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MN Stat § 375.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.17 — Publication Of Financial Statements.

375.17 PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Subdivision 1. Statement contents; summaries. Annually, not later than the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March, the county board shall make a full and accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the preceding year, which shall contain a statement of the assets and liabilities, a summary of receipts, disbursements, and balances of all county funds together with a detailed statement of each fund account, under the form and style prescribed by and on file with the state auditor. The prescribed form and any changes or modifications of it shall so far as practical be uniform for all counties. Annually the board shall publish the statement or a summary of the statement in a form as prescribed by the state auditor, for one issue in a duly qualified legal newspaper in the county. Subd. 2. Full statement; publication conditions. If the board elects to publish the full statement, it may refrain from publishing: (1) an itemized account of amounts paid out, to whom and for what purpose to the extent that the published proceedings of the county board contain the information, if all disbursements aggregating $5,000 or more to any person are set forth in a schedule of major disbursements showing amounts paid out, to whom and for what purpose and are made a part of, and published with, the financial statement; (2) the names and amounts of salaries and expenses paid to employees but shall publish the totals of disbursements for salaries and expenses; and (3) the names of persons receiving human services aid and the amounts paid to each, but the totals of the disbursements for those purposes must be published. This subdivision does not apply to a summary published pursuant to subdivision 1. Subd. 3. Filing. In addition to the publication in the newspaper designated by the board as the official newspaper for publication of the financial statement, the statement shall be published in one other newspaper, if one of general circulation is located in a different municipality in the county than the official newspaper. The county board shall call for separate bids for each publication. If a provision of this section is inconsistent with section 393.07, the provisions of that section shall prevail. The financial statement must be filed with the county auditor for public inspection. History:  (667) RL s 433; 1907 c 205 s 1; 1933 c 410; 1941 c 370 s 1; 1945 c 170 s 1; 1947 c 235 s 1; 1957 c 543; 1973 c 492 s 7; 1975 c 278 s 1; 1979 c 252 s 4; 1980 c 379 s 1; 1981 c 320 s 1; 1984 c 543 s 42; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1993 c 158 s 3; 2004 c 182 s 29
MN Stat § 375.171 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.171 — Credit Cards.

375.171 CREDIT CARDS. A county board may authorize the use of a credit card by any county officer or employee otherwise authorized to make a purchase on behalf of the county. If a county officer or employee makes a purchase by credit card that is not approved by the county board, the officer or employee is personally liable for the amount of the purchase. A purchase by credit card must otherwise comply with all statutes, rules, or county policy applicable to county purchases. History:   2000 c 328 s 1
MN Stat § 375.181 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.181 — County Building Sites.

375.181 COUNTY BUILDING SITES. If the board of county commissioners at any regular or extra meeting adopts and enters in the minutes of its proceedings a resolution declaring that it is necessary to acquire for the use of the county any land, describing it, to be used as a site for a courthouse or other public building or to enlarge the site of a courthouse or other public building already owned by the county, and the board of county commissioners is unable to purchase the land at a reasonable price, the land may be acquired by condemnation as provided in chapter 117. History:  (6558) 1905 c 7 s 1; 1961 c 561 s 7; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.182 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.182 — Neglect Of Duty.

375.182 NEGLECT OF DUTY. Every member of the county board who shall neglect or omit to discharge any of the duties imposed by law shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor; and, upon conviction, punished by a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $3,000. History:  (855) RL s 509; 1969 c 9 s 82; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11
MN Stat § 375.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.19 — Additional Powers.

375.19 ADDITIONAL POWERS. A county board may accept for its county real or personal property by gift, bequest, devise, conveyance, or otherwise from any person whose care, support, treatment, or maintenance, in whole or part, is or may be chargeable to or furnished or provided by the county, and hold or dispose of it for the benefit of the county, as in the case of other county property. It may permit use of county equipment for soil conservation projects and make annual expenditures from the general revenue fund for soil conservation purposes. History:  (669) 1923 c 241; 1947 c 255 s 1; 1951 c 645 s 1; 1969 c 637 s 1; 1974 c 72 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.195 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.195 — Sale Of Buildings On Public Property.

375.195 SALE OF BUILDINGS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. Subdivision 1. County auditor may sell property. Upon resolution of the county board, the county auditor may sell at public auction for cash at not less than the value appraised by the county board, buildings or improvements upon lands held by the state in trust for the taxing districts. If the buildings are not sold at the public auction, they may, at any time within one year from the date of the auction, be sold at private sale by the county auditor at not less than the appraised value. Subd. 2. Sale on request of DNR commissioner. The county auditor may sell at public auction any buildings or improvements upon state lands or platted lots under the control of the commissioner of natural resources not held in trust for the taxing districts, at not less than the value appraised by the county board and approved by the commissioner of natural resources, if requested to do so by the commissioner of natural resources. If the buildings or improvements are not sold when offered at the public sale, they may within one year from the date of the auction be sold at private sale by the county auditor at not less than their appraised value. Subd. 3. Finding by county board. The buildings or improvements shall not be offered for sale or sold until the county board has, by resolution, found that they constitute a fire hazard, an inducement to trespass, or a public nuisance. At least two weeks before the sale, the county auditor shall publish in a legal newspaper in the county and post on the bulletin board in the auditor's office and at least one other prominent place in the courthouse, a notice of the sale, which shall include the date of the sale, a description of the buildings and improvements and the lands upon which they are situated and their appraised value. Subd. 4. Sale conditioned upon removal. All sales under subdivisions 1 or 2 shall be conditioned upon the removal from the land by the purchaser of all buildings and improvements within 90 days of the date of purchase. Upon failure to so remove them, the buildings shall revert to the state and may be resold as provided in subdivision 1 or 2. Subd. 5. Disposition of proceeds. The proceeds from the sale of buildings or improvements located on lands held by the state in trust for the taxing districts, shall be deposited in the forfeited tax fund of the county and distributed in the same manner as if the parcel of land on which the buildings or improvements were situated had been sold. The proceeds from the sale of buildings or improvements on lands held by the state free of any trust for the taxing districts shall be remitted by the county auditor to the commissioner of natural resources to be deposited in the state treasury in the fund to which the proceeds from the sale of the lands from which the buildings are removed would properly be credited. History:  1945 c 465; 1947 c 181 s 1-4; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 375.20 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.20 — Ballot Questions.

375.20 BALLOT QUESTIONS. If the county board may do an act, incur a debt, appropriate money for a purpose, or exercise any other power or authority, only if authorized by a vote of the people, the question may be submitted at a special or general election, by a resolution specifying the matter or question to be voted upon. If the question is to authorize the appropriation of money, creation of a debt, or levy of a tax, it shall state the amount. Notice of the election shall be given as in the case of special elections. If the question submitted is adopted, the board shall pass an appropriate resolution to carry it into effect. In the election the form of the ballot shall be: "Shall (here state the substance of the resolution to be submitted)?, Yes ...... No......,". The county board may call a special county election upon a question to be held within 74 days after a resolution to that effect is adopted by the county board. Upon the adoption of the resolution the county auditor shall post and publish notices of the election, as required by section 204D.22, subdivisions 2 and 3. The election shall be conducted and the returns canvassed in the manner prescribed by sections 204D.20 to 204D.27, so far as practicable. History:  (786) RL s 450; 1931 c 384; 1961 c 560 s 32; 1975 c 5 s 133; 1981 c 29 art 7 s 34; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1986 c 444; 2013 c 131 art 2 s 79
MN Stat § 375.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.21 — Contracts Of County Boards.

375.21 CONTRACTS OF COUNTY BOARDS. Subdivision 1. Procedure, conditions. When required by the dollar limitations of section 471.345, a contract for work or labor, or to purchase furniture, fixtures, or other property, or to construct or repair roads, bridges, or buildings shall be made by a county board only after advertising for bids or proposals in a qualified legal newspaper of the county. For the purchase of property or for work and labor, two weeks' published notice that proposals will be received, stating the time and place, shall be given. For the construction or repair of roads, bridges, or buildings, three weeks' published notice shall be given. The notice shall state the time and place of awarding the contract and contain a brief description of the work. Every contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder and duly executed in writing. The person to whom a contract is awarded for work or labor or for the construction or repair of roads, bridges, or buildings shall give a sufficient bond to the board for its faithful performance. If no satisfactory bid is received, the board may readvertise. An advertised standard requirement price contract for supplies or services established by competitive bids may contain an escalation clause and may provide for a negotiated price increase or decrease. The escalation or negotiated change shall be based upon a demonstrable industrywide or regional increase or decrease in the vendor's costs. Every contract made without compliance with this section is void. In case of an emergency arising from the destruction or impassability of roads or bridges by floods, rain or snow, or other casualty, or from the breaking or damaging of any property in the county, if the public health, safety, or welfare would suffer by delay, contracts for purchase or repairs may be made without advertising for bids, but in that case the action of the board shall be recorded in its official proceedings. Subd. 1a. Except Hennepin County. This section does not apply to Hennepin County. Subd. 1b. Best value alternative. As an alternative to the procurement method described in subdivision 1, a county board may award a contract for construction, building, alteration, improvement, or repair work to the vendor or contractor offering the best value under a request for proposals as described in section 16C.28, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (2), and paragraph (c). Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 1967 c 364 s 2] Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1967 c 364 s 2] History:  (991, 992, 993-1) RL s 618,619; 1919 c 355; 1921 c 376; 1923 c 80; Ex1933 c 69; 1935 c 17; 1939 c 5; 1939 c 246; 1947 c 138 s 1; 1957 c 497 s 1; 1959 c 337 s 1; 1967 c 364 s 1; 1969 c 153 s 1; 1969 c 613 s 3; 1979 c 198 art 4 s 13; 1981 c 45 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1987 c 164 s 2; 1990 c 389 s 1; 2007 c 148 art 3 s 22
MN Stat § 375.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.22 — Repairs Without Bids In Emergency.

375.22 REPAIRS WITHOUT BIDS IN EMERGENCY. Subdivision 1. Procedure. In case of an emergency arising from breakage, damage, or decay in county property that cannot be allowed to wait for the time required to advertise for bids, repairs may be made without advertising for bids if the work is authorized by a majority of the board of county commissioners, and the action is ratified and recorded in the official proceedings of the board at its next meeting. Subd. 2. Except Ramsey County. This section does not apply to Ramsey County. History:  (993) 1905 c 189 s 1; 1974 c 435 art 7 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.25 — County Bonds May Be Bought By Funds In Treasury; Resale.

375.25 COUNTY BONDS MAY BE BOUGHT BY FUNDS IN TREASURY; RESALE. When a fund in the treasury of a county having not more than 50,000 population is of a size that, in the opinion of the county board, it will not be necessary to be spent for the purpose for which it was paid in within the next two years the board may authorize the auditor and treasurer of the county to purchase out of the fund any outstanding bonds of the county at not more than their face value and accrued interest to the date of purchase. The bonds shall be kept by the treasurer as an asset of the fund. The bonds may again be sold by the board at not less than their face value when, in its judgment, it is necessary to replenish the fund out of which they were purchased. History:  (669-1, 669-2) 1907 c 214 s 1,2; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.26 — Gifts, Acceptance.

375.26 GIFTS, ACCEPTANCE. A county may receive by grant, gift, devise, or bequest, and take charge of, own, hold, control, invest, and administer free from taxation, in accordance with the terms of the trust or the conditions of the gift, personal property, and real property in one county, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the county or as a park or recreation grounds, and to encourage, aid, and maintain the county cooperative work and education in agriculture and home economics. The county may, from time to time, by resolution of the county board, appropriate from the county revenue fund the sums deemed necessary by the board to suitably maintain, improve, and care for the property. History:  (669-12) 1925 c 13 s 1; 1933 c 59 s 1; 1939 c 30 s 1; 1949 c 481 s 1; 1951 c 158 s 1; 1957 c 8 s 1; 1980 c 379 s 2; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.27 — Liabilities, Limitations, And Conditions Of Gifts Of Realty.

375.27 LIABILITIES, LIMITATIONS, AND CONDITIONS OF GIFTS OF REALTY. No county, by receiving a grant, gift, devise, or bequest of property pursuant to section 375.26 and holding and managing it, shall incur or be subject to any liability of any kind or nature growing out of its ownership or management, but limitations and conditions may be imposed by the deed of gift as to the use of the property and it shall be the duty of the county to comply with them. History:  (669-13) 1925 c 13 s 2; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.273 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.273 — Acceptance Of Donations For Care Of Cemeteries.

375.273 ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS FOR CARE OF CEMETERIES. Subdivision 1. Acceptance of donations. The board of county commissioners may accept money from private sources or from any person, firm, or corporation, including fiduciaries, donated for the perpetual care of cemeteries located either wholly or partly in the county, and use the funds for the purposes provided in subdivision 2. Subd. 2. Use of public money for cemeteries. The board may expend public funds under its control to maintain and improve, and otherwise permanently care for cemeteries located either wholly or partly in the county. The expenditures shall be included in, and shall not be in excess of, limitations on expenditures fixed by law. Subd. 3. Donations deposited with county treasurer. The money donated or made available for use by the board to permanently care for cemeteries, shall be paid into the county treasury, and kept in a separate fund and disbursed only as authorized by the county board. History:  1945 c 364 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.28 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.28 — Rewards For Capture.

375.28 REWARDS FOR CAPTURE. A county board may offer and pay rewards in the amounts, not exceeding $500 in any one case, as it deems advisable for the apprehension, arrest, or conviction, or for information leading to the apprehension, arrest, or conviction, of persons accused of crime in any court in the county or for the apprehension, or for information leading to the apprehension, of any prisoner escaped from a jail in the county. History:  (669-15) 1925 c 23 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.30 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.30 — County Board May Appropriate Money For Certain Purposes.

375.30 COUNTY BOARD MAY APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. Subdivision 1. Rust-producing bushes. A county board may appropriate, annually, a sum of money to eradicate and remove rust-producing bushes, including barberry and mahonia and excluding Japanese barberry. The money appropriated shall be spent as the county board may, by resolution, provide. Subd. 2. Wild hemp. A county board, by resolution, may appropriate and spend money as necessary to spray and otherwise eradicate wild hemp on private property within the county. The county board may authorize the use of county equipment, personnel and supplies and materials to spray or otherwise eradicate wild hemp on private property, and may pro rate the expenses involved between the county and owner or occupant of the property. Industrial hemp grown by a person licensed under chapter 18K is not wild hemp. History:  (671) 1921 c 142; 1971 c 812 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1Sp2015 c 4 art 2 s 79
MN Stat § 375.31 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.31 — Motor Vehicles, Damage From Operation.

375.31 MOTOR VEHICLES, DAMAGE FROM OPERATION. A county board may indemnify any county officer or employee for loss or expense arising or resulting from any claim made against the officer or employee because of bodily injury, death or property damage sustained by reason of the officer's or employee's operation of a motor vehicle while performing official duties. The county board may defend any suit brought against an officer or employee to enforce such a claim. The county board may settle the claim or suit and pay the amount of the settlement or the amount of any final judgment rendered against an officer or employee on the claim without first requiring the officer or employee to pay it. History:  (672-1) 1931 c 330 s 1; 1951 c 131 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 375.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.32 — Insurance Policies; Premium, Payment.

375.32 INSURANCE POLICIES; PREMIUM, PAYMENT. Subdivision 1. Payment of premium. A county board may pay the premium on an insurance policy which insures a county officer or employee or a group of county officers or employees against liability for injuries to person or property within the limitations of section 375.31. The payment shall not impose any liability upon the county. The insurance may be written by any insurance company authorized to transact business in Minnesota. Subd. 2. Automobile insurance coverage. A county board may take action as necessary to bring the county and its officers and employees within the provisions and limitations of chapter 65B. History:  (672-2) 1931 c 330 s 2; 1951 c 131 s 2,3; 1984 c 629 s 2
MN Stat § 375.34 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.34 — Memorial Day, Appropriation For Observance.

375.34 MEMORIAL DAY, APPROPRIATION FOR OBSERVANCE. The county board of each county may appropriate from the revenue fund of the county not more than $3,500 annually to aid in the observance of Memorial Day in commemoration of the noble and valiant deeds of the nation's soldier dead. History:  (762) 1911 c 109 s 1; 1955 c 24 s 1; 1979 c 310 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 2008 c 192 s 1
MN Stat § 375.35 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.35 — $300 To Military Service Organizations For Memorial Day.

375.35 $300 TO MILITARY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS FOR MEMORIAL DAY. A county board may also appropriate annually not more than $300 to each post of a recognized military service persons' organization or society, holding charter from Congress or incorporated in this state, organized and existing in the county, to defray the expenses of Memorial Day exercises. History:  (762-1) 1921 c 233 s 1; 1927 c 407; 1949 c 120 s 1; 1974 c 161 s 14; 1979 c 310 s 2; 1984 c 629 s 2; 2008 c 192 s 2
MN Stat § 375.36 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 375 — County Boards|Section 375.36 — May Buy And Keep Up Part Of Cemetery As Soldiers' Rest.

375.36 MAY BUY AND KEEP UP PART OF CEMETERY AS SOLDIERS' REST. Subdivision 1.  County powers; soldiers' rest. A county board may purchase a plot of ground in any duly organized cemetery lying, in whole or part, in the county, or in a contiguous county, to be designated and used exclusively as a soldiers' rest. The county may appropriate money for its cost, embellishment, and upkeep, and for the opening and the closing of graves in it. Subd. 2. Veteran may run. The board may use the portion of the appropriation as it deems necessary for compensation and expenses of an agent, who shall be a veteran, to care for the burial ground and to issue permits for burial in it. Subd. 3. Except Ramsey County. This section does not apply to Ramsey County. History:  (763) 1917 c 60 s 1; 1923 c 335 s 1; 1937 c 178 s 1; 1945 c 257 s 1; 1974 c 435 art 7 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 2006 c 176 s 1