Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

374.09 PROCEDURE IF JUDGES FAIL TO APPOINT. If the judges of the district court fail to make appointments to the advisory courthouse and city hall building commission within 30 days after the city council and the board of county commissioners decide to proceed with the constructi…

374.10 WHO MAY BE MEMBERS OF COMMISSION. No more than two members of the advisory courthouse and city hall building commission shall be at any one time members of the county board, and no more than two of the members shall be at any one time members of the city council. If a memb…

374.11 DUTY OF COMMISSION. As soon as practicable after the appointment of the members of the commission, it shall select a site or sites for the building and may contract with the owners to acquire the site or sites by gift or purchase. The contract or contracts shall be subject…

374.12 PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS DRAWN. Either before or after the selection of the building site, the commission shall have plans and specifications for the building prepared and may employ architects, engineers, drafters, and clerical help to prepare the plans and specifications…

374.13 TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS. § Subdivision 1.Bidding process. When the plans and specifications are completed and approved by the city council and the county board, the commission shall, after notice appropriate to inform possible bidders, obtain bids or proposals for all or any…

374.14 CERTIFIED CHECKS WITH ALL BIDS. Each person submitting bids or proposals under section 374.13 shall file with the bid or proposal a certified check in an amount prescribed in the specifications of the commission for the building, to be retained as liquidated damages and di…

374.15 WAGES. Work specifications shall contain a provision that skilled and unskilled laborers employed in the work shall be paid the wage required to be paid by contractors doing work for the city, if the city has an ordinance providing a scale of wages. History: (643-15) 1929 …

374.16 COST OF REMOVING AND REMODELING. If the selected site is occupied by an existing city hall and courthouse, and temporary quarters must be provided for officers and officials before completion of the new building, the cost of remodeling temporary quarters and moving expense…

374.17 COMMISSION MAY APPOINT ARCHITECTS. The work of constructing, equipping, and furnishing the building shall be conducted and completed under the direction and supervision of the commission. The commission members are charged with the duty of requiring that the work is done i…

374.18 MANAGEMENT OF BUILDING. If the county and city jointly own and operate a city hall and courthouse building when a new building is constructed, the same persons or committees that managed the old building shall manage the new building. In all other cases, a joint committee …

374.19 TO SERVE WITHOUT COMPENSATION. The members of the advisory courthouse and city hall building commission and the members of the joint building management committee of the city council and county board shall not receive any compensation for their services upon the committee …

374.20 SALE OR LEASE OF LANDS NOT USED. If any land or buildings owned and used by either the county or the city, or jointly owned and used by them, is not required for use by the county or city, or both of them, after the new building is completed, the land and buildings shall b…

374.21 AUDITORIUM; VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS, MEETING PLACES. § Subdivision 1.Municipal auditorium. If the city desires to construct an auditorium, the building may be included in the courthouse and city hall building if the county board agrees, an agreement is reached between the bo…

374.25 JOINT COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL BUILDING AUTHORIZED. Any county which does not have within its limits a city of the first class, may, together with the city which is the county seat, jointly acquire land for, construct, equip, furnish, maintain and operate a joint courthouse an…

374.26 PROPORTIONAL DIVISION OF COST. The cost and expense of acquiring land for, constructing, equipping, and furnishing the building shall be paid by the county and the city in proportion to the amount of space used by each governmental unit in the building. The architect prepa…

374.27 BOND ISSUE. When the city has been authorized to issue bonds to pay its share of the cost, the county board may submit to the voters, in the manner provided, under section 375.20, the question as to whether or not to issue and sell bonds of the county to pay the county's s…

374.28 EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF BONDS. The county board shall, by resolution, determine the manner of executing the bonds. The delivery of the bonds executed shall be valid, notwithstanding any change in officers or in the seal of the county occurring after their execution. Hist…

374.29 COUNTY TAX LEVY. The county board shall levy a tax, at the time and in the manner prescribed by section 475.61, to pay the principal and interest of the bonds. This section shall not be construed to limit the power of a municipality to levy taxes to pay its obligations iss…

374.30 BOND LIMITATION NOT APPLICABLE. The amount of indebtedness authorized to be incurred by the county shall be in addition to any limits now fixed by law. History: 1947 c 288 s 6; 1985 c 109 s 4

374.31 BUILDING COMMISSION. As soon as the city and county have both authorized the issuance of bonds for the construction of a joint courthouse and city hall building, the county board and the city council shall constitute the courthouse and city hall building commission of the …

374.32 JOINT OWNERSHIP OF SITE. The commission shall select a site for the building and may contract with the owner to acquire the site by gift or purchase, or the site may be acquired by proceedings in eminent domain in the name of either the city or the county, as the commissio…

374.33 PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Either before or after the selection of the building site, the commission shall have plans and specifications for the building prepared and may employ architects, engineers, drafters, and clerical help to prepare the plans and specifications. The …

374.34 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS. When the plans and specifications are completed and approved by the commission, the commission shall, after notice appropriate to inform possible bidders, obtain bids or proposals for all or any portion of the work or materials, or both, to be done,…

374.35 CERTIFIED CHECK; CONTRACTS. Each person submitting a bid or proposal shall file with the bid or proposal a certified check in an amount prescribed in the specifications of the commission for the building, to be retained as liquidated damages in case of failure to enter int…

374.36 SUPERVISION. The work of constructing, equipping and furnishing the building shall be conducted and completed under the direction and supervision of the commission. The commission members are charged with the duty of requiring the work to be done in accordance with the pla…

374.37 MANAGEMENT. The management of the building when constructed shall be vested in the commission with the power to appoint employees for the management and operation of the building. The commission shall fix the employees' compensation and determine the proportion which is to…

374.38 COMPENSATION OF COMMISSIONERS. The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services upon the commission other than their compensation which they receive as members of the county board or of the city council. No member of this commission shall have…