It is a town charge:
(1) to pay town officers for services performed for the town;
(2) to pay contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the town;
(3) to raise money authorized to be raised by the vote of the town meeting for general purposes; and
(4) to raise money directed by law to be raised for any town purpose.
(1093) RL s 686; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapter 365 — Town General Law
Section 365.01 — 1906 Boundaries Remain Unless Changed By County.
Section 365.02 — Town Corporation May Sue, Own Property, Make Contracts.
Section 365.025 — Contracts; Time Payments; Petition On Big Buys.
Section 365.04 — Property To Or For Use Of Town Is Town Property.
Section 365.05 — Deed Of Town Land; Formalities; Interest Given.
Section 365.07 — To Pay Officers And Expenses; To Raise Money.
Section 365.08 — Town Damage To Private Road Is A Charge If Voted.
Section 365.09 — Charges Paid By Taxes Levied Under Chapter 275.
Section 365.10 — Annual Town Meeting; Powers Of Electors.
Section 365.11 — Notice Of Bylaw Required; Binds All In Town.
Section 365.125 — Ordinance Formalities; Publish, Post, Record.
Section 365.13 — Poundmaster Needed If Electors Want Pound.
Section 365.14 — Board To Tax For, Contract For, Manage Town Hall.
Section 365.15 — Police, Fire Protection.
Section 365.16 — Police And Fire Apparatus.
Section 365.17 — Joint Fire Equipment With Adjacent Towns.
Section 365.18 — Board Levy For Police And Fire Apparatus.
Section 365.181 — Contracted Fire Service; Cost Data; Assessments.
Section 365.19 — Relation Of Levies To Forestry Act, Levy.
Section 365.20 — Police, Fire, Water In Certain Platted Towns.
Section 365.21 — Special Election For Police, Fire, Water.
Section 365.22 — Conduct Of Election; Ballots, Voting, Hours.
Section 365.23 — Meeting For Section 365.20 Spending, Pacts, Tax.
Section 365.24 — Election May Revoke Earlier Grant Of Power.
Section 365.243 — County Fire Service To Unorganized Territory.
Section 365.26 — Cemetery Land; Board Control; Sale Or Lease; City Aid.
Section 365.27 — Sale And Reversion Of Lots; Use Of Funds.
Section 365.28 — Public Burial Ground Becomes Town Property After Ten Years.
Section 365.29 — Part Of Lot Price To Cemetery Fund; Use Of Funds.
Section 365.30 — Board Sets Lot Care Share; Use Of Funds.
Section 365.31 — Gift For Cemetery Or Lot; Use Of Funds For Care.
Section 365.32 — Deposit Of Cemetery Funds.
Section 365.33 — How County To Treat Town Cemetery Money.
Section 365.34 — If Depository Changed, Fund To Be Changed.
Section 365.35 — Fund Principal; Interest.
Section 365.36 — Investment Of Cemetery Fund.
Section 365.37 — Conflicts, Bids, Emergencies, Penalty, Removal.
Section 365.38 — Notify Clerk Before Suit; Wait 30 Days On Order.
Section 365.39 — Lawsuit With Town As Party Is Like Any Lawsuit.
Section 365.40 — Town Name In Suit; Exception; Service; Defense.
Section 365.41 — Judgment Against Town; Payment; Execution.
Section 365.42 — Amount Of Unpaid Judgment Added To Tax Levy.
Section 365.43 — No Debt, Spending Beyond Tax Limit Without Vote.
Section 365.431 — Amount Voted At Meeting Is Tax Limit.
Section 365.44 — Petition For Separation; Ballot At Town Meeting.
Section 365.45 — Petition For Dissolution; By County Board.
Section 365.46 — Notice To Secretary Of State, Others; Recording.
Section 365.47 — County's Disposal Of Town's Funds; Debt Levy.
Section 365.48 — County May Bond To Pay Debt Of Dissolved Town.
Section 365.49 — Property Of Dissolved Town Belongs To County.
Section 365.50 — First Town Meeting; Notice, Officers, Powers.
Section 365.51 — Annual Meeting; Notice, Business, Elections.
Section 365.52 — Special Meeting; For Any Lawful Purpose.
Section 365.53 — Clerk To Record Need To Meet; Give Notice.
Section 365.54 — Annual Meeting Time; Convener; Moderator; Pay.
Section 365.55 — Town Clerk Is Meeting Clerk; Minutes To Be Filed.
Section 365.56 — Order Of Business; Parliamentary Procedure.
Section 365.57 — Who May Vote; Challenges; Oath.
Section 365.58 — May Adjourn Meeting.
Section 365.59 — County To Appoint Officers If None Elected.