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465.70 TELEVISION SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, CERTAIN CITIES.
Any statutory city or any home rule charter city of the third or fourth class more than 50 miles from the boundaries of a city of the first class, or any two or more of such cities acting under an agreement accepted by the governing body of each such participating municipality, may own, construct, acquire, purchase, maintain and operate within its corporate limits a television signal distribution system for the purpose of receiving, transmitting, and distributing television impulses and television energy, including audio signals and transient visual images, to the inhabitants of the city. This system shall be considered a public utility. The city may erect, construct, operate, repair, and maintain in, upon, along, over, across, through and under its streets, alleys, highways and public grounds, poles, cross-arms, cables, wires, guy wires, stubs, anchors, towers, antennas, pipes, connections, and other appliances, fixtures, and equipment necessary, expedient, or useful in connection therewith. It may prescribe reasonable rates and charges for the use of these facilities and the services furnished. It may prescribe, make and maintain rules for the operation thereof and do all things necessary and incidental to accomplish such purpose. Subject to and in accordance with chapter 475, the city may issue obligations in a maximum amount of $100,000 for acquisition and betterment of the system.
383B.50 PROSPECTUS.
The county of Hennepin shall distribute or otherwise make available to each participant a prospectus or other applicable information with respect to the investments authorized pursuant to sections 383B.47 and 383B.48.
383C.453 HEARING ON PETITION.
At its next regular meeting after such petition is filed, the county board shall fix a time and place of meeting to consider the same, of which three weeks' published notice, containing the substance of the petition, a description of the lands to be affected and the names of the owners thereof as they appeared in the last tax duplicate shall be given. Such notice shall also be personally served on each occupant of land to be affected by such survey.
412.381 REPORTS.
The accounting officer of the commission shall make such monthly or annual statements of operation as the commission may require. A copy of each such report shall be filed in the office of the city clerk. An annual financial report shall be made and a copy filed with the clerk at the close of the calendar year and shall be included as part of the annual financial report or statement of the clerk in conformity with section 471.697 or 471.698. The cost of publication of any other official statement required by law to be published shall be paid from public utility funds.
383B.51 NO ASSIGNMENT OR GARNISHMENT.
The right of a participant who has shares to the credit of the participant's share account record to redeem all or any portion of the shares is a personal right only and shall be in the state of Minnesota or the State Board of Investment or the nominee of either, subject to the rights of the county of Hennepin. Any assignment or attempted assignment of shares to the credit of a participant's share account record by any person is null and void. The shares are exempt from garnishment or levy under attachment or execution or other legal process, except as provided in section 518.58, 518.581, or 518A.53. The shares are also exempt from all taxation, except individual income taxation, by the state of Minnesota.
412.391 ABOLITION OF COMMISSION OR UTILITY TRANSFER.
The public utilities commission of any statutory city may be abolished or its jurisdiction over any particular utility transferred to the council by following the procedure prescribed in this section.
The council may, and upon petition therefor signed by voters equal in number to at least 15 percent of the electors voting at the last previous city election shall submit to the voters at a regular or special election the question of abolition of the public utilities commission. The question on the ballot shall be stated substantially as follows: "Shall the public utilities commission be abolished?"
Upon like presentation of a petition for election on the question of transfer to the council of the jurisdiction of the commission over any one or more of the utilities previously placed under its jurisdiction, the council shall, in the same manner as under subdivision 2, submit the question to the voters. The question on the ballot shall be stated substantially as follows: "Shall jurisdiction over (Name of public utility) be transferred from the public utilities commission to the council?"
If a majority of the votes cast on a proposition submitted to the voters under subdivision 2 or 3 is in the affirmative, the provisions of sections 412.331 to 412.381 shall cease to apply to the city, in the case of an election under subdivision 2, or to the particular utility mentioned in the proposition submitted to the voters, in the case of an election under subdivision 3. Such change shall take place 30 days after the election.
383C.454 SURVEY MAY BE ORDERED.
Upon the hearing of such petition all parties interested may appear and be heard and the board may grant or reject the application. If granted, it shall appoint a competent surveyor to make a survey, with whom a written contract for the performance of the work shall be made, secured by a sufficient bond executed by such surveyor and approved by such board. Two weeks' published notice of the appointment of such surveyor specifying the date when the survey will be begun shall be given. At the time so appointed the work shall be begun and shall continue without unnecessary delay until completed.
383C.457 EXPENSE OF SURVEY.
The surveyor shall thereupon make a certified report to the board, showing in detail the entire expense of such survey, which shall be equitably apportioned and assessed by the board to the several tracts affected, which expense may include a reasonable attorney's fee for attending to such proceeding.
383C.455 SURVEYOR TO KEEP FIELD NOTES.
Such surveyor shall keep complete and accurate field notes of all the work, giving dates, names of assistants, lengths and relative directions of all lines, a full description of the evidence by which corners are located, and full data by which the entire survey can be relocated. Distances shall be given in feet and decimals thereof. Substantial iron or stone monuments shall be planted at or near all government corners reestablished, and the names of at least three resident witnesses must be given in such notes for each monument. The surveyor shall make a plat upon a strong linen paper, showing all the above-mentioned facts, so far as practicable, and also all tracts of land affected, with the name of the owner and acreage of each tract. Such plat shall have endorsed thereon the affidavit of the surveyor to the effect that such survey and plat are correct and accurate.
383B.56 BOARD MAY REGULATE PUBLIC, PRIVATE AMBULANCES.
The county board of Hennepin County may regulate the use of both public and private ambulances in such county. Such regulations may provide for the licensing of such vehicles providing for standards of operation including but not limited to requirements for equipment, sanitation, safety devices and such other requirements as the board may deem necessary.
The county board shall also have authority to license and regulate the drivers and attendants operating such ambulances and to enact reasonable rules and regulations providing for personal health and such other standards as the board may deem necessary.
The county board may impose reasonable yearly license fees not to exceed $25 for each such vehicle, and not to exceed $5 for each such operator or attendant. The fees for such licenses shall be paid into the general revenue fund of the county.
The county board is hereby authorized to make the necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this section.
383C.456 PLAT AND FIELD NOTES TO BE FILED.
If the board approves the plat, its certificate of approval, signed by the chair, shall be endorsed thereon, and thereupon the plat and field notes shall be filed in the office of the county recorder, and shall be prima facie evidence that the survey is correct. The surveyor shall pay to the recorder $1 for filing and recording said plat and field notes.
383B.562 GOVERNMENT CENTER; LIQUOR.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, Hennepin County, by resolution of its county board, may issue, with or without fee, to a nonprofit organization or corporation, one-day on-sale licenses for the sale and serving of intoxicating liquor in the Hennepin County Government Center in connection with any convention, banquet, conference, meeting, or social event conducted by the nonprofit organization. The licensee may dispense intoxicating liquor only to persons attending the event. The licensee's authority shall expire upon termination of the event. All dispensing of intoxicating liquor shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions prescribed by resolution of the county board.
383B.52 ADMINISTRATION COSTS.
The Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County is hereby authorized to appropriate money for the administration of the supplementary benefit program created by sections 383B.46 to 383B.52. The Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County may charge participants a fee to recover the administrative expenses of the supplementary benefit program. Annual total fees charged to administer the supplementary benefit program may not exceed 40/100 of one percent of the assets of the program.
383B.565 PLATS AND SURVEYS; APPROVAL.
In the county of Hennepin, each subdivision plat or registered land survey plat shall be approved by the Hennepin county surveyor before recording. The proprietor of such plat shall be charged a fee for such service in accordance with a schedule established by the board of commissioners.
383C.458 NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT FOR EXPENSE.
Upon making such assessment, the board shall forthwith cause one week's published notice thereof to be given. Such notice shall contain a description of each tract of land affected, and specify the amount assessed against the same, the name of the supposed owner, and the time and place of meeting of the board to correct and confirm such assessment. At the time and place so fixed, the board, after making all proper corrections and adjustments, shall make an order confirming such assessment.
383C.459 EXPENSE TO BE ASSESSED AGAINST LAND.
Upon the filing of such order of confirmation, the county auditor shall enter upon the tax duplicate for the current year, against each such tract of land, the amount so assessed against the same, which shall be collected as other taxes, and go into the county revenue fund.
383B.60 SPECIAL PERMITS; SEASONAL CONTRACTOR'S PERMIT; FEES.
The county of Hennepin, to cover administrative costs in issuing special permits under the provisions of section 169.86 may charge a fee of $5 for each such permit issued, except a seasonal transportation permit to contractors who move their own machinery and equipment for their own use, the fee for such seasonal permit shall be $25, provided that all contractors' equipment and machinery hauled by "for hire" carriers pursuant to a contract or lease with said contractor shall also be included in the issuance of said permits. All such fees for permits issued shall be deposited in the county treasury and credited to the county road and bridge fund.
383B.603 BOARD MAY FILE COUNTY HIGHWAY MAPS FOR RECORD.
In order to provide information to the public as to the location of county highways and county state-aid highways and the right-of-way thereof in Hennepin county, the county board of Hennepin County may file for record in the office of the county recorder and registrar of titles of said county such maps or plats showing such information as the board shall determine necessary. The map or plat shall be subscribed by the chair of the county board and any licensed land surveyor in the employ of Hennepin County, and is entitled to record without compliance with the provisions of chapter 505. Any amendments, alterations, or vacations or such maps or plats so filed may be entitled to record in like manner.
Maps or plats filed for record under this section shall not operate of themselves to transfer title to the property described but such maps or plats shall be for descriptive purposes.
383C.46 EXPENSE TO BE PAID FROM COUNTY REVENUE FUND.
After the filing of the order of confirmation, the expense of such survey, not exceeding the amount of the assessment, shall be paid out of the general revenue fund of the county in the same manner as other claims.
383C.461 APPEAL TO DISTRICT COURT.
Appeals from the order of confirmation may be taken to the district court by any person aggrieved, in like manner as from the determination of the board in laying out roads. On such appeal the court may inquire into and review all matters relating to the survey or assessment or expenses affecting the party appealing, which are specified in the notice of appeal.
383B.608 LOCAL ROAD AID.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the county board of Hennepin County may appropriate from its road and bridge fund to any town or city within the county, such sums of money as are available and which the county board deems advisable to aid any such town or city in the construction and maintenance of roads, streets or bridges therein. The appropriations may be directly expended by the county board on roads, streets or bridges designated by the governing body of the town or city, and may be expended in accordance with Laws 1905, chapter 164, as amended. No such town or city shall receive an appropriation hereunder exceeding 30 percent of the annual county tax levy for road and bridge purposes paid by the town or city.
383B.606 SEASONAL LOAD LIMITS.
The seasonal load restrictions imposed pursuant to section 169.87, subdivision 2, do not apply to county highways and county state-aid highways in Hennepin County unless the highway is so posted by the appropriate local authority as provided in section 169.87, subdivision 1.
383C.462 NOT TO AFFECT AGREED LINES OR ROADS.
Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the change of any line fixed by agreement of landowners or of any traveled road.
383B.61 TRANSFER OF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS.
(a) This section applies to transfers of management jurisdiction for the drainage systems listed in paragraph (b) from Hennepin County to a water management authority, as defined under section 103E.005, subdivision 29. The transfer procedure described in this section is an alternative to the procedure prescribed in section 103E.812. Section 103E.812 does not apply to transfers under this section, except as specified in this section.
(b) This section applies to transfer of the following drainage systems: Hennepin County Ditches 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, J-6, and J-20.
(c) For purposes of this section, "board" means the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.
(a) A water management authority may petition for transfer if the drainage system or portion of the drainage system proposed to be transferred lies within the jurisdictional boundaries of the water management authority. The petition must be in a form prescribed by the board and must provide that the transferred drainage system be managed according to a plan adopted under sections 103B.205 to 103B.255.
(b) Upon receipt of a petition under paragraph (a), the board shall set a date and location for public hearing and shall publish notice of the hearing in newspapers with general circulation in the affected areas at least 30 days prior to the hearing. The notice shall include a statement that property owners have a right to object to the transfer at the hearing.
(c) The hearing shall be conducted according to procedures established by the board. Transfer shall be completed upon approval of the board.
(d) Costs of the transfer proceedings shall be attributable according to section 103E.812, subdivision 6.
The transfer of a drainage system under this section is not a compromise of any property right held by an owner of assessed property on the transferred drainage system and the rights of the property owners are as provided in section 103E.812, subdivision 7. Transfer of a drainage system under this section has the effect given under section 103E.812, subdivision 8.
383C.463 COUNTY BOARD MAY CONTRACT.
That the county board, if it shall grant the petition for any survey or subdivision of any township or section as herein provided, may appoint the county surveyor of said county in lieu of any other competent surveyor to make the survey petitioned for, and if such county surveyor shall be appointed as the surveyor, it shall not be necessary to make a written contract for the performance of said work. That all the expenses of such survey as made under the direction of said county surveyor, including the value of services as fixed by the county board and a reasonable attorney's fee if one be employed to attend to the legal work in connection with such survey, by either the county surveyor or other surveyor, also to be fixed by said county board, shall be equitably apportioned and assessed by the county board to the several tracts of land affected, in the same manner as though incurred by a surveyor other than the county surveyor.
383B.611 PROBATION AND INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT, CREATION.
There is hereby established in the county of Hennepin, a probation and investigation department in connection with the district court of any such county in charge of an officer to be known as director of court service.
383C.48 EXEMPTION FROM PROPERTY TAX FOR LEASED PROPERTY.
Property leased from Independent School District No. 692 by a nonprofit organization established for the purpose of providing services and rental space to community organizations and businesses and which donates its revenues that exceed its operating and maintenance costs and necessary reserves to the school district or to a community service fund to be used for educational and recreational purposes within the district, shall not be subject to taxation pursuant to section 272.01, subdivision 2 prior to the leasing or renting of the property from the nonprofit organization to a tenant.
412.491 PARKS; PARKWAYS; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.
Any statutory city may establish, improve, ornament, maintain, and manage parks, parkways, and recreational facilities and by ordinance protect and regulate their use.
383B.612 DIRECTOR OF COURT SERVICES; OTHER EMPLOYEES.
Such department shall consist of one director of court services and such assistants, deputies, probation officers, caseworkers, investigators, clerical help and other employees as the judges of said court shall from time to time appoint.
Such director of court services, assistants, deputies, officers, caseworkers, investigators, clerical help, and other employees shall be appointed and removed by the judges of the district court in any such county. They may be appointed either for a definite period of time or for an indeterminate period, in the discretion of the court. The salaries of all such persons shall be fixed by the judges of said court.
The judges may by order determine the necessary qualifications of applicants for positions in the department and may, in their discretion, provide that applicants shall undergo certain tests as to their qualifications.
The director of court services shall have general supervision of such department, subject to the direction of the judges of the court. The court may divide the duties of the department into branches or divisions, and appoint from such probation officers, investigators or other employees the heads of such branches or divisions. A juvenile division may be established distinct from all other divisions of such department.
412.501 CITY OF 1,000 MAY HAVE OR CONTINUE PARK BOARD; FORMALITIES.
The council of any city of more than 1,000 population may by ordinance establish a park board and it may by ordinance adopted by unanimous vote of all members of the council abolish any board thus established. Any park board now in existence in any city shall hereafter operate as a park board under this chapter until abolished as provided in this section. The park board shall consist of three, five, seven or nine members as determined by resolution or ordinance of the council, appointed by the mayor with the consent of the council. If the board consists of three members, one member of the original board shall serve for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years. If the board consists of five members, one member of the original board shall serve a term of one year, two for a term of two years and two for a term of three years. If the board consists of seven members, two members of the original board shall serve a term of one year, two for a term of two years and three for a term of three years. If the board consists of nine members, three members of the original board shall serve a term of one year, three for a term of two years and three for a term of three years. After the terms of the original board members expire, members shall be appointed for terms of three years. The number of members may be increased or decreased within the permitted three, five, seven or nine members by subsequent resolution or ordinance. The resolution or ordinance shall include a provision for maintaining staggered terms for board members, provided that if the number of members is reduced the reduction shall be effected in such a manner that all incumbent members are permitted to serve their full terms.
No action to change the size of the board shall be taken except upon a two-thirds vote of all the members of the city council, and no such action shall be taken until at least three years after establishment of the board or until at least three years after the last resolution or ordinance modifying the size of the board. Vacancies shall be filled for the remainder of the original terms. Each member shall serve until a successor is appointed and qualifies. Members shall serve without compensation unless the council authorizes compensation. Any member may be removed by the mayor with the consent of the council for cause after a hearing. The board shall choose one of its members as chair and may select a secretary either from among its own members or otherwise and fix the secretary's compensation at not to exceed $500 per year. The board may adopt and from time to time amend rules of procedure. It shall make quarterly reports of its activities to the council. The city attorney, if there is one, shall act as attorney for the board. An annual statement of its receipts and disbursements shall be filed with the clerk immediately after the close of the calendar year and shall be included as part of the annual financial report or statement of the clerk in conformity with section 471.697 or 471.698.
412.511 ACQUISITION AND CONTROL OF PARK PROPERTY.
Either the park board or the council may acquire land for park purposes but the park board shall have full, absolute, and exclusive control over all property set aside for park purposes.
383B.614 SPACE, SUPPLIES, EXPENSES, OFFICER'S POWERS, BOND; RECORDS.
The county commissioners of such county shall provide the department with suitably furnished office rooms, record books, stationery, postage, expenses of investigation and transportation which shall include payment to any probation officer and employee of the department as compensation or reimbursement for the use of such officer's or employee's own automobile in the performance of county duties mileage at a rate per mile not exceeding the maximum rate fixed by law plus a reasonable allowance, not exceeding $10 per month, to defray cost of parking fees incidental to such use, and such other actual expenses as are required for the proper execution of the purposes of this section.
Probation officers shall have the power of peace officers in the execution of their duties. Each probation officer, before entering on the duties of the office, shall take an oath of office to be administered by one of the judges making the appointment. Each probation officer or employee who collects or has the custody of money shall execute a bond, with appropriate sureties, in a penal sum to be fixed by the judges, at the expense of the county, conditioned for the true accounting of all money received by the officer as a probation officer.
The records of all cases in said office may be withheld from indiscriminate public inspection at the discretion of the judges of the court.
Any act, order, or thing required or permitted to be done by the judges of the court by the provisions hereof may be done by a majority of the judges.
MS 1994 [Repealed, 1995 c 186 s 77]
383B.63 PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR CRIMES, MISDEMEANORS, ORDINANCES.
MS 1990 [Repealed, 1991 c 345 art 3 s 30]
The public defender of Hennepin County may appear for and defend all persons charged with any crime, petty misdemeanor or ordinance violation in such county, and may appear for and represent all persons in juvenile court in such county who are financially unable to employ counsel.
If the state public defender is unable to provide the service, the public defender of Hennepin County may appeal a conviction of any crime, petty misdemeanor or ordinance violation or an adverse decision in juvenile court where the party appealing is financially unable to employ counsel and to pay the expenses of an appeal.
MS 1988 [Repealed, 1989 c 335 art 3 s 57]
MS 1988 [Repealed, 1989 c 335 art 3 s 57]
The employees of the office of the Hennepin County public defender shall be and are hereby placed in the classified service as set forth in Laws 1965, chapter 855, as amended; except that the public defender shall be in the unclassified service.
412.521 POWERS OF BOARD.
In order to carry out the general powers granted in section 412.511, the park board shall have the powers granted in the following subdivisions.
The park board may employ necessary personnel and fix their compensation.
The park board may construct roadways, paths, buildings, fountains, docks, boathouses, bathhouses, refreshment booths, amusement halls, pavilions, and other necessary structures and improvements in parks. The board may, with the consent of the council, make contracts and leases for the construction and operation of these facilities for terms not exceeding ten years. Every such contract and lease shall provide that the structure shall be operated for the public use and convenience, and that the charges shall be reasonable and it shall reserve to the park board power to prescribe reasonable rules and regulations from time to time for the conduct of the privilege.
The park board may purchase all necessary materials, supplies, equipment, and services.
The park board shall maintain, beautify, and care for park property.
The park board may lease to private clubs the privilege of occupying limited areas in the bed of any navigable lake adjacent to a park for clubhouse purposes for not more than ten years. No clubhouse shall be so located as to interfere with navigation. Every such lease shall reserve to the board full power and authority to make from time to time reasonable rules and regulations with respect to the use of the leased property. The lessee shall have power to retain the clubhouse for the use of its own members and guests.
The park board may provide musical and free entertainment for the general public.
The park board may regulate the taking of ice from any pond, lake, or other body of water in any park.
The park board may perform whatever other acts are reasonable, necessary and proper to carry out the powers granted in section 412.511.
383B.65 CONTRACTS, LEASES WITH BLOOMINGTON FOR COURT SPACE.
The county of Hennepin and the city of Bloomington may enter into contracts for terms not to exceed ten years and may enter into leases in connection with court and court-related activities. The term of any lease entered into by the county of Hennepin with the city of Bloomington shall not exceed the period required to service the debt on the bonds authorized by Laws 1983, chapter 523, article 12, section 1. Lease payments shall be irrevocably pledged to the payment of the debt. Upon the retirement of the debt created under Laws 1983, chapter 523, article 12, section 1, the city may lease space in the court building and related facilities to the county as the county may need for court purposes for periods not to exceed five years. If the city and the county deem it to be in the best interests of the public served by the facilities, the county may purchase them after retirement of the debt, or upon guaranteeing the servicing of the debt, at mutually agreed-upon terms.
MS 2008 [Repealed, 2009 c 59 art 3 s 5; 2009 c 83 art 2 s 50]
412.531 PARK FUNDS.
For the purpose of carrying out the powers of the park board there shall be established in the city treasury a special fund to be called a park fund. The council may transfer to the park fund the money it deems necessary for park purposes. No later than September 1 of each year the park board shall present to the council in the detail the council requires its estimate of the financial needs of the board for the ensuing fiscal year. In any county having a population of more than 200,000 the council of any city, whether having a park board or not, may annually levy a tax on all taxable property in the city for park purposes. The proceeds of this tax shall be placed in the park fund.
The park board shall, in the same manner as the council under section 412.271, subdivision 1, and to the same extent, audit claims to be paid from the park fund. The secretary of the board shall draw an order upon the treasurer for the proper amount allowed by the board. Upon counter signature by the president of the commission and presentation, orders shall be paid by the treasurer.
412.541 OPTIONAL PLANS.
Any statutory city may provide for the appointment of its clerk and treasurer, or clerk-treasurer and the election of an additional council member as hereinafter provided in this chapter. These departures from the standard form of government are referred to hereafter as Optional Plan A.
Any statutory city of more than 1,000 population may provide for the council-manager plan of government hereinafter provided in this chapter and referred to as Optional Plan B.
MS 1965 [Repealed, 1967 c 289 s 18]
Any one of such plans may be adopted or abandoned in a city by following the procedures set forth in section 412.551. Until the adoption of an optional plan, and except as provided in section 412.572, every city shall operate under the standard form of government earlier provided in this chapter under which the voters elect the treasurer, if there is one, and a council consisting of a mayor, three or five council members, and the clerk or clerk-treasurer.
383C.522 TAX-FORFEITED LANDS; EASEMENT.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, in St. Louis County when any legal highway or road lies over or adjacent to any parcel of tax-forfeited land which is to be offered for sale, the board of county commissioners may direct that the parcel of tax-forfeited land to be offered for sale shall be offered and sold subject to an easement for highway or road purposes of such government subdivision of the state as has jurisdiction over the road or highway, which easement shall be not less than 50 feet on one or both sides of the centerline of the road or highway, as such board may determine.
412.561 APPLICABLE LAW; SAME RIGHTS, LIABILITIES, PROCEEDINGS.
All laws of the state applicable to a city before the adoption of an optional plan and not inconsistent with the provisions relating to such plan shall apply to and govern the city after the adoption of any optional plan.
Any ordinance or resolution in effect at the time of adoption of such plan shall continue in effect until duly amended or repealed, notwithstanding the adoption of such optional plan.
No valid and legally subsisting right or liability and no judicial proceeding shall be affected by any such change of government, unless otherwise provided.
383B.70 COMPENSATION OF COMMISSIONERS.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 398.05 or any other law, the compensation of commissioners of the Three Rivers Park District must be set by the board of park commissioners.
412.572 CONVERSION TO OPTIONAL PLAN A.
Except as otherwise provided by this section, on January 1, 1970, every statutory city operating under the standard plan of government shall assume the Plan A form of government as prescribed by chapter 412 in the same manner as if the change to Optional Plan A form of government had been approved by the voters in the manner prescribed by that chapter.
Prior to January 1, 1970, the city council may, and upon petition therefor signed by voters equal in number to at least 15 percent of the electors voting at the last previous city election, shall, submit to the voters at a regular or special election the question of adopting Optional Plan A. Subdivision 1 shall not be effective in any city where such an election is held unless a majority of the votes cast on the question in such an election are in the affirmative. If the majority of votes cast on the question are not in the affirmative, such a city shall remain a standard plan city. The question on assuming Optional Plan A shall be that provided by section 412.551, subdivision 2.
Nothing in this section shall prevent an Optional Plan A city from abandoning such plan in the manner provided in section 412.551. Nothing in this section shall prevent any standard plan city from adopting an optional plan after January 1, 1970.
383B.702 DEPOSITORIES.
Notwithstanding section 398.18, the Three Rivers Park District may exercise the powers of a municipality under chapter 118A.
412.581 OFFICERS.
In any city operating under Optional Plan A except a city having a larger council under Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 412.023, subdivision 4, the council shall be composed of five or seven members consisting, except during the initial period of its operation as provided in section 412.571, of the mayor and four or six council members and, except as provided in that section, the clerk and treasurer or clerk-treasurer shall be appointed by the council for indefinite terms.
383B.703 DISTRICT RENAMING.
The Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District, a local government unit organized and existing under the provisions of sections 398.01 to 398.36, is renamed the Three Rivers Park District. The district so named is the legal successor in all respects of the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District as previously named and constituted. All bonds, resolutions, contracts, and liabilities of the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District are the bonds, resolutions, contracts, and liabilities of the Three Rivers Park District as so renamed and reconstituted. The boundaries of the Three Rivers Park District shall include all of Hennepin County except the city of Minneapolis.
383B.71 TRAIL SYSTEM.
In addition to the authority granted by chapter 398, the Three Rivers Park District is authorized to acquire, establish, operate, and maintain trail systems.
412.571 CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE; ELECTIONS.
When an optional plan is first adopted in any statutory city in which the standard plan of statutory city government is then in operation, the council shall continue as then constituted until the expiration of the term of the incumbent clerk. At the city election preceding expiration of the term of the incumbent clerk, one council member shall be elected in addition to the council member or council members who would otherwise be chosen at the election. If a minority of the other council members is chosen at the election, the term of the additional council member chosen at the election shall be four years, but if a majority of the other council members is chosen at the election, the initial term of the additional council member chosen at the election shall be two years. At each regular election thereafter, council members shall be elected for four-year terms. If the optional plan is adopted at the regular city election at which the office of clerk is to be filled, the candidate elected to that office at the election shall not assume the office of clerk in January, but shall become the additional council member unless appointed clerk under the optional plan, in which case the unfilled office of council member shall be considered vacant.
When an optional plan is first adopted in any city in which the standard plan is then in operation, the incumbent clerk and treasurer, or clerk-treasurer, shall continue to serve until the expiration of their respective terms.
When an optional plan is abandoned and another optional plan is adopted in its place, incumbent members of the council shall continue to serve until the expiration of their respective terms, and the election schedule shall not be affected by the change.
When any optional plan is abandoned and the standard form of city government is resumed, terms of then incumbent council members shall not be affected by the abandonment; but until the first business day of January following the next regular city election, the clerk shall not serve as a member of the council. At the city election preceding that date one council member less shall be elected.
When any optional plan is abandoned and the standard form of city government is resumed, the office of clerk, or clerk-treasurer shall remain appointive until the first business day of January following the next regular city election and the office of treasurer, if there is no clerk-treasurer, shall remain appointive until the first business day of January following the first subsequent city election at which the clerk is not elected; and the successor to the incumbent clerk, clerk-treasurer, and treasurer shall be chosen at the regular city election immediately preceding the January in which the office becomes elective.
383B.72 LAND ACQUISITION; TOWN CONSENT.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 398.09, the Board of Park District Commissioners of the Three Rivers Park District, before acquiring by purchase or condemnation real estate located within the boundaries of any organized town in Hennepin County, shall secure the consent of the town board of such town to such acquisition, by resolution duly adopted by such board.
383C.555 MAY LEVY TO MAINTAIN, SUPPORT COUNTY EXTENSION WORK.
Notwithstanding the limitation in section 38.36, the county board of St. Louis County may annually levy any amount necessary for maintenance and support of county extension work.
MS 1986 [Repealed, 1988 c 491 s 26]
412.591 DUTIES OF CLERK AND TREASURER; MAY BE COMBINED.
The clerk shall perform all the duties imposed on the clerk in cities generally but shall not be a member of the council, except that when Optional Plan A is first adopted in any city, the incumbent clerk shall continue to be a member of the council until the expiration of the term.
The duties of the treasurer if that office exists shall not be affected by adoption of Optional Plan A.
Cities operating under Optional Plan A may, by an ordinance effective after the expiration of the term of the incumbent treasurer at the date of adoption of Optional Plan A, combine the offices of clerk and treasurer in the office of clerk-treasurer and thereafter the duties of the treasurer as prescribed by this chapter shall be performed by the clerk-treasurer. The offices of clerk and treasurer may be reestablished by ordinance.
(a) If the offices of clerk and treasurer are combined as provided by this section, and the city's annual revenue for all governmental and enterprise funds combined is more than the amount in paragraph (b), the council shall provide for an annual audit of the city's financial affairs by the state auditor or a certified public accountant in accordance with minimum procedures prescribed by the state auditor. If the offices of clerk and treasurer are combined and the city's annual revenue for all governmental and enterprise funds combined is the amount in paragraph (b), or less, the council shall provide for an audit of the city's financial affairs by the state auditor or a certified public accountant in accordance with minimum audit procedures prescribed by the state auditor at least once every five years, which audit shall be for a one-year period to be determined at random by the person conducting the audit.
(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a), the amount in 2004 is $150,000, and in 2005 and after, $150,000 adjusted for inflation using the annual implicit price deflator for state and local expenditures as published by the United States Department of Commerce.
412.601 APPLICATIONS OF SECTIONS 412.601 TO 412.751.
Sections 412.601 to 412.751 shall apply only to statutory cities operating under Optional Plan B.
383B.73 PARK DISTRICT TAX LEVY.
To provide funds for the purposes of the Three Rivers Park District as set forth in its annual budget, in lieu of the levies authorized by any other special law for such purposes, the board of park district commissioners may levy taxes on all the taxable property in the county and park district at a rate not exceeding 0.03224 percent of estimated market value. Notwithstanding section 398.16, on or before October 1 of each year, after public hearing, the board of park district commissioners shall adopt a budget for the ensuing year and shall determine the total amount necessary to be raised from ad valorem tax levies to meet its budget. The board of park district commissioners shall submit the budget to the county board. The county board may veto or modify an item contained in the budget. If the county board determines to veto or to modify an item in the budget, it must, within 15 days after the budget was submitted by the district board, state in writing the specific reasons for its objection to the item vetoed or the reason for the modification. The Park District Board, after consideration of the county board's objections and proposed modifications, may reapprove a vetoed item or the original version of an item with respect to which a modification has been proposed, by a two-thirds majority. If the district board does not reapprove a vetoed item, the item shall be deleted from the budget. If the district board does not reapprove the original version of a modified item, the item shall be included in the budget as modified by the county board. After adoption of the final budget and no later than October 1, the superintendent of the park district shall certify to the office of the Hennepin County director of tax and public records exercising the functions of the county auditor the total amount to be raised from ad valorem tax levies to meet its budget for the ensuing year. The director of tax and public records shall add the amount of any levy certified by the district to other tax levies on the property of the county within the district for collection by the director of tax and public records with other taxes. When collected, the director shall make settlement of such taxes with the district in the same manner as other taxes are distributed to the other political subdivisions in Hennepin County.
MS 2000 [Repealed, 2001 c 44 s 5]
412.611 COUNCIL-MANAGER PLAN.
The form of government provided in Optional Plan B shall be known as the council-manager plan. The council shall exercise the legislative power of the city and determine all matters of policy. The city manager shall be the head of the administrative branch of the government and shall be responsible to the council for the proper administration of all affairs relating to the city.
412.621 BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
In any such city there shall be no community health board as defined in section 145A.02, subdivision 5, library board, park board, public utilities commission, or any other administrative board or commission, except for the administration of a function jointly with another political subdivision. The council shall itself be and perform the duties and exercise the powers of the community health board and shall govern and administer the library, parks, and utilities as fully as other municipal functions for the administration of which no independent boards are authorized by statute for cities generally. The council may, however, create boards or commissions to advise the council with respect to any municipal function or activity or to investigate any subject of interest to the city.
Any such boards and commissions in existence in any city when Optional Plan B is adopted shall continue to operate in all respects as formerly until the qualification of the first city manager, at which time they shall cease to exist and their powers shall be vested in the city council. Any existing civil service commission shall not be affected by the change. After abandonment of the plan in any such city and the establishment of the standard plan or Optional Plan A, any board or commission authorized by statute in cities generally may be established in the same manner as in other cities.
383C.58 TRAVEL EXPENSE OF COMMISSIONERS.
Each of the county commissioners shall be allowed and paid in addition to said salary, actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred and personally paid in the discharge of official duties. Such traveling expenses shall be allowed by the county board upon duly verified and itemized bills in the same manner as other claims against the county.
383B.75 MUNICIPAL BUILDING COMMISSION.
That from and after the first Monday in January, 1904, all of the completed portions of the Hennepin County and Minneapolis Courthouse and City Hall Building, erected pursuant to chapter 395 of the Special Laws of 1887, shall be under the exclusive care of a commission of four members, styled "the municipal building commission," which shall be constituted as follows: The chair of the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County, the mayor of the city of Minneapolis, a person appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County, who shall serve at its pleasure, and a person appointed by the city council of the city of Minneapolis, who shall serve at its pleasure. The chair of the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County shall be president of said commission, and the mayor of the city of Minneapolis, vice-president thereof. The person appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County shall be the secretary of said commission and as such shall keep the records and accounts thereof. The comptroller treasurer of the city of Minneapolis shall keep a correct account of the receipts and expenditures of the commission. The commission shall by resolution establish regular meeting dates.
412.631 COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL.
In any city operating under Optional Plan B, the council shall, except as provided in repealed sections 412.023, subdivision 4, and 412.571, be composed of a mayor and four or six council members.
383C.581 AUTOMOBILE EXPENSE OF COMMISSIONERS.
County commissioners of St. Louis County are hereby authorized to pay themselves when they submit a certified claim to the board, for the use of their privately owned cars used in county business at the rate permitted by law, from the road and bridge fund of their respective districts, and said payments shall be over and above their general expenses for county business authorized by section 383C.58.