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MN Stat § 387.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.25 — Settlements With County Board.

387.25 SETTLEMENTS WITH COUNTY BOARD. The sheriff shall settle with and pay over to the county board at its regular sessions and as often as required all money collected or received for the use of or belonging to the county. History:  (921) RL s 560; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.29 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.29 — Motor Vehicle.

387.29 MOTOR VEHICLE. Subdivision 1.  [Repealed, 1973 c 661 s 4] Subd. 2. Motor vehicles furnished. The board of county commissioners, by resolution, may furnish to the sheriff of the county such necessary motor vehicles and supplies therefor as are needed to carry out the duties of office. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1973 c 661 s 4] History:  1947 c 88 s 1; 1949 c 499 s 1; 1961 c 194 s 1; 1971 c 29 s 1; 1973 c 661 s 3; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.31 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.31 — County Civil Service Personnel System.

387.31 COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE PERSONNEL SYSTEM. In any county of this state, a civil service personnel system may be established in the sheriff's department. History:  1957 c 325 s 1; 1969 c 1099 s 1
MN Stat § 387.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.32 — Resolution To Establish System.

387.32 RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH SYSTEM. Subdivision 1. Adoption, filing. To establish such system the board of county commissioners of such county may adopt a resolution and file a certified copy in the office of the county auditor. Subd. 2. Established on filing. Upon filing of such resolution the civil service personnel system in the sheriff's office of such county is established. History:  1957 c 325 s 2,3
MN Stat § 387.33 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.33 — Sheriff's Civil Service Commission.

387.33 SHERIFF'S CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Subdivision 1. Timing of appointments. After filing of their resolution the board of county commissioners shall at their next regular meeting appoint a commission to be designated as the sheriff's civil service commission. Subd. 2. Members; qualifications, conditions. The commission shall consist of three members who shall be citizens of the state and residents of the county, and shall be appointed by the chair of the county board, and the appointment of each commissioner, to be confirmed by majority vote of the county board. When first created one commissioner shall be appointed for one year, who shall be president of the commission, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, and all commissioners shall hold their office until their successors are appointed and qualified. No commissioner shall at the time of appointment or while serving, hold any other office or employment under said county, any city, the United States, the state of Minnesota, or any public corporation or political division thereof, other than the office of notary public. Each commissioner, before entering upon duties, shall subscribe and record with the county recorder of said county an oath for the faithful discharge of duties. There shall be appointed each year thereafter, in the manner of the original appointments, one member of the commission whose term of office shall be for three years, and each member of the commission shall be president of the commission during the last year of the term for which appointed. Subd. 3. Meetings, officers, rules. The commission shall meet as soon as possible after its appointment and thereafter on the first Monday in February each year at which meetings it shall select from its members a secretary who shall serve until a successor is elected. The commission shall fix the times of its other meetings, and adopt, amend, and alter rules for its procedure. History:  1957 c 325 s 4-6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 2005 c 4 s 91
MN Stat § 387.34 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.34 — Compensation Of Commissioners.

387.34 COMPENSATION OF COMMISSIONERS. Each commissioner shall serve without pay, but the county board shall allow the secretary such compensation, not exceeding $200 per year, as it shall deem necessary and commensurate with the additional services rendered. The commission shall annually submit a budget to the board of county commissioners for approval, modification or rejection. The county shall pay all necessary expenses incurred by the commission within the budget and in the same manner as other county obligations are disbursed, from the general revenue. History:  1957 c 325 s 7; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.35 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.35 — Duties Of Commissioners.

387.35 DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS. Subdivision 1. Positions classified; incumbents, service register. The commission shall have supervision over the employment, promotion, discharge, and suspension of all deputies and employees in the sheriff's department, except special deputies with no salary. The commission shall, immediately after its appointment and organization, grade and classify all positions and also all present employees of the sheriff's department; and any deputy regularly employed at the time of creation of the civil service commission shall come under the jurisdiction of the commission without examination, and shall not be classified in a position with lower pay scale than said deputy is then receiving. The commission shall prepare a service register, in which shall be entered, in their classes, the names, ages, compensation, period of past employment and such other facts and data with reference to each employee as the commission may deem useful, in order to better ascertain the standing of each deputy and employee for the purpose of promotions. The commission shall act in no more than an advisory capacity regarding salaries in the sheriff's department, and sections 387.31 to 387.45 shall in no way change the manner of fixing salaries of deputies. Subd. 2. Application register. The commission shall keep a second register to be known as the application register in which shall be entered the names and addresses, in the order of the date of application, of all applicants for examination and the positions or employment they seek. All applications shall be upon forms prescribed by the commission and contain such data and information as the commission deems necessary and useful. History:  1957 c 325 s 8,9
MN Stat § 387.37 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.37 — Removal Only Upon Charges.

387.37 REMOVAL ONLY UPON CHARGES. No deputy sheriff or employee after continuous employment of one year shall be removed or discharged except for cause upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in defense of the charges as in sections 387.31 to 387.45 hereinafter provided. Such charges shall be investigated by or before such civil service commission. The finding and decision of such commission shall be forthwith certified to the sheriff, to be forthwith enforced. Nothing in sections 387.31 to 387.45 shall limit the power of the sheriff, or the superior officer in the sheriff's absence, to suspend a subordinate for a reasonable period not exceeding 30 days for the purpose of discipline, or pending investigation of charges when it appears such suspension is advisable. History:  1957 c 325 s 11; 1969 c 218 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.38 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.38 — Grades, Standards.

387.38 GRADES, STANDARDS. The commission shall ascertain the duties of each position, and employment in the sheriff's department of said county, and designate by rule as well as may be practicable the grade of each position. The commission shall prescribe standards of fitness and efficiency for each position and for each grade, and adapt its examinations thereto. History:   1957 c 325 s 12
MN Stat § 387.39 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.39 — Examinations.

387.39 EXAMINATIONS. Subdivision 1. Described; examiners. All examinations shall be impartial, fair, and practical, designed only to test the relative qualifications and fitness of applicants to discharge the duties of the particular employment which they seek to fill. No question on the examination shall relate to the political or religious convictions or affiliations of the applicant. All applicants for positions of trust and responsibility shall be specially examined as to moral character, sobriety, and integrity, and all applicants for position requiring special experience, skill, or faithfulness shall be specially examined in respect to those qualities. It shall be the duty of the sheriff and of any employee to act as an examiner or assistant examiner, at the request of the commission, without special compensation therefor. The members of the commission collectively or individually may act as examiners or assistant examiners. Subd. 2. Notice; eligible register; limit, transfer. Notice of the time, place, and scope of each examination shall be given by publication and posting as specified in section 387.36, and by mailing such notice to each applicant upon the appropriate list of the application register ten days in advance. The names of those found eligible upon examination, after giving credit for character and previous successful experience, shall be entered with their address and percentages on the eligible register. No name shall remain upon the eligible register more than two years without a new application, and if the rules of the commission so require, a new examination. When a vacancy has been filled or new appointment made, the names selected shall be stricken from the eligible register and transferred to the service register. History:  1957 c 325 s 13,14
MN Stat § 387.40 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.40 — Charges, Hearing.

387.40 CHARGES, HEARING. Charges of inefficiency or misconduct may be filed with the secretary of the commission by a superior officer or by any member of the commission of the member's own motion, and thereupon the commission shall try the charges after no less than ten days' written notice to the accused. Such notice shall set forth the charges as filed. In the event that the charges are filed by a member of the commission the complaining commissioner shall not sit. The trial of these charges shall be open to the public and each commissioner shall have the power to issue subpoenas and to administer oaths and to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to the investigation. The commission shall require by subpoena the attendance of any witness requested by the accused who can be found in the county. The commission may make complaint to the district court of disobedience of its subpoenas or orders under this section, and the court shall prescribe notice to the person accused and require the person to obey the commission's subpoena and order, if found within the lawful powers of the commission, and punish disobedience as a contempt of court. Witnesses shall be entitled to the same fees and mileage as for attendance upon the district court, except that any officer, agent, or employee of the county who receives compensation for services, shall not be entitled to fees. History:  1957 c 325 s 15; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.41 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.41 — Removal After Hearing.

387.41 REMOVAL AFTER HEARING. If, after investigation and trial by civil service commission, an employee who is found guilty of inefficiency, breach of duty, or misconduct, may be removed, reduced, or suspended and the employee's name may be stricken from the service register. If the board determines that the charges are not sustained, the accused, if suspended pending investigation, shall be immediately reinstated and shall be paid all back pay due for the period of suspension. Findings, determinations, and orders of the commission for suspension, reduction, or removal, shall be in writing and shall be filed within three days after the completion of the hearing with the secretary of the commission. The secretary shall notify the employee of the decision in writing. Any person suspended, reduced, or removed by the commission after investigation may appeal in accordance with chapter 14. The question to be determined by the court shall be: "Upon the evidence, was the order of the commission reasonable?" Whenever the sheriff or county attorney deems the civil service commissioners, or any one of them, to be failing their duties as outlined in sections 387.31 to 387.45, the sheriff or county attorney, shall request the county board to hold a hearing regarding the matter. The county board shall then determine this question: "Is the sheriff's civil service commission or any member thereof failing in the duties prescribed by sections 387.31 to 387.45?" Upon an affirmative finding by resolution, the commission or member shall be deemed removed. The county board shall fill the vacancy by appointment for the balance of the term. An applicant for examination, appointment, or promotion in the sheriff's department of the county who shall, either directly or indirectly, give, render, or pay or promise to give, render, or pay any money, service, or other thing to any person, for or on account of or in connection with the examination, appointment, or proposed appointment or promotion shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall also be subject to suspension or removal. Any officer or employee of the sheriff's department, when operating under civil service in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, who participates in any manner in activities in support of any candidate or party, directly or indirectly solicits, receives, or pays, or participates in any manner in soliciting, receiving, or paying any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any candidate, party, or political purpose, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to suspension or removal. History:  1957 c 325 s 16; 1983 c 247 s 148; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.42 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.42 — Employees Under Civil Service Commission Jurisdiction.

387.42 EMPLOYEES UNDER CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION JURISDICTION. Any deputy sheriff regularly employed on a full-time basis at the time of the creation of the civil service commission shall automatically come under the jurisdiction of the civil service commission, consistent with duties of the commission as outlined in sections 387.31 to 387.45. History:   1957 c 325 s 17
MN Stat § 387.43 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.43 — Discontinuance Of Civil Service Commission.

387.43 DISCONTINUANCE OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Subdivision 1. Unanimous board or majority election. Any sheriff's civil service commission created pursuant to the provisions of sections 387.31 to 387.45 may be discontinued and abolished by either of the following methods: by a resolution adopted by the county board on a unanimous vote a certified copy of which shall be filed in the office of the county auditor, or upon obtaining the approval of a majority of the electors voting on the question of abolishing the civil service system. The election shall be initiated by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the county board or by a petition signed by ten percent of the number of legal voters voting at the last general county election. The resolution or petition shall be filed with the county auditor. Subd. 2. Election process. When a proper resolution or petition according to the preceding subdivision has been filed in the office of the county auditor, the auditor shall submit the question to the voters of the county at the next following special or general county election occurring at least 30 days from such filing of such petition. The question on the ballot shall be stated substantially as follows: "Shall the sheriff's civil service commission be abolished?" History:  1957 c 325 s 18,19; 1969 c 1099 s 2; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 387.44 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.44 — Application.

387.44 APPLICATION. Sections 387.31 to 387.45 shall not apply and shall have no force or effect upon any county until the requirements and procedure for creation of a sheriff's civil service commission as herein outlined have been complied with. History:   1957 c 325 s 20
MN Stat § 387.45 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 387 — Sheriff|Section 387.45 — Veterans Preference Law Not Affected.

387.45 VETERANS PREFERENCE LAW NOT AFFECTED. Sections 387.31 to 387.45 do not exclude or modify the application of sections 197.455 and 197.46, known as the Veterans Preference Law. History:  1957 c 325 s 21; 1980 c 509 s 146
MN Stat § 388.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 388 — County Attorney|Section 388.01 — Election; Qualifications; Term.

388.01 ELECTION; QUALIFICATIONS; TERM. There shall be elected in each county a county attorney who shall be licensed to practice law in this state, and whose term of office shall be four years and until a successor qualifies. Before entering upon duties the county attorney shall take an oath. The oath must be recorded with the county recorder. History:  (924) RL s 563; 1943 c 355 s 1; 1959 c 189 s 1; 1965 c 749 s 1; 1973 c 524 s 6; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 326 s 20; 1997 c 147 s 77; 2005 c 4 s 92
MN Stat § 388.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 388 — County Attorney|Section 388.08 — Prohibitions.

388.08 PROHIBITIONS. No county attorney or assistant county attorney shall receive or accept any fee or reward from, or which is paid or given on behalf of, any one for services rendered or to be rendered in the prosecution or conduct of any official duty or business. No person as an attorney who directly or indirectly advises in relation to, or aids or promotes the defense of, any action or proceeding in any court or prosecution which is carried on by a person as county attorney, with whom such attorney is directly or indirectly connected, or who, having prosecuted any action or proceeding as county attorney, shall afterwards advise in relation to or take any part in the defense thereof; nor shall any attorney be allowed to prosecute or assist such county attorney or assistant in any criminal prosecution or other official action where such attorney is interested in any other action or matter pending or to be commenced in which a recovery depends upon the matter involved in such prosecution or other official action. Any person offending against any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History:  (929) RL s 568; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 388.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 388 — County Attorney|Section 388.09 — Other Attorney Employed.

388.09 OTHER ATTORNEY EMPLOYED. Subdivision 1. General provisions. When there is no county attorney, the county board may employ any competent attorney to perform legal services for the county. The board may employ an attorney to assist the county attorney, to appear for the county or any county officer in any action in which the county or officer in an official capacity is a party, to advise the board or its members in relation to the action, or in relation to any other matter affecting the interests of the county. The county may pay the attorney out of the funds of the county. Subd. 2. Misdemeanors; other prosecutions. Except in the counties of Ramsey and Hennepin, the county board with concurrence of the county attorney may enter into agreements with attorneys or firms of attorneys for the prosecution of gross misdemeanors, misdemeanors or petty misdemeanors, without making these attorneys or members of the firms assistant county attorneys or employees of the county where the county attorney has responsibility for the prosecution of these charges. If there is a contract between the county and any city within it which provides that the county attorney shall also prosecute municipal ordinance, municipal rule or regulation, and charter provision violations for that city, an attorney or firm engaged pursuant to this subdivision may also prosecute these violations. History:  (930) RL s 569; 1983 c 177 s 6; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 388.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 388 — County Attorney|Section 388.10 — Assistants.

388.10 ASSISTANTS. The county attorney of any county in this state who has no assistant is hereby authorized to appoint, with the consent of the county board of the county, one or more attorneys for assistance in the performance of duties. Each assistant shall have the same duties and be subject to the same liabilities as the county attorney and hold office during the pleasure of the county attorney. Each assistant shall be appointed in writing and the assistant's oath and appointment shall be recorded with the county recorder. The county board of such county shall fix the salary of each assistant county attorney appointed pursuant to the provisions of this section, and the salary when so fixed by such county board shall thereafter be paid by the county in equal monthly installments upon the warrant of the county auditor during the period for which such salary is so fixed or during such portion thereof as an assistant county attorney continues in office. History:  (930 1/2) 1921 c 444 s 1; 1925 c 15 s 1; 1941 c 96 s 1; 1951 c 117 s 1; 1965 c 749 s 2; 1967 c 718 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 2005 c 4 s 93
MN Stat § 388.103 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 388 — County Attorney|Section 388.103 — Assistants And Deputy Sheriffs.

388.103 ASSISTANTS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS. The board of county commissioners of any county in which a training camp is established for active training of military or naval forces, or of any adjoining county, may declare an emergency and, in addition to any salaries heretofore authorized by law for assistant county attorneys and deputy sheriffs, may authorize, fix, and pay the salaries of such additional assistant county attorneys and deputy sheriffs as the board deems necessary during such emergency. History:  1941 c 347
MN Stat § 388.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 388 — County Attorney|Section 388.11 — Law Partner Not To Defend.

388.11 LAW PARTNER NOT TO DEFEND. No law partner of the county attorney, or attorney having an office with the county attorney, shall appear for the defendant in any criminal action which it is the duty of the county attorney to prosecute. History:  (931) RL s 570; 1986 c 444