Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

370.05 NOTICE OF ELECTION; FORM OF BALLOT. The notice of the next general election of county officers must specify that the question of forming the new county, or changing the boundaries of existing counties, as the case may be, will be voted upon at the election, and must state …

370.06 CANVASS; JUDGES OF ELECTION; COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD. The election judges, in addition to the returns required in other cases, shall transmit to the secretary of state, by certified mail, their certificate of the number of votes cast for and against any proposition submitt…

370.07 DUTIES AFTER ELECTION. § Subdivision 1.State Canvassing Board. The State Canvassing Board shall canvass the returns at the time of canvassing the votes cast for state officers, and in the same manner. The board may use the returns received from the election judges to corre…

370.08 EFFECT OF PROCLAMATION. Upon the issuance of the proclamation, the proposed change of boundaries becomes effective. If the proposition was for the establishment of a new county, it becomes duly organized. The territory of the new county shall remain attached, for judicial …

370.09 QUALIFY COMMISSIONERS; ELECT CLERK; APPOINT OFFICERS. Immediately after the service upon them of copies of the governor's proclamation, the persons chosen as commissioners shall meet at the place named as the county seat and qualify. The county board shall elect one of its…

370.10 COMMISSIONER VACANCIES DUE TO BOUNDARY CHANGES. If a change in the boundaries of a county abolishes a commissioner district or districts in the county, by the removal of all the territory of the district or districts from the original county, or otherwise, or creates a vac…

370.12 DUTIES OF AUDITOR; MEETING OF BOARD. Immediately upon the election and qualification of the commissioner or commissioners at large the county auditor shall give written notice, delivered personally or by mail, to each commissioner in the county, of a meeting of the board. …

370.13 REDISTRICTING OF COUNTY; SUBSEQUENT ELECTION. At least six months before the next general election in the county held after the election and qualification of the commissioner or commissioners at large, unless there is less time between the at-large election and qualificati…

370.14 BOUNDARIES RESTORED AFTER DETERMINATION. If the territory detached from the county by the change of boundaries is restored to it by the final determination of the courts as a result of a contest or other litigation concerning the change of boundaries of the county, after t…

370.15 WHEN HIGHWAY CENTERLINE TO BE CITY AND COUNTY BOUNDARY. Where a city of the fourth class in one county adjoins a city of the first class in another county, and the centerline of a highway running along the boundary line between these cities and counties deviates from the b…

370.16 [Local, Big Stone and Lac qui Parle Counties]

370.17 TOWNS, SCHOOL, AND ROAD DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.If unaffected by new county lines. The towns, school districts, and road districts whose boundaries are unaffected by the change of county lines shall continue to be the same in the new county, or county to which transferr…

370.18 RECORDS TRANSCRIBED. All records in the office of the county recorder affecting real estate transferred under this chapter from one county to another shall be transcribed by the county recorder of the county to which the transfer is made. In the same manner, the county aud…

370.19 TAXES; LEVY; COLLECTION. No transfer of territory under this chapter shall affect the collection of taxes levied at the date of the filing of the petition. The taxes shall be collected by the officers of the original county, and all money remaining in or coming into the tr…

370.20 NEW COUNTIES; TAX LEVY. When a new county has been, or may be, created and organized out of territory within the boundaries of one or more organized counties in the state, the county board of the new county may, immediately or within 90 days after its organization, levy a …

370.21 TRANSFER OF PLATS. The county recorder of the county from which a land transfer is made under this chapter shall deliver the records, or certified copies, of the original plats of land in the territory transferred, to the county recorder of the county to which the territor…

370.22 COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS; COUNTY BUILDINGS. All transferred territory is liable for its proportion of the excess indebtedness of the original county above the value of its county buildings and of the balance of funds in its treasury. The share shall be based upon the last asses…

370.23 COUNTY BONDS; PAYMENT AND ISSUE. The county board of the county to which territory is transferred shall pay for indebtedness by levying a tax at the time fixed by law for so doing; and, for the purpose of meeting any portion of the indebtedness which may become due before …

370.24 PENALTY FOR REFUSAL TO ACT. The validity of the establishment of any new county shall not be affected by the failure or refusal of any county officer to do any of the acts or things required by this chapter, but any officer who refuses or willfully neglects to perform any …