Subdivision 1. When; postponement for bad weather. (a) A town's annual town meeting must be held on the second Tuesday of March at the place named by the last annual town meeting. If no place was named then, the meeting must be held at the place named by the town board. The place may be outside the town if the place is within five miles of a town boundary. If, on the day of the meeting and election in March, the National Weather Service or a law enforcement agency has issued storm warnings or travel advisories such that the clerk determines travel to a polling place would be difficult or hazardous for voters and election judges, the clerk may postpone the election and meeting. If the meeting and election are postponed, the meeting and election shall be held on the third Tuesday in March. Prior to providing notice of the election and meeting, the town board shall by resolution set another date for the meeting and election within 30 days of the third Tuesday in March on which the meeting and election shall be held if bad weather forces postponement of the meeting and election on the third Tuesday in March. The decision to postpone the meeting and election must be made no later than three hours before the opening of the polling place or the convening of the meeting, whichever comes first. The clerk shall notify the election judges and local media offices of the decision to postpone the meeting and election. If the meeting and election are postponed, the notice requirements in subdivision 2 shall apply to the postponed meeting and election.
The balloting of the town election must be concluded on the same day the election is commenced.
(b) If any other political subdivision is conducting an election in conjunction with the township election, postponement of the election shall be subject to section 205.105, 205A.055, or 373.50. If an election is postponed under section 205.105, 205A.055, or 373.50, the town meeting shall also be postponed as if postponed under this section.
Subd. 2. Notice. The clerk shall give ten days' published notice of the time and place of the meeting in a qualified newspaper having general circulation in the town. An alternative to published notice is posted notice, as directed by the town board unless the electors at an earlier annual town meeting direct otherwise. The notice must include the date on which the election will be held if postponement due to bad weather is necessary.
Subd. 3. Officers; ballot questions; other business. An annual town election shall be held on the same day as the annual town meeting to elect all town officers required by law to be elected and to consider ballot questions, except as provided in section 205.075, subdivision 2. Other town business shall be conducted at the town meeting as provided by law.
Subd. 4. Precincts; polling places. The town board may, with respect to an election by ballot at the annual town meeting for the purpose of determining any matter of town business, provide for the casting of ballots in precincts and at polling places. Precincts and polling places shall be designated by the town board in the manner prescribed by sections 204B.14 and 204B.16.
1959 c 675 art 6 s 19; 1967 c 31 s 1; 1969 c 793 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1975 c 5 s 131; 1980 c 359 s 1; 1981 c 29 art 7 s 32; 1985 c 307 s 2; 1987 c 90 s 4; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1; art 11 s 1; 1990 c 471 s 1; 1993 c 223 s 27; 1994 c 646 s 23,24; 2004 c 293 art 2 s 45; 2010 c 201 s 78
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.