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2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.191 — Time Limit On Improvements.

435.191 TIME LIMIT ON IMPROVEMENTS.
When the governing body of a city determines to make any local improvement, it shall let the contract for all or part of the work, or order all or part of the work done by day labor or otherwise as may be authorized by law, no later than one year after the adoption of the resolution ordering such improvement, unless a different time limit is specifically stated in the resolution ordering the improvement.
History:
1978 c 518 s 3; 1980 c 509 s 165
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.193 — Hardship Assessment Deferral For Seniors, Disabled, Or Military Persons.

435.193 HARDSHIP ASSESSMENT DEFERRAL FOR SENIORS, DISABLED, OR MILITARY PERSONS.
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, any county, statutory or home rule charter city, or town, making a special assessment may, at its discretion, defer the payment of that assessment for any homestead property:
(1) owned by a person 65 years of age or older or retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments; or
(2) owned by a person who is a member of the Minnesota National Guard or other military reserves who is ordered into active military service, as defined in section 190.05, subdivision 5b or 5c, as stated in the person's military orders, for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments.
(b) Any county, statutory or home rule charter city, or town electing to defer special assessments shall adopt an ordinance or resolution establishing standards and guidelines for determining the existence of a hardship and for determining the existence of a disability, but nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the determination of hardship on the basis of exceptional and unusual circumstances not covered by the standards and guidelines where the determination is made in a nondiscriminatory manner and does not give the applicant an unreasonable preference or advantage over other applicants.
History:
1974 c 206 s 7; 1976 c 195 s 3; 1981 c 80 s 1; 2008 c 154 art 2 s 28
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.194 — Procedure To Obtain Deferred Assessment.

435.194 PROCEDURE TO OBTAIN DEFERRED ASSESSMENT.
The homeowner shall make application for deferred payment of special assessments on forms prescribed by the county auditor of the county in which the homestead is located. Where the deferred assessment is granted, the auditor shall record a notice thereof with the county recorder of said county which shall set forth the amount of the assessment. The taxing authority may determine by ordinance or resolution the amount of interest, if any, on the deferred assessment and this rate shall be recorded by the auditor along with and in the same manner as the amount of the assessment.
History:
1974 c 206 s 8; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1976 c 195 s 4
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.195 — Termination Of Right To Deferred Payment.

435.195 TERMINATION OF RIGHT TO DEFERRED PAYMENT.
The option to defer the payment of special assessments shall terminate and all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest, shall become due upon the occurrence of any of the following events: (a) the death of the owner, provided that the spouse is otherwise not eligible for the benefits hereunder; (b) the sale, transfer or subdivision of the property or any part thereof; (c) if the property should for any reason lose its homestead status; or (d) if for any reason the taxing authority deferring the payments shall determine that there would be no hardship to require immediate or partial payment.
History:
1974 c 206 s 9
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.201 — Municipality Defined.

435.201 MUNICIPALITY DEFINED.
For the purposes of sections 435.201 to 435.203 "municipality" means any city, whether operating under general or special law or home rule charter provisions, and any town.
History:
1955 c 841 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.202 — Improvements Abandoned.

435.202 IMPROVEMENTS ABANDONED.
Subdivision 1.
Cancellation of assessments.
When a local improvement proposed to be made by any municipality under any procedure is abandoned before it is completed to an extent sufficient to result in benefits equal to special assessments which have theretofore been levied for such improvement, the municipality shall notify the municipal treasurer or the county auditor, whichever is acting as collecting agent for such special assessments, of such fact. Upon such notification, all installments of such assessments and interest thereon which are not already collected or in the process of collection shall be canceled by such officers. However, nothing herein shall prevent the municipality from making a reassessment of any amount not exceeding the special benefits which actually accrue from the improvement to part or all of the properties originally assessed, and nothing herein shall affect the obligations of the municipality to provide funds sufficient to pay any bonds issued to finance the improvement and the interest thereon.
Subd. 2.
Refund of assessments.
The governing body of the municipality shall also notify the municipal clerk or recorder of such fact, who shall forthwith provide notice appropriate to inform interested persons describing the improvement and stating that it has been abandoned and that any person who paid any special assessments levied on account of such improvement may file a claim, within six months following the date of the notice, for refund of such assessments paid by the person, together with any interest paid thereon. The municipality is not required to, but may, pay such claims filed after the period allowed, and it may require any claimant to furnish satisfactory evidence that the claimant paid the amounts claimed. Such claims may be paid out of moneys in the fund of the improvement which was abandoned, unless obligations have been issued payable therefrom, or they may be paid out of moneys in the general fund.
Subd. 3.
Transfer of assessments not canceled or refunded.
Any such assessments not canceled under subdivision 1, or not refunded under subdivision 2, shall be transferred to the general fund of the municipality, if not needed to pay costs of the improvement and if not held in a debt redemption fund.
History:
1955 c 841 s 2; 1984 c 543 s 58; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.203 — Transfer Of Fund When Improvement Complete; Refund.

435.203 TRANSFER OF FUND WHEN IMPROVEMENT COMPLETE; REFUND.
Any money now or hereafter remaining in a fund heretofore or hereafter created by a municipality for making one or more local improvements, after such improvement or improvements have been completed and all claims against and obligations of said fund have been satisfied, shall be transferred to the general fund of the municipality; provided that the council may in its discretion authorize and direct the municipal treasurer to refund all or part of such moneys to the persons who paid the assessments for the improvement or improvements, following the procedure set forth in section 435.202, subdivision 2. The amount to be refunded in respect of the assessment against each property shall be proportionate to the original principal amount thereof, and shall be paid to the claimant or claimants who paid the last installment or installments of the assessment aggregating more than the amount to be refunded. No refund shall be made in respect to any assessment which is delinquent as to either principal or interest. Any installment of any assessment which is not collected or in the process of collection at the time when refunds may be made under this section shall be canceled as provided in section 435.202, subdivision 1.
History:
1955 c 841 s 3
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.22 — Special Assessment Improvement Bonds, Sale Below Par.

435.22 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT IMPROVEMENT BONDS, SALE BELOW PAR.
Each city of the first class in this state, in addition to all other powers and authorities possessed by it, is hereby authorized and shall have power and authority, acting by and through its council, to sell to the highest responsible bidder therefor for cash, for the par value thereof or for less than the par value thereof, any special certificates of indebtedness or any special street or parkway improvement bonds which the city is or shall be authorized by its charter or by any law of this state to issue and sell for the purpose of realizing funds for the acquisition of lands for and improvement of public streets, parks, or parkways in the city or for the purpose of improving existing public streets, parks, or parkways in the city, notwithstanding any provision of its charter or any provision of any law of this state providing for the sale of any such certificates of indebtedness or special street or parkway bonds at not less than their par value. These special certificates of indebtedness and special bonds may be made to bear interest not to exceed five percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually, the rate of interest to be fixed and determined by the council of the city issuing the same, and these certificates of indebtedness and special bonds shall be sold only at public sale or by sealed proposals upon giving at least two weeks' published notice of the sale.
History:
(1625) 1921 c 226 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.23 — Reassess Tax-forfeited Land Back In Private Ownership.

435.23 REASSESS TAX-FORFEITED LAND BACK IN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.
Any municipality, political subdivision, or other public authority may make a reassessment or new assessment pursuant to section 429.071, subdivision 4, notwithstanding that the original assessment may have been made pursuant to other general law or a special law.
History:
1976 c 259 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.27 — Application.

435.27 APPLICATION.
Section 435.26 shall be applicable to cities governed by a charter adopted pursuant to the Constitution of the state of Minnesota, article 4, section 36, article XI, section 4, or article XII, section 5.
History:
(1550-6) 1911 c 152 s 6; 1997 c 7 art 4 s 3
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.44 — Sidewalk Improvement Districts; Costs Split By Benefit.

435.44 SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS; COSTS SPLIT BY BENEFIT.
Subdivision 1.
Authorized.
Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish sidewalk improvement districts within a municipality, and have authority to defray all or part of the total costs of sidewalk construction and repair by district benefits and apportioning the district's cost to all of the parcels located in the district on a direct or indirect benefit basis.
Subd. 2.
For safety.
The governing body of any municipality may establish sidewalk districts on the basis that all areas within each district have safe pedestrian walkways to and from schools and school bus stops, public transportation facilities, and other services to the neighborhood and community.
Subd. 3.
Uniformity; wide sidewalks; indirect benefit.
The total costs of sidewalk district improvements may be apportioned and assessed to all parcels or tracts of land located in the established assessment district on a uniform basis as to each classification of real estate. Where sidewalk widths are wider than the standard width of the district, the additional costs may be assessed as a direct benefit to the abutting property. An indirect district benefit assessment may involve all parcels or tracts of land located in the assessment district without regard to location of sidewalks, as it is deemed that all parcels or tracts of land within the assessment district benefit equally.
Subd. 4.
Up to five years.
The governing body may assess the costs on all district sidewalk improvements up to a maximum of five years on equal annual installments, plus interest on the unpaid balance.
History:
1974 c 59 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.47 — Purchasing Water.

435.47 PURCHASING WATER.
The council of any statutory city lying adjacent to a city of the first class which has not theretofore operated a municipal water system but which has installed water and sewer mains to serve the inhabitants thereof, which sewer and water mains connect with said mains installed by the city, is hereby authorized to furnish water and sewer services by purchasing water from the water department of said city and reselling the same to the inhabitants of the statutory city. The council of any such statutory city may by resolution duly adopted determine to install necessary improvements, additions, and extensions to the existing sewer and water mains for such purposes and may assess the cost of such improvements, additions, and extensions upon property benefited thereby in accordance with the procedure of section 429.061, and may thereafter issue certificates of indebtedness of the statutory city in anticipation of the collection of said assessments in accordance with the provisions of section 429.091.
History:
1947 c 460 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.51 — Extension To Public Institutions.

435.51 EXTENSION TO PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
A city which is contiguous to any tract of land upon which is situated a public institution of the state is authorized:
(1) to extend the service facilities of any public utility or sewage system thereof beyond the corporate limits of the city to provide service for the public institution, provided the cost of construction of the extension is paid by the state if the state does not itself construct the extension;
(2) to operate and maintain such extension and provide the public utility and sewage services upon payment of compensation therefor by the state in such amount as may be agreed upon by the city and the state.
History:
1953 c 505 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 426 - 435 — Municipal Finance, Taxation, Special Assessments › Chapter 435 — Public Improvements, Other Proceedings › Section 435.56 — Proceedings.

435.56 PROCEEDINGS.
When proceedings for any public improvement are instituted under any law authorizing the same, and all thereof are instituted to the governing body of the municipality at substantially the same dates and the governing body may by resolution determine that these various improvements, although separately instituted, can be more economically completed if consolidated and joined as one project, the governing body shall have the power by resolution to consolidate these various proceedings for these separate improvements, and after the consolidation all subsequent proceedings shall be conducted in all respects as if the various separate proceedings had originally been instituted as one proceeding.
History:
(1918-14 1/2c) 1939 c 156 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 436 — Law Enforcement Agreements › Section 436.05 — Contracts For Police Services.

436.05 CONTRACTS FOR POLICE SERVICES.
Subdivision 1.
Governing bodies must approve.
Any home rule charter or statutory city, town or the sheriff of any county may contract for the furnishing of police service to any other home rule charter or statutory city or town, through the use of personnel and equipment subject to the authority of the contracting unit. Any such contract shall be approved by a majority of the members of the governing body of any contracting home rule charter or statutory city, the board of supervisors of any contracting town and the board of commissioners of any contracting county.
Subd. 2.
Section 471.59 effect.
Except as provided in this section, any contract authorized by subdivision 1 shall otherwise comply with section 471.59.
Subd. 3.
Not employees.
Under any such contract, a person employed by a home rule charter or statutory city, town or sheriff of a county may be empowered to exercise some or all of the police powers and duties of a police officer of the other contracting unit, but that person shall not by reason thereof be classified as an employee of the other unit for any purpose other than the discharge of such powers and duties.
Subd. 4.
All joint procedures apply.
Subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 above do not dispense with procedural requirements of any other act providing for the joint or cooperative exercise of any governmental power.
Subd. 5.
Sheriff duties administered.
The sheriff shall not by virtue of this section be relieved of any duties imposed by law.
Subd. 6.
Employees may be transferred.
When a contract is entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section, those employees of a contracting unit who are at the time of the contract working on a full time basis for the unit in a law enforcement capacity may, by action of the civil service authorities of the contracting units, if they exist, become employees of the other contracting unit in such appropriate classification as may be determined by the civil service authority of the unit to which they are transferred, and thereafter the employees shall be subject to and protected by the provisions of the laws establishing the civil service authority of the unit that employs them.
History:
1961 c 415 s 1-6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1980 c 519 s 7; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 437 — Regulating Transient Merchants Or Amusements › Section 437.02 — Power To Regulate Transient Merchants.

437.02 POWER TO REGULATE TRANSIENT MERCHANTS.
Every city, in addition to all other powers given the city by law or charter, may by ordinance regulate, control, and license transient merchants and provide for the punishment of persons violating such ordinances.
History:
(1840) 1909 c 84 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 44 s 40
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 437 — Regulating Transient Merchants Or Amusements › Section 437.07 — Itinerant Places Of Amusement.

437.07 ITINERANT PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.
No town board or other public authority shall hereafter issue any license or permit or make any other grant of authority permitting the operation or carrying on of any itinerant carnival, street show, street fair, sideshow, circus, or any similar enterprise within one mile of the corporate limits of any city of the fourth class in this state without having first obtained in writing the consent thereto of the council or other governing body of the city.
History:
(1929-1) 1925 c 366 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 437 — Regulating Transient Merchants Or Amusements › Section 437.08 — Licenses Or Permits Void.

437.08 LICENSES OR PERMITS VOID.
Any license, permit, or other grant of authority issued or made in violation of the provisions of sections 437.07 to 437.10 shall be absolutely null and void.
History:
(1929-2) 1925 c 366 s 2; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 82
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 437 — Regulating Transient Merchants Or Amusements › Section 437.09 — Shows Prohibited Without License.

437.09 SHOWS PROHIBITED WITHOUT LICENSE.
No person, firm, copartnership, corporation, or association of any nature or kind shall operate or attempt to operate or carry on any itinerant carnival, street show, street fair, sideshow, circus, or any similar enterprise within one mile of the corporate limits of any city of the fourth class in this state without license or permit so to do lawfully granted under the restrictions provided in sections 437.07 to 437.10.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any such enterprise operated without license or permit as herein prescribed is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
History:
(1929-3) 1925 c 366 s 3; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 83
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 437 — Regulating Transient Merchants Or Amusements › Section 437.10 — Definition.

437.10 DEFINITION.
An itinerant carnival, street show, street fair, sideshow, circus, or other similar enterprise, within the meaning of sections 437.07 to 437.10, is any itinerant carnival, street show, street fair, sideshow, circus, or other similar enterprise, which is held, operated, or carried on in the open or indoors or upon or within any public or private ground, at which there congregates and assembles, with or without the payment of an admission fee, a promiscuous gathering of people as spectators or otherwise.
History:
(1929-4) 1925 c 366 s 4; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 84
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 438 — Fire Prevention › Section 438.05 — Fire Marshal.

438.05 FIRE MARSHAL.
In every city of the first class in the state which does not now have an official in its fire department designated and acting as fire marshal, under the charter of the city, there is hereby created the office of fire marshal and it shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department of the city to appoint from among the members of the fire department a fire marshal, who shall hold office until removed for cause.
History:
(1423) 1911 c 94 s 1; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 438 — Fire Prevention › Section 438.06 — Duties, Powers, Compensation.

438.06 DUTIES, POWERS, COMPENSATION.
It shall be the duty of the fire marshal to examine all property within the city and enforce the ordinances of the city relating to the care of chimneys, the storage and handling of explosives and enforce all other ordinances and laws of the state pertaining to precautions against danger from fires. The fire marshal shall have power to enter any dwelling or other building between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for the purpose of making this examination, and shall examine into the cause of every fire which shall happen in the city and make a complete report of the same, and make a report thereof monthly to the chief of the fire department. The fire marshal shall report all violations of ordinances of the city and laws of the state relating to the public safety, in all public buildings, and shall sign and file complaints before the proper prosecuting officers for the enforcement of these ordinances. The fire marshal shall receive as compensation a sum to be fixed by the board of fire commissioners, not less than the salary paid a captain of the fire department of the city.
History:
(1424) 1911 c 94 s 2; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 438 — Fire Prevention › Section 438.08 — Municipalities To Fight Fires Outside Of Limits.

438.08 MUNICIPALITIES TO FIGHT FIRES OUTSIDE OF LIMITS.
The council or any other body of any municipality having control of its fire department may by resolution adopted by a five-sevenths vote authorize its fire department, or any portion thereof, to attend and serve at fires outside of the limits of the municipality either within or without the state. In case the fire department is controlled by an individual this authorization shall be by written notice posted at the headquarters of the fire department.
History:
(1919-1) 1929 c 232 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 438 — Fire Prevention › Section 438.09 — Fire Department May Get Compensated For Outside Fire.

438.09 FIRE DEPARTMENT MAY GET COMPENSATED FOR OUTSIDE FIRE.
The body or person having control of a municipal fire department shall have authority to contract with other municipalities or private groups for compensation for services rendered in fighting fires as provided in section 438.08. The compensation agreed shall be a legal charge and collectible by the municipality rendering the service in any court of competent jurisdiction.
History:
(1919-2) 1929 c 232 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 438 — Fire Prevention › Section 438.10 — Firefighters At Outside Fires Are In Line Of Regular Duties.

438.10 FIREFIGHTERS AT OUTSIDE FIRES ARE IN LINE OF REGULAR DUTIES.
All municipal firefighters attending and serving at fires outside of the limits of the municipality as authorized in section 438.08 shall be considered as serving in their regular line of duties as fully as if they were serving within the limits of their own municipality.
History:
(1919-3) 1929 c 232 s 3; 1977 c 429 s 63
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 436 - 439 — Municipal Public Safety › Chapter 438 — Fire Prevention › Section 438.11 — Cities; Expenses To Conventions, Payment.

438.11 CITIES; EXPENSES TO CONVENTIONS, PAYMENT.
The governing body of any city of this state, however organized, may appropriate such reasonable sums of money as it deems proper to defray the expenses of members of its regularly organized fire department in attending the state convention of the Minnesota State Fire Department Association, the Minnesota State Fire School, and to meetings of regional firefighter's associations.
The term "expenses" shall include payment of a reasonable per diem while in attendance at any such meeting to members of a fire department who are not on a fixed monthly salary.
History:
(1919-4) 1931 c 150 s 1; 1953 c 429 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1977 c 429 s 63
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.08 — Acquiring Property And Easements For Streets, Highways.

440.08 ACQUIRING PROPERTY AND EASEMENTS FOR STREETS, HIGHWAYS.
Each city of the first class in this state, acting through its council, in addition to all other powers possessed by the city, is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or condemnation any lands or property and any rights and easements therein which may be needed or required by the city for public street and highway uses or purposes; including among others easements for public streets and highways and bridges and approaches thereto, with necessary supports and abutments therefor, within its corporate boundaries notwithstanding the fact that the property so needed or required has been acquired by the owner under the power of eminent domain or is already devoted to a public use.
History:
(1538-1) 1927 c 114 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.09 — Condemnation Proceedings.

440.09 CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS.
Proceedings in eminent domain under sections 440.08 and 440.09 shall be in pursuance of chapter 117. The city, upon giving the notice required by section 117.042, or upon the filing of the report of the commissioners as provided in section 117.115 may enter upon and appropriate the lands so condemned or any distinct parcel thereof, without the giving of any bonds, but in case of such entry and appropriation the city shall be bound absolutely to pay all damages awarded, whether by commissioners acting under chapter 117, or by the court upon appeal from their award, together with all costs and expenses adjudged against it in the proceedings, and the court shall issue a writ to the sheriff of the county to put the city in possession. In case the city shall take appeal in any such proceedings it shall not be required to give or file any appeal bond.
History:
(1538-2) 1927 c 114 s 2; 1973 c 35 s 71
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.11 — Street Name Change; Ordinance.

440.11 STREET NAME CHANGE; ORDINANCE.
The council of each home rule charter city of the second, third, or fourth class may by ordinance change the name of and rename any of the streets, lanes, avenues, public highways, parks, and public grounds of the city. Immediately after publication, the ordinance shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the city is located.
History:
1901 c 226 s 1; 1976 c 44 s 41; 1976 c 181 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.13 — Council May Vacate Streets In Cities Of The Fourth Class.

440.13 COUNCIL MAY VACATE STREETS IN CITIES OF THE FOURTH CLASS.
In any city of the fourth class organized under a home rule charter, the council thereof shall have power by a majority vote of the council to vacate any street or highway, or any part of any street or highway therein, upon the petition of all the owners of lands abutting both sides of the street or highway, or part thereof, proposed to be vacated wherein one end of the street or highway, or part thereof proposed to be vacated does not connect with any other street or highway. If any part of the street or highway proposed to be vacated terminates at or abuts upon any public water, the petitioners shall serve notice of the petition by certified mail upon the commissioner of natural resources at least 30 days before the council hearing on the matter. The notice under this subdivision is for notification purposes only and does not create a right of intervention by the commissioner of natural resources. Except as herein provided all other provisions of the home rule charter shall apply to and govern the proceeding.
History:
(1828-9 1/2) 1933 c 95 s 1; 1989 c 183 s 5
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.135 — Vacating Streets In Third Class Charter City.

440.135 VACATING STREETS IN THIRD CLASS CHARTER CITY.
Subdivision 1.
Application.
This section applies to every home rule charter city of the third class.
Subd. 2.
Council may vacate; conditions.
In addition to any other method provided by law, the council of such city, upon the presentation and filing of a verified petition signed by or on behalf of any owner, natural or corporate, of any real estate abutting thereon, may vacate any street or segment of street or any portion of the width thereof within its geographical limits, provided only that the street, segment, or portion thereof so vacated pursuant to such petition shall not be longer than the distance intervening between any two adjacent intersecting streets. If any street, segment, or portion thereof proposed to be vacated terminates at or abuts upon any public water, the petitioners shall serve notice of the petition by certified mail upon the commissioner of natural resources at least 30 days before the council hearing on the matter. The notice under this subdivision is for notification purposes only and does not create a right of intervention by the commissioner of natural resources.
Subd. 3.
Certified copy of resolution to be filed.
Such action of such council may be taken at any regular or special meeting duly called for such purpose and shall be by resolution, and a copy of the resolution duly certified by the city clerk shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in the county where such city is located before the action shall be effective.
Subd. 4.
Not to interfere with special improvements.
The vacation of any street or segment thereof under this section shall not destroy or interfere with the right of any person, corporation, or municipality owning or having control of any electric light or telephone pole or lines existing upon such street at the time of the vacation thereof or with any sewer or water pipes, mains or hydrants thereon or thereunder to enter upon such street or portion thereof vacated for the purpose of repairing the same or otherwise attending thereto.
History:
1945 c 224; 1965 c 45 s 59; 1976 c 44 s 42; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1989 c 183 s 6
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.14 — Contracts For Lighting Streets.

440.14 CONTRACTS FOR LIGHTING STREETS.
In all cities of the first class, the council may award, enter into, and let contracts for lighting the city streets, parks, and other public places, or either or any of the same, for any term not exceeding two years under any one contract. It shall not be necessary, before awarding or entering into such contracts, that provision by budget appropriations or otherwise shall first have been made to meet the indebtedness incurred by these contracts, but provision for meeting the obligation or indebtedness may be made after the letting of the contracts.
History:
(1479) 1911 c 179 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.37 — Roads Or Streets Outside First Class City Limits.

440.37 ROADS OR STREETS OUTSIDE FIRST CLASS CITY LIMITS.
Any city of the first class in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to extend, lay out, open, build, maintain, and repair any road, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, or other public highway or public park adjacent to any such highway, which may be authorized by ordinance of the city passed by a three-fourths vote of all the members of the council, whether the road, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, or other public highway be wholly within or partly within and partly without, or wholly without, outside of, or beyond the corporate limits of the city.
History:
(1535) 1909 c 485 s 1; 1921 c 21 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.38 — Acquisition Of Property.

440.38 ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.
Any city mentioned in section 440.37 may acquire by gift, devise, purchase, condemnation, or other means any property necessary or convenient or desirable for the purpose of extending, laying out, opening, building, maintaining, and repairing any road, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, or other public highway or public park adjacent to any such highway authorized in section 440.37.
History:
(1536) 1909 c 485 s 2; 1921 c 21 s 3
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 440 — Acquisition Of Property For Streets › Section 440.40 — Police Protection.

440.40 POLICE PROTECTION.
Any city acquiring any property under sections 440.37 and 440.38 is empowered to afford police protection to any and every such property.
History:
(1538) 1909 c 485 s 4; 1980 c 509 s 166
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.26 — Road, Bridge, Ferry Beyond Fourth Class, Statutory City.

441.26 ROAD, BRIDGE, FERRY BEYOND FOURTH CLASS, STATUTORY CITY.
The council of any statutory city or of any city of the fourth class may appropriate and expend such reasonable sums as it may deem proper to assist in the improvement and maintenance of roads lying beyond its boundaries and leading into it and to improve and maintain bridges and ferries thereon whether they are within or without the county in which it is situated.
History:
(1842) RL s 775; 1913 c 111 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.47 — Cities May Acquire Toll Bridges.

441.47 CITIES MAY ACQUIRE TOLL BRIDGES.
Any city of this state, however organized, bordering upon any navigable or nonnavigable stream, river, or body of water, including any international or interstate navigable or nonnavigable stream, river, or body of water, is authorized to acquire, purchase, construct, maintain, and operate bridges and approaches thereto across any such navigable or nonnavigable stream, river, or body of water, whether all or any portion of bridges and approaches be within or without the corporate limits of the city, and to exercise all such powers within its boundaries and in adjacent territory within this state, not in excess of two miles from the nearest boundary line thereof, and in any adjoining domestic or foreign state, after first having obtained authority, if any be necessary, from the United States.
History:
1941 c 286 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.48 — May Purchase Or Construct Bridges.

441.48 MAY PURCHASE OR CONSTRUCT BRIDGES.
Every city which shall by ordinance have determined to exercise the powers granted by sections 441.47 to 441.55 shall have the right to acquire, purchase, construct, maintain, and operate any such bridges and approaches thereto across, above, or under any railroad or public utility right-of-way and in, upon, under, or above any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground, or upon any property owned by any municipality, political subdivision, or agency of this state, and any such city may acquire, occupy, possess, and use all real estate, easements, rights in land, structures, buildings, equipment, appurtenances, machinery, and other real, personal, or mixed property necessary or incidental in the acquisition, purchase, construction, maintenance, or operation of any such bridges and approaches thereto by purchase or by condemnation or expropriation, in accordance with the laws of the state governing the acquisition of private property for public purposes by condemnation or expropriation, and in accordance with the laws of any foreign state where it becomes necessary to so acquire real estate and other property needed for the acquisition, purchase, construction, operation, or maintenance of any such bridges and approaches thereto.
History:
1941 c 286 s 2; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.50 — Sinking Fund.

441.50 SINKING FUND.
Any ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds under sections 441.47 to 441.55 shall provide for the creation of a sinking fund into which shall be payable from the revenues of any such bridges from month to month as such revenues are collected such sums in excess of the cost of the maintenance and operation of such bridges as may be sufficient to pay the interest upon and principal of such bonds at or before maturity, and the moneys in the sinking fund shall be applied solely to the payment of the maturing interest on bonds authorized under the provisions of sections 441.47 to 441.55 and for the retirement of such bonds at or prior to maturity. The governing body of any such city shall have power by ordinance to make, enact, and enforce all needful rules and regulations in connection with the acquisition, purchase, construction, maintenance, operation, and management, care or protection of any such bridge, and it shall be the duty of such governing body to establish rates of toll or charges for the use of any such bridges which shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of maintenance and operation thereof and to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds issued under the provisions of sections 441.47 to 441.55. Rates of toll or charges for the use of any such bridge shall be established, revised, and maintained and be payable and be enforced as the governing body of each such city may determine by ordinance.
History:
1941 c 286 s 4; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.52 — Bonds Sold Notwithstanding Limitations.

441.52 BONDS SOLD NOTWITHSTANDING LIMITATIONS.
The bonds authorized by sections 441.47 to 441.55 may be issued and sold by any such city in accordance with the terms of the ordinance adopted therefor, notwithstanding any limitation contained in the charter of the city or in any law of the state prescribing or fixing any limit upon the bonded indebtedness of any such city, and such bonds shall not create or constitute an indebtedness of any such city within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory, or charter limitation upon the incurring of indebtedness, but such bonds shall be payable only from the net income and revenues of any such bridges pledged to the payment thereof after payment of the actual operating expenses and actual cost of maintenance and repair of any such bridges under economical management, and while any of the bonds are outstanding, such net income and revenues shall be used solely for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, and the bonds and the interest thereon shall constitute a first and prior lien on and against such net income and revenues and on and against all funds, from whatever source, paid into or set apart for the sinking fund hereinabove designated.
History:
1941 c 286 s 6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.53 — Funds Kept In Separate Account.

441.53 FUNDS KEPT IN SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
Every city owning and operating a toll bridge under sections 441.47 to 441.55 must keep all income and revenues derived from the operation thereof separate and distinct from all other revenues of the city, and keep books of account therefor distinct from all other city accounts and in such manner as to show the true and complete financial results of such public ownership and operation. These accounts shall be kept so as to show in detail the actual cost to the city of such bridges, the daily tolls collected therefrom, all costs of maintenance, repair, and improvement, all operating expenses of every description, and the amounts set aside for sinking fund purposes, and semiannual reports showing the financial results of such public ownership and operation shall be published by the governing body of any such city.
History:
1941 c 286 s 7; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.54 — Bonds Not Indebtedness Of City.

441.54 BONDS NOT INDEBTEDNESS OF CITY.
All bonds issued under sections 441.47 to 441.55 shall be exempt from and shall not constitute an indebtedness of any such city within the meaning of any provisions contained in the charter of the city or in any law of the state prescribing, limiting, or fixing the time and manner of payment of municipal bonds or prescribing, limiting, or fixing the time and manner of sale of municipal bonds, and all such bonds may be authorized, issued, and sold by any such city as provided in sections 441.47 to 441.55 notwithstanding any such charter or statutory provision.
History:
1941 c 286 s 8; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 441 — Bridges › Section 441.55 — Holders Of Bonds May Sue.

441.55 HOLDERS OF BONDS MAY SUE.
Any holder of a bond or bonds, or any of the coupons of any bond or bonds, issued under the provisions of sections 441.47 to 441.55 may, either in law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, enforce or compel the performance of all duties required by these sections, including the fixing, maintaining, and collecting of such rates of toll or charges for the use of any such bridges and approaches thereto as will be sufficient for all the purposes provided by these sections and the application of the income and revenue thereof. All bonds of the same authorization issued under the provisions of these sections shall enjoy equal rights in respect of the revenues of any such bridges, regardless of the time of actual issuance or delivery thereof.
History:
1941 c 286 s 9
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 442A — Sanitary Districts › Section 442A.01 — Definitions.

442A.01 DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1.
Applicability.
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given.
Subd. 2.
Chief administrative law judge.
"Chief administrative law judge" means the chief administrative law judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings or the delegate of the chief administrative law judge under section 14.48.
Subd. 3.
District.
"District" means a sanitary district created under this chapter or under Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 115.18 to 115.37.
Subd. 4.
Municipality.
"Municipality" means a city, however organized.
Subd. 5.
Property owner.
"Property owner" means the fee owner of land, or the beneficial owner of land whose interest is primarily one of possession and enjoyment. Property owner includes, but is not limited to, vendees under a contract for deed and mortgagors. Any reference to a percentage of property owners means in number.
Subd. 6.
Related governing body.
"Related governing body" means the governing body of a related governmental subdivision and, in the case of an organized town, means the town board.
Subd. 7.
Related governmental subdivision.
"Related governmental subdivision" means a municipality or organized town wherein there is a territorial unit of a district or, in the case of an unorganized area, the county.
Subd. 8.
Territorial unit.
"Territorial unit" means all that part of a district situated within a single municipality, within a single organized town outside of a municipality, or, in the case of an unorganized area, within a single county.
History:
2013 c 114 art 5 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 442A — Sanitary Districts › Section 442A.015 — Applicability.

442A.015 APPLICABILITY.
All new sanitary district formations proposed and all sanitary districts previously formed under Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 115.18 to 115.37, must comply with this chapter, including annexations to, detachments from, and dissolutions of sanitary districts previously formed under Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 115.18 to 115.37.
History:
2013 c 114 art 5 s 3
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 440 - 446A — Municipal Public Works › Chapter 442A — Sanitary Districts › Section 442A.03 — Filing Of Maps In Sanitary District Proceedings.

442A.03 FILING OF MAPS IN SANITARY DISTRICT PROCEEDINGS.
Any party initiating a sanitary district proceeding that includes platted land shall file with the chief administrative law judge maps which are necessary to support and identify the land description. The maps shall include copies of plats.
History:
2013 c 114 art 5 s 5