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Chapter 365 — Town General Law
Section 365.01 — 1906 Boundaries Remain Unless Changed By County. - A town's boundaries on March 1, 1906, remain its boundaries...
Section 365.02 — Town Corporation May Sue, Own Property, Make Contracts. - (a) A town is a public corporation. (b) A town...
Section 365.025 — Contracts; Time Payments; Petition On Big Buys. - Subdivision 1. Board makes contracts. Notwithstanding other law, a town...
Section 365.04 — Property To Or For Use Of Town Is Town Property. - Real or personal property conveyed to a town or to...
Section 365.05 — Deed Of Town Land; Formalities; Interest Given. - A deed conveying real estate owned by a town must...
Section 365.07 — To Pay Officers And Expenses; To Raise Money. - It is a town charge: (1) to pay town officers...
Section 365.08 — Town Damage To Private Road Is A Charge If Voted. - If a court finds that a town's officers ordered work...
Section 365.09 — Charges Paid By Taxes Levied Under Chapter 275. - Taxes to pay for town charges must be levied under...
Section 365.10 — Annual Town Meeting; Powers Of Electors. - Subdivision 1. Powers listed here. The electors of a town,...
Section 365.11 — Notice Of Bylaw Required; Binds All In Town. - A town bylaw is not effective until posted notice of...
Section 365.125 — Ordinance Formalities; Publish, Post, Record. - Subdivision 1. Formalities; title, style. An ordinance must be enacted...
Section 365.13 — Poundmaster Needed If Electors Want Pound. - A poundmaster must be chosen to run the pound if...
Section 365.14 — Board To Tax For, Contract For, Manage Town Hall. - A town board may levy a tax for the amount...
Section 365.15 — Police, Fire Protection. - The electors at a town meeting may direct the town...
Section 365.16 — Police And Fire Apparatus. - A town board may annually levy the tax it decides...
Section 365.17 — Joint Fire Equipment With Adjacent Towns. - The town boards of adjacent towns may pool the amounts...
Section 365.18 — Board Levy For Police And Fire Apparatus. - 365.18 MS 1986 [Renumbered in part 365.181] 365.18 BOARD LEVY...
Section 365.181 — Contracted Fire Service; Cost Data; Assessments. - Subdivision 1. From county, city, or volunteers. A town board...
Section 365.19 — Relation Of Levies To Forestry Act, Levy. - Subdivision 1. Not limited by forestry levy. A levy under...
Section 365.20 — Police, Fire, Water In Certain Platted Towns. - Subdivision 1. Opt at election or annual meeting. If 50...
Section 365.21 — Special Election For Police, Fire, Water. - Subdivision 1. By board or petition. A special election may...
Section 365.22 — Conduct Of Election; Ballots, Voting, Hours. - Subdivision 1. Like regular town election. A special election under...
Section 365.23 — Meeting For Section 365.20 Spending, Pacts, Tax. - After getting general authority to do something under section 365.20,...
Section 365.24 — Election May Revoke Earlier Grant Of Power. - The electors of a town may revoke any authority under...
Section 365.243 — County Fire Service To Unorganized Territory. - Subdivision 1. Permissive. A county may provide fire protection to...
Section 365.26 — Cemetery Land; Board Control; Sale Or Lease; City Aid. - Subdivision 1. Vote for land. A town's electors may vote...
Section 365.27 — Sale And Reversion Of Lots; Use Of Funds. - Subdivision 1. For allowed burials only. A town's board may...
Section 365.28 — Public Burial Ground Becomes Town Property After Ten Years. - A tract of land in a town becomes town property...
Section 365.29 — Part Of Lot Price To Cemetery Fund; Use Of Funds. - A town's board may require that part of the price...
Section 365.30 — Board Sets Lot Care Share; Use Of Funds. - A town's board shall decide the share of its cemetery...
Section 365.31 — Gift For Cemetery Or Lot; Use Of Funds For Care. - A town's board and the directors of its cemetery may...
Section 365.32 — Deposit Of Cemetery Funds. - A town's board may require its cemetery's directors to immediately...
Section 365.33 — How County To Treat Town Cemetery Money. - Subdivision 1. Like other funds. Deposits into the fund set...
Section 365.34 — If Depository Changed, Fund To Be Changed. - When a county changes its depository, the county's treasurer shall...
Section 365.35 — Fund Principal; Interest. - The principal of a town's cemetery fund must be used...
Section 365.36 — Investment Of Cemetery Fund. - Subdivision 1. Like school fund. A cemetery's directors or, if...
Section 365.37 — Conflicts, Bids, Emergencies, Penalty, Removal. - Subdivision 1. No conflicts; exceptions. Except as provided in sections...
Section 365.38 — Notify Clerk Before Suit; Wait 30 Days On Order. - Subdivision 1. On most money claims; exceptions. If an action...
Section 365.39 — Lawsuit With Town As Party Is Like Any Lawsuit. - An action or proceeding with a town as a party...
Section 365.40 — Town Name In Suit; Exception; Service; Defense. - Subdivision 1. Town or officers named. In all actions or...
Section 365.41 — Judgment Against Town; Payment; Execution. - Subdivision 1. Paid by town treasurer. A judgment against a...
Section 365.42 — Amount Of Unpaid Judgment Added To Tax Levy. - A certified copy of the docket of an unsatisfied money...
Section 365.43 — No Debt, Spending Beyond Tax Limit Without Vote. - Subdivision 1. Total revenue defined. A town must not spend...
Section 365.431 — Amount Voted At Meeting Is Tax Limit. - Except as otherwise authorized by law, the tax for town...
Section 365.44 — Petition For Separation; Ballot At Town Meeting. - The question of whether a town is to be separated...
Section 365.45 — Petition For Dissolution; By County Board. - When a petition signed by a majority of the registered...
Section 365.46 — Notice To Secretary Of State, Others; Recording. - Subdivision 1. By county auditor. The county auditor shall immediately...
Section 365.47 — County's Disposal Of Town's Funds; Debt Levy. - Subdivision 1. This section controls. A dissolved town's money that...
Section 365.48 — County May Bond To Pay Debt Of Dissolved Town. - Subdivision 1. If year's levy not enough. A county board...
Section 365.49 — Property Of Dissolved Town Belongs To County. - Subdivision 1. If needed by county: credit. A dissolved town's...
Section 365.50 — First Town Meeting; Notice, Officers, Powers. - Subdivision 1. When, where. The first town meeting in a...
Section 365.51 — Annual Meeting; Notice, Business, Elections. - Subdivision 1. When; postponement for bad weather. (a) A town's...
Section 365.52 — Special Meeting; For Any Lawful Purpose. - Subdivision 1. How called; statement; petition. A special town meeting...
Section 365.53 — Clerk To Record Need To Meet; Give Notice. - Subdivision 1. Clerk's duties. The clerk shall record the statement...
Section 365.54 — Annual Meeting Time; Convener; Moderator; Pay. - Subdivision 1. Convening. An annual town meeting must convene at...
Section 365.55 — Town Clerk Is Meeting Clerk; Minutes To Be Filed. - The town clerk is clerk of the town meeting and...
Section 365.56 — Order Of Business; Parliamentary Procedure. - Subdivision 1. Moderator states order first. At the beginning of...
Section 365.57 — Who May Vote; Challenges; Oath. - A town resident who is qualified to vote at a...
Section 365.58 — May Adjourn Meeting. - A town meeting may be adjourned to any other day,...
Section 365.59 — County To Appoint Officers If None Elected. - Subdivision 1. Second meeting try. If a town fails to...
Chapter 365A — Subordinate Service Districts
Section 365A.01 — Towns; Subordinate Service Districts; Purpose. - It is the purpose of sections 365A.01 to 365A.10 to...
Section 365A.02 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Subordinate service district. "Subordinate service district" means a...
Section 365A.03 — Establishment Of Service District. - Notwithstanding any provision of law requiring uniform property tax rates...
Section 365A.04 — Creation. - Subdivision 1. Petition. A petition signed by at least 50...
Section 365A.05 — Publication And Effective Date. - Within 20 days after passage of a resolution authorizing the...
Section 365A.06 — Reverse Referendum. - Subdivision 1. Petition. Upon receipt of a petition signed by...
Section 365A.07 — Expansion Of Boundaries Of A District. - The town board, upon petition, may enlarge any existing subordinate...
Section 365A.08 — Financing. - Subdivision 1. Budget. (a) Upon adoption of the next annual...
Section 365A.095 — Petition For Removal Of District; Procedure; Refund Of Surplus. - Subdivision 1. Petition; procedure. A petition signed by at least...
Section 365A.10 — Coordination Of Districts. - If a county establishes a subordinate service district in part...
Chapter 366 — Town Board; Powers
Section 366.01 — Town Board Powers Listed; Formal Name. - Subdivision 1. General powers, expenses, bonds. The supervisors of each...
Section 366.011 — Charges For Emergency Services; Collection. - A town may impose a reasonable service charge for emergency...
Section 366.012 — Collection Of Unpaid Service Charges. - If a town is authorized to impose a service charge...
Section 366.015 — Vote Required On Weed Destruction. - Subdivision 1. Ballot, contents. The town board at the annual...
Section 366.016 — Vote Required On Snow And Ice Removal. - Subdivision 1. Ballot; content. The town board at the annual...
Section 366.017 — Licenses. - A person who exhibits a circus, theatrical performance, or show...
Section 366.03 — Repair Statutory City Streets. - If a statutory city included in the limits of a...
Section 366.04 — Transfer Surplus Funds. - A town board by unanimous vote may transfer a surplus...
Section 366.05 — Prosecute Bonds, Penalties, And Forfeitures. - The town board shall prosecute, in the name of the...
Section 366.07 — Treasurer May Select Depository. - If the town board fails to act, as provided in...
Section 366.08 — Treasurer Not Liable, When. - The town treasurer, in the absence of negligence, shall not...
Section 366.09 — Interest On Funds. - All interest on funds deposited under sections 366.01, subdivision 4,...
Section 366.095 — Authority To Issue Certificates Of Indebtedness. - Subdivision 1. Certificates of indebtedness. The town board may issue...
Section 366.183 — Authority Under Chapter 462. - Subject to any applicable general or special law or local...
Section 366.20 — Meetings. - The town board shall be a board of audit and...
Section 366.21 — Duties. - (a) It shall be the duty of the board of...
Section 366.22 — Posting And Reading Report; Fee. - The clerk shall post a copy of the report at...
Section 366.27 — Firefighters' Relief; Tax Levy. - The town board of any town in this state having...
Chapter 367 — Town Officers; Optional Plans
Section 367.01 — Delivery To Successor. - Every town officer shall, immediately after qualifying, demand from the...
Section 367.02 — When Board Is To Accept Resignations, Notify Clerk. - (a) The town board, for sufficient cause shown to it,...
Section 367.03 — Annual Election Of Officers; Vacancies; Special Elections. - 367.03 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 675 art 13 s...
Section 367.033 — May Be On Both Town And School Board Except If Urban Town. - (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a person...
Section 367.05 — Compensation; Town Officers And Employees. - Subdivision 1. MS 2002 [Renumbered 367.05] Subd. 2. MS 1982...
Section 367.10 — Town Clerk; Bond; Oath. - Every town clerk, before beginning the duties of the office,...
Section 367.11 — Clerk's Duties. - It shall be the duty of the town clerk: (1)...
Section 367.12 — Deputy Clerk. - Each town clerk may appoint a deputy, for whose acts...
Section 367.13 — Location Of Office. - The clerk of a town may hold office in a...
Section 367.14 — New Town. - When a new town is organized, embracing part of an...
Section 367.15 — Town Treasurer; Bond. - Every town treasurer, before beginning the duties of the office,...
Section 367.16 — Treasurer's Duties. - It is the duty of the town treasurer: (1) to...
Section 367.161 — Deputy Treasurer. - Each town treasurer may appoint a deputy not currently serving...
Section 367.17 — Neglect Of Duty. - A town treasurer who refuses or neglects to comply with...
Section 367.18 — Audited Accounts; Payment, Form. - Accounts audited and allowed, and the amount of any account...
Section 367.19 — Order Of Payment; Interest. - Town orders shall bear interest at the rate provided in...
Section 367.22 — Law Enforcement Official's Bond. - Before beginning duties, and within ten days after being notified...
Section 367.23 — Bonds, How Executed. - Every bond required of a town officer shall be executed...
Section 367.24 — Fees And Duties Of Poundmasters. - Poundmasters shall be allowed fees in amounts determined by the...
Section 367.25 — Oath Of Office; Bond; Filing; Penalties. - Subdivision 1. Requirement, fee. Every person elected at a March...
Section 367.30 — Optional Plans. - Subdivision 1. Option A; five-member town board. A town may...
Section 367.31 — Adoption Of Specific Option. - Subdivision 1. Submission to electors. Except as provided in subdivision...
Section 367.32 — Applicable Law; Same Rights, Liabilities, Proceedings. - Subdivision 1. Applicable law. All laws applicable to a town...
Section 367.33 — Option A; Election Of Additional Supervisors. - Subdivision 1. Election at annual election or special election. Following...
Section 367.34 — Continuance In Office; Elections. - Subdivision 1. Option B; incumbent clerk and treasurer. If option...
Section 367.35 — Town Administrator. - Subdivision 1. Appointment; removal. As soon as practicable after adoption...
Section 367.36 — Clerk, Treasurer Combined; Audit Standards. - Subdivision 1. Transition; audit. (a) In a town in which...
Section 367.40 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Application. For purposes of this chapter, the following...
Section 367.401 — Law Enforcement Officers; Appointment. - Subdivision 1. Appointment. The town, by majority vote at its...
Chapter 368 — Towns; Special Provisions
Section 368.01 — Powers Of Certain Metropolitan Area Towns. - Subdivision 1. Towns described. A town that has platted portions...
Section 368.015 — Towns; Census. - A town board may by resolution, in any year, request...
Section 368.47 — Towns May Be Dissolved. - (1) When the voters residing within a town have failed...
Section 368.48 — Copy Of Resolution For Secretary Of State. - A certified copy of the resolution shall forthwith, after its...
Section 368.49 — Town Funds With County Go To Town Road And Bridge Expense. - Subdivision 1. Otherwise to general fund. Any town funds in,...
Section 368.85 — Fire Protection. - Subdivision 1. Special fire protection district. A town may, by...