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Chapter 471 — Municipal Rights, Powers, Duties
Section 471.15 — Recreational Facilities By Municipality; Bonds. - (a) Any home rule charter or statutory city or any...
Section 471.16 — Operation Of Program; Levy. - Subdivision 1. Includes nonprofits; delegation. Any city, however organized, or...
Section 471.17 — Location Of Activities. - Any corporation, board, or body hereinbefore designated given charge of...
Section 471.18 — Education Commissioner To Establish Qualifications. - In all cases where school funds or property are utilized,...
Section 471.19 — Recreation Program To Be For Education Purposes. - The facilities of any school district, operating a recreation program...
Section 471.191 — Acquisition Of Facilities By City, School District. - Subdivision 1. Lease to nonprofit. Any city operating a program...
Section 471.1911 — Validation Of School District Agreements. - Agreements entered into by school districts pursuant to the provisions...
Section 471.1912 — Public Beaches; Lifeguards. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (1)...
Section 471.193 — Municipal Heritage Preservation. - Subdivision 1. Policy. The legislature finds that the historical, architectural,...
Section 471.195 — Unclaimed Property; Disposal. - (1) Any city may by ordinance provide for the custody...
Section 471.198 — Expenditures; National Night Out; Law Enforcement Community Events. - (a) Any home rule charter or statutory city or any...
Section 471.24 — Towns, Statutory Cities; Joint Maintenance Of Cemetery. - Where a statutory city or town owns and maintains an...
Section 471.342 — Inflow And Infiltration Program. - Subdivision 1. City. In this section, "city" means a home...
Section 471.345 — Uniform Municipal Contracting Law. - Subdivision 1. Municipality defined. For purposes of this section, "municipality"...
Section 471.3455 — Public Safety Equipment Purchase Or Lease. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) "Local government" means a statutory or...
Section 471.3457 — Veteran-owned Small Business Contracts. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (1)...
Section 471.3459 — Donation Of Surplus Equipment. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section,...
Section 471.346 — Publicly Owned And Leased Vehicles Identified. - All motor vehicles owned or leased by a statutory or...
Section 471.35 — Specifications Of Supplies Or Equipment. - When any county, city, town, or school district calls for...
Section 471.36 — Noncompetitive Supplies And Equipment. - The provisions of sections 471.35 to 471.37 shall not apply...
Section 471.37 — Violations. - The violation of any of the provisions of sections 471.35...
Section 471.371 — Contracts For Construction Of Treatment Works. - Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1991 c 212 s 4] Subd. 2....
Section 471.38 — Claims. - Subdivision 1. Itemization; declaration. Except as provided in subdivision 2,...
Section 471.381 — City, Town, And County Obligations And Payments. - Subdivision 1. Payment methods. Payments of claims and obligations of...
Section 471.382 — Credit Cards. - A city council or town board may authorize the use...
Section 471.391 — Declaration Form. - Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2017 c 52 s 2] Subd. 2....
Section 471.392 — Penalty. - Any person who willfully and falsely makes the declaration provided...
Section 471.40 — Auditing Claims. - When any account, claim, or demand against any municipality shall...
Section 471.41 — Auditing Accounts Not Itemized A Gross Misdemeanor. - Every member of such board who shall audit and allow...
Section 471.415 — Duplicate Warrants Or Orders. - Subdivision 1. Issuance. When any order or warrant of any...
Section 471.425 — Prompt Payment Of Local Government Bills. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the...
Section 471.426 — Direct Deposit. - Notwithstanding sections 177.23, subdivision 4, and 181.02, the governing body...
Section 471.44 — Municipality To Supply Counsel For Police, Peace Officers. - Subdivision 1. Costs in defense of legal action. On and...
Section 471.45 — Costs And Disbursements To Be Assigned To Municipalities. - If, at the termination of such suit, judgment is rendered...
Section 471.46 — Vacancies; Persons Ineligible To Appointment. - No county, city, town, or school district officer shall be...
Section 471.462 — Written Estimate Of Consultant Fees. - For the purposes of this section, "city" means a home...
Section 471.464 — Ramps At Crosswalks. - Subdivision 1. At new installations. Every city shall install ramps...
Section 471.469 — Elevators In Apartment Buildings. - Nothing herein shall be construed to require elevators in apartment...
Section 471.471 — Access Review Board. - Subdivision 1. Membership. The Access Review Board consists of: (1)...
Section 471.475 — Iron Range Cities Or Towns May Lease Out Hospital. - The governing body of any city or town, the valuation...
Section 471.476 — Ambulance Services, Hennepin County Exception. - Subdivision 1. In or out of boundaries, also to nonresidents....
Section 471.49 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Words, terms, and phrases. Unless the language or...
Section 471.50 — County Board May Make Agreements In Regard To Taxes. - The county board of any county in this state is...
Section 471.51 — Agreement To State Years Of Payments. - Every such agreement shall state the year or years for...
Section 471.52 — Apportionment Of Payments. - Each agreement entered into pursuant to section 471.50 shall contain...
Section 471.53 — Who May Make Requests. - If the United States declines to deal with a county...
Section 471.54 — Use Of Money. - All money received by a political subdivision hereunder shall be...
Section 471.55 — Construction Of Sections 471.49 To 471.55. - No provision of sections 471.49 to 471.55 shall be construed...
Section 471.562 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Applicability. In sections 471.562 to 471.564, the terms...
Section 471.563 — Uses Of Loan Repayments. - Subject to any restrictions imposed on their use by any...
Section 471.564 — Bonds. - A municipality may by resolution authorize, issue, and sell revenue...
Section 471.57 — Public Works Reserve Fund. - Subdivision 1. Tax levy. The council of any city, however...
Section 471.571 — Permanent Improvement Fund, Certain Cities. - Subdivision 1. Application. This section applies to each city in...
Section 471.572 — Infrastructure Replacement Reserve Fund. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following...
Section 471.58 — Range Association Of Municipalities And Schools; Dues. - For the purpose of providing an areawide approach to problems...
Section 471.59 — Joint Exercise Of Powers. - Subdivision 1. Agreement. (a) Two or more governmental units, by...
Section 471.591 — Extension Of Municipal Services. - Subdivision 1. Early joint meeting. In the beginning stage of...
Section 471.61 — Group Benefits For Officers, Employees, Retirees. - Subdivision 1. Officers, employees. A county, municipal corporation, town, school...
Section 471.611 — Retirees' Health Insurance Benefits. - Subdivision 1. Accounting. A unit of local government that agrees...
Section 471.615 — Individual Annuity For Public Officer, Employee. - At the request of an officer or employee and as...
Section 471.6151 — Contributions From Lawful Gambling Organizations. - Contributions of receipts derived from lawful gambling to a statutory...
Section 471.6161 — Group Insurance; Governmental Units. - Subdivision 1. Group insurance coverage. For purposes of this section,...
Section 471.617 — Self-insurance Of Employee Health Benefits. - Subdivision 1. If more than 100 employees; conditions. A statutory...
Section 471.6175 — Trust For Postemployment Benefits. - Subdivision 1. Authorization; establishment. A political subdivision or other public...
Section 471.62 — Statutes Or Rules May Be Adopted By Reference. - Any city or town, however organized, may incorporate in an...
Section 471.63 — Promotion Of Safety And Preservation Of Human Life. - Subdivision 1. Authorization. In each county in this state not...
Section 471.631 — Rewards For Information About Felons. - A home rule charter or statutory city may offer and...
Section 471.633 — Firearms. - The legislature preempts all authority of a home rule charter...
Section 471.634 — Definition. - For purposes of section 471.633, the terms "municipal corporation" and...
Section 471.635 — Zoning Ordinances. - Notwithstanding section 471.633, a governmental subdivision may regulate by reasonable,...
Section 471.64 — May Get, Dispose Of Property To, From U.s., State Agencies. - Subdivision 1. Ignore statutes, charter. Any county, city, town, school...
Section 471.65 — Grant, Advance, Or Loan From U.s. Or State Government. - Subdivision 1. Acceptance. Notwithstanding inconsistent provisions of any other statute...
Section 471.653 — Distribution Of Certain Federal Payments. - Federal payment in lieu of taxes on entitlement lands made...
Section 471.655 — Municipality's Economic Opportunity Program Powers. - With respect to programs funded in whole or in part...
Section 471.656 — Limits On Bond Issuance For Extraterritorial Projects. - Subdivision 1. General rule. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,...
Section 471.66 — Vacations. - Subdivision 1. With or without pay. The governing body of...
Section 471.661 — Out-of-state Travel. - The governing body of each statutory or home rule charter...
Section 471.665 — Mileage Allowances. - Subdivision 1. Governing body sets. The maximum amount which shall...
Section 471.666 — Personal Use Of Publicly Owned Automobiles Prohibited. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following...
Section 471.67 — Agreement Between Commissioner Of Dnr And Municipality. - Subdivision 1. Terms and conditions. The commissioner of natural resources...
Section 471.68 — Distribution Of Publications By Any County Or City. - Subdivision 1. Annual or biennial reports. When any county or...
Section 471.685 — Limit On Postsecondary Institution Fees. - A statutory or home rule charter city, county, or town...
Section 471.69 — Limitation Of Tax Levies; Statement. - No school district, county, statutory city, or town shall contract...
Section 471.695 — City Defined For Sections 471.695 To 471.699. - For the purposes of sections 471.695 to 471.699, "city" means...
Section 471.696 — Fiscal Year; Designation. - Beginning in 1979, the fiscal year of a city and...
Section 471.6965 — Publication Of Summary Budget Statement. - Annually, upon adoption of the city budget, the city council...
Section 471.697 — Financial Reports; Filing; Cities, Towns Of 2,500. - Subdivision 1. All operations except some hospitals, nursing homes. In...
Section 471.698 — Finance Report, File, Publish Or Post; Cities Under 2,500. - Subdivision 1. All operations except some hospitals, nursing homes. In...
Section 471.6985 — Municipal Liquor Store. - Subdivision 1. Publish balance sheet, operations. Any city operating a...
Section 471.699 — Enforcement Of Reporting Requirements. - Failure of a city to timely file a statement or...
Section 471.6995 — Extended Time To File Financial Report; Disaster Areas. - The time limit by which financial reports are required to...
Section 471.70 — Annual Report Of Outstanding Obligations. - For the purposes of this section "municipality" means a city,...
Section 471.701 — Salary Data. - A city or county with a population of more than...
Section 471.707 — Vending Machine License Fees; Notice. - A home rule charter or statutory city or a town...
Section 471.709 — Massage Therapist License; Permit. - Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipality shall not...
Section 471.71 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Terms. For the purposes of sections 471.71 to...
Section 471.72 — Application; Purpose. - Sections 471.71 to 471.83 apply to all cities, statutory cities,...
Section 471.73 — Acceptance Of Provisions. - In the case of any city within the class specified...
Section 471.75 — Orders, Sufficient Funds; Certificates Of Indebtedness. - Subdivision 1. No NSF warrants. From and after January 1,...
Section 471.76 — Expenditures, Obligations; Clerk's Statement. - The clerk or recording officer of each municipality subject to...
Section 471.77 — Indebtedness Contracted In Excess Of Revenue. - Whenever any department, board, or commission of such municipality has...
Section 471.78 — Indebtedness In Excess Of Revenue, Contracts Void. - Each contract attempted to be entered into or indebtedness or...
Section 471.79 — Enforcement. - The district court may, at the suit of any taxpayer,...
Section 471.80 — Application. - Sections 471.71 to 471.83 shall supersede inconsistent home rule charter...
Section 471.81 — Construction. - Nothing in sections 471.71 to 471.83 shall be construed as...
Section 471.82 — Repealer, Exceptions. - Laws 1929, chapter 303; Laws 1931, chapter 342; Laws 1933,...
Section 471.83 — Severable, Effect. - The provisions of sections 471.71 to 471.83 are severable, and...
Section 471.831 — Municipality May File Bankruptcy Petition. - Subdivision 1. Any relief under bankruptcy code. A municipality, as...
Section 471.84 — Cemeteries; Appropriation By Certain Subdivisions. - The governing body of any city of the fourth class...
Section 471.85 — Property Transfer; Public Corporations. - Any county, city, town, or school district may transfer its...
Section 471.86 — Protection For Firefighter Driver Sued For Damages. - Subdivision 1. Legal counsel, employment. Every city, township, or other...
Section 471.87 — Public Officers, Interest In Contract; Penalty. - Except as authorized in section 123B.195 or 471.88, a public...
Section 471.88 — Exceptions. - 471.88 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1961 c 651 s 2] 471.88...
Section 471.881 — Exceptions; Application. - The exceptions provided in section 471.88 shall apply notwithstanding the...
Section 471.89 — Contract, When Void. - Subdivision 1. Procedure followed. A contract made pursuant to section...
Section 471.895 — Certain Gifts By Interested Persons Prohibited. - Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) The definitions in this subdivision apply...
Section 471.90 — Statutory Cities, Hospital; Transfer To County. - Subdivision 1. Authorization. When duly authorized by unanimous vote of...
Section 471.91 — Air Travel Accounts. - The governing body of any city of the first class...
Section 471.92 — Dangerous Excavations. - Subdivision 1. Wells, pools, cisterns, basins as nuisance. The governing...
Section 471.924 — County Regulation Of Secondhand And Junk Dealers. - Subdivision 1. Authority. For the purpose of promoting the health,...
Section 471.925 — Definitions. - For purposes of sections 471.924 to 471.929, "secondhand goods" or...
Section 471.926 — Relation To Other County Authority. - Any ordinance adopted by a county pursuant to sections 471.924...
Section 471.927 — Cooperation With Municipalities. - The governing body of any municipality may continue to exercise...
Section 471.928 — Recording. - Any ordinance adopted pursuant to sections 471.924 to 471.929 must...
Section 471.929 — Enforcement. - The duties of enforcing an ordinance adopted pursuant to this...
Section 471.93 — Appropriations For Historical Work By Municipalities. - In cities of the second, third or fourth class, and...
Section 471.935 — Appropriations For Senior, Youth Centers. - A statutory or home rule charter city, county, or town...
Section 471.941 — Appropriation For Artistic Activities. - For the purposes of this section, "artistic organization" means an...
Section 471.95 — Patients In Public Hospitals, Extension Of Credit. - The body or bodies authorized by law to levy taxes...
Section 471.96 — Members Of Civic Educational Associations. - Subdivision 1. Dues, expenses. The governing bodies of cities, counties,...
Section 471.97 — Authority To Advance Expense Money. - The governing bodies of cities and counties may advance to...
Section 471.975 — Pay Differential And Benefits For Member Of National Guard Or Reserve Component On Active Duty; Powers And Duties. - (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a statutory or...
Section 471.98 — Self-insurance; Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Scope. Unless the context indicates otherwise, as used...
Section 471.981 — Self-insurance Coverage By Political Subdivision. - Subdivision 1. Except employee health, life, accident, disability. A political...
Section 471.982 — Review Of Joint Self-insurance Pool. - Subdivision 1. Submission, review, report. Prior to the formation of...
Section 471.985 — County And City Ordinances Prohibiting Trespassing. - Subdivision 1. Authority. The county board of any county or...
Section 471.99 — Notice Of Government Action. - Except when other notice is required by law, the state,...
Section 471.991 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Terms. For the purposes of Laws 1984, chapter...
Section 471.992 — Equitable Compensation Relationships. - Subdivision 1. Establishment. Subject to sections 179A.01 to 179A.25 and...
Section 471.993 — Compensation Relationships Of Positions. - Subdivision 1. Assurance of reasonable relationship. In preparing management negotiation...
Section 471.994 — Job Evaluation System. - Every political subdivision shall use a job evaluation system in...
Section 471.995 — Report Availability. - Notwithstanding section 13.37, every political subdivision shall submit a report...
Section 471.9966 — Effect On Other Law. - Notwithstanding section 179A.13, subdivision 2, it is not an unfair...
Section 471.997 — Human Rights Act, Evidence. - The commissioner of human rights or any state court may...
Section 471.9981 — Counties And Cities; Pay Equity Compliance. - Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2009 c 101 art 2 s 110]...
Section 471.999 — Report To Legislature. - The commissioner of management and budget shall report to the...
Section 471.9995 — Rental Dwelling Notice. - Any license or registration or certificate of occupancy or a...
Section 471.9996 — Rent Control Prohibited. - Subdivision 1. In general. No statutory or home rule charter...
Section 471.9997 — Federally Assisted Rental Housing; Impact Statement. - At least 12 months before termination of participation in a...
Section 471.9998 — Merchant Bags. - Subdivision 1. Merchant option. All merchants, itinerant vendors, and peddlers...