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383D.22 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of sections 383D.21 to 383D.35, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended, the terms defined in this section have the following meanings.
"Appointing authority" means an official, employee, board, or commission, or other person or body empowered by law, ordinance, or resolution to make an appointment to a position as a county employee within the scope of sections 383D.21 to 383D.35.
"Director" means the director of the employee relations department.
"Employee relations department" means the employee relations director and the employees engaged in the administration of the employee relations department.
"Board of appeals" means the personnel board of appeals established pursuant to section 383D.30.
"Classified service" means all positions existing on July 2, 1987, or subsequently created that are under the jurisdiction of the employee relations department pursuant to section 383D.23, subdivision 1.
"Unclassified service" means all positions that are not in the classified service.
383E.09 PERA-GENERAL RETENTION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE STATUS FOR ACHIEVE PROGRAM EMPLOYEES.
This section applies to a person who was:
(1) employed by Anoka County in connection with the Achieve program for adults with developmental disabilities on the day before operation of the program is transferred to Achieve Services, Inc.; and
(2) a member of the Public Employees Retirement Association on December 31, 2003.
For purposes of participation in the coordinated plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, a person to whom this section applies is a "public employee" under chapter 353, while employed by Achieve Services, Inc., which is a governmental subdivision under section 353.01, subdivision 6, paragraph (a), for the purposes of reporting contributions for those persons to whom this section applies only.
383D.17 ROAD AND BRIDGE AIDS.
The county board of Dakota County may appropriate from its road and bridge fund to any town, statutory city, or home rule charter city of the second, third, or fourth class in the county such sums of money as are available and which it deems advisable to aid such towns, statutory cities, or home rule charter cities of the second, third, or fourth class in the construction and maintenance of roads, streets, or bridges therein, and such appropriations may be directly expended by the county board upon such roads, streets, or bridges as shall be designated by the governing bodies of such towns, statutory cities, or home rule charter cities of the second, third, or fourth classes. The county board shall determine the amount to be appropriated to such town, statutory city, or home rule charter city of the second, third, or fourth class, notwithstanding any limitation to the contrary.
383B.058 LOCAL ORDINANCES AND CHARTERS SUPERSEDED.
(a) Except as provided in this section, section 383B.041 supersedes the provisions of any ordinance or resolution of a jurisdiction governed by sections 383B.041 or 383B.058 or any existing special law or home rule charter provision requiring disclosure of information related to the financing of election campaigns or requiring disclosure of economic interests by candidates and elected officials of that jurisdiction.
(b) The governing body of Hennepin County, the governing body of any home rule charter city or statutory city located wholly in Hennepin County, and the school board of Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis may adopt or continue in force ordinances or resolutions that:
(1) impose limits on the amount that any individual or association may contribute to any candidate for elected office in that jurisdiction;
(2) require disclosure of economic interests; or
(3) require other public officials of that jurisdiction to make such disclosure.
(c) Any home rule charter city that adopts a charter provision modifying or superseding any provision of section 383B.041 shall file a copy of the charter provision with the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board within 60 days of its adoption.
383E.05 SCHEDULE.
Persons elected at the November 1986 general election to the positions of auditor, recorder, and treasurer shall serve in those capacities and perform the duties, functions, and responsibilities required by statute, until the completion of the term of office to which each was elected, or until a vacancy occurs in the office, whichever occurs earlier.
383C.024 APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX LEVY.
The county board shall adopt the budget by resolution which shall constitute appropriation of the amounts specified in the budget as expenditures from the funds indicated. It shall also adopt by resolution a levy of the tax proposed in the budget.
383C.023 REDUCTION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
If the maximum rate of taxation for the various purposes mentioned in the budget, for which the county may levy taxes, together with the estimated amount of other county revenues for the ensuing year, and the unappropriated fund balance does not equal the total amount of the budget, the county shall reduce the several funds mentioned in the budget. The items for bonds, interest on bonds, salaries, and other items, the charges for which are fixed by law, shall remain at the full amount that the law requires.
383D.153 EXTENSION COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
The Dakota County Extension Committee shall include one member in addition to those provided by section 38.36. One each of the seven members, other than the commissioners and auditor, shall be appointed from the seven county commissioner districts. The members serving on July 20, 1993, who reside in the several districts shall serve until the end of their terms. If more than one member resides in the same district, the county board shall designate which shall continue to serve. A member who ceases to maintain a principal residence in the district from which appointed shall cease to serve as a member. The additional member appointed under this section shall serve until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January 1996.
383E.04 REORGANIZATION OF COUNTY OFFICES.
(a) Upon adoption of a resolution by the Anoka County Board of Commissioners and subject to sections 383E.05 and 383E.06, the duties of the elected officials required by statute whose offices are made appointive by sections 383E.03 to 383E.06 shall be discharged by the board of commissioners of Anoka County acting through a department head or heads appointed by the board for that purpose. Each appointed department head shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board may reorganize, consolidate, reallocate, or delegate the duties to promote efficiency in county government. It may make other administrative changes, including abolishing the offices of auditor, recorder, and treasurer. A reorganization, reallocation, or delegation or other administrative change or transfer shall not diminish, prohibit, or avoid the discharge of duties required by statute.
(b) The time requirements in sections 386.30 and 507.093 apply to an appointed department head described in paragraph (a) and begin after the tax certifications required by chapters 272 and 287 are made, but the total period to complete the time requirements after receipt of the instrument by the appointed department head must not exceed 60 days.
383E.14 APPRAISAL RECORDS.
Assessment districts in Anoka County shall complete the assessment appraisal records on or before May 1. The records shall be delivered to the county assessor as of that date and any work which is the responsibility of the local assessor which is not completed by May 1 shall be accomplished by the county assessor or persons employed by the county assessor and the cost of such work shall be charged against the assessment district as provided in section 383E.13. Extensions of time to complete the assessment appraisal records may be granted to the local assessor by the county assessor if such extension is approved by the county board.
383B.113 LONG-RANGE CAPITAL PROGRAM.
The board shall review and consider a long-range capital improvement program at the time of approval of the budget specified in section 383B.112. The capital program shall contain information specifying:
(a) a general summary of its contents;
(b) a list of all capital projects proposed to be undertaken during the term of the program, with appropriate supporting information as to the necessity for such proposed project; and
(c) cost estimates, method of financing and recommended time schedules for each project. Information may be revised and extended with regard to capital projects still pending or in the process of construction or acquisition.
The board may appoint a citizens advisory committee to assist the board in preparing the capital program. Advisory committee members shall be allowed a per diem not to exceed $50 for meetings relating to advice and recommendations concerning the capital program. In addition, each member may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred as a result of the meetings.
383B.111 BUDGET AND FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION.
The Board of Commissioners of Hennepin County shall annually adopt a budget for the next fiscal year. The budget shall be a complete financial plan for the next year. The board may create fund accounts which shall be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and such statutes and regulations issued by state or federal regulatory agencies as may be applicable to account for the assets, liabilities, revenues and expenditures of the county.
The county administrator shall prepare and present recommendations concerning the budget to be adopted for the next fiscal year, implement accounting practices consistent with generally accepted accounting principles and implement other matters of a budget, financial or accounting nature as required. The administrator may establish administrative guidelines and procedures necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 383B.111 to 383B.119.
383D.31 DUTIES OF BOARD OF APPEALS.
A panel of three members of the personnel board of appeals shall meet upon call of its chair or the employee relations director to make findings and report to the county board within 60 days of the filing of an appeal by an applicant, employee, or appointing authority, unless the time is extended with the consent of the party filing the appeal, in the following circumstances:
(a) Alleged arbitrary or capricious action by the county board with respect to final establishment of rules under sections 383D.21 to 383D.35.
(b) Alleged discrimination by the employee relations director or the director's employees in examination procedures or preparation of lists of eligible candidates, or discriminatory use of them by the appointing authority under sections 383D.21 to 383D.35 or rules promulgated under them.
(c) Alleged misinterpretation or evasion by the director or the county board of a provision of sections 383D.21 to 383D.35 or the rules promulgated under them in a manner seriously detrimental to the party bringing the appeal.
(d) Other matters of grievance as provided for in rules promulgated under sections 383D.21 to 383D.35.
The personnel board of appeals shall establish procedures for appeals to the board. The procedures shall provide that its chair appoint the members of each panel convened pursuant to subdivision 1.
Findings and reports of the personnel board of appeals shall be submitted to the county board for consideration and action as deemed appropriate by the county board, but, to the extent required for employees of departments and agencies paid in full or in part by federal funds, the findings of the personnel board of appeals shall be final and binding if necessary to conform to a federal or state regulation affecting the department or position.
384.07 DISABILITY; TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT.
When any county auditor having no deputy is, or when both auditor and deputy are, unable to perform the duties of such office within the time prescribed by law the county board shall appoint some suitable person to perform such duties during such disability and may require of such person sufficient security for the faithful discharge of the duties of the appointment.
384.05 FAILURE TO QUALIFY.
If any person elected to the office of county auditor shall not give the bond and take the oath required by law on or before the first Monday in January next after the election, it shall be deemed a refusal to serve.
383D.30 PERSONNEL BOARD OF APPEALS.
The county board shall appoint four persons to serve staggered terms as members of a personnel board of appeals. After the first appointments, successors shall serve for terms of three years each. Expiration dates for expiring terms shall be fixed by the county board and vacancies shall be filled by a majority vote of the county board for the unexpired term. Persons appointed to the personnel board of appeals shall not serve while holding any county office, while standing as a candidate for any county office, or while employed by the county. Each member shall be a resident of the county and shall forfeit office on becoming a nonresident.
Compensation for members of the personnel board of appeals shall be set by the county board and each member shall be paid actual and necessary expenses.
The personnel board of appeals shall organize by electing a chair and vice-chair. It shall develop rules of procedure for matters brought before it under sections 383D.21 to 383D.35 and rules promulgated under sections 383D.21 to 383D.35.
383C.035 UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE.
(a) The officers and employees of the county and of any agency, board, or commission, supported in whole or in part by taxation upon the taxable property of the county or appointed by the judges of the district court for the county, are divided into the unclassified and classified service.
(b) The unclassified service comprises:
(1) all officers elected by popular vote or persons appointed to fill vacancies in such offices;
(2) superintendent or principal administrative officer or comptroller of any separate department of county government which is now or hereafter created pursuant to law, who is directly responsible to the board of county commissioners or any other board or commission, as well as the county agricultural agents reporting to the county extension committee;
(3) members of nonpaid board, or commissioners appointed by the board of county commissioners or acting in an advisory capacity;
(4) assistant county attorneys or special investigators in the employ of the county attorney. For purposes of this section, special investigators are defined as all nonclerical positions in the employ of the county attorney;
(5) all common labor temporarily employed on an hourly basis;
(6) not more than a total of nine full-time equivalent clerical employees serving the county board and administrator;
(7) a legislative lobbyist/grant coordinator appointed by the county board to act as legislative liaison with the St. Louis County legislative delegation and pursue legislative concerns and grant opportunities for the county, and the clerk for that position;
(8) any department head and deputy director designated by the county board;
(9) three administrative assistants in the county administrator's office;
(10) the county administrator and two deputy administrators; and
(11) all court bailiffs.
(c) The classified service includes all other positions now existing and hereinafter created in the service of the county or any board or commission, agency, or offices of the county.
383D.32 JUDICIAL REVIEW.
An employee or appointing authority may appeal from an order of the board of appeals in accordance with chapter 14.
383E.16 SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BY SEALED BID.
The county of Anoka may conduct a sealed bid sale as an alternate method of disposing of tax-forfeited land. Notice of the sale must comply with section 282.02, except that the last publication of the notice must be at least 30 days before the date of the sale. Sealed bids shall also be solicited by mailing notices to prospective bidders who request that their names be kept on file with the appropriate county official. Prospective bidders must renew their filing in writing every two years to remain on the list. All bids must be sealed when they are received and must be opened in public at the hour stated in the notice. The land shall be sold to the highest bidder but in no event shall the land be sold for less than its appraised value. All original bids and all documents pertaining to the award of a sale must be retained and made part of a permanent file or record and remain open to public inspection for a period of ten years from the date of the sale.
383D.29 COUNTY BOARD BINDS COUNTY ON LABOR AGREEMENTS.
For purposes of negotiating collective bargaining agreements and resolving grievances involving them pursuant to sections 179A.01 to 179A.25, the appointing authority and the county board shall be deemed the joint employer for positions within the jurisdiction of the employee relations department. Both shall be signatories to negotiated agreements or grievance settlements. If the county board and the appointing authority disagree as to the final terms of a negotiated agreement or grievance settlement, the decision of the county board shall be final and binding on behalf of the county as employer for all employees of the county, including employees under the jurisdiction of an appointing authority other than the county board.
Any employee holding a position covered by sections 383D.21 to 383D.35 shall, upon the effective date of the establishment of a county personnel administration system, retain the position without further examination and suffer no loss in wages, seniority, or benefits as the result of the implementation of sections 383D.21 to 383D.35.
383E.17 HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT.
There is created in the county of Anoka a public body corporate and politic, to be known as the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority has all of the powers and duties of a county authority and a county housing and redevelopment authority under the provisions of sections 469.001 to 469.047 and any other law.
This section shall not limit or restrict any housing and redevelopment authority existing on or before May 3, 2011, or prevent a municipality from creating an authority with the concurrence of the county under section 469.004, subdivision 5. The county shall not exercise jurisdiction in any municipality where a municipal housing and redevelopment authority is established on or before May 3, 2011. Except for the area in those municipalities, the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority's jurisdiction and area of operations includes all of the area within the territorial boundaries of the county and includes the areas within the boundaries of all other municipalities in the county. Local approval of all projects is required pursuant to section 383E.18. If a municipal housing and redevelopment authority requests the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority to handle the housing duties of the municipal authority, the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority shall act and have exclusive jurisdiction for housing in the municipality. A transfer of duties relating to housing shall not transfer any duties relating to redevelopment.
383B.103 COMPENSATION; REMOVAL.
The administrator shall be appointed by the board. The administrator shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board may designate a properly qualified person to perform the duties of the administrator during the absence or disability of the administrator. The board shall set the administrator's compensation and provide for a termination allowance, which shall be equal to the severance pay allowable to employees of the unclassified service.
383D.095 COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR SERVES AS CLERK OF COUNTY BOARD.
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, in Dakota County the county administrator, by virtue of position, is the clerk of the county board and shall keep an accurate record of its official proceedings.
383C.027 ADMINISTRATION OF BUDGET.
A record of every appropriation shall be kept by the county auditor, or by an officer, agent, or employee designated by rule, which will at all times show the amount of any appropriation which has been expended, contracted, or obligated, and the remaining unencumbered amount which is available for expenditure, to the extent necessary to enable every officer, agent, or employee who has authority to incur an obligation to know whether incurring an additional obligation will exceed the appropriation. The auditor shall make and may amend rules governing in detail the manner in which boards, commissions, administrative officers, and employees of the county incur, record, and report obligations as reasonably necessary to regulate the keeping of the records required by this section and to enable the auditor to determine and certify whether an obligation is within and pursuant to an appropriation made as required by sections 383C.021 to 383C.026. The rules, upon adoption by the county board, shall bind all boards, commissions, officers, agents, and employees. No contract or obligation shall be valid for any purpose unless it is incurred, recorded, reported, and certified in accordance with the rules. No claim or payroll shall be presented to the county board or other board, commission, or agency for allowance, or allowed unless it has been audited by the auditor and certified by the auditor to have been incurred within and pursuant to an appropriation as required by sections 383C.021 to 383C.026. The auditor shall not certify a claim or payroll without ascertaining that it has been so incurred. No claim or payroll shall be allowed or paid until certified by the auditor. Before certifying any claim or payroll, the auditor shall ascertain that the goods or services have actually been received by the county as shown by a receiving report or time record signed by an officer, agent, or employee who has personal knowledge that the goods or services were received or furnished to the county. A person who falsely or fraudulently signs a receiving report or time record is personally liable to the county for any loss sustained.
No payment shall be made or obligation incurred against an allotment or appropriation except in accordance with an appropriation duly made in the adopted budget. An authorization of payment or incurring of obligation in violation of this section is void and a payment so made is illegal.
The county shall use generally accepted accounting principles in the management of its accounting records.
383E.03 APPOINTMENT OF COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Upon adoption of a resolution by the Anoka County Board of Commissioners, the offices of county auditor, county recorder, and county treasurer in the county shall not be elective but shall be filled by appointment by the county board as provided in sections 383E.03 to 383E.06, unless the office is abolished pursuant to a reorganization or consolidation under section 383E.04.
383C.022 CAPITAL PROGRAM.
The board may also prepare a five-year capital program to include:
(1) a clear, general summary of its contents;
(2) a list of all capital improvements which are proposed to be undertaken during the next five fiscal years, with appropriate supporting information as to the necessity for the improvements;
(3) cost estimates, method of financing, and recommended time schedules for each improvement; and
(4) the estimated cost of operating and maintaining the facilities to be constructed or acquired.
The information may be revised and extended each year with regard to capital improvements still pending or in the process of construction or acquisition.
383C.021 BUDGET AND FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION.
The county board shall annually adopt a budget for the next fiscal year. The budget shall be a complete financial plan for the year. The board may create fund accounts in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and state and federal laws and rules to account for the assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenditures of the county.
The board may use any combination of expenditure classifications by fund, organization, program, purpose, or activity. The budget shall begin with a general summary of its contents and shall detail all estimated revenues, including the property tax levy, and all estimated expenditures, including debt service, for the next fiscal year. The total of estimated expenditures for the next fiscal year shall not exceed the total of estimated revenues and any surplus amounts expected to be available at the end of the current fiscal year. Amounts in funds unexpended at the end of the fiscal year may be carried over from one fiscal year to the next in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Unexpended amounts may be restricted by the board to finance contingent obligations which may become payable in subsequent fiscal years.
The budget shall include information showing operating revenues, expenditures, and personnel for the fiscal year.
The budget shall include the capital expenditures proposed for the fiscal year by project and the proposed method and plan of financing of each capital project.
383B.061 LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMITTEE.
In Hennepin County there is hereby created a Legislative Research Committee. The committee shall consist of the senators and representatives in the legislature from the county.
The committee may investigate and study, accumulate, compile, analyze, and report on information concerning policies, plans, programs, and procedures relating to or affecting the fiscal and legislative needs of the county and any governmental or political subdivision within the county, including any school district, and any metropolitan or district authority having jurisdiction in any area of the county. The committee shall gather information and provide material to be used by senators and representatives from the county in their work while the legislature is in session and in connection with any legislative proposals affecting the county and such subdivisions. It may appoint subcommittees to perform any of its functions or duties.
The committee or any subcommittee appointed by it may sit at any time and place as it deems advisable. It shall meet at least once in each quarter and shall meet at any time upon the call of the chair. Nine members constitute a quorum. A majority of the quorum may act in any matter coming within the jurisdiction of the committee.
The committee shall select a chair and a vice-chair from its own members and may prescribe its rules of procedure. It may appoint a secretary who need not be a member. The committee may employ such other persons and obtain the assistance of such research agencies as its deems necessary.
The members of the committee and the members of any subcommittee shall be compensated for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties.
The county board shall appropriate from the county general revenue fund for the purpose of this section the sum of $20,000 for the use of the committee during the biennium ending December 31, 1966, and the sum of $20,000 for the use of the committee during each biennium thereafter. For the payment of the expenses of the committee it shall draw its warrants upon the county treasurer. These warrants shall be signed by the chair and one other member of the committee and approved by the county auditor. The county treasurer shall pay them as and when presented but not exceeding in any year the amount provided therefor.
383C.037 CLASSIFICATION PLAN.
The human resources director shall establish and maintain a classification plan, together with proposed rules for its administration. The classification plan shall show each class of positions in the classified and unclassified services, and when approved by the county civil service commission, shall be made public, together with the rules for its administration. Each such class shall include such positions requiring duties which are substantially similar in respect to duties and responsibilities and shall be designated by titles indicative of the duties; and that the same schedule of compensation can be made to apply with equity under like working conditions. The class titles shall be used in personnel, budget and financial records, and communications.
384.08 DEPUTIES.
Any county auditor may by certificate in writing appoint deputies who, before entering upon their duties, shall record with the county recorder such certificates, with their oaths of office endorsed thereon. Such deputies may sign all papers and do all other things which county auditors may do. Auditors shall require bonds of their deputies in such amount and with such sureties as they deem proper, shall be responsible for their acts, and may revoke their appointment at pleasure.
384.06 MEETINGS CALLED BY COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE, ATTENDANCE.
The county board of each county shall audit and, if found correct, allow duly itemized and verified claims of the county auditor and county treasurer for actual and necessary expenses incurred and paid by either in attending any meeting called by the commissioner of revenue to confer in regard to assessments and taxation.
No such claim shall be audited or allowed unless the written request of the commissioner of revenue for such conference is attached to and made a part thereof.
387.01 QUALIFICATIONS; BOND; OATH.
Every person who files as a candidate for county sheriff must be licensed as a peace officer in this state. Every person appointed to the office of sheriff must become licensed as a peace officer before entering upon the duties of the office. Before entering upon duties every sheriff shall give bond to the state in a sum not less than $25,000 in counties whose population exceeds 150,000, and not less than $5,000 in all other counties, to be approved by the county board, conditioned that the sheriff will well and faithfully in all things perform and execute the duties of office, without fraud, deceit, or oppression, which bond, with an oath of office, shall be recorded with the county recorder.
388.01 ELECTION; QUALIFICATIONS; TERM.
There shall be elected in each county a county attorney who shall be licensed to practice law in this state, and whose term of office shall be four years and until a successor qualifies. Before entering upon duties the county attorney shall take an oath. The oath must be recorded with the county recorder.
384.09 CLERK OF COUNTY BOARD.
The county auditor by virtue of office shall be clerk of the county board, keep an accurate record of its official proceedings, carefully preserve all documents, books, records, maps, and other papers required to be deposited in the auditor's office, and annually prepare a financial statement of the county, unless otherwise ordered by the board. The county auditor shall present at each regular meeting of the board a statement in writing showing the amounts levied for the various county purposes for the current year, together with the actual cash balance, if any, remaining to the credit of each fund at the date of such meeting, and the amounts, if any, still unpaid on account of contracts already entered into by the board. Each statement shall be embodied in, and form a part of, the minutes of the official proceedings of the board.
383E.18 LOCAL APPROVAL.
Before a housing or redevelopment project of the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority is undertaken, the project and the location of the project shall be approved by the local governing body with jurisdiction over all or any part of the area in which the proposed project is located.
383C.038 ALLOCATION OF POSITIONS.
The human resources director shall allocate each position to its proper class and reallocate positions between classes as needed. Any employee whose position or title is affected by such allocation shall be notified thereof and may appeal the allocation to the county civil service commission within 30 calendar days of such notice, and after hearing such employee the civil service commission shall approve or modify such allocation.
383D.33 APPROPRIATION BY COUNTY BOARD.
The county board may make appropriations as necessary to carry out sections 383D.21 to 383D.35.
387.02 FAILURE TO QUALIFY.
If any person elected to the office of sheriff fails to give the bond and take the oath prescribed by law on or before January tenth next succeeding election, it shall be deemed a refusal to serve.
385.02 DEPUTIES; BONDS, EXCEPT FOR RAMSEY COUNTY.
County treasurers may by certificate in writing appoint one or more deputies, who, before entering upon their duties, shall record with the county recorder such certificates, with their oaths of office endorsed thereon. Such deputies may sign all papers and do all other things which county treasurers may themselves do. County treasurers are responsible for the acts of their deputies and may revoke their appointments at pleasure.
(a) Before entering upon the duties of office the county treasurer, every deputy county treasurer and every employee in the office of the county treasurer shall give bond, to be approved by the county board, and in such sum as the board directs. In counties of over 150,000 inhabitants, the bond of the county treasurer shall not be less than $500,000, unless the surety is a corporation duly authorized by law to be surety, in which case it shall be not less than $250,000. Such bond shall be payable to the state, conditioned that the treasurer shall faithfully execute the duties of office, and for the safekeeping and paying over according to law of all moneys which come into the treasurer's hands for state, county, town, school, road, bridge, poor, and all other purposes.
(b) In lieu of the individual bonds required for deputies and employees in the office of the county treasurer a schedule or position bond or undertaking may be given in the respective amounts so required conditioned as above and upon a form to be prescribed by the commissioner of administration.
(c) The county board shall pay the premiums upon such bonds or undertakings out of the treasury of the county in cases where the surety is a corporation duly authorized by law to be surety.
(d) This subdivision does not apply to Ramsey County.
383C.039 ADDITIONAL CLASSES.
With the approval of the county civil service commission, the human resources director may create, merge, divide, and abolish classes, revise the descriptions of classes, and change the titles of classes as necessary to meet the needs of the county.
383E.19 MORTGAGE TAX EXEMPTION.
Construction loans on publicly owned low-income or senior multifamily housing projects in Anoka County shall not be subject to the tax imposed by section 287.035. If the construction loan is held by the same entity as the permanent financing on a publicly owned low-income or senior multifamily housing, the tax imposed by section 287.035 shall be imposed only once at the time of the permanent financing.
384.10 CERTAIN RECORDS TRANSCRIBED.
When it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the county board of any county that any book of record in the office of the county auditor or county abstract clerk of such county, through age, injury, use, or other cause, has become unfit for record purposes and because of such condition are liable to destruction, it shall be the duty of the auditor or county abstract clerk of the county to make a transcript of such records in suitable books to be provided by the county for that purpose.
When such transcripts have been completed the same shall be compared with the original record and the auditor or county abstract clerk shall duly certify under hand and seal at the end of each book that the records therein contained to date of signature are true and correct transcripts of the original records. Such transcripts shall then have the same force and effect as the original records.
For the transcribing of such records the county auditor or county abstract clerk shall be allowed such amounts for extra help as to the board may seem just, proper, and necessary, such extra help to be hired by the officer at the officer's direction as to their appointment and the rates of their compensation, respectively, and paid by the officer's warrants on the county treasury.
383B.115 AMENDMENTS.
The board may make supplemental appropriations during the course of a budget year. Such appropriations may authorize the use and expenditure of amounts accruing to the county which were not previously anticipated as revenues by the board in the adoption of the budget.
The board may by resolution make modifications in the adopted budget or in the appropriation to any department or fund, or may transfer amounts from one department or fund to another department or fund except as the transfers may be otherwise restricted by law.
385.03 FAILURE TO QUALIFY.
If any person elected to the office of county treasurer shall not take the oath and give the bond required by law on or before the first Monday of January next succeeding election, it shall be deemed a refusal to serve.
387.03 POWERS, DUTIES.
The sheriff shall keep and preserve the peace of the county, for which purpose the sheriff may require the aid of such persons or power of the county as the sheriff deems necessary. The sheriff shall also pursue and apprehend all felons, execute all processes, writs, precepts, and orders issued or made by lawful authority and to the sheriff delivered, attend upon the terms of the district court, and perform all of the duties pertaining to the office, including investigating recreational vehicle accidents involving personal injury or death that occur outside the boundaries of a municipality, searching and dragging for drowned bodies, and searching and looking for lost persons. When authorized by the board of county commissioners of the county the sheriff may purchase boats and other equipment including the hiring of airplanes for search purposes.
383C.04 REEMPLOYMENT.
Whenever any employee in the classified service, who has been performing all duties in a satisfactory manner, as shown by the records of the employing department or other agency, is laid off because of lack of work or lack of funds, or has been on authorized leave of absence for more than one year and is ready to report for duty when a position is open, or has resigned in good standing with the consent of the human resources director and the employing department, and has requested reemployment, the human resources director shall place the name of such employee on the reemployment list for the appropriate class. No reemployment list shall be valid for more than two years. The order in which names shall be placed on the reemployment list for any class shall be established by rule. No person shall be reinstated or be restored to a reemployment list unless such request is made within two years after the effective date of resignation.
384.11 DELIVERY TO SUCCESSOR.
On going out of office, any county auditor shall deliver to a successor all moneys, books, records, maps, documents, papers, vouchers, and other property on hand belonging to the county; and, in case of death, the auditor's personal representatives shall in like manner deliver to a successor all such property.
383E.20 BONDING FOR COUNTY LIBRARY BUILDINGS.
The Anoka County Board may, by resolution adopted by a four-sevenths vote, issue and sell general obligation bonds of the county in the manner provided in chapter 475 to acquire, better, and construct county library buildings. The bonds shall not be subject to the requirements of sections 475.57 to 475.59. The maturity years and amounts and interest rates of each series of bonds shall be fixed so that the maximum amount of principal and interest to become due in any year, on the bonds of that series and of all outstanding series issued by or for the purposes of libraries, shall not exceed an amount equal to .01 percent of the estimated market value of all taxable property in the county, excluding any taxable property taxed by any city for the support of any free public library. When the tax levy authorized in this section is collected, it shall be appropriated and credited to a debt service fund for the bonds. The tax levy for the debt service fund under section 475.61 shall be reduced by the amount available or reasonably anticipated to be available in the fund to make payments otherwise payable from the levy pursuant to section 475.61.
383B.116 PAYMENT PROCEDURES AND ACCOUNTING.
The county shall pay for obligations in accordance with appropriations duly made. Payment and distribution shall be made in accordance with methods and procedures established by the county administrator, pursuant to section 383B.111 and consistent with sections 471.35 to 471.41.
Payments of claims and obligations of the county may be made by warrant, check, or all forms of electronic or wire funds transfer. Section 471.38 does not apply to any claim for which payment is made by electronic or wire funds transfer. Where the county is authorized by law to make investments, the county may make electronic or wire transfers of funds notwithstanding any other law to the contrary.
The making of payments or the incurring of obligations in excess of appropriations or when sufficient moneys are not or will not be available to cover claims or meet obligations when they become due and payable shall be prohibited. This subdivision shall not apply to investments authorized by law to be made on behalf of the county.
A commissioner who knowingly authorizes or makes a payment or incurs an obligation in violation of the provisions of sections 383B.111 to 383B.119 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. When deficits are incurred or anticipated as a result of services required to be performed pursuant to chapters 393 and 401 and Laws 1963, chapter 738, as amended, this subdivision shall not apply.
Subject to procedures developed by the administrator, warrants issued on one fund in which there is a temporary insufficiency of money may be redeemed by the county treasury through temporary borrowing from any other fund in the treasury for a period not to exceed one year.
The county may accept payment by use of a credit card, debit card, or all forms of electronic or wire funds transfer. Subject to any other law to the contrary, the county may add to the amount due a service charge for the acceptance of a payment method authorized in this subdivision. The county shall adopt policies and procedures regarding the payments.
387.04 DUTIES.
In each county of the state having or which may hereafter have a population of 300,000, the sheriff shall perform all the duties and services now or which may hereafter be required by law to be performed and in addition shall serve all papers, post all notices named by law to be served or posted in behalf of the state or of the county for which elected, including all papers to be served or notices to be posted by the board of county commissioners, the county auditor, or by any other county officer.
383D.35 PROTECTION OF RIGHTS UNDER STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS.
Nothing in sections 383D.21 to 383D.33 shall be construed to permit or encourage any action or conduct prohibited by the Minnesota Human Rights Act or prohibit recourse to any remedies provided in the Minnesota Human Rights Act or any other state or federal law relating to equal employment opportunities. The provisions of those laws shall continue to apply to county employment generally, including positions excluded from the jurisdiction of the county personnel administration system.
Nothing in sections 383D.21 to 383D.33 shall be construed to affect the rights and obligations of an employee or employer under sections 179A.01 to 179A.25, or the provisions of a contract or agreement executed pursuant to them.
Any employee in the unclassified service may be demoted or removed from the employee's position in the unclassified service without cause and at the discretion and pleasure of the appointing authority, but, unless otherwise provided by law, no permanent county employee, who has successfully completed the employee's probationary period of employment with the county, shall be dismissed from employment with the county without the establishment of just cause. For purposes of this subdivision, just cause includes, but is not limited to, failure to perform assigned duties, substandard performance, misconduct, insubordination, and violation of written policies and procedures.
383C.041 TESTS.
The human resources director shall hold tests for the purpose of establishing employment lists for the various positions in the classified service. Such tests shall be public, competitive and open to all persons who may be lawfully appointed to any position within the class for which such examinations are held with limitations specified in the rules of the commission as to prerequisite minimum qualifications of the job classification. Promotion tests shall be competitive to employees who have attained permanent status in the classified service by successfully completing a probationary period and who meet the prerequisite minimum qualifications of the job classification. The human resources director shall hold promotion tests for each job class whenever there is a lower-level class in the same classification series, the duties of which directly fit the incumbents thereof for the performance of the duties of the higher-level class. If fewer than two qualified persons submit themselves for a promotion test, or if after such test is held no applicants pass the test, the director may, at the request of the appointing authority, hold an original entrance test and refer names from the employment list resulting from the original entrance test.
All tests shall be practical, and shall consist only of subjects which will fairly determine the capacity of the persons examined to perform the duties of the class of work for which the examination is being conducted, and may include tests of physical fitness or of manual skill. No question in any test shall relate to religious or political opinions or affiliations. As many tests shall be held as may be necessary to provide qualified applicants for each vacancy. From the return and report of the examiners or from the tests provided by the human resources director, the director shall prepare a list of eligible persons who shall attain such minimum mark as may be fixed for the various parts of such test, and whose general average standing upon the test for such position is not less than the minimum fixed by the rules of the commission, and who may lawfully be appointed. Such persons shall take rank upon the list in the order of their relative excellence as determined by the tests. The markings of all tests shall be completed and the resulting employment list posted as soon as possible thereafter. The life of any promotional or open employment list shall not exceed one year, but may be extended an additional year.
The markings and test papers of the candidate shall be open to the candidate's inspection. An error in the markings of any test other than an error in judgment, if called to the attention of the commission within one month after the establishment of an employment list resulting from such test, shall be corrected by it; provided, however, that such correction shall not invalidate any certification or appointment previously made. Public notice of each examination shall be given.
385.04 ACCURATE ACCOUNT KEPT.
The county treasurer shall keep a full and accurate account of all money received, showing the amount thereof, the time when, by whom, and on what account paid and shall keep books so as to show the amount received and paid on account of separate and distinct funds or appropriations, which shall be exhibited in separate accounts, and every warrant shall be paid only from the cash on hand in the fund from which it may be properly payable. In case of payments of money under any special contract entered into by the county board, such payments shall be kept separate under the name of the particular contract on account of which it was made, and under the general title of the fund from which such warrant is payable. No money received for taxes charged in the duplicate of the current year shall be entered by the treasurer on the treasurer's account with the county until the treasurer makes the annual settlement with the county auditor and county board in each year. The treasurer's books shall be provided at the expense of the county.