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MN Stat § 365.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.11 — Notice Of Bylaw Required; Binds All In Town.

365.11 NOTICE OF BYLAW REQUIRED; BINDS ALL IN TOWN. A town bylaw is not effective until posted notice of it is given. The bylaw is then binding on all town residents and on all others while in the town. History:  (1008) RL s 627; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.125 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.125 — Ordinance Formalities; Publish, Post, Record.

365.125 ORDINANCE FORMALITIES; PUBLISH, POST, RECORD. Subdivision 1. Formalities; title, style. An ordinance must be enacted by a majority vote of all the members of the town board unless a larger number is required by law. An ordinance must be signed by the chair of the town board and attested by the clerk. An ordinance must have a title and must begin with words like "The board of supervisors of the town of ......... ordains:". Subd. 2. Publication. An ordinance must be published once in a qualified newspaper having general circulation in the town. The whole ordinance must be published unless the town board decides that publishing its title and a summary of it clearly tells the public of its intent and effect. The text of the ordinance, if published, must be in body type no smaller than brevier or 8-point type. Subd. 3. If summary published. The town board must approve the words in the summary. The decision to publish only the title and a summary must be made by a two-thirds vote of a three-member board and a four-fifths vote of a five-member board. A notice must be published with the summary. The notice must say that a printed copy of the whole ordinance is available for inspection by any person during the clerk's regular office hours and at another named place. The publishing of the title and summary is legally the same as publishing the whole ordinance. Subd. 4. Posting. A copy of the whole ordinance must be posted in the community library, if there is one. If there is no library, the whole ordinance must be posted in another public place that the town board names. Subd. 5. Recording. An ordinance must be recorded in the town's ordinance book within 20 days after the ordinance, or its title and summary, is published. Proof of publication must be attached to the recorded ordinance. History:  1984 c 562 s 13; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 1995 c 186 s 75
MN Stat § 365.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.13 — Poundmaster Needed If Electors Want Pound.

365.13 POUNDMASTER NEEDED IF ELECTORS WANT POUND. A poundmaster must be chosen to run the pound if electors at an annual town meeting decide to have a pound. History:  (1092) RL s 685; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.14 — Board To Tax For, Contract For, Manage Town Hall.

365.14 BOARD TO TAX FOR, CONTRACT FOR, MANAGE TOWN HALL. A town board may levy a tax for the amount allowed by the town's electors to buy or build a building for the town's use. The town board may enter into the contracts that are necessary to buy or build the building. The town board shall manage the building. History:  (1009) RL s 628; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.15 — Police, Fire Protection.

365.15 POLICE, FIRE PROTECTION. The electors at a town meeting may direct the town board to provide for police or fire protection and get, operate, and keep up police and fire apparatus. The board may act jointly with home rule charter or statutory cities and other towns in getting the apparatus. The electors can also set the amount of money to be raised in one or more years for these purposes. The amount can be changed at a later meeting. History:  (1027-1) 1927 c 30 s 1; 1953 c 57 s 1; 1955 c 107 s 1; 1961 c 674 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1984 c 562 s 14; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.16 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.16 — Police And Fire Apparatus.

365.16 POLICE AND FIRE APPARATUS. A town board may annually levy the tax it decides is necessary for police and fire apparatus and to operate and keep up the apparatus. The tax must not be more than the amount that the electors allowed for the purpose. The board may enter into any contracts necessary to get, operate, and keep up the apparatus and shall control the apparatus. If the apparatus is shared under section 365.17 with home rule charter or statutory cities or other towns, the control must be shared with them. History:  (1027-2) 1927 c 30 s 2; 1953 c 57 s 2; 1955 c 107 s 2; 1961 c 674 s 2; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.17 — Joint Fire Equipment With Adjacent Towns.

365.17 JOINT FIRE EQUIPMENT WITH ADJACENT TOWNS. The town boards of adjacent towns may pool the amounts raised by the towns and jointly get and keep up fire protection apparatus for the use of the towns in common. The town boards shall jointly agree on the terms, conditions, and rules for their joint action. The immediate control of the apparatus may be given to a committee made up of the chairs of the town boards. The joint agreement must not run for more than ten years. History:  (1027-3) 1927 c 30 s 3; 1955 c 107 s 3; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.18 — Board Levy For Police And Fire Apparatus.

 365.18 MS 1986 [Renumbered in part 365.181] 365.18 BOARD LEVY FOR POLICE AND FIRE APPARATUS. A town board may annually levy the tax it decides is necessary for police and fire protection and apparatus, and to operate and keep up the apparatus. The tax must not be more than the amount that the electors allowed for the purpose. History:  (1027-4) 1927 c 30 s 4; 1943 c 389 s 1; 1947 c 435 s 1; 1953 c 57 s 3; 1955 c 107 s 4; 1961 c 674 s 3; 1969 c 243 s 1; 1971 c 72 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.181 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.181 — Contracted Fire Service; Cost Data; Assessments.

365.181 CONTRACTED FIRE SERVICE; COST DATA; ASSESSMENTS. Subdivision 1. From county, city, or volunteers. A town board may enter into a contract for fire protection and operation and upkeep of fire apparatus with the town's county or a nearby home rule charter or statutory city. The town board may also enter into the same kind of contract with a volunteer fire department or association if the volunteer fire department or association is not, by charter or ordinance, an official part of a city government. The parties shall mutually agree on the terms and conditions of the contract but the contract must not run for more than ten years. Subd. 2. Provider cost data. A town that has entered into a contract or is negotiating with a municipality for fire services under this section, may ask the municipality for cost data relating to fire protection. The town may also ask for a copy of each existing fire protection contract the municipality has with other political subdivisions. The municipality shall provide the requested data and contracts. Subd. 3. User assessments; notice; procedure. If a tax is not levied under section 365.18 or if the tax does not raise enough to pay for a year's contracted fire service the town board may levy an assessment for fire service. The assessment must be levied on each real estate parcel that required fire service during the year. The assessment must not be more than the cost of service. The parcel owners must be given ten days' mailed notice of the time and place of the town board meeting that is called to consider the assessments. The county auditor's records must be used to determine ownership of the parcels. Subd. 4. Lien, penalty. The assessment is a lien on the assessed parcel and is due and payable to the town treasurer 30 days after the assessment levy. A parcel's assessment that is not paid when due must be certified by the town treasurer to the county auditor. The auditor shall add the assessment plus a ten percent penalty to the real estate taxes on the parcel for the next year. History:   1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.19 — Relation Of Levies To Forestry Act, Levy.

365.19 RELATION OF LEVIES TO FORESTRY ACT, LEVY. Subdivision 1. Not limited by forestry levy. A levy under sections 365.15 to 365.18 is in addition to the levy and the amount of tax authorized in any one year under section 88.04. Subd. 2. Forestry Act not affected. Sections 365.15 to 365.18 do not affect Laws 1925, chapter 407, known in part as the Forestry Act and coded in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 88 and 89. History:  (1027-5) 1927 c 30 s 5; 1953 c 57 s 4; 1953 c 156 s 1; 1971 c 271 s 1; 1975 c 67 s 1; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.20 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.20 — Police, Fire, Water In Certain Platted Towns.

365.20 POLICE, FIRE, WATER IN CERTAIN PLATTED TOWNS. Subdivision 1. Opt at election or annual meeting. 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. Subd. 2. Fire protection and equipment. The electors may let the town board provide for fire protection and apparatus for the town. Subd. 3. Police protection. The electors may let the town board provide for police protection. Subd. 4. Public layout for waterworks. 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. Subd. 5. Waterworks; control service, fair rates. 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. History:  (1027-6) 1927 c 219 s 1; 1935 c 249; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 13 s 20
MN Stat § 365.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.21 — Special Election For Police, Fire, Water.

365.21 SPECIAL ELECTION FOR POLICE, FIRE, WATER. Subdivision 1. By board or petition. 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. Subd. 2. Notice. 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. Subd. 3. Questions. 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? History:  (1027-7) 1927 c 219 s 2; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.22 — Conduct Of Election; Ballots, Voting, Hours.

365.22 CONDUCT OF ELECTION; BALLOTS, VOTING, HOURS. Subdivision 1. Like regular town election. 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. Subd. 2. Questions, ballot details. 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. Subd. 3. Voting. 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. Subd. 4. Hours. The polls must be open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Subd. 5. Municipal election law applies. 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. History:  (1027-8) 1927 c 219 s 3; 1965 c 51 s 72; 1980 c 509 s 144; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 2015 c 70 art 1 s 55,56
MN Stat § 365.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.23 — Meeting For Section 365.20 Spending, Pacts, Tax.

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. History:  (1027-9) 1927 c 219 s 4; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.24 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.24 — Election May Revoke Earlier Grant Of Power.

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. History:  (1027-10) 1927 c 219 s 5; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.243 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.243 — County Fire Service To Unorganized Territory.

365.243 COUNTY FIRE SERVICE TO UNORGANIZED TERRITORY. Subdivision 1. Permissive. A county may provide fire protection to its unorganized territory and may levy taxes on the property in the unorganized territory for that purpose. Subd. 2. No election needed. 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. Subd. 3. Levy for first responder association. 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. History:  1955 c 501 s 1,2; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 2008 c 366 art 6 s 40
MN Stat § 365.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.26 — Cemetery Land; Board Control; Sale Or Lease; City Aid.

365.26 CEMETERY LAND; BOARD CONTROL; SALE OR LEASE; CITY AID. Subdivision 1. Vote for land. 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. Subd. 2. Board may run, spend for. 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. Subd. 3. Whom to bury. The town board may decide who may be buried in the cemetery. Subd. 4. Sale to city, if part of. 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. Subd. 5. Sale or lease to corporation. 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. Subd. 6. Aid, burials from city. 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. History:  (1011) RL s 629; 1943 c 464 s 1; 1949 c 249 s 1; 1951 c 493 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1981 c 26 s 1; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.27 — Sale And Reversion Of Lots; Use Of Funds.

365.27 SALE AND REVERSION OF LOTS; USE OF FUNDS. Subdivision 1. For allowed burials only. 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. Subd. 2. Money to cemetery fund. 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. Subd. 3. Reversion. 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. History:  (1012) RL s 630; 1981 c 26 s 2; 1987 c 90 s 2; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
MN Stat § 365.28 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.28 — Public Burial Ground Becomes Town Property After Ten Years.

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. History:  (1013) RL s 631; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 2009 c 152 s 7
MN Stat § 365.29 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.29 — Part Of Lot Price To Cemetery Fund; Use Of Funds.

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. History:  (1014) 1911 c 224 s 1; 1917 c 161 s 1; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 2008 c 187 s 1
MN Stat § 365.30 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.30 — Board Sets Lot Care Share; Use Of Funds.

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. History:  (1015) 1911 c 224 s 2; 1917 c 161 s 2; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 2008 c 187 s 2
MN Stat § 365.31 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.31 — Gift For Cemetery Or Lot; Use Of Funds For Care.

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. History:  (1016) 1911 c 224 s 3; 1917 c 161 s 3; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; 2008 c 187 s 3
MN Stat § 365.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 365 - 368 — Towns|Chapter 365 — Town General Law|Section 365.32 — Deposit Of Cemetery Funds.

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. History:  (1017, 1018) 1911 c 224 s 4,5; 1917 c 161 s 4,5; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1