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MN Stat § 383A.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.05 — Assessment.

383A.05 ASSESSMENT. Subdivision 1. Appropriation for assessment. Ramsey County may, each year, appropriate enough money to defray the expense of making a proper assessment of all property in the county for the purpose of general taxation. Subd. 2. Expenditures; experts. Ramsey County shall appropriate and expend, in the manner and in the amount that it considers necessary, the money needed to defray the expense of properly conducting the office of the county assessor; the expenditure to include the hiring of experts upon property values for any period considered necessary, the payment of the transportation expense of these experts or other employees in traveling from place to place in the county, and generally any expense reasonably and directly tending to the procurement of a fair and true assessment of property inside the county; but all expenses of this kind shall be made under the supervision of, and with the consent of, the county assessor. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0203
MN Stat § 383A.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.06 — Welfare.

383A.06 WELFARE. Subdivision 1. Financing. Ramsey County shall pay all of the costs of relief of the poor therein and be responsible for all welfare programs within the county, the cost of which is not met from federal, state or private sources. Subd. 2. Borrowing. (a) Authority. Ramsey County is granted authority to borrow funds and pledge the credit of the county for repayment of the funds for the support of the poor; the governing body of Ramsey County may issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness to pay therefor when authorized to do so as provided in this subdivision or the charter. (b) Bonds. All bonds issued pursuant to this subdivision are to be sold in the manner prescribed by chapter 475, and mature serially, the first installment of which becoming due in not more than three years and the last of which becoming due and payable in not more than ten years from the date of issue. These bonds shall bear interest at an annual rate of not to exceed six percent, payable semiannually, and the governing body of Ramsey County shall provide for the payment thereof in the manner prescribed by chapter 475, and the governing body of Ramsey County shall negotiate and sell the bonds, from time to time, in the amounts that the board of county commissioners sees fit. While any of these bonds are outstanding and unpaid, there shall be annually levied and collected a tax upon all real and personal property in Ramsey County, sufficient to pay the principal and interest of these bonds as they respectively become due and payable. (c) Emergency borrowing. The provisions of this subdivision requiring the submission of the question of issuing bonds for the relief of the poor to a vote of the people does not supersede any law of the state, or charter provision, permitting, in cases of emergency, the issuance of bonds or the borrowing of funds for the relief of the poor without obtaining such a vote. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1991 c 51 s 6] History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0204; 1978 c 743 s 1; 1991 c 51 s 1
MN Stat § 383A.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.08 — Detention And Corrections.

383A.08 DETENTION AND CORRECTIONS. Subdivision 1. Authority. Ramsey County may maintain, operate and manage a detention facility, workhouse, work farm or juvenile detention facility, or a combination of them. Subd. 2. Home schools. The county has the exclusive power to construct, maintain, operate and administer, or combine or abolish, the county home schools for boys and girls existing under Minnesota Statutes 1971, section 260.094. Subd. 3. Acquisition of land. The county shall bear the cost and expense of acquiring land for erecting, equipping and furnishing a facility. Subd. 4. Education. The board of education, commissioner of education, or others having charge of the public schools where a juvenile detention facility is located may furnish the necessary instructors, school books and school supplies for the boys and girls placed in the juvenile detention facility. Subd. 5. Detention of minors. No sheriff, municipal police officer or other person having charge of a minor under the age of 18 years chargeable with a crime may detain the minor in a public facility other than a county juvenile detention facility. Subd. 6. Rules and regulations. The county may promulgate rules and regulations for the proper operation and maintenance of each facility and the proper care and discipline of inmates detained in the facility. These rules and regulations may, among other things, provide for the diminution of sentences of inmates for good behavior in accordance with section 643.29. Subd. 7. Confinement of inmates from other counties. The county may accept an inmate for confinement at a county correction facility when the inmate is committed to the facility by order of a judge of a municipality or county outside Ramsey County if the county is paid the amount of compensation for board, confinement, and maintenance of the inmate that it determines. A county outside Ramsey County or a municipality outside Ramsey County may enter into and agree with Ramsey County for the incarceration of prisoners. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0206; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 2003 c 130 s 12; 2007 c 54 art 6 s 14,15
MN Stat § 383A.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.11 — Morgue.

383A.11 MORGUE. Ramsey County shall construct or otherwise provide, equip, maintain and operate a public morgue. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0207; 1978 c 743 s 2
MN Stat § 383A.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.14 — Air Quality.

383A.14 AIR QUALITY. Subdivision 1. Appropriation. Ramsey County may appropriate and spend money in each year for the improvement and preservation of the purity and quality of the air. Subd. 2. Joint powers. Ramsey County may enter into contractual agreements with another governmental unit, body or group of bodies inside or outside the county without regard to whether the other governmental unit, body or group of bodies be a unit of state, county or municipal government or a school district, authority, or special district to perform on behalf of that unit, body or group of bodies the improvement and preservation of the purity and quality of the air. Subd. 3. Ordinance. Ramsey County may, by ordinance, enact and enforce rules controlling the purity and quality of the air. No rule adopted by the county pursuant to this subdivision is effective within a governmental unit until ratified by the governing body of the governmental unit affected. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0207; 1978 c 743 s 2
MN Stat § 383A.155 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.155 — Housing Improvement Areas.

383A.155 HOUSING IMPROVEMENT AREAS. Subdivision 1. Powers of a housing improvement authority. The Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority shall have the powers of a city under sections 428A.11 to 428A.21 to establish housing improvement areas in Ramsey County. Subd. 2. Definitions. (a) For purposes of exercising the powers in sections 428A.11 to 428A.21, references in those sections to the terms in paragraphs (b) to (e) have the meanings given them for purposes of this section. (b) "Mayor" means the chair of the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority. (c) "Council" or "governing body of the city" means the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority. (d) "City clerk" means the person designated by the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority to carry out the duties of the city clerk under sections 428A.11 to 428A.21. (e) "Enabling ordinance" means a resolution adopted under subdivision 3 by the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority. Subd. 3. Establishment of housing improvement areas. The Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority may adopt a resolution establishing one or more housing improvement areas within the county under this section. The Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority shall send a copy of each petition for the establishment of a housing improvement area to the city in which the proposed housing improvement area is located. The public hearings under sections 428A.13 and 428A.14 may be held at the times and places determined by the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, except that they must be held at least 30 days after the date the applicable petition was sent to the city. If the city council adopts a resolution opposing the establishment within 30 days of the date the copy of the petition was sent to the city under this subdivision, the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority may not establish the proposed housing improvement area. Subd. 4. Applicability. Except as otherwise provided in this section, sections 428A.11 to 428A.21 apply to the establishment of a housing improvement area by the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority. History:   2014 c 308 art 6 s 1
MN Stat § 383A.16 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.16 — Highway Improvements.

383A.16 HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS. Subdivision 1.  [Repealed, 1994 c 439 s 4] Subd. 2. Duty to appropriate for municipal streets; formula. (a) Ramsey County shall appropriate $100,000 annually and pay it to the municipalities in the county who do not receive municipal state-aid street funds, to aid these municipalities in the maintenance of former county roads and county state-aid highways that have been transferred to municipal jurisdiction or town roads as a result of implementation of the recommendation for functional consolidation by the Ramsey County Local Government Services Study Commission in its March 1992 report of the Ramsey County Local Government Services Study Commission. (b) This appropriation shall be apportioned by allocating $8,000 per mile for each mile of former county roads and county state-aid highways received by each municipality. These funds shall be spent on municipal roads, streets, or bridges by the governing body of each municipality. (c) The $8,000 appropriation shall increase or decrease each year by an amount equal to the overall increase or decrease reflected in the Engineering News Record Index. (d) Failure to provide the appropriation will result in the cities returning the "turnback roads" to Ramsey County, if the city so chooses. Subd. 3. Certificate. On or before March 15 of each year, the county engineer shall certify the actual number of miles of roads inside and maintained exclusively by the municipalities outside the city of Saint Paul. The mileage so certified shall not include undeveloped roads, even though the plat thereof may have been filed for record. Subd. 4. May authorize work without bids. In Ramsey County, the governing body of a city, village or town therein may authorize the county to construct and maintain any or all of its highways without advertising for bids. Subd. 5.  [Repealed, 1991 c 51 s 6] Subd. 6. Condition of highways transferred. Ramsey County shall, before transferring any highway jurisdiction under subdivision 2, improve each highway to be transferred to a condition consistent with a Ramsey County pavement management system score of 90. Subd. 7. Definition. For purposes of this section "municipality" means a home rule or statutory city and the town of White Bear. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0209; 1975 c 426 s 5; 1977 c 402 s 1; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 13 s 20; 1991 c 51 s 2; 1994 c 439 s 1-3
MN Stat § 383A.165 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.165 — Seasonal Highway Load Restrictions.

383A.165 SEASONAL HIGHWAY LOAD RESTRICTIONS. Despite section 169.87, subdivision 2, seasonal load restrictions from March 20 to May 15 of each year do not apply to county highways and county state-aid highways in Ramsey County unless otherwise restricted and posted by the appropriate Ramsey County authority as provided in section 169.87, subdivision 1. History:   1985 c 29 s 1
MN Stat § 383A.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.17 — Capitol Approach.

383A.17 CAPITOL APPROACH. Ramsey County shall withdraw from repurchase each parcel of land within the Capitol Area that has been forfeited to the state for taxes. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0210
MN Stat § 383A.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.18 — Soldiers' Rest.

383A.18 SOLDIERS' REST. Subdivision 1. Authority to buy cemetery lots. Ramsey County may purchase a plot of ground in an organized cemetery lying, in whole or in part, in the county, or in a contiguous county, to be used as a soldiers' rest for the interment of honorably discharged deceased military veterans of the United States and their spouses and minor children. Subd. 2. Authority to hire an agent. Ramsey County may compensate the expenses of an agent, who must be a veteran, to care for the soldiers' rest and to issue permits for burial in it. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0212; 1981 c 42 s 1
MN Stat § 383A.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.19 — Codification Of Special Laws.

383A.19 CODIFICATION OF SPECIAL LAWS. Ramsey County may collect and publish the special laws pertaining to Ramsey County. History:  1974 c 435 s 1.0213; 1978 c 743 s 5
MN Stat § 383A.201 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.201 — Officials Not To Be Interested In Contracts.

383A.201 OFFICIALS NOT TO BE INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS. No Ramsey County official or the official's deputy, clerk, or employee and no commissioner for tax-forfeited lands or the commissioner's assistants, may have a personal financial interest (1) in a contract, work, labor, or business to which the county is a party or in which it is or may be interested, (2) or in the furnishing of an article to, or the purchase or sale of any real or personal property by the county, or of which the consideration, price, or expense is payable from the county treasury. A violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor. History:   1988 c 500 s 2
MN Stat § 383A.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.21 — Fees Of The Court Administrator Of District Court, Coroner And County Recorder.

383A.21 FEES OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR OF DISTRICT COURT, CORONER AND COUNTY RECORDER. The board of county commissioners shall set the fees to be charged and collected for the services of the court administrator of district court, coroner and county recorder. These officers shall file schedules of the fees in their offices. History:  1978 c 743 s 7; 1986 c 444; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 82
MN Stat § 383A.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.22 — Fee System For County Services, Document Processing.

383A.22 FEE SYSTEM FOR COUNTY SERVICES, DOCUMENT PROCESSING. Subdivision 1. After hearing. The board of county commissioners, after a public hearing, may establish a system of fees or charges for recording, filing, certification or providing copies of an instrument, document or other paper, or for the services of a county office, official, department, or employee thereof, or a court system located entirely inside the county. Subd. 2. Not for uniform state fees, shared fees. Subdivision 1 does not apply to a fee or charge concerning a service, license, permit or document established by law as uniformly applicable to all counties of the state. Subdivision 1 does not amend any law that provides that a charge or fee is returnable in whole or part to the state, or any of its subdivisions or any other agency. Subd. 3. Extra service based on cost. When a service is requested of a county office or agent, beyond that which would normally be provided in the ordinary course of business of the office or agent, the board of county commissioners, after a public hearing, may establish a fee or charge for it based upon the cost of providing the service. History:   1978 c 743 s 8
MN Stat § 383A.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.23 — Commissioners; Composition; Redistricting.

383A.23 COMMISSIONERS; COMPOSITION; REDISTRICTING. Subdivision 1.  [Repealed, 1991 c 51 s 6] Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 48] Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 48] Subd. 4.  [Repealed, 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 48] Subd. 5. Future redistricting. The redistricting of Ramsey County is governed by section 375.025. History:  1977 c 291 s 1; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 49
MN Stat § 383A.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.26 — Organization.

383A.26 ORGANIZATION. In addition to the election of a vice-chair as prescribed by the general laws of this state, the county board shall elect a second vice-chair, who shall perform the duties of the chair and vice-chair in their absence. History:  1974 c 435 s 2.04; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 383A.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.27 — Procedure.

383A.27 PROCEDURE. Subdivision 1. Meetings. In addition to meeting on the days prescribed by the general laws of this state, the Board of County Commissioners of Ramsey County shall meet at least twice each month at the times and dates established by the board at its first meeting in January of each year to transact any business that may properly come before the board. Subd. 2. Rules; journal. The board shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall provide for keeping a journal of its official proceedings. This journal shall be a public record and shall be published according to section 375.12, in a newspaper having in the county its own office of issue and doing its typographic composition and presswork in the county. History:  1974 c 435 s 2.05; 1977 c 291 s 3; 1979 c 313 s 1; 1984 c 543 s 45
MN Stat § 383A.282 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.282 — County Board Responsibilities.

383A.282 COUNTY BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES. Subject to sections 383A.281 to 383A.301 and other law, the county board shall fix the annual salary of county officials and determine the number and compensation of all employees in the county personnel system. History:   1985 c 89 s 2
MN Stat § 383A.283 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.283 — Human Resources Department.

383A.283 HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT. Subdivision 1. Creation. The Human Resources Department is created under the supervision of the director of human resources. Subd. 2. Director. The director shall be appointed by the Ramsey County executive director, on the basis of merit and fitness as a result of a competitive examination, subject to the approval of the county board. The director shall be in the classified service and shall report directly to and be supervised by the Ramsey County executive director. Subd. 3. Responsibilities. The human resources director shall provide personnel management services and assistance to all county departments, enforce any personnel rules and regulations adopted by the county board, and carry out the responsibilities set forth in sections 383A.281 to 383A.301. History:  1985 c 89 s 3; 2017 c 28 s 2
MN Stat § 383A.287 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.287 — Personnel Review Board.

383A.287 PERSONNEL REVIEW BOARD. Subdivision 1. Creation. The Ramsey County Personnel Review Board is created to review disciplinary appeals and conduct performance reviews of the Human Resources Department. Subd. 2. Organization. The county board, by a majority vote, shall appoint seven persons to the Personnel Review Board to serve four-year staggered terms. Any vacancies shall be filled by a majority vote of the county board for the unexpired term. Each member shall hold office until a successor has been appointed. Membership on the Personnel Review Board shall be limited as follows: (a) each member shall take an oath of office before assuming the duties of office; (b) no person shall be a member of the Personnel Review Board while holding a public office, or while holding office in a political party above the state legislative district level, nor for two years after having held that kind of public or political office; and (c) each member shall be a resident of the county and if a member becomes a nonresident, the member forfeits the office. Subd. 3. Removal from office. A Personnel Review Board member may be removed from office by the county board for cause, after a copy of the charges has first been given to the member and opportunity of being publicly heard before the county board, upon not less than ten days' written notice. A majority vote of the county board shall be required for removal. Subd. 4. Compensation. Compensation for members of the Personnel Review Board shall be set by resolution of the county board. Subd. 5. Responsibilities. (a) Nondisciplinary appeals. The Personnel Review Board shall hear all nondisciplinary personnel appeals as defined in the rules adopted by the county board pursuant to section 383A.284, subdivision 1. (b) Grievances and disciplinary appeals. All appeals or grievances relating to discharge, suspension, demotion for cause, salary decrease, or other disciplinary action shall be heard by an administrative law judge appointed pursuant to section 14.55. The administrative law judge shall hear the grievance or appeal and report a recommendation to the Personnel Review Board in a timely manner consistent with section 383A.294 and the rules and regulations promulgated by the county board. (c) Review of Human Resources Department performance. Periodically, as requested by the county board, the Personnel Review Board shall review, report, and make recommendations to the county board regarding Human Resources Department services, procedures, and practices. History:  1985 c 89 s 7; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 162 s 1; 2017 c 28 s 2
MN Stat § 383A.289 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities|Chapter 383A — Ramsey County|Section 383A.289 — Eligible Lists.

383A.289 ELIGIBLE LISTS. Subdivision 1. General. The human resources director shall prepare eligible lists as provided in this section. Subd. 2. Rank. On competitive open and competitive promotional lists eligibles shall be ranked according to their ratings in examinations and any veteran's preference required by law. Subd. 3. Term of eligibility. The term of eligibility of eligibles on lists shall be determined by the human resources director. History:  1985 c 89 s 9; 2017 c 28 s 1,2