governor or a person delegated by the governor in writing so to do, and must be promptly filed with the commissioner of management and budget, who shall forthwith encumber funds appropriated for the purposes of the contract for the full contract liability and certify thereon that the encumbrance has been made.
1951 c 694 s 306; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1986 c 444; 1996 c 344 s 25; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a state agency as defined in section 16B.01, subdivision 2, with the approval of the governor, may waive fees that would otherwise be charged for agency services. The waiver of fees must be confined to geographic areas within a presidentially declared disaster area, and to the minimum periods of time necessary to deal with the emergency situation. The requirements of sections 14.055 and 14.056 do not apply to a waiver made under this section. The agency must promptly report the reasons for and the impact of any suspended fees to the chairs of the legislative committees that oversee the policy and budgetary affairs of the agency.
1Sp2001 c 5 art 20 s 1; 2016 c 158 art 1 s 5
Subdivision 1.Refusal of treatment.
Notwithstanding laws, rules, or orders made or promulgated in response to a national security emergency or peacetime emergency, individuals have a fundamental right to refuse medical treatment, testing, physical or mental examination, vaccination, participation in experimental procedures and protocols, collection of specimens, and preventive treatment programs. An individual who has been directed by the commissioner of health to submit to medical procedures and protocols because the individual is infected with or reasonably believed by the commissioner of health to be infected with or exposed to a toxic agent that can be transferred to another individual or a communicable disease, and the agent or communicable disease is the basis for which the national security emergency or peacetime emergency was declared, and who refuses to submit to them may be ordered by the commissioner to be placed in isolation or quarantine according to parameters set forth in sections 144.419 and 144.4195.
Subd. 2.Information given.
Before performing examinations, testing, treatment, or vaccination of an individual under subdivision 1, a health care provider shall notify the individual of the right to refuse the examination, testing, treatment, or vaccination, and the consequences, including isolation or quarantine, upon refusal.
2002 c 402 s 15,21; 2004 c 279 art 11 s 7; 2005 c 149 s 7; 2005 c 150 s 10,14
1951 c 694 s 402; 1996 c 344 s 27; 2005 c 150 s 11
No person may be employed or associated in any capacity in an emergency management organization established under this chapter who advocates or has advocated a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the Government of the United States or in this state or the overthrow of any government in the United States by force or violence, or who has been convicted of or is under indictment or information charging any subversive act against the United States. Each person who is appointed to serve in an organization for emergency management shall, before entering upon any duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person authorized to administer oaths in this state, which must be substantially as follows:
"I, .........., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of ..... against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of this state by force or violence; and that during such time as I am a member of the (name of emergency management organization), I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States, or of this state, by force or violence."
1951 c 694 s 403; 1953 c 745 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 1 s 14; 1974 c 428 s 5; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 71 s 2; 1996 c 344 s 28
No organization for emergency management established under the authority of this chapter shall participate in any form of political activity, nor be employed directly or indirectly for political purposes, nor be employed in a legitimate labor dispute.
1951 c 694 s 404; 1996 c 344 s 29
Unless a different penalty or punishment is specifically prescribed, a person who willfully violates a provision of this chapter or a rule or order having the force and effect of law issued under authority of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days.
1951 c 694 s 405; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1996 c 344 s 30; 2004 c 228 art 1 s 72
Nothing in this chapter authorizes the governor or the director:
1951 c 694 s 406; 1986 c 444; 1996 c 344 s 31