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365.21 SPECIAL ELECTION FOR POLICE, FIRE, WATER.
A special election may be called to vote on a question under section 365.20. The town board calls the election. It may call one on its own but it must call an election if 20 percent of the electors of the town petition for it. The percentage is of the number of electors on the poll list at the last election.
The clerk shall post notice of the election in three of the most public places in the town. The notice shall list the questions the electors are to vote on.
A special election under this section may answer one or more of the questions in this subdivision.
(a) Shall the town board be allowed to provide for fire protection and apparatus?
(b) Shall the town board be allowed to provide for police protection?
(c) Shall the town board be allowed to grant a franchise for waterworks to supply the residents of the town and the public with water?
382.153 COUNTIES OF 250,000; BONDING OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.
In counties now or hereafter having a population of more than 250,000, when a corporate surety bond has been furnished by any county officer or employee pursuant to statute or resolution of the county board, the premium therefor shall be paid by the county, provided that the county board may designate the surety.
The county board shall cause to be published in its official publication, a notice for bids for the furnishing of all such bonds and shall award a contract to the lowest responsible bidder.
In any county, in lieu of the individual bonds required to be furnished by county officers or by county employees, a schedule or position bond or undertaking may be given by county officers or by the employees of each county office or department, or a single corporate surety fidelity, schedule or position bond or undertaking covering all the officers and employees of any such county including officers and employees required by law to furnish an individual bond or undertaking may be furnished, in the respective amounts fixed by law, or by the person or board authorized by law to fix the same, conditioned substantially as provided in section 574.13.
This section does not apply to Ramsey County.
365.20 POLICE, FIRE, WATER IN CERTAIN PLATTED TOWNS.
If 50 percent or more of the total net tax capacity in a town is platted land, the electors may let the town board do what is described in this section. Mineral net tax capacity must be excluded in figuring the percentage. The electors must act at a special election called for the purpose or at the annual meeting.
The electors may let the town board provide for fire protection and apparatus for the town.
The electors may let the town board provide for police protection.
The electors may let the town board regulate the use of the town's roads, streets, and public grounds for water mains, and necessary pipe, hydrants, and other appliances and means.
The electors may let the town board build water mains, and necessary pipe, hydrants, and other appliances to provide water to the residents of the town. The town board may set the terms and conditions of the water service. The water rates charged to the residents and the public must be just and reasonable. The rates must not exceed a fair return on the fair value of the property used for the purpose for a period of not more than 20 years.
382.154 PREMIUM FOR BONDS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, PAYMENT.
The premium upon any bond now or hereafter required of any elected or appointed county officer or employee, and their respective deputies or assistants, together with the expense of recording or filing such bonds, shall be paid by the county in which such officers or employees are elected or appointed; provided that this section shall not apply in counties having more than 250,000 inhabitants.
374.27 BOND ISSUE.
When the city has been authorized to issue bonds to pay its share of the cost, the county board may submit to the voters, in the manner provided, under section 375.20, the question as to whether or not to issue and sell bonds of the county to pay the county's share of the cost of acquiring land for, constructing, equipping and furnishing the building. The full faith and credit of the county must be pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds issued. The bonds may be issued in one or more installments, but the bonds of each installment must be serial bonds, a portion of which shall be payable each year after issue. None of the bonds shall run longer than 20 years from their date. The board of county commissioners shall fix the denominations and the dates of maturity of each installment so that the amounts necessary each year to pay the principal and interest maturing any year shall be approximately the same in each of the years during which the bonds of the installment shall run. The bonds shall be sold as provided under section 475.60, at a rate of interest as authorized under section 475.55.
366.08 TREASURER NOT LIABLE, WHEN.
The town treasurer, in the absence of negligence, shall not be liable for the loss of money deposited within the limits above specified occasioned by the closing or insolvency of a designated depository.
375.164 BROADCAST FACILITIES.
The county board may appropriate annually from the county general revenue fund an amount necessary to fund the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or maintenance of a translator station or a noncommercial television broadcast facility to receive and transmit television broadcasting signals that can be received by residents of the county.
365.22 CONDUCT OF ELECTION; BALLOTS, VOTING, HOURS.
A special election under section 365.21 must be run in the same way that elections by ballot at the regular town election are run.
The questions to be voted on must be separately stated on the ballots, as worded in section 365.21. Two ovals or similar target shapes, one above the other, must be put just below each question with the word "yes" beside the upper target shape and the word "no" beside the lower target shape.
An elector must vote separately on each question for the elector's vote to be counted on that question. To vote "yes" on a question, the elector shall fill in the oval or similar target shape beside the word "yes" just below the question. To vote "no" on a question, the elector shall fill in the oval or similar target shape beside the word "no" just below the question.
The polls must be open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
In all other matters the election must be run and the votes canvassed the way elections by ballot are run under sections 205.01 to 205.17.
374.28 EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF BONDS.
The county board shall, by resolution, determine the manner of executing the bonds. The delivery of the bonds executed shall be valid, notwithstanding any change in officers or in the seal of the county occurring after their execution.
366.09 INTEREST ON FUNDS.
All interest on funds deposited under sections 366.01, subdivision 4, and 366.07 to 366.09 shall be credited to the respective town funds.
375.165 COUNTY TRANSLATOR SYSTEMS; FUNDING.
Notwithstanding section 375.164, or any other contrary law, the county board of any county owning, operating or maintaining a translator system on April 14, 1976, may singly or jointly with contiguous counties appropriate from the general revenue fund an amount necessary to fund the construction, acquisition, improvement, maintenance and operations of a translator system either in or outside of the county to receive and transmit television broadcasting signals. The county may singly or jointly with contiguous counties acquire, by gift, lease or purchase, any real estate or interest in real estate upon the terms or conditions, including contracts for fees, it determines, either in or outside of the county, to establish, improve or operate a television translator system. No real estate located in another county may be acquired unless the county board of the county where the real estate is located approves the proposed acquisition. The county may issue bonds in accordance with chapter 475, for the acquisition, construction or improvement of television translator systems and the acquisition of real estate for them.
382.16 RECORDS ARE PUBLIC; COPIES.
The several judges having probate jurisdiction, county auditors, county recorders, and court administrators of the district court, during the hours when their respective offices are open, or are required by law to be kept open, shall exhibit any papers, files, or records of their office or in their official custody, for the inspection of any person demanding the same, free of charge, except in cases where fees are provided by law, and then upon tender of such fees.
The several county auditors, judges having probate jurisdiction, and clerks of the district court, during the hours when their respective offices are required by law to be open, shall furnish to any person demanding the same a certified copy of any record, file, or paper in their office or in their official custody upon tender of such fees therefor as are by law allowed to county recorders for like services.
365.23 MEETING FOR SECTION 365.20 SPENDING, PACTS, TAX.
After getting general authority to do something under section 365.20, a town board must not spend money, enter into a contract, or levy a tax for that purpose without specific authority from a town meeting. The specific authority is to be given at the annual town meeting if still possible in the year the general authority is voted in. Otherwise, a special meeting to decide whether to give the town board the specific authority may be called on ten days' notice.
366.095 AUTHORITY TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS.
The town board may issue certificates of indebtedness within the debt limits for a town purpose otherwise authorized by law, including projects that eliminate R-22, as defined in section 240A.09, paragraph (b), clause (2). The certificates shall be payable in not more than 20 years and be issued on the terms and in the manner determined by the board. If the amount of the certificates to be issued exceeds 0.25 percent of the estimated market value of the town, they shall not be issued for at least ten days after publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the town of the board's resolution determining to issue them. If within that time, a petition asking for an election on the proposition signed by voters equal to ten percent of the number of voters at the last regular town election is filed with the clerk, the certificates shall not be issued until their issuance has been approved by a majority of the votes cast on the question at a regular or special election. A tax levy shall be made to pay the principal and interest on the certificates as in the case of bonds.
A town authorized to exercise powers under section 368.01 may issue bonds or other obligations to acquire or better warning systems. Bonds or other obligations authorized by this subdivision must be sold, issued, and secured as provided in chapter 475.
374.29 COUNTY TAX LEVY.
The county board shall levy a tax, at the time and in the manner prescribed by section 475.61, to pay the principal and interest of the bonds. This section shall not be construed to limit the power of a municipality to levy taxes to pay its obligations issued, but the governing body of every municipality shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to levy any taxes necessary to provide revenue to pay the obligations.
375.167 NONPROFIT LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORPORATIONS.
Notwithstanding any contrary law, a county board may appropriate from the general revenue fund to any nonprofit corporation a sum not to exceed 0.00604 percent of estimated market value to provide legal assistance to persons who are unable to afford private legal counsel.
Any two or more contiguous counties may by concurrent resolution of their county boards combine their appropriations to a single nonprofit corporation to serve the purpose of subdivision 1 in their counties.
365.24 ELECTION MAY REVOKE EARLIER GRANT OF POWER.
The electors of a town may revoke any authority under section 365.20 given by them to the town board. The revocation must be made in an election held under section 365.21.
374.30 BOND LIMITATION NOT APPLICABLE.
The amount of indebtedness authorized to be incurred by the county shall be in addition to any limits now fixed by law.
382.18 OFFICIALS NOT TO BE INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS.
No county official, or deputy or clerk or employee of such official; and no commissioner for tax-forfeited lands or commissioner's assistants, shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, work, labor, or business to which the county is a party or in which it is or may be interested or in the furnishing of any article to, or the purchase or sale of any property, real or personal, by, the county, or of which the consideration, price, or expense is payable from the county treasury. Nothing in this section shall prevent a person from receiving reimbursement from a county for providing licensed or tribally approved family foster care. This section does not prevent a coroner, deputy coroner, coroner's investigator, or medical examiner from receiving compensation for professional services from a professional corporation or medical provider under contract to provide coroner services to a county. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be a gross misdemeanor.
375.168 UNDERCOVER BUY FUND; EXPENDITURE OF MONEY BY COUNTIES.
A county board may appropriate money for investigation of criminal activity relating to receiving or selling stolen goods, including the setting aside of money for "buy funds."
374.31 BUILDING COMMISSION.
As soon as the city and county have both authorized the issuance of bonds for the construction of a joint courthouse and city hall building, the county board and the city council shall constitute the courthouse and city hall building commission of the county, and the chair of the county board shall act as chair of the commission. The commission shall select from its own members other officers it considers necessary.
375.169 PUBLICATION OF SUMMARY BUDGET STATEMENT.
Annually, upon adoption of the county budget, the county board shall cause a summary budget statement to be published in the official newspaper of the county, or if there is none, in a qualified newspaper of general circulation in the county. The statement shall contain information relating to anticipated revenues and expenditures in a form prescribed by the state auditor. The form prescribed shall be designed so that comparisons can be made between the current year and the budget year. A note shall be included that the complete budget is available for public inspection at a designated location within the county.
365.243 COUNTY FIRE SERVICE TO UNORGANIZED TERRITORY.
A county may provide fire protection to its unorganized territory and may levy taxes on the property in the unorganized territory for that purpose.
Under sections 365.15 to 365.18, and 365.20, a county board acts for its unorganized territory. The county board does not need to get authority from the electors of the territory to act. An act of a county board in providing fire protection and levying taxes for that protection in unorganized territory is as valid as a similar act of a town board acting on authority granted by its electors.
A county board may annually levy taxes on property located within the area of unorganized territory to which a first responder or fire protection association provides first responder services. By July 1 of the levy year, the association must certify to the county board the area of the unorganized township to which the association will provide first responder services during the following calendar year. The proceeds of the levy must be distributed to the association.
373.25 LEVY FOR LAND AND BUILDINGS.
The county board of any county may provide a county building fund. In addition to all other kinds and amounts of taxes permitted by law to be levied for county purposes, the county board may include in its annual tax levy an amount for the county building fund. Its proceeds shall be credited to the county building fund. A county building fund established pursuant to this section to which a tax is credited may be used by the county solely to acquire, construct, reconstruct, maintain and repair buildings used in the administration of county affairs and to acquire lands necessary for those purposes.
This section does not repeal or supersede any other law authorizing a levy for the same purpose.
374.32 JOINT OWNERSHIP OF SITE.
The commission shall select a site for the building and may contract with the owner to acquire the site by gift or purchase, or the site may be acquired by proceedings in eminent domain in the name of either the city or the county, as the commission may determine. All land acquired as a site for the courthouse or city hall shall be owned jointly by the county and the city, in the same proportion as each contributes to the acquisition of land and the construction of the building. If the entire tract is acquired by either the city or county, it shall convey the proper undivided interest to the other.
375.1691 JUDICIAL ORDER AFTER BUDGET PREPARATION.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a judicial order compelling payment out of county funds shall not be paid unless approved by the county board, if a budget request for the item was not submitted to the county board prior to adoption of the budget in effect for the fiscal year. If the county board refuses to approve payment, the order may be paid in the first fiscal year for which a budget is approved after receipt of the order. This section does not apply to a judgment or other award against the county that is a result of litigation to which the county or a county official in an official capacity was a party.
373.26 COUNTY PARKING FACILITIES.
No motor vehicle, either privately or publicly owned, may be parked upon a parking lot or facilities owned or operated by a county except as authorized by this section.
The county board may regulate, by resolution, the parking of motor vehicles, either privately or publicly owned, including the authority to make charges for parking privileges, upon any parking lot or facility owned or operated by the county.
Regulations promulgated under subdivision 2 shall be enforced by the sheriff unless the county board has entered into a service contract for enforcement with the municipality where the parking lot or facility is located.
A motor vehicle parked upon a parking lot or facility owned and operated by the county not in conformity with the resolution of the county board regulating its operation and use may be deemed a public nuisance and the board may provide for the abatement of the nuisance by resolution.
A person, state, or county official, elective or appointed, firm, association, or corporation which violates a provision of this section or a resolution of the county board adopted under this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
All fines imposed and collected by a court for violations of the regulations shall be remitted by the court to the treasurer of the county within 30 days after the collection of the fine.
382.20 SALARIES NOT AFFECTED BY NET TAX CAPACITY REDUCTION.
When the salary or clerk hire of any county officer shall be decreased during the term for which elected because of a reduction in the net tax capacity of the county the board of county commissioners are hereby authorized to fix such salary and clerk hire in an amount equal to that received prior to the reduction in the net tax capacity of the county.
365.26 CEMETERY LAND; BOARD CONTROL; SALE OR LEASE; CITY AID.
A town's electors may vote to let the town buy, condemn or receive a gift of land within the town to be used as a cemetery.
The town board shall control, and may establish rules for, the cemetery and may spend town money to run and keep up the cemetery. The town board may lay out the cemetery into lots, streets, and walks, and order that plats and maps of the cemetery be made and filed in the town clerk's office.
The town board may decide who may be buried in the cemetery.
If a town cemetery becomes part of the territory of a statutory city, the cemetery may be sold and conveyed by the town board to the city.
A town's electors may vote to let the town sell or lease part of its cemetery to a charitable, religious, or cemetery corporation. The vote must be taken at a town meeting. The terms and conditions of the sale or lease must be included in the voted authorization. The part sold or leased must continue to be used for burials.
A town board may adopt a resolution asking for aid from a statutory city within the town's boundaries to maintain the town cemetery. The board shall send the resolution to the city. The city council may then pay the town from money not otherwise needed not more than $500 a year to maintain the cemetery. The town board must then allow burials of the city's dead. The board may set terms for, and limits on, the burials.
374.33 PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS.
Either before or after the selection of the building site, the commission shall have plans and specifications for the building prepared and may employ architects, engineers, drafters, and clerical help to prepare the plans and specifications. The commission shall set the compensation of the employees.
373.27 GREAT RIVER ROAD, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
The county board of any county lying adjacent to the Great River Road or through which the Great River Road passes, may grant to the Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Minnesota, the commissioner of transportation, or the commissioner of natural resources the money it deems advisable, for the following purposes:
(a) to promote and develop the Great River Road in Minnesota;
(b) to pay actual expenses of commission members incurred in the performance of their duties as commissioners;
(c) to purchase stationery and office supplies;
(d) to pay dues to the national Mississippi River Parkway Commission; and
(e) to purchase lands and interests in lands including scenic easements, in addition to the normal right-of-way required for the Great River Road.
Lands and interests in lands purchased may include parkway features such as lands necessary for recreation, safety rest areas, and the conservation of natural scenic beauty, including submarginal lands, faces of adjacent hillsides, lakeshore and river banks, swamps and residual parcels and areas of historical, archaeological or scientific interest, in accordance with the joint report to Congress and the plan proposed by the state and approved by the secretary of commerce and the secretary of the interior.
County grants may come from any money available in the county treasury and the county may levy a tax upon the taxable property in the county to make the grants authorized by this section.
All money grants under subdivision 1 shall be deposited in the special revenue fund in the state treasury and is appropriated to the commission or commissioner for the purposes specified in the grant. The money shall not cancel but shall remain available until expended for the purpose or purposes for which it was granted. If no specific purpose is named in the grant, the money shall be available to the commission or commissioner for any of the purposes set forth in subdivision 1.
375.17 PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
Annually, not later than the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March, the county board shall make a full and accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the preceding year, which shall contain a statement of the assets and liabilities, a summary of receipts, disbursements, and balances of all county funds together with a detailed statement of each fund account, under the form and style prescribed by and on file with the state auditor. The prescribed form and any changes or modifications of it shall so far as practical be uniform for all counties. Annually the board shall publish the statement or a summary of the statement in a form as prescribed by the state auditor, for one issue in a duly qualified legal newspaper in the county.
If the board elects to publish the full statement, it may refrain from publishing:
(1) an itemized account of amounts paid out, to whom and for what purpose to the extent that the published proceedings of the county board contain the information, if all disbursements aggregating $5,000 or more to any person are set forth in a schedule of major disbursements showing amounts paid out, to whom and for what purpose and are made a part of, and published with, the financial statement;
(2) the names and amounts of salaries and expenses paid to employees but shall publish the totals of disbursements for salaries and expenses; and
(3) the names of persons receiving human services aid and the amounts paid to each, but the totals of the disbursements for those purposes must be published.
This subdivision does not apply to a summary published pursuant to subdivision 1.
In addition to the publication in the newspaper designated by the board as the official newspaper for publication of the financial statement, the statement shall be published in one other newspaper, if one of general circulation is located in a different municipality in the county than the official newspaper. The county board shall call for separate bids for each publication. If a provision of this section is inconsistent with section 393.07, the provisions of that section shall prevail. The financial statement must be filed with the county auditor for public inspection.
365.27 SALE AND REVERSION OF LOTS; USE OF FUNDS.
A town's board may sell a lot in its cemetery for burial of only those permitted by the board to be buried there. The lots must be conveyed as other real estate is conveyed.
Money from the sale of town cemetery lots must be paid into the town treasury. The money makes up a fund to be used only to keep up, improve, and ornament the cemetery.
If a lot is sold but not used, ownership reverts to the town 40 years after the sale or 40 years after the most recent recording with the county recorder of a notice of the kind described in section 541.023 or another document that relates to the ownership, whichever is latest. The town may take legal action in the same way as any other person to clarify the ownership or assure the marketability of the lot.
375.171 CREDIT CARDS.
A county board may authorize the use of a credit card by any county officer or employee otherwise authorized to make a purchase on behalf of the county. If a county officer or employee makes a purchase by credit card that is not approved by the county board, the officer or employee is personally liable for the amount of the purchase. A purchase by credit card must otherwise comply with all statutes, rules, or county policy applicable to county purchases.
374.34 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS.
When the plans and specifications are completed and approved by the commission, the commission shall, after notice appropriate to inform possible bidders, obtain bids or proposals for all or any portion of the work or materials, or both, to be done, performed or furnished in the construction of the building. All bids or proposals shall be sealed by the bidders or proposers and filed with the commission at or before the time specified for the opening of bids or proposals, at which time the commission shall meet, open the bids or proposals and tabulate them, and award the contract or contracts to the responsible bidder whose bid or proposal is the most favorable, or reject all bids and proposals. If all bids or proposals are rejected, the commission may, after similar notice, obtain more bids or proposals or may modify or change the specifications, and shall again, after similar notice, obtain more bids or proposals in the manner provided.
365.28 PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND BECOMES TOWN PROPERTY AFTER TEN YEARS.
A tract of land in a town becomes town property after it has been used as a public burial ground for ten years if the tract is not owned by a cemetery association. The town board shall control the burial ground as it controls other town cemeteries. A town that has accepted responsibility for an abandoned cemetery may prohibit further burials in the abandoned cemetery, and may cease all acceptance of responsibility for new burials.
374.35 CERTIFIED CHECK; CONTRACTS.
Each person submitting a bid or proposal shall file with the bid or proposal a certified check in an amount prescribed in the specifications of the commission for the building, to be retained as liquidated damages in case of failure to enter into a contract if the bidder is awarded the contract.
All contracts shall be in writing and made in the name of the county and the city and shall be executed in their behalf by the officers empowered by law or charter to execute the contracts. All persons awarded building contracts shall furnish bonds as required by state law relating to contracts for public improvements. The bonds shall run to the county and the city.
373.30 WHAT PRE-1969 LAWS APPLY IF 1970 CENSUS PASSED 100,000.
A county with a population according to the 1960 federal census of less than 100,000 which has a population of over 100,000 according to the 1970 federal census may continue to use authorities granted to counties of under 100,000 population notwithstanding the change in population. Statutory limitations and mandatory provisions of law relating to counties of over 100,000 population shall not apply to counties which had a population according to the 1960 federal census of less than 100,000 population. Statutory limitations and mandatory provisions of law applicable to counties of under 100,000 shall continue to apply to counties which according to the 1960 federal census had less than 100,000 and which according to the 1970 federal census have a population in excess of 100,000. Application of legislation passed in 1969 or later shall not be affected by this section.
375.182 NEGLECT OF DUTY.
Every member of the county board who shall neglect or omit to discharge any of the duties imposed by law shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor; and, upon conviction, punished by a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $3,000.
365.29 PART OF LOT PRICE TO CEMETERY FUND; USE OF FUNDS.
A town's board may require that part of the price paid for a lot in its cemetery goes into a permanent fund. The money in the fund must be deposited under section 365.32. Money from the fund in an amount sufficient to care for and beautify the lot must be paid annually to the cemetery's directors. The directors shall spend the amount of money needed to care for and beautify the lot as directed by the town board. The amount spent on a lot must be in the same proportion that the part of the price put in the fund from the sale of that lot is of the total fund. Money from the fund must not be used for routine cemetery maintenance.
374.36 SUPERVISION.
The work of constructing, equipping and furnishing the building shall be conducted and completed under the direction and supervision of the commission. The commission members are charged with the duty of requiring the work to be done in accordance with the plans and specifications. The commission may employ architects, engineers, supervisors, inspectors, clerks and other employees to supervise and inspect the work and assist in the performance of the duties of the commission.
375.19 ADDITIONAL POWERS.
A county board may accept for its county real or personal property by gift, bequest, devise, conveyance, or otherwise from any person whose care, support, treatment, or maintenance, in whole or part, is or may be chargeable to or furnished or provided by the county, and hold or dispose of it for the benefit of the county, as in the case of other county property. It may permit use of county equipment for soil conservation projects and make annual expenditures from the general revenue fund for soil conservation purposes.
373.32 LICENSE BUREAU AUTHORIZED.
Any county may establish a county license bureau. The license bureau may be located in the county seat or at another location or locations the county board designates.
365.30 BOARD SETS LOT CARE SHARE; USE OF FUNDS.
A town's board shall decide the share of its cemetery lot price that is for caring for and beautifying the lot and the cemetery. The board may also require the cemetery directors to spend additional money from the permanent fund as set out in sections 365.29 to 365.36.
374.37 MANAGEMENT.
The management of the building when constructed shall be vested in the commission with the power to appoint employees for the management and operation of the building. The commission shall fix the employees' compensation and determine the proportion which is to be paid by the county and by the city.
374.38 COMPENSATION OF COMMISSIONERS.
The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services upon the commission other than their compensation which they receive as members of the county board or of the city council. No member of this commission shall have any financial interest in any of the contracts awarded by the commission.
365.31 GIFT FOR CEMETERY OR LOT; USE OF FUNDS FOR CARE.
A town's board and the directors of its cemetery may accept a gift of money to the cemetery fund. They may require that the principal and interest from the deposit of the gift be used by the directors to care for and beautify the cemetery or its lots. If a donor gives a gift for use of a specific lot, the board or the directors may accept the gift and then shall use it and interest on it on that lot.
373.33 STATE LICENSES MAY BE ISSUED.
A county license bureau may issue, process or assist in preparing an application for any license or permit issued by the state or a state official including but not limited to game and fish, trapping, wild rice harvest, motor vehicle, manufactured home, trailer, snowmobile, watercraft or driver's license or as many of the licenses as designated by the county board. The processing of driver's license applications by a county license bureau is subject to the provisions of section 171.061. This authority does not include the issuance of marriage licenses. The county board may delegate the responsibility for the issuance of any county license or permit to the county license bureau.
382.265 CLERK HIRE IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.
In all counties of this state where the amount of clerk hire now or hereafter provided by law for any county office shall be insufficient to meet the requirements of said office, the county officer in need of additional clerk hire shall prepare a petition and statement setting forth therein the amount of additional clerk hire needed and file the same with the county auditor, who shall present the same to the board of county commissioners at the next meeting of said board. If the board of county commissioners shall grant said petition by majority vote of all members elected to the board, then the amount of additional clerk hire requested in said petition shall thereupon become effective for said office. Said board shall act on any such petition within 60 days from the time it has been filed with the county auditor. If the board of county commissioners shall determine that the amount of additional clerk hire requested in said petition is excessive and more than is necessary for said office, it shall fix the amount of such additional clerk hire to be allowed, if any, and notify such officer thereof.
365.32 DEPOSIT OF CEMETERY FUNDS.
A town's board may require its cemetery's directors to immediately deposit in the county treasury money from the sale of a cemetery lot or from a gift for the cemetery fund. The county treasurer shall immediately deposit the money in the county's depository as directed in section 365.33.
373.34 IMPLEMENTATION, NOTICE.
Sections 373.32 to 373.37 shall be operative in a county when the county board passes a resolution declaring its intent to proceed under the sections and establish a bureau. The resolution establishing a county license bureau shall take effect when the county board designates but not less than 30 days after the date of the adoption of the resolution.
A resolution establishing a county license bureau shall not be valid unless a notice of intention to adopt the resolution has been mailed by the clerk of the county board to each state department having responsibility for the issuance of a state license not less than 20 days before the date of the meeting at which the adoption of the resolution is to be considered. A similar notice shall be delivered by the clerk of the county board to the deputy registrar of motor vehicles for the county and to each county officer having the authority to issue, process or assist in the preparation of an application for the issuance of any license not less than ten days before the date of the meeting.
365.33 HOW COUNTY TO TREAT TOWN CEMETERY MONEY.
Deposits into the fund set up under section 365.29 must be treated the way other funds in the county treasury are treated. The deposit must not earn a lower rate of interest than is paid on county funds in the depository.
The directors of a cemetery association may require money to be deposited in time certificates in the depository. The certificates must be in the name of the county treasurer and must be payable to the county treasurer or successors in office. The county treasurer shall get the highest rate of interest that the depository will pay on the time certificates. The interest rate must not be less than the current rate paid on time certificates by the depository. The county treasurer is just as liable on the county treasurer's bond for the principal and interest on the time certificates as for deposits of county money.
The town's cemetery fund money must be deposited in the depository in the name of the county. The bond or security given to the county by the depository is security for the fund money. The county treasurer shall keep an accurate and separate account of the fund money.
Annually the county treasurer shall withdraw money from the fund as directed by the town board and pay it to the directors of the cemetery. The directors may use the money only for purposes of sections 365.29 to 365.36.
382.27 REIMBURSEMENT OF PEACE OFFICERS.
When any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other peace officer of this state shall hereafter receive physical injury while in the discharge of an official duty as such peace officer the county board of the county wherein such officer resides may audit and allow bills for physicians' services, nurse, and hospital expenses rendered necessary because of such injury and may appropriate money out of the revenue fund of the county for payment thereof.
373.35 DIRECTOR OF BUREAU.
The county auditor shall serve as the director of the county license bureau or, if the auditor chooses not to serve, the county board shall appoint any other county officer or employee, or any other person, to serve as the director upon the terms and conditions the county board deems advisable. The county board shall set the compensation of the director and may provide for the expenses of the office including the premium of any bond required to be furnished by the director. The director shall have the powers and duties imposed on the county officer who previously had the authority to issue or process the application for any license referred to in section 373.32.
Notwithstanding section 168.33, subdivision 2, the commissioner of public safety may appoint, and for cause discontinue, the director as the deputy registrar of motor vehicles in the county. If the director is a deputy registrar, all provisions of section 168.33 and Minnesota Rules, chapter 7406, apply to a county license bureau. If the director is a driver's license agent, section 171.061 and rules promulgated thereunder apply to the county license board director.
The director shall be responsible for all funds in the director's custody as director of the license bureau and shall deposit them in the county treasury, a state depository or forward the funds to the appropriate state official as provided by law or rule or as designated by the county board consistent with applicable statutes and rules. The director or an employee in the bureau may not retain any portion of the fee charged by law or any surcharge upon the license or application. The sole compensation shall be the salary provided by the county board.
365.34 IF DEPOSITORY CHANGED, FUND TO BE CHANGED.
When a county changes its depository, the county's treasurer shall deposit its towns' cemetery funds in the new depository.
365.35 FUND PRINCIPAL; INTEREST.
The principal of a town's cemetery fund must be used as directed by the town board. Interest earned by the fund that is not needed to care for or beautify the cemetery or its lots in any year must be added to the principal by the cemetery's directors.
382.32 ACCEPTANCE OF CHECKS.
Except as provided in subdivision 2, the county board of any county may by resolution give any county officer discretion to accept negotiable paper in payment of any moneys required by law to be paid to the officer on behalf of the county, the state of Minnesota or any political subdivision.
The county treasurer of any county may accept negotiable paper in payment of any tax, assessment, license, penalty or interest or costs or claim due the county, the state of Minnesota, or any political subdivision the payment of which is made to the county treasurer.
382.31 ACCEPTANCE AND DEALING WITH NEGOTIABLE PAPER; DEFINITION.
As used in this section negotiable paper means any check, draft, or express or post office money orders.
373.38 BUSINESS HOURS.
County license bureaus shall maintain hours to best serve the public. They shall be open to the public for at least 40 hours each week.
373.37 TERMINATION OF BUREAU.
A county license bureau may be terminated in the same manner provided in section 373.34 to establish a license bureau. Duties and responsibilities assigned to the director of the license bureau shall then be vested in the officer or person who has responsibility for the function as provided by other law at the time of the termination.
365.36 INVESTMENT OF CEMETERY FUND.
A cemetery's directors or, if none, the town board shall invest the principal of the cemetery fund in the kind of securities that the permanent school fund may be invested in. This section controls the investment of the principal of the fund.
The town board and the cemetery directors may require the county treasurer to withdraw money from the depository for investment under this section. The securities invested in must remain with the county treasurer. The bond of the county treasurer is security for the proper care of the securities. The bond is also security for the payment to the cemetery directors of interest earned by the securities and received by the treasurer. On receiving payments on the securities the county treasurer shall deposit the payments in the county depository. The county treasurer also shall collect the interest on money loaned from the fund. The county treasurer shall then pay the money received and collected to the directors of the cemetery when they ask for it. Annually the county treasurer shall pay the cemetery directors all interest on money received or collected on money deposited or invested under sections 365.29 to 365.36, and principal as directed by the town board.
Before March 2 each year the county treasurer shall make a report to the town board. The report must have a statement of all money received by the treasurer under sections 365.29 to 365.36 during the last calendar year. The statement must include:
(1) the amount of money and the amount of securities in the permanent fund on the first day of the calendar year;
(2) the amount of money paid into the fund during the year;
(3) the amount of money invested in securities in the year;
(4) the amount of money and the amount of securities in the fund at the end of the calendar year;
(5) the amount of interest collected on the fund and turned over to the directors;
(6) the amount of excess interest returned by the directors, deposited in the treasury, and added to the permanent fund; and
(7) the amount of principal in the fund turned over to the directors at the direction of the town board.
366.183 AUTHORITY UNDER CHAPTER 462.
Subject to any applicable general or special law or local ordinance, a town board that has adopted land use, zoning, and restrictions in a town under chapter 366 before March 19, 2022, shall have the same authority under chapter 462.
375.195 SALE OF BUILDINGS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Upon resolution of the county board, the county auditor may sell at public auction for cash at not less than the value appraised by the county board, buildings or improvements upon lands held by the state in trust for the taxing districts. If the buildings are not sold at the public auction, they may, at any time within one year from the date of the auction, be sold at private sale by the county auditor at not less than the appraised value.
The county auditor may sell at public auction any buildings or improvements upon state lands or platted lots under the control of the commissioner of natural resources not held in trust for the taxing districts, at not less than the value appraised by the county board and approved by the commissioner of natural resources, if requested to do so by the commissioner of natural resources. If the buildings or improvements are not sold when offered at the public sale, they may within one year from the date of the auction be sold at private sale by the county auditor at not less than their appraised value.
The buildings or improvements shall not be offered for sale or sold until the county board has, by resolution, found that they constitute a fire hazard, an inducement to trespass, or a public nuisance. At least two weeks before the sale, the county auditor shall publish in a legal newspaper in the county and post on the bulletin board in the auditor's office and at least one other prominent place in the courthouse, a notice of the sale, which shall include the date of the sale, a description of the buildings and improvements and the lands upon which they are situated and their appraised value.
All sales under subdivisions 1 or 2 shall be conditioned upon the removal from the land by the purchaser of all buildings and improvements within 90 days of the date of purchase. Upon failure to so remove them, the buildings shall revert to the state and may be resold as provided in subdivision 1 or 2.
The proceeds from the sale of buildings or improvements located on lands held by the state in trust for the taxing districts, shall be deposited in the forfeited tax fund of the county and distributed in the same manner as if the parcel of land on which the buildings or improvements were situated had been sold. The proceeds from the sale of buildings or improvements on lands held by the state free of any trust for the taxing districts shall be remitted by the county auditor to the commissioner of natural resources to be deposited in the state treasury in the fund to which the proceeds from the sale of the lands from which the buildings are removed would properly be credited.
365.37 CONFLICTS, BIDS, EMERGENCIES, PENALTY, REMOVAL.
Except as provided in sections 471.87 to 471.89, a supervisor or town board must not be a party to, or be directly or indirectly interested in, a contract made or payment voted by the town board.
A contract let on bid must be let to the lowest responsible bidder.
As an alternative to the procurement method described in subdivision 2, a contract for construction, building, alteration, improvement, or repair work may be awarded to the vendor or contractor offering the best value under a request for proposals as described in section 16C.28, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (2), and paragraph (c).
Before a contract is let on bid, ten days' public notice of the time and place of receiving bids must be given. The notice must be posted in the three most public places in the town or published for two weeks in a newspaper generally circulated in the town.
If a special emergency comes up, a contract may be let without notice or competitive bidding. A special emergency is a situation requiring immediate action essential to the health, safety, or welfare of the town.
A contract made or payment voted or made contrary to this section is void. A town officer who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and must leave office.