Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

6.75 ANNUAL REPORT. The state auditor shall make and file, annually, in the state auditor's office a summary report of the information collected, with such compilations and analyses and interpretations as may be deemed helpful. Copies of such report may be made and distributed to…

6.755 REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE. Section 3.195 applies to the state auditor. For purposes of determining whether members or employees of the legislature wish to receive reports or publications prepared by the state auditor, the state auditor may send a brief listing of reports t…

6.756 SPECIAL DISTRICTS; INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE FILED WITH STATE AUDITOR; AUDITS. § Subdivision 1.Governance documents must be filed. Each special district must file with the state auditor, within 60 days of adoption, any document relating to the governance of the district, i…

6.76 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION EXPENDITURES FOR LOBBYISTS. (a) On or before January 31 of each year, all political subdivisions shall report to the state auditor, on forms prescribed by the auditor, their estimated expenditures paid for the previous calendar year to a lobbyist as def…

6.78 BEST PRACTICES REVIEWS. The state auditor shall conduct best practices reviews that examine the procedures and practices used to deliver local government services, determine the methods of local government service delivery, identify variations in cost and effectiveness, and …

6.79 STATE MANDATES. A county, town, school district, or statutory or home rule charter city may file a written resolution with the state auditor objecting to a state mandate or making recommendations for reforming a state mandate. The state auditor must list on the state auditor…

6.80 RULE AND LAW WAIVER REQUESTS. § Subdivision 1.Generally. (a) A local government unit may request the state auditor to grant a waiver from one or more administrative rules or a temporary, limited exemption from enforcement of state procedural laws governing delivery of servic…

6.91 LOCAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING. § Subdivision 1.Reports of local performance measures. (a) A county or city that elects to participate in the standard measures program must report its results to its citizens annually through publication, direct mailing, posting …

6.92 LITIGATION EXPENSES; LEGISLATIVE REPORT. The state auditor must report to the chairs and ranking minority members of the committees in the house of representatives and the senate with jurisdiction over the Office of the State Auditor by July 1, 2017, and January 1, 2018, and…

6.93 EXPENSES OF STATE AUDITOR-ELECT. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the terms defined have the meanings given them. (b) "State auditor-elect" means the person who is not currently state auditor and is the apparent successful candidate for the Offi…

16A.012 WARRANTS; DISCOUNTS. The commissioner of management and budget shall in no case purchase, redeem, or receive any warrant at less than its face value, nor receive any fee or reward for transacting any official duty, other than the salary provided by law. If the public reve…

16A.013 GIFTS; ACCEPTANCE. § Subdivision 1.Procedure. The commissioner of management and budget is authorized to receive and accept, on behalf of the state, any gift, bequest, devise, or endowment which may be made by any person, by will, deed, gift, or otherwise, to or for the b…

16A.014 ADMINISTRATION OF GIFTS. In case any such gift, bequest, devise, or endowment is so accepted, the same and the proceeds thereof shall be administered and applied according to the terms of the will, deed of gift, or other instrument defining, providing for, creating, or es…

16A.015 INVESTMENT OF GIFTS. In case it is provided by the terms of such will, deed of gift, or other instrument that the capital of the money, property, or fund constituting such gift, bequest, devise, or endowment, or any part of such capital, shall be kept invested, the same s…

16A.016 PAYMENT; APPROPRIATION. § Subdivision 1.Payment; expenditure. In the event such gift, bequest, devise, or endowment is made or designated by the donor for a certain institution, department, or agency, the commissioner of management and budget shall, from time to time, pay…

16A.061 MAY ISSUE COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLIONS. The commissioner of management and budget may issue medallions to commemorate popular contemporaneous events of statewide interest. The commissioner of management and budget may make reasonable arrangements with public or private entiti…

16A.271 DEPOSITORIES, DESIGNATION. Where any statute of this state requires or permits a bank or trust company to deposit securities with the commissioner of management and budget, the latter, on the request of such depositor, may designate some other bank or trust company as the…

16A.272 DEPOSITS OF CERTAIN FUNDS OF PUBLIC CORPORATIONS, SECURITY. § Subdivision 1.Depository to give bond. If designated treasurer of any public corporation by any statute of this state, the commissioner of management and budget may deposit any public corporation funds in any b…

16A.273 INDUCEMENTS TO MAKE DEPOSITS. Every person who shall give or promise to the commissioner of management and budget, or to any other person having the custody or control of state funds, any credit, service, or benefit, except as expressly authorized by law, as an inducement…

16A.461 DUPLICATE BONDS ISSUED. When any bond, certificate of indebtedness, or other written obligation of the state, issued by the state or by any department, bureau, board, or other agency of the state government according to law, has been lost, destroyed, or stolen, a duplicat…

16A.462 EXECUTION OF DUPLICATES. Such duplicate obligation shall be prepared by the commissioner of management and budget and shall be an exact and complete copy of the original, including the signatures, but need not be a facsimile. Each duplicate obligation shall have written o…

16A.463 DELIVERY OF DUPLICATES; BOND. Such duplicate obligation when executed shall be delivered by the commissioner of management and budget to the owner of the original obligation, the owner's guardian, or the representative of the owner's estate; provided, such owner, guardian…

16A.464 BOND, WHEN CANCELED. The authority empowered to approve the indemnity bond required by section 16A.463 may waive such bond, in its discretion, at any time six years after the date of the maturity of such lost, destroyed, or stolen bond, certificate of indebtedness, or oth…

8.01 APPEARANCE. The attorney general shall appear for the state in all causes in the supreme and federal courts wherein the state is directly interested; also in all civil causes of like nature in all other courts of the state whenever, in the attorney general's opinion, the int…

8.02 DEPUTIES, ASSISTANTS. § Subdivision 1.Appointment of deputies and assistants. The attorney general may appoint, and at pleasure remove, six deputy attorneys general and 35 assistant attorneys general. The appointees shall render such aid as is required of them in the dischar…

8.025 PART-TIME SPECIAL ATTORNEYS, PAYMENT ON HOURLY BASIS. No part-time special attorney assigned to any professional or occupational licensing board of state government, after having received $10,000 for performing official duties in any fiscal year, regardless of the fund from…

8.03 PROSECUTIONS. The attorney general shall cause to be prosecuted all assessors and other officials for such delinquencies in connection with revenue laws as may become known; also all bonds of officers and others upon which any liability to the state has accrued. When any cor…

8.04 PUBLIC LANDS. The attorney general shall begin and prosecute actions against all persons claiming to own any portion of the school or other public lands adversely to the state, whenever, in the attorney general's opinion, an action can be sustained, and shall cause an appear…

8.05 FORMS PREPARED; OPINIONS. The attorney general shall prepare forms for bonds and other contracts and instruments for the use of state officials, boards, and commissions and give legal advice in all matters relating to their official duties, whenever required by the governor,…

8.06 ATTORNEY FOR STATE OFFICERS, BOARDS, OR COMMISSIONS; EMPLOY COUNSEL. The attorney general shall act as the attorney for all state officers and all boards or commissions created by law in all matters pertaining to their official duties. When requested by the attorney general,…

8.065 PRIVATE ATTORNEY CONTRACTS. The attorney general may not enter into a contract for legal services in which the fees and expenses paid by the state exceed, or can reasonably be expected to exceed, $1,000,000 unless the attorney general first submits the proposed contract to …

8.07 OPINIONS: QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The attorney general on application shall give an opinion, in writing, to county, city, town, public pension fund attorneys, or the attorneys for the board of a school district or unorganized territory on questions of…

8.08 REPORT. The attorney general shall report to the governor biennially on or before October 1 of each even-numbered year the number, character, and result of all actions and proceedings in which the attorney general has appeared for the state, the expense incurred by the state…

8.09 CLAIMS OF STATE AGAINST UNITED STATES; RETAIN COUNSEL. The attorney general is hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to retain attorneys to take exclusive charge of prosecuting, collecting, and recovering from the United States any such claim which may be developed, and…

8.10 COMPENSATION OF ATTORNEYS. The compensation of these attorneys for this service shall be 25 percent of the sums and amounts collected and received by the state, such compensation to be contingent upon collection and payment thereof to the state, with no further liability on …

8.11 BRINGING ACTION TO RECOVER ON BONDS. The attorney general is hereby authorized, with the approval of the governor, to commence any action or proceeding, in the name of the state, to recover upon any bonds or obligations of any other state of the United States which may now o…

8.12 SOLICITOR GENERAL; DUTIES. There shall be in the Office of the Attorney General a solicitor general who shall be appointed by the attorney general from within the limitations of the authorized staff, and who shall perform such duties in the place and stead of the attorney ge…

8.13 CONTEST OF BARRIERS ON DAIRY PRODUCTS. The attorney general is authorized to take such action as the attorney general deems necessary in order to contest or oppose existing statutes, ordinances, rules, orders or other trade barriers which may restrict the sale in other state…

8.14 ACTIONS CHALLENGING STATE EXPENDITURES; INTERVENTION. In any action in which the state of Minnesota or any of its officers is a party and the amount of state expenditures for a particular purpose is challenged on the ground that the expenditure is insufficient to enable the …

8.15 ATTORNEY GENERAL COSTS. § Subdivision 1.Fee schedules. The attorney general in consultation with the commissioner of management and budget shall develop a fee schedule to be used by the attorney general in developing the agreements authorized in subdivision 3. The attorney g…

8.16 ATTORNEY GENERAL; ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENAS. § Subdivision 1.Authority. The attorney general, or any deputy, assistant, or special assistant attorney general whom the attorney general authorizes in writing, has the authority in any county of the state to subpoena and require …

8.20 DELEGATION OF CONTRACT REVIEW. The attorney general may delegate the power to approve contracts as to form and execution to any state official if it is determined that the delegation will produce a significant, demonstrable improvement in the efficiency or operation of state…

8.30 COMPROMISE OF TAX AND FEE CLAIMS. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the attorney general shall have authority to compromise taxes, fees, surcharges, assessments, penalties, and interest in all cases, whether reduced to judgment or not, where the de…

8.31 ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF ATTORNEY GENERAL. § Subdivision 1.Investigate offenses against provisions of certain designated sections; assist in enforcement. The attorney general shall investigate violations of the law of this state respecting unfair, discriminatory, and other unlaw…

8.315 CONSUMER LITIGATION ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The consumer litigation account is established in the special revenue fund in the state treasury. § Subd. 2.Disbursements from account. The attorney general may authorize disbursements from the consumer litigation …

8.32 CONSUMER AFFAIRS. § Subdivision 1.Generally. The attorney general has the responsibilities and duties prescribed by this section. § Subd. 2.Duties. The attorney general shall: (1) enforce the provisions of law relating to consumer fraud and unlawful practices in connection t…