Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

375.055 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COMPENSATION. § Subdivision 1.Fixed by county board. (a) The county commissioners in all counties, except Hennepin and Ramsey, shall receive as compensation for services rendered by them for their respective counties, annual salaries and in addition …

375.056 SEVEN-MEMBER BOARD. Any county with a population of 100,000 or more according to the last federal decennial census may by resolution of its county board provide for a seven-member board of county commissioners. A certified copy of the resolution of the county board of any…

375.057 SPECIAL ACTS PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT OF PER DIEMS. Any special act for a single county or group of counties providing for the payment of per diems to county commissioners is superseded to the extent that it is inconsistent with Laws 1975, chapter 301, sections 1 to 14. This…

375.06 COMPENSATION FOR COMMITTEE WORK; TRAVEL EXPENSES. § Subdivision 1.Per diem, travel expense. The members of the county boards in counties other than Hennepin, Ramsey, and St. Louis, may be paid a per diem pursuant to section 375.055, subdivision 1, for each day necessarily …

375.065 MEETINGS, PAY. A member of the county board of a county who is paid a salary that is more than 50 percent of the salary of the governor may not be paid any amount, by per diem or otherwise, except as reimbursement for expenses, for attendance at meetings related to the bu…

375.07 MEETINGS; QUORUM. The board shall meet at the county seat for the transaction of business on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, and may meet on other days and at other locations within the county it prescribes as necessary for the interests of the county.…

375.08 BOARD TO FILL VACANCIES IN COUNTY OFFICES. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) or section 375.081, when a vacancy occurs in the office of an elected county auditor, county treasurer, county recorder, sheriff, county attorney, county surveyor, or coroner, the county boa…

375.081 VACANCY IN OFFICE OF SHERIFF OR COUNTY ATTORNEY; OPTIONAL SPECIAL ELECTION. As an alternative to the appointment procedure provided in section 375.08, a vacancy in the office of sheriff or county attorney may be filled at a special election as provided in this section. Th…

375.09 COMMISSIONER'S MALFEASANCE; AFFECTED ACTIONS ARE VOID. § Subdivision 1.No county employment or other elected office. No county commissioner shall hold another elected office during tenure as commissioner nor be employed by the county. § Subd. 2.No bribery. No commissioner …

375.101 VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER. § Subdivision 1.Option for filling vacancies; special election. (a) Except as provided in subdivision 3, a vacancy in the office of county commissioner may be filled as provided in this subdivision and subdivision 2, or as provide…

375.11 BOARD SEAL; REBUTTABLE EVIDENCE OF BOARD PROCEEDINGS. § Subdivision 1.Auditor's seal is board seal. The seal of the county auditor shall be the seal of the board. § Subd. 2.Authenticated proceedings are evidence. Copies of its proceedings, authenticated as required by law,…

375.12 PROCEEDINGS IN QUALIFIED PAPER WITHIN 30 DAYS; LET BY BID. § Subdivision 1.Summary; in daily or weekly. The county board shall have the official proceedings of its sessions published in a qualified newspaper of general circulation in the county. The publication shall be le…

375.13 CHAIR. The county board, at its first session in each year, shall elect from its members a chair and a vice-chair. The chair shall preside at its meetings and sign all documents requiring signature on its behalf. The chair's signature, attested by the clerk of the county b…

375.14 OFFICES AND SUPPLIES FURNISHED FOR COUNTY OFFICERS. The county board shall provide offices at the county seat for the auditor, treasurer, county recorder, sheriff, court administrator of the district court, and an office for the county engineer at a site determined by the …

375.15 DAMAGED RECORDS TRANSCRIBED. If the records of any office named in section 375.14 are damaged so as to render any portion of them liable to become illegible, destroyed, or lost, the county board shall provide suitable books, and cause the records to be transcribed, so that…

375.16 COUNTY APPROPRIATION FOR INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. § Subdivision 1.Procedure. At its regular meetings the county board may appropriate from the county revenue fund a sum to pay incidental expenses of county officers incurred for postage, and for necessary express, freight, tele…

375.161 INCIDENTAL COSTS AND EXPENSES; CONTINGENT FUND. § Subdivision 1.Up to $1,500. In addition to the amount authorized by section 375.16, each county board may annually appropriate from the county revenue fund not more than $1,500 as a contingent fund for use by the county bo…

375.162 IMPREST CASH FUNDS. § Subdivision 1.Procedure. The county board may establish one or more imprest funds for the payment in cash of any proper claim against the county which it is impractical to pay in any other manner. No claim for salary or personal expenses of a county …

375.163 ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES; DUES, EXPENSES. The county board may appropriate money to pay the annual dues of the county for membership in the Association of Minnesota Counties and the actual necessary expense of delegates designated by the county board to attend me…

375.164 BROADCAST FACILITIES. The county board may appropriate annually from the county general revenue fund an amount necessary to fund the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or maintenance of a translator station or a noncommercial television broadcast facility …

375.165 COUNTY TRANSLATOR SYSTEMS; FUNDING. Notwithstanding section 375.164, or any other contrary law, the county board of any county owning, operating or maintaining a translator system on April 14, 1976, may singly or jointly with contiguous counties appropriate from the gener…

375.167 NONPROFIT LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORPORATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Appropriations. Notwithstanding any contrary law, a county board may appropriate from the general revenue fund to any nonprofit corporation a sum not to exceed 0.00604 percent of estimated market value to provide le…

375.168 UNDERCOVER BUY FUND; EXPENDITURE OF MONEY BY COUNTIES. A county board may appropriate money for investigation of criminal activity relating to receiving or selling stolen goods, including the setting aside of money for "buy funds." History: 1982 c 536 s 4; 1984 c 629 s 2

375.169 PUBLICATION OF SUMMARY BUDGET STATEMENT. Annually, upon adoption of the county budget, the county board shall cause a summary budget statement to be published in the official newspaper of the county, or if there is none, in a qualified newspaper of general circulation in …

375.1691 JUDICIAL ORDER AFTER BUDGET PREPARATION. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a judicial order compelling payment out of county funds shall not be paid unless approved by the county board, if a budget request for the item was not submitted to the county board prior t…

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,…

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,…

375.18 GENERAL POWERS. § Subdivision 1.Accounts, examination, settlement and allowance. Each county board may examine and settle all accounts of the receipts and expenses of the county, and examine, settle, and allow all accounts, demands, and causes of action against the county,…

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 f…

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…

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…

375.192 REDUCTIONS OR ABATEMENTS OF VALUATION OR TAXES. § Subdivision 1. MS 1989 Supp [Repealed, 1990 c 604 art 3 s 65] § Subd. 2.Procedure, conditions. Upon written application by the owner of any property, the county board may grant the reduction or abatement of estimated marke…

375.194 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TAX ABATEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them. (a) "Eligible county" means a county whose county government average tax rate is at least 45 points higher than an adjacent nei…

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 lan…

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 specify…

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 …

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 …

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 with…

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 o…

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 ow…

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 l…

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…

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…

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 off…

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 wi…

375.34 MEMORIAL DAY AND VETERANS DAY, APPROPRIATION FOR OBSERVANCE. The county board of each county may appropriate funds from the revenue fund of the county to aid in the observance of Memorial Day in commemoration of the noble and valiant deeds of the nation's soldier dead and …