Minnesota Statutes
Chapter 123B — School District Powers And Duties
Section 123B.94 — Common School Districts; Meetings, Elections.

Subdivision 1. Annual meeting. The annual meeting of all common districts must be held on the last Tuesday in June, at 8:00 p.m., unless a different hour has been fixed at the preceding annual meeting. The clerk shall give notice of the meeting, specifying the matters to come before such meeting. Failure of the clerk to give such notice, or to specify the business to be transacted, shall not affect the validity of any business, except the raising of money to build or purchase a school house, the authorizing of an issue of bonds, the fixing of a school house site, or the organization as an independent district. At the annual meeting in a common district five legal voters shall constitute a quorum. The chair and clerk of the board shall officiate in their respective capacities at all meetings of the electors of the district. In the event of the absence of the chair or clerk, the voters shall elect a chair or clerk pro tem. The voters shall have the power in an annual meeting to repeal and modify their proceedings. The polls at all meetings shall be open at least one hour.
Subd. 2. Elections. The annual meeting must have power to elect, by ballot, officers of the district. In all elections or vote by ballot, the clerk shall record the names of all voters participating therein and the chair shall appoint two electors. The electors, with the assistance of the clerk, shall supervise the balloting and canvass the votes. If any candidates receive an equal number of votes for an office, the board shall resolve the tie by lot.
Subd. 3. Candidates for office. Any person desiring to be a candidate for a district office at the annual meeting of the district shall file with the clerk of the district an application to be placed on the ballot for such office. Any five voters of the district may file an application for or on behalf of any qualified voter in the district that they desire to be a candidate. Applications shall be filed not less than 12 days before the annual district meeting. The clerk of the district, in the notice of annual meeting, shall state the names of the candidates for whom applications have been filed, failure to do so shall not affect the validity of the election thereafter held. At the annual meeting of common districts, nomination of candidates for offices may be made from the floor by any qualified voter.
Subd. 4. Ballots. The clerk shall prepare, at the expense of the district, necessary ballots for the election of officers placing thereon the names of the proposed candidates for such office with a blank space after such names. The ballots shall be marked as official ballots, and shall be used to the exclusion of all other ballots at such annual meeting or election in the election of officers of the district.
Subd. 5. Election of officers. At the first meeting of each district, the chair shall be elected to hold office until July 1 following the next annual meeting. The treasurer, until one year from such date, and the clerk until two years from such date.
Subd. 6. Board member acceptance of office. A board member elected at an annual meeting upon notice from the clerk, shall, on or before the first Saturday in July, file with the clerk an acceptance of the office and an official oath. Any person appointed by the board or elected at a special meeting to fill a vacancy shall file in writing an acceptance of the office and an official oath within ten days after the notice of such appointment or election by the clerk. A person who fails to qualify prior to the time specified shall be deemed to have refused to serve, but such filing, if made at any time before action to fill the vacancy has been taken, shall be sufficient.
Subd. 7. Special meeting. Upon the filing of a petition therefor, executed by five eligible voters, as defined in Minnesota Election Law, of the common district, specifying the business to be acted upon, or upon the adoption of a proper resolution so specifying, signed by a majority of the members of the board, the clerk shall call a special meeting of the district. The clerk shall give ten days' posted notice and one week's published notice if there be a newspaper printed in the district and specify in the notice the business named in the request or resolution and the time and place of the meeting. If there is no clerk in the district or if the clerk fails for three days after receiving a request or resolution to give notice of a meeting, it may be called by like notice by five eligible voters, as defined in Minnesota Election Law, of the district. No business except that named in the notice shall be transacted at the meeting. If there are not five eligible voters, as defined in Minnesota Election Law, or if there is not a board therein, the county auditor may call a special meeting by giving notice thereof as provided in this section. The voters at a special meeting have power to repeal or modify their proceedings.
Ex1959 c 71 art 4 s 2; 1965 c 33 s 1; 1979 c 29 s 1; 1980 c 609 art 6 s 15; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 266 art 2 s 8; 1998 c 397 art 6 s 37-41,124

Structure Minnesota Statutes

Minnesota Statutes

Chapters 120 - 129C — Education Code: Prekindergarten - Grade 12

Chapter 123B — School District Powers And Duties

Section 123B.01 — Definitions.

Section 123B.02 — General Powers Of Independent School Districts.

Section 123B.025 — School Sponsorship And Advertising Revenue.

Section 123B.03 — Background Check.

Section 123B.04 — Site Decision Making; Individualized Learning Agreement; Other Agreements.

Section 123B.045 — District-created Site-governed Schools.

Section 123B.06 — Evaluation Of Pupil Growth And Progress; Permanent Records.

Section 123B.07 — Missing Children; Voluntary Fingerprinting.

Section 123B.08 — Flag School Records Of Missing Children.

Section 123B.09 — Boards Of Independent School Districts.

Section 123B.10 — Publication Of Financial Information.

Section 123B.11 — Imprest Cash Funds.

Section 123B.12 — Insufficient Funds To Pay Orders.

Section 123B.13 — Land In Settlement Of Claim Against Surety.

Section 123B.14 — Officers Of Independent School Districts.

Section 123B.143 — Superintendent.

Section 123B.147 — Principals.

Section 123B.19 — Failure Of Auditor To Report.

Section 123B.195 — Board Members' Right To Employment.

Section 123B.20 — Dealing In School Supplies.

Section 123B.21 — Duty Of Officers To Report Violations Of Law.

Section 123B.22 — Combination To Control Prices.

Section 123B.23 — Liability Insurance; Officers And Employees.

Section 123B.24 — Legal Actions By Districts.

Section 123B.25 — Legal Actions Against Districts And Teachers.

Section 123B.28 — Records As Evidence.

Section 123B.29 — Sale At Auction.

Section 123B.30 — Improper Classification Of Pupils.

Section 123B.31 — Limitation Of Sections.

Section 123B.34 — Minnesota Public School Fee Law, Citation.

Section 123B.35 — General Policy.

Section 123B.36 — Authorized Fees.

Section 123B.37 — Prohibited Fees.

Section 123B.38 — Hearing.

Section 123B.39 — Postsecondary Instructional Programs.

Section 123B.40 — Declaration Of Policy.

Section 123B.41 — Definitions.

Section 123B.42 — Textbooks; Individual Instruction Or Cooperative Learning Material; Standard Tests.

Section 123B.43 — Use Of Individualized Instructional Materials.

Section 123B.44 — Provision Of Pupil Support Services.

Section 123B.445 — Nonpublic Education Council.

Section 123B.45 — Payments For Contractual Obligations.

Section 123B.46 — Administrative Costs.

Section 123B.47 — Notice To Districts; Proration.

Section 123B.48 — Limit On District Obligations.

Section 123B.49 — Extracurricular Activities; Insurance.

Section 123B.492 — Supervised Competitive High School Diving.

Section 123B.50 — Special School Districts, Laws Applicable.

Section 123B.51 — Schoolhouses And Sites; Uses For School And Nonschool Purposes; Closings.

Section 123B.52 — Contracts.

Section 123B.53 — Debt Service Equalization Program.

Section 123B.535 — Natural Disaster Debt Service Equalization.

Section 123B.54 — Debt Service Appropriation.

Section 123B.55 — Debt Service Levy.

Section 123B.56 — Health, Safety, And Environmental Management.

Section 123B.57 — Health And Safety Projects.

Section 123B.571 — Radon Testing.

Section 123B.572 — Solar Panel Fire Safety.

Section 123B.58 — Disability Access And Fire Safety Improvements To School Buildings.

Section 123B.595 — Long-term Facilities Maintenance Revenue.

Section 123B.60 — Building Bonds For Calamities.

Section 123B.61 — Purchase Of Certain Equipment.

Section 123B.62 — Bonds For Certain Capital Facilities.

Section 123B.63 — Capital Project Referendum.

Section 123B.65 — Energy-efficiency Projects.

Section 123B.651 — Energy Use Reduction And Reporting For Public Schools.

Section 123B.67 — School Building Accessibility Capital Improvement Grant Act.

Section 123B.68 — Approval; Application Forms.

Section 123B.69 — Grant Application Process.

Section 123B.70 — School District Construction.

Section 123B.71 — Review And Comment For School District Construction.

Section 123B.72 — School Facility Commissioning.

Section 123B.74 — Eminent Domain.

Section 123B.744 — Agricultural Education.

Section 123B.747 — National Forest Land Funds, Handling And Disposition.

Section 123B.75 — Revenue; Reporting.

Section 123B.76 — Expenditures; Reporting.

Section 123B.77 — Accounting, Budgeting, And Reporting Requirement.

Section 123B.78 — Cash Flow; School District Revenues; Borrowing For Current Operating Costs; Capital Expenditure Deficits.

Section 123B.79 — Permanent Fund Transfers.

Section 123B.80 — Exceptions For Permanent Fund Transfers.

Section 123B.81 — Statutory Operating Debt.

Section 123B.82 — Reorganization Operating Debt.

Section 123B.83 — Expenditure Limitations.

Section 123B.84 — Policy.

Section 123B.85 — Definitions.

Section 123B.86 — Equal Treatment.

Section 123B.87 — Funds And Aids.

Section 123B.88 — Independent School Districts; Transportation.

Section 123B.885 — Diesel School Buses; Operation Of Engine; Parking.

Section 123B.90 — School Bus Safety Training.

Section 123B.91 — School District Bus Safety Responsibilities.

Section 123B.92 — Transportation Aid Entitlement.

Section 123B.93 — Advertising On School Buses.

Section 123B.94 — Common School Districts; Meetings, Elections.

Section 123B.95 — Boards Of Common School Districts.

Section 123B.96 — Treasurer.

Section 123B.97 — Schoolhouses And Sites; Common School Districts.

Section 123B.98 — Limitation Of Sections.