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471.585 MUNICIPAL HOTEL LICENSING.
(a) A statutory or home rule charter city or a town may adopt an ordinance requiring hotels as defined in section 327.70, subdivision 3, operating within the boundaries of the city or town to have a valid license issued by the city or town. An annual fee for a license under this section may not exceed $150.
(b) An ordinance adopted under this section is limited to requiring compliance with state and local laws as a condition of licensure. No other licensing conditions or requirements are permitted.
(c) A city or town that has adopted an ordinance under this section may refuse to issue a license, or may revoke an existing license, if the hotel fails to comply with the conditions of the license.
473.168 FREEWAY EXCLUSIVE LANES.
For the purpose of this section, "freeway" means a completely controlled access highway where ingress and egress is allowed only at certain designated points as determined by the road authority having jurisdiction over the highway.
The Metropolitan Council may require that any freeway constructed in the metropolitan area on which actual construction has not been commenced by April 12, 1974 include provisions for exclusive lanes for buses and, as the council may determine, other forms of multipassenger transit. The council, in making its determination, must demonstrate that the exclusive lanes are necessary to implement the transportation policy plan of the development guide.
471.591 EXTENSION OF MUNICIPAL SERVICES.
In the beginning stage of the planning process, and before preparation of any detailed technical plans for the extension of municipal services into an unincorporated area, a city shall meet at least once with the town board of the affected area and the county planning commission, in joint session, to review the plans and consider the comments of the town board and the county planning commission. The city may thereafter proceed to undertake the proposed extension in accordance with applicable law. Any duly organized sewer district or sanitary district created pursuant to special law or pursuant to chapter 115 or 116A, sections 473.501 to 473.549, or section 103F.801 is not affected by this section.
For the purposes of this section, "municipal service" means sewer, water, electrical, or other utility service.
469.090 DEFINITIONS.
In sections 469.090 to 469.108, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them herein, unless the context indicates a different meaning.
"Authority" means an economic development authority.
"City" means a home rule charter or statutory city.
"Development" includes redevelopment, and "developing" includes redeveloping.
"Cost of redevelopment" means, with respect to an economic development district project, the cost of:
(1) acquiring property, whether by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise;
(2) demolishing or removing structures or other improvements on acquired properties;
(3) correcting soil deficiencies necessary to develop or use the property for an appropriate use as determined by the authority;
(4) constructing or installing public improvements, including streets, roads, and utilities;
(5) providing relocation benefits to the occupants of acquired properties;
(6) planning, engineering, legal, and other services necessary to carry out the functions listed in clauses (1) to (5); and
(7) the allocated administrative expenses of the authority for the project.
469.091 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
A city may, by adopting an enabling resolution in compliance with the procedural requirements of section 469.093, establish an economic development authority that, subject to section 469.092, has the powers contained in sections 469.090 to 469.108 and the powers of a housing and redevelopment authority under sections 469.001 to 469.047 or other law, and of a city under sections 469.124 to 469.133 or other law. If the economic development authority exercises the powers of a housing and redevelopment authority contained in sections 469.001 to 469.047 or other law, the city shall exercise the powers relating to a housing and redevelopment authority granted to a city by sections 469.001 to 469.047 or other law.
An economic development authority is a public body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the state with the right to sue and be sued in its own name. An authority carries out an essential governmental function when it exercises its power, but the authority is not immune from liability because of this.
Section 317A.257 applies to an economic development authority or to a nonprofit corporation exercising the powers of an economic development authority.
469.092 LIMIT OF POWERS.
The enabling resolution may impose the following limits upon the actions of the authority:
(1) that the authority must not exercise any specified powers contained in sections 469.001 to 469.047, 469.090 to 469.108, and 469.124 to 469.133 or that the authority must not exercise any powers without the prior approval of the city council;
(2) that, except when previously pledged by the authority, the city council may by resolution require the authority to transfer any portion of the reserves generated by activities of the authority that the city council determines is not necessary for the successful operation of the authority to the debt service fund of the city, to be used solely to reduce tax levies for bonded indebtedness of the city;
(3) that the sale of all bonds or obligations issued by the authority be approved by the city council before issuance;
(4) that the authority follow the budget process for city departments as provided by the city and as implemented by the city council and mayor;
(5) that all official actions of the authority must be consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan of the city, and any official controls implementing the comprehensive plan;
(6) that the authority submit all planned activities for influencing the action of any other governmental agency, subdivision, or body to the city council for approval;
(7) that the authority submit its administrative structure and management practices to the city council for approval; and
(8) any other limitation or control established by the city council by the enabling resolution.
The enabling resolution may be modified at any time, subject to subdivision 5, and provided that any modification is made in accordance with this section.
Without limiting the right of the authority to petition the city council at any time, each year, within 60 days of the anniversary date of the first adoption of the enabling resolution, the authority shall submit to the city council a report stating whether and how the enabling resolution should be modified. Within 30 days of receipt of the recommendation, the city council shall review the enabling resolution, consider the recommendations of the authority, and make any modification it considers appropriate. Modifications must be made in accordance with the procedural requirements of section 469.093.
The city council's determination that the authority has complied with the limitations imposed under this section is conclusive.
Limits imposed under this section must not be applied in a manner that impairs the security of any bonds issued or contracts executed before the limit is imposed. The city council must not modify any limit in effect at the time any bonds or obligations are issued or contracts executed to the detriment of the holder of the bonds or obligations or any contracting party.
469.093 PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENT.
The creation of an authority by a city must be by written resolution referred to as the enabling resolution. Before adopting the enabling resolution, the city council shall conduct a public hearing. Notice of the time and place of hearing, a statement of the purpose of the hearing, and a summary of the resolution must be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the city once a week for two consecutive weeks. The first publication must appear not more than 30 days from the date of the public hearing.
All modifications to the enabling resolution must be by written resolution and must be adopted after notice is given and a public hearing conducted as required for the original adoption of the enabling resolution.
471.611 RETIREES' HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS.
A unit of local government that agrees to make payments for health insurance benefits for retired employees shall identify the amount required to pay the cost of those benefits during the period in which the contract or personnel policy providing for those benefits is in effect and shall record the amount as an expenditure, according to generally accepted accounting principles, in the fiscal year or years during which the payments are to be made. A school district is in compliance with this subdivision if it complies with section 123B.77, subdivision 6. Provision of these benefits under a personnel policy must be approved, as a separate action, by the governing body of the employing governmental unit.
A unit of local government that funds all or part of the cost of health care benefits for a retired employee must provide for coverage to be coordinated with applicable benefits provided through the federally sponsored Medicare program.
471.615 INDIVIDUAL ANNUITY FOR PUBLIC OFFICER, EMPLOYEE.
At the request of an officer or employee and as part of a compensation arrangement, the governing body of any city, town, county, school district, public corporation, public authority, special district or other political subdivision, or the commissioner of administration of the state of Minnesota may negotiate and purchase an individual annuity contract from a company licensed to do business in the state of Minnesota for an officer or employee for retirement or other purposes and may make payroll allocations in accordance with such arrangement for the purpose of paying the entire premium due or to become due under such contract. The allocation shall be made in a manner which will qualify the annuity premiums, or a portion thereof, for the benefit afforded under Section 403(b) of the current Federal Internal Revenue Code or any equivalent provisions of subsequent federal income tax law. The officer or employee shall own such contract and have rights thereunder that shall be nonforfeitable except for failure to pay premiums. This section shall be applied in a nondiscriminatory manner to officers and employees of the political subdivisions herein named.
469.094 TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY.
The city may, by ordinance, divide the economic development, housing, and redevelopment powers granted under sections 469.001 to 469.047 and 469.090 to 469.108 between the economic development authority and any other authority or commission established under statute or city charter for economic development, housing, or redevelopment as provided in subdivision 2.
The city may, by resolution, transfer the control, authority, and operation of any project as defined in section 469.174, subdivision 8, or any other program or project authorized by sections 469.001 to 469.047 or 469.124 to 469.133 located within the city, from the governmental agency or subdivision that established the project to the economic development authority. The city council may also require acceptance of control, authority, and operation of the project by the economic development authority. The economic development authority may exercise all of the powers that the governmental unit establishing the project could exercise with respect to the project.
When a project or program is transferred to the economic development authority, the authority shall covenant and pledge to perform the terms, conditions, and covenants of the bond indenture or other agreements executed for the security of any bonds issued by the governmental subdivision that initiated the project or program. The economic development authority may exercise all of the powers necessary to perform the terms, conditions, and covenants of any indenture or other agreements executed for the security of the bonds and shall become obligated on the bonds when the project or program is transferred as provided in this subdivision.
If the city transfers a housing project or a housing development project to the economic development authority, the city must transfer all housing development and management powers relating to that specific project to the authority.
Notwithstanding any other law or charter provision to the contrary, the city council may, by resolution, place any employees of the housing and redevelopment authority under the direction, supervision, or control of the economic development authority. The placement of any employees under the direction, supervision, or control of the economic development authority does not affect the rights of any employees of the housing and redevelopment authority, including any rights existing under a collective bargaining agreement or fringe benefit plan. The employees shall become employees of the economic development authority.
473.171 COUNCIL REVIEW; APPLICATIONS FOR FEDERAL AND STATE AID.
The council shall review all applications of a metropolitan agency, independent commission, board or agency, and local governmental units for funds, grants, loans or loan guarantees from the United States of America or agencies thereof submitted in connection with proposed matters of metropolitan significance, all other applications by metropolitan agencies, independent commissions, boards and agencies, and local governmental units for grants, loans, or loan guarantees from the United States of America or any agency thereof if review by a regional agency is required by federal law or the federal agency, and all applications for grants, loans, or allocations from funds made available by the United States of America to the metropolitan area for regional facilities pursuant to a federal revenue sharing or similar program requiring that the funds be received and granted or allocated or that the grants and allocations be approved by a regional agency.
The council shall review all applications or requests of a metropolitan agency, independent commission, board or agency, and local governmental units for state funds allocated or granted for proposed matters of metropolitan significance, and all other applications by metropolitan agencies, independent commissions, boards, agencies, and local governmental units for state funds if review by a regional agency is required by state law or the granting state agency.
471.6151 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LAWFUL GAMBLING ORGANIZATIONS.
Contributions of receipts derived from lawful gambling to a statutory or home rule charter city, county, or town made by an organization licensed to conduct lawful gambling under chapter 349 may not be used for the benefit of a pension or retirement fund.
469.096 OFFICERS; DUTIES; ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS.
An authority may adopt bylaws and rules of procedure and shall adopt an official seal.
An authority shall elect a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, a secretary, and an assistant treasurer. The authority shall elect the president, treasurer, and secretary annually. A commissioner must not serve as president and vice-president at the same time. The other offices may be held by the same commissioner. The offices of secretary and assistant treasurer need not be held by a commissioner.
The officers have the usual duties and powers of their offices. They may be given other duties and powers by the authority.
The treasurer:
(1) shall receive and is responsible for authority money;
(2) is responsible for the acts of the assistant treasurer;
(3) shall disburse authority money by check only;
(4) shall keep an account of the source of all receipts, and the nature, purpose, and authority of all disbursements; and
(5) shall file the authority's detailed financial statement with its secretary at least once a year at times set by the authority.
The assistant treasurer has the powers and duties of the treasurer if the treasurer is absent or disabled.
The treasurer shall give bond to the state conditioned for the faithful discharge of official duties. The bond must be approved as to form and surety by the authority and filed with the secretary. The bond must be for twice the amount of money likely to be on hand at any one time, as determined at least annually by the authority provided that the bond must not exceed $300,000.
Authority money is public money.
An authority check must be signed by the treasurer and one other officer named by the authority in a resolution. The check must state the name of the payee and the nature of the claim that the check is issued for.
The authority's detailed financial statement must show all receipts and disbursements, their nature, the money on hand, the purposes to which the money on hand is to be applied, the authority's credits and assets, and its outstanding liabilities in a form required for the city's financial statements. The authority shall examine the statement together with the treasurer's vouchers. If the authority finds that the statement and vouchers are correct, it shall approve them by resolution and enter the resolution in its records.
473.175 REVIEW OF COMPREHENSIVE PLANS.
The council shall review the comprehensive plans of local governmental units, prepared and submitted pursuant to sections 473.851 to 473.871, to determine their compatibility with each other and conformity with metropolitan system plans. The council shall review and comment on the apparent consistency of the comprehensive plans with adopted plans of the council. The council may require a local governmental unit to modify any comprehensive plan or part thereof if, upon the adoption of findings and a resolution, the council concludes that the plan is more likely than not to have a substantial impact on or contain a substantial departure from metropolitan system plans. A local unit of government may challenge a council action under this subdivision by following the procedures set forth in section 473.866.
Within 120 days following receipt of a comprehensive plan of a local governmental unit, unless a time extension is mutually agreed to, the council shall return to the local governmental unit a statement containing its comments and, by resolution, its decision, if any, to require modifications to assure conformance with the metropolitan system plans.
No action shall be taken by any local governmental unit to place any such comprehensive plan or part thereof into effect until the council has returned the statement to the unit and until the local governmental unit has incorporated any modifications in the plan required by a final decision, order, or judgment made pursuant to section 473.866. If within 120 days, unless a time extension is mutually agreed to, the council fails to complete its written statement the plans shall be deemed approved and may be placed into effect. Any amendment to a plan subsequent to the council's review shall be submitted to and acted upon by the council in the same manner as the original plan. The written statement of the council shall be filed with the plan of the local government unit at all places where the plan is required by law to be kept on file.
If a local governmental unit fails to adopt a comprehensive plan in accordance with sections 473.851 to 473.871 or if the council after a public hearing by resolution finds that a plan substantially departs from metropolitan system plans and that the local governmental unit has not adopted a plan with modifications required pursuant to section 473.866 within nine months following a final decision, order, or judgment made pursuant to section 473.866, the council may commence civil proceedings to enforce the provisions of sections 473.851 to 473.871 by appropriate legal action in the district court where the local governmental unit is located.
473.181 ADDITIONAL COUNCIL REVIEW.
MS 2000 [Repealed, 2001 c 191 s 9]
The council shall review local government park master plans pursuant to section 473.313.
MS 1992 [Repealed, 1994 c 628 art 3 s 209]
MS 1994 [Repealed, 1995 c 247 art 2 s 55]
The council shall review Metropolitan Airports Commission capital projects pursuant to section 473.621, subdivision 6. The plans of the Metropolitan Airports Commission and the development of the metropolitan airports system by the commission shall, as provided in sections 473.611, subdivision 5, and 473.655, be consistent with the development guide of the council.
469.097 EMPLOYEES; SERVICES; SUPPLIES.
An economic development authority may employ an executive director, a chief engineer, other technical experts and agents, and other employees as it may require, and determine their duties, qualifications, and compensation.
The authority may contract for the services of consultants, agents, public accountants, and other persons needed to perform its duties and exercise its powers.
The authority may use the services of the city attorney or hire a general counsel for its legal needs. The city attorney or general counsel, as determined by the authority, is its chief legal advisor.
The authority may purchase the supplies and materials it needs to carry out sections 469.090 to 469.108.
An authority may use the facilities of its city's purchasing department in connection with construction work and to purchase equipment, supplies, or materials.
A city may furnish offices, structures and space, and stenographic, clerical, engineering, or other assistance to its authority.
The authority may delegate to one or more of its agents or employees powers or duties as it may deem proper.
473.191 LOCAL PLANNING ASSISTANCE.
The Metropolitan Council may, at the request of local governmental units, enter into contracts or make other arrangements with local governmental units and others for the provision of services for and assistance with comprehensive community planning. This may include:
(a) Assistance in the preparation, as a guide for long-range development, of general physical plans with respect to the pattern and intensity of land use and the provision of public facilities together with long-range fiscal plans for such development;
(b) Programming of capital improvements based on a determination of relative urgency, together with definitive financing plans for the improvements to be constructed in the earlier years of the program;
(c) Coordination of all related plans of the departments or subdivision of the government concerned;
(d) Intergovernmental coordination of all related planned activities among the state and local governmental agencies concerned; and
(e) Preparation of regulatory and administrative measures in support of the foregoing.
The Metropolitan Council may provide technical assistance to cities, counties, and towns to expedite adoption and enforcement of local ordinances under sections 103F.121, 103F.201 to 103F.221, and 473.206 to 473.208.
469.099 DEPOSITORIES; DEFAULT; COLLATERAL.
Every two years an authority shall name national or state banks within the state as depositories. Before acting as a depository, a named bank shall give the authority a bond approved as to form and surety by the authority. The bond must be conditioned for the safekeeping and prompt repayment of deposits. The amount of bond must be at least equal to the maximum sums expected to be deposited at any one time.
An authority may deposit all its money from any source in one bank account.
When authority funds are deposited by the treasurer in a bonded depository, the treasurer and the surety on the treasurer's official bond are exempt from liability for the loss of the deposits because of the failure, bankruptcy, or other act or default of the depository. However, an authority may accept assignments of collateral from its depository to secure deposits just as assignments of collateral are permitted by law to secure deposits of the authority's city.
473.192 AIRCRAFT NOISE ATTENUATION.
This section may be cited as the "Metropolitan Area Aircraft Noise Attenuation Act."
For purposes of this section, "metropolitan area" has the meaning given it in section 473.121, subdivision 2. "Transportation policy plan" means the plan adopted by the Metropolitan Council pursuant to section 473.145. "Municipality" has the meaning provided by section 462.352, subdivision 2.
A municipality in the metropolitan area that, in part or in whole, is within the aircraft noise zones designated in the transportation policy plan may adopt and enforce ordinances and controls to regulate building construction methods and materials for the purpose of attenuating aircraft noise in habitable buildings in and around the noise zone. The ordinance or control shall not apply to remodeling or rehabilitating an existing residential building nor to the construction of an appurtenance to an existing residential building. An ordinance adopted by a municipality must be adequate to implement the Metropolitan Council's guidelines for land use compatibility with aircraft noise. Section 326B.121 does not apply to ordinances adopted under this section.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish the responsibility of the Metropolitan Airports Commission to conduct noise abatement programs under other state or federal law.
473.194 DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of sections 473.194 to 473.201, the terms defined in the Municipal Housing and Redevelopment Act shall have the meanings given them in that act.
471.62 STATUTES OR RULES MAY BE ADOPTED BY REFERENCE.
Any city or town, however organized, may incorporate in an ordinance by reference any statute of Minnesota, any administrative rule of any department of the state of Minnesota affecting the municipality, or any code. Any such municipality situated wholly or partly within 20 miles of the limits of a city of the first class may similarly adopt by reference any ordinance of such first class city or of any contiguous first class city regulating the construction, alteration, improvement, repair, or maintenance of buildings or the installation of equipment therein. All requirements of statutes and charters for the publication or posting of ordinances shall be satisfied in such case if the ordinance incorporating the statute, rule, ordinance or code is published or posted in the required manner and if, prior to such posting or publication, at least one copy of the ordinance or code is marked as the official copy and filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the municipal clerk or recorder. Provisions of the statute, rule, ordinance or code thus incorporated in such ordinance by reference shall be as much a part of the ordinance as if they had been set out in full therein. The clerk or recorder of the municipality shall furnish a copy of any such ordinance thus incorporated by reference at cost to any person upon request. This section does not authorize any municipality to adopt ordinances on any subject on which it does not have power by statute or charter to legislate. The term "code" as used herein means any compilation of regulations or standards or part thereof prepared by any governmental agency, including regional and county planning agencies or any trade or professional association for general distribution in printed form as a standard or model on the subject of building construction, plumbing, electric wiring, inflammable liquids, sanitary provisions, planning, zoning, subdivision, housing, public health, safety, or welfare.
469.100 OBLIGATIONS.
An authority must not levy a tax or special assessment, except as otherwise provided in sections 469.090 to 469.108, pledge the credit of the state or the state's municipal corporations or other subdivisions, or incur an obligation enforceable on property not owned by the authority.
Annually, at a time fixed by charter, resolution, or ordinance of the city, an authority shall send its budget to its city's council. The budget must include a detailed written estimate of the amount of money that the authority expects to need from the city to do authority business during the next fiscal year. The needed amount is what is needed in excess of any expected receipts from other sources.
The fiscal year of the authority must be the same as the fiscal year of its city.
Annually, at a time and in a form fixed by the city council, the authority shall make a written report to the council giving a detailed account of its activities and of its receipts and expenditures during the preceding calendar year, together with additional matters and recommendations it deems advisable for the economic development of the city.
The financial statements of the authority must be prepared, audited, filed, and published or posted in the manner required for the financial statements of the city that established the authority. The financial statements must permit comparison and reconciliation with the city's accounts and financial reports. The report must be filed with the state auditor by June 30 of each year. The auditor shall review the report and may accept it or, in the public interest, audit the books of the authority.
At the request of the city or upon the auditor's initiative, the state auditor may make a legal compliance examination of the authority for that city. Each authority examined must pay the total cost of the examination, including the salaries paid to the examiners while actually engaged in making the examination. The state auditor may bill monthly or at the completion of the audit. All collections received must be deposited in the general fund.
471.63 PROMOTION OF SAFETY AND PRESERVATION OF HUMAN LIFE.
In each county in this state not containing a city of the first class, and in any county having an excess of 5,000 square miles and a population in excess of 150,000 containing a city of the first class, the county board or the governing body of any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate to set aside or to make a special levy to be included in its general revenue fund for the purpose of defraying the cost of necessary supplies, postage, materials, awards, expenses of safety workers, administration expenses, and incidentals in the promotion of general safety and the preservation of human life in this state.
MS 1992 [Repealed, 1994 c 505 art 3 s 17]
Funds so appropriated or allocated may be paid to any local safety council which is a recognized affiliate of the Minnesota Safety Council.
Such funds so appropriated shall be deposited in a state or national bank same as other public funds in the manner provided by law by the treasurer of the said local safety council and credited to a fund to be established and known as the general fund of the said safety council. Any moneys expended from such fund shall be on verified claims allowed by the safety council, to which such moneys are allocated, in meeting assembled and all checks signed by the chair and countersigned by the treasurer or secretary of such safety council.
Such funds and records shall be subject to audit the same as any other public funds, and the treasurer of the safety council shall, on the first Monday in January of each year, submit a statement in detail of receipts, expenditures, and balances for the preceding year to the county, or municipality making such appropriation.
The treasurer of the safety council shall be required to give a corporate surety bond in favor of the county, or municipality making such appropriation in the amount so appropriated to the safety council by such governing body. The premium for such bond when approved shall be charged against the general fund of the safety council. The bond shall be approved by the legal advisor of the governing body as to form, legality, and surety.
A certified copy of the resolution appropriating such funds by any municipal governing body shall be filed with the county auditor in which county such appropriation is made, within 30 days after such appropriation. The county auditor shall keep a record of the total appropriations so made.
471.631 REWARDS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT FELONS.
A home rule charter or statutory city may offer and pay a reward or fund the payment of a reward offered by a nonprofit organization in an amount it deems appropriate for information leading to the apprehension and charging or conviction of a person alleged to have committed a felony within the city's limits.
473.197 HOUSING BOND CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM.
MS 2004 [Repealed, 2005 c 152 art 1 s 43; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 162]
MS 2004 [Repealed, 2005 c 152 art 1 s 43; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 162]
MS 2004 [Repealed, 2005 c 152 art 1 s 43; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 162]
To provide money to pay debt service on bonds issued under the credit enhancement program in repealed subdivision 1 of Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 473.197, the council must maintain a debt reserve fund until the reserve is no longer pledged or otherwise needed to pay debt service on such bonds. If sums in the debt reserve fund are insufficient to cure any deficiency in the debt service fund established for the bonds, the council must levy a tax on all taxable property in the metropolitan area in the amount needed to liquidate the deficiency. The tax authorized by this section does not affect the amount or rate of taxes that may be levied by the council for other purposes and is not subject to limit as to rate or amount.
MS 2004 [Repealed, 2005 c 152 art 1 s 43; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 162]
471.633 FIREARMS.
The legislature preempts all authority of a home rule charter or statutory city including a city of the first class, county, town, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision, or any of their instrumentalities, to regulate firearms, ammunition, or their respective components to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by them except that:
(a) a governmental subdivision may regulate the discharge of firearms; and
(b) a governmental subdivision may adopt regulations identical to state law.
Local regulation inconsistent with this section is void.
469.104 SECTIONS THAT APPLY IF FEDERAL LIMIT APPLIES.
Sections 474A.01 to 474A.21 apply to obligations issued under sections 469.090 to 469.108 that are limited by federal tax law as defined in section 474A.02, subdivision 8.
473.199 EFFECT ON A MUNICIPAL OR COUNTY HRA.
Nothing in sections 473.194 to 473.201 shall be construed to impair the powers and obligations of municipal, county or multicounty housing and redevelopment authorities within the metropolitan area.
471.634 DEFINITION.
For purposes of section 471.633, the terms "municipal corporation" and "governmental subdivision," or instrumentality thereof, do not include school districts and other entities composed exclusively of school districts when school boards or school administrators are regulating school grounds, school facilities, school transportation services, school programs, or the conduct of students at any activities conducted under the direct or indirect supervision or control of the school board or administration.
473.201 ALLOCATE LOCAL PROJECT COSTS; SEEK, GET U.S. GRANTS.
The council shall allocate the net unreimbursed costs of any project which it undertakes to the municipality or group of municipalities or county for which the project is undertaken. The governing body of each such municipality or county shall impose taxes or other revenue measures to provide funds necessary to pay the allocated costs, and the governing body of each such municipality or county shall have all the powers, authority and obligation granted to authorities by section 469.033 and all other provisions of law regarding the financing of such projects, provided that the council shall have the powers of an authority for purposes of applying for and receiving federal grants in connection with all projects which it undertakes.
The council may expend for the purposes of sections 473.194 to 473.201 any revenues derived pursuant to section 473.249.
471.635 ZONING ORDINANCES.
Notwithstanding section 471.633, a governmental subdivision may regulate by reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and nonarbitrary zoning ordinances, the location of businesses where firearms are sold by a firearms dealer. For the purposes of this section, a firearms dealer is a person who is federally licensed to sell firearms and a governmental subdivision is an entity described in sections 471.633 and 471.634.
469.106 ADVANCES BY AUTHORITY.
An authority may advance its general fund money or its credit, or both, without interest, for the objects and purposes of sections 469.090 to 469.108. The advances must be repaid from the sale or lease, or both, of developed or redeveloped lands. If the money advanced for the development or redevelopment was obtained from the sale of the authority's general obligation bonds, then the advances must have not less than the average annual interest rate that is on the authority's general obligation bonds that are outstanding at the time the advances are made. The authority may advance repaid money for more objects and purposes of sections 469.090 to 469.108 subject to repayment in the same manner. The authority must still use rentals of lands acquired with advanced money to collect and maintain reserves to secure the payment of principal and interest on revenue bonds issued to finance economic development facilities, if the rentals have been pledged for that purpose under section 469.103. Advances made to acquire lands and to construct facilities for recreation purposes if authorized by law need not be reimbursed under this section. Sections 469.090 to 469.108 do not exempt lands leased from the authority to a private person, or entity from assessments or taxes against the leased property while the lessee is liable for the assessments or taxes under the lease.
471.64 MAY GET, DISPOSE OF PROPERTY TO, FROM U.S., STATE AGENCIES.
Any county, city, town, school district, or other political subdivision of the state may enter into any contract with the United States of America or with any agency thereof, any state agency, or with any other political subdivision of the state for the purchase, lease, sale, or other acquisition or disposition of equipment, supplies, materials, or other property, including real property, without regard to statutory or charter provisions. The acquisition or disposition of such property from or to the federal government shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the United States of America or any agency thereof.
The governing body of any political subdivision of the state may designate by appropriate resolution or order any officer or employee of its own to enter a bid or bids in its behalf at any sale of equipment, supplies, material or other property, including real property, owned by the United States of America or with any agency thereof, any state agency, or with any other political subdivision of the state and may authorize the officer or employee to make any down payment, or payment in full, required in connection with such bidding.
469.107 CITY MAY LEVY TAXES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
A city may, at the request of the authority, levy a tax in any year for the benefit of the authority. The tax must be not more than 0.01813 percent of estimated market value. The amount levied must be paid by the city treasurer to the treasurer of the authority, to be spent by the authority. The requirements of section 275.067 apply to an economic development authority that has not previously certified a levy.
A city may increase its levy for economic development authority purposes under subdivision 1 in the following way. Its city council must first pass a resolution stating the proposed amount of levy increase. The city must then publish the resolution together with a notice of public hearing on the resolution for two successive weeks in its official newspaper or if none exists in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The hearing must be held two to four weeks after the first publication. After the hearing, the city council may decide to take no action or may adopt a resolution authorizing the proposed increase or a lesser increase. A resolution authorizing an increase must be published in the city's official newspaper or if none exists in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The resolution is not effective if a petition requesting a referendum on the resolution is filed with the city clerk within 30 days of publication of the resolution. The petition must be signed by voters equaling five percent of the votes cast in the city in the last general election. The election must be held at a general or special election. Notice of the election must be given in the manner required by law. The notice must state the purpose and amount of the levy.
471.65 GRANT, ADVANCE, OR LOAN FROM U.S. OR STATE GOVERNMENT.
Notwithstanding inconsistent provisions of any other statute or home rule charter, any county, statutory or home rule charter city, town, school district or other political subdivision of the state, however organized, may accept from the government of the United States or the state of Minnesota grants, loans, or advances of money for:
(1) energy conservation investments made from funds received under section 216C.37, and from money received from litigation or settlement of alleged violations of federal petroleum pricing regulations; and
(2) the planning of public works projects, and may make agreements to repay any such loans or advances without submitting the proposal to a vote of the people. Funds received by any political subdivision under this subdivision shall not be used for the planning of public housing projects or housing authority projects.
Expenditures of grants, advances, or loans of money received by any city from the government of the United States or the state of Minnesota for projects under subdivision 1 by such municipality shall not be considered as part of the cost of government within the meaning of any statutory or charter limitation on expenditures.
469.108 SPECIAL LAW; OPTIONAL USE.
A city that has established a port authority by special law or that has been granted the power to establish a port authority by special law, or a city whose city council has been authorized to exercise the powers of a port authority by special law may elect to use the powers granted in sections 469.090 to 469.108. If the election is made, the powers and duties set forth in sections 469.090 to 469.108 supersede the special law and the special law must not be used after the election. The use of powers under sections 469.090 to 469.108 by a city described in this section does not impair the security of any obligations issued or contracts or agreements executed under the special law. Control, authority, and operation of any project may be transferred to the authority in the manner provided in section 469.094.
473.206 LOCAL ORDINANCES.
Each county, city or town in the metropolitan area shall be provided with standards, criteria and suggested model ordinances and may, after review and comment by the Metropolitan Council, adopt ordinances which provide for the protection of the resources that are the subject of the standards, criteria, and model ordinances.
471.653 DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN FEDERAL PAYMENTS.
Federal payment in lieu of taxes on entitlement lands made pursuant to United States Code, title 31, sections 6901 to 6906 must be transferred by a county to the home rule or statutory city or town where the entitlement land is located if the county board determines that the statutory or home rule city or town is the principal provider of one or more governmental services affecting the use of entitlement lands and if the total annual federal payment to the county is $5,000 or more. The county board shall make its determination based on factors which must include: (1) whether the city or town has at least 60 acres of land within the entitlement lands; (2) whether city or town roads are the primary access to the entitlement lands; and (3) whether the city or town provides one or more specific services to the entitlement lands such as fire protection, police protection, search and rescue services, or land use planning and official controls.
The distribution of federal payment in lieu funds shall be made by the county board to a qualifying city or town in the proportion that the acreage of entitlement land located in each bears to the total acreage of entitlement land in the county. If more than 25 percent of entitlement acreage in a county is located in qualifying cities or towns, there shall be a pro rata reduction in each qualifying city or town's share, so that only 30 percent of the total county payment is distributed.
469.1081 LIABLE IN CONTRACT OR TORT.
Subject to the provisions of chapter 466, an authority shall be liable in contract or in tort in the same manner as a private corporation. The commissioners of an authority shall not be personally liable as such on its contracts, or for torts, not committed or directly authorized by them. The property or funds of an authority shall not be subject to attachment, or to levy and sale on execution, but, if an authority refuses to pay a judgment entered against it in any court of competent jurisdiction, the district court for the county in which the authority is situated may, by writ of mandamus, direct the treasurer of the authority to pay the judgment from any unencumbered funds available for that purpose.
473.208 COOPERATION.
In adopting and enforcing the ordinances for which standards and criteria are provided by section 473.206, counties, cities and towns shall consult and cooperate with affected soil and water conservation districts, watershed districts, and lake conservation districts on matters of common concern.
471.656 LIMITS ON BOND ISSUANCE FOR EXTRATERRITORIAL PROJECTS.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, neither a municipality nor an authority may issue obligations to finance the acquisition or improvement of real property located outside of the corporate boundaries of the issuer.
Subdivision 1 does not apply if:
(1) the issuing governmental unit is the owner of the property to be financed; or
(2) for property or two or more properties constituting a single project located in a city, the governing body of the city consents, by resolution, to issuance of the obligations; or
(3) for property or two or more properties constituting a single project located outside of a city or in two or more cities or towns, the governing body of the county in which the property is located consents, by resolution, to issuance of the obligations; or
(4) the obligations are issued under a joint powers agreement, whether issued by a joint powers board or by one or more of the parties to the joint powers agreement, and the property is located entirely within the boundaries of one or more of the parties to the joint powers agreement; or
(5) the issuer is a municipality or municipalities acting under a joint powers agreement and the financing is for the acquisition or improvement of property, facilities, or rights of use or access thereto which are necessary or useful in the operation of municipal public utilities; or
(6) the issuer is a municipal power agency established under chapter 453 or a municipal gas agency established under chapter 453A.
(a) The definitions in section 475.51 apply to this section and the following terms have the meanings given in this subdivision.
(b) "Authority" means, whether created under general or special law:
(1) a housing and redevelopment authority;
(2) an economic development authority;
(3) a port authority;
(4) a rural development financing authority; or
(5) other similar local government entities that are authorized by law to issue obligations.
(c) "Municipal public utilities" means the provision by a municipality of electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater removal and treatment, telecommunications, district heating, or cable television and related services.
(d) "Owner of the property" means the entity or entities that are the fee or equitable owners and that are economically at risk with regard to the property.
(e) "Real property" includes an easement and improvements made to a leasehold of real property.