In Hennepin County there is hereby created a Legislative Research Committee. The committee shall consist of the senators and representatives in the legislature from the county.
The committee may investigate and study, accumulate, compile, analyze, and report on information concerning policies, plans, programs, and procedures relating to or affecting the fiscal and legislative needs of the county and any governmental or political subdivision within the county, including any school district, and any metropolitan or district authority having jurisdiction in any area of the county. The committee shall gather information and provide material to be used by senators and representatives from the county in their work while the legislature is in session and in connection with any legislative proposals affecting the county and such subdivisions. It may appoint subcommittees to perform any of its functions or duties.
The committee or any subcommittee appointed by it may sit at any time and place as it deems advisable. It shall meet at least once in each quarter and shall meet at any time upon the call of the chair. Nine members constitute a quorum. A majority of the quorum may act in any matter coming within the jurisdiction of the committee.
The committee shall select a chair and a vice-chair from its own members and may prescribe its rules of procedure. It may appoint a secretary who need not be a member. The committee may employ such other persons and obtain the assistance of such research agencies as its deems necessary.
The members of the committee and the members of any subcommittee shall be compensated for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties.
The county board shall appropriate from the county general revenue fund for the purpose of this section the sum of $20,000 for the use of the committee during the biennium ending December 31, 1966, and the sum of $20,000 for the use of the committee during each biennium thereafter. For the payment of the expenses of the committee it shall draw its warrants upon the county treasurer. These warrants shall be signed by the chair and one other member of the committee and approved by the county auditor. The county treasurer shall pay them as and when presented but not exceeding in any year the amount provided therefor.
1965 c 849 s 1-6; 1986 c 444
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 370 - 403 — Counties, County Officers, Regional Authorities
Chapter 383B — Hennepin County
Section 383B.021 — Compensation.
Section 383B.025 — County Board Appoints Auditor, Treasurer, Recorder.
Section 383B.031 — Board Vacancies: More Or Not More Than Six Months Out.
Section 383B.035 — County To Pay City, Town Special Election Expenses.
Section 383B.041 — Campaign Financing, Disclosure Of Economic Interests.
Section 383B.058 — Local Ordinances And Charters Superseded.
Section 383B.061 — Legislative Research Committee.
Section 383B.063 — Fort Snelling Precinct.
Section 383B.101 — County Administrator's Office; Establishment.
Section 383B.102 — Powers And Duties.
Section 383B.103 — Compensation; Removal.
Section 383B.111 — Budget And Financial Administration.
Section 383B.112 — Annual Budget.
Section 383B.113 — Long-range Capital Program.
Section 383B.114 — Appropriations And Tax Levy.
Section 383B.115 — Amendments.
Section 383B.116 — Payment Procedures And Accounting.
Section 383B.1161 — Electronic Approvals.
Section 383B.1162 — Credit Cards.
Section 383B.117 — Certificates Of Indebtedness.
Section 383B.119 — Financial Statements And Audits.
Section 383B.121 — Adult Corrections Facility.
Section 383B.122 — Superintendent.
Section 383B.124 — Work Release Program.
Section 383B.125 — Board May Run Factory With Inmates And Staff.
Section 383B.126 — Board May Lease Space Out To Run Factory.
Section 383B.127 — Diminution Of Sentence.
Section 383B.128 — Place Of Crime Must Pay Workhouse Inmate Daily Expense.
Section 383B.129 — Inmates From Other Jurisdictions.
Section 383B.141 — Authorization.
Section 383B.143 — Contracts For Purchases.
Section 383B.144 — Prequalification.
Section 383B.145 — Competitive Bidding.
Section 383B.146 — Purchases Consistent With Law.
Section 383B.147 — Vendor Discounts.
Section 383B.148 — Rules And Regulations.
Section 383B.149 — Purchases Or Contracts Forbidden.
Section 383B.151 — Financial Interest Forbidden.
Section 383B.1511 — Job Order Contracting.
Section 383B.152 — Building And Maintenance Fund.
Section 383B.153 — Contingent Account.
Section 383B.155 — Self-insurance.
Section 383B.158 — Design-build Contracts.
Section 383B.1581 — Design-build Process.
Section 383B.1582 — Rfp For Design-build.
Section 383B.1583 — Replacing Team Members.
Section 383B.1584 — Design-build Award.
Section 383B.1588 — Energy Forward Pricing Mechanisms.
Section 383B.159 — Real Property Leases.
Section 383B.20 — Parking Facilities.
Section 383B.203 — Certification Of Tax Lists.
Section 383B.205 — Special Assessments; Certification Fee.
Section 383B.207 — Special Assessments; Computation Of Interest.
Section 383B.211 — Authorization.
Section 383B.213 — Powers And Duties.
Section 383B.215 — Additional Authority.
Section 383B.217 — Hmo And Clinics.
Section 383B.218 — Bonding Authority; Hennepin County Medical Building.
Section 383B.219 — Ambulatory Health Centers And Clinics.
Section 383B.221 — Emergency Medical Service.
Section 383B.223 — Food Service.
Section 383B.229 — Existing Health Service Programs Not Affected.
Section 383B.235 — 80 Percent Of Council Must Ok Minneapolis Waste Burner.
Section 383B.236 — Waste Management.
Section 383B.237 — Library System.
Section 383B.245 — Library Levy.
Section 383B.251 — License Bureau.
Section 383B.255 — Public Safety Communications.
Section 383B.257 — County May Run Central Mobile Equipment Division.
Section 383B.259 — Pistol Range.
Section 383B.26 — Human Resources System; Purpose.
Section 383B.27 — Definitions For Human Resources Board And Department.
Section 383B.28 — Human Resources Board.
Section 383B.29 — Duties Of Human Resources Board.
Section 383B.30 — Director; Selection.
Section 383B.31 — Duties Of Human Resources Director.
Section 383B.32 — Unclassified And Classified Service.
Section 383B.34 — Classification Of Employees.
Section 383B.36 — Party To Litigation.
Section 383B.37 — Interference With Exam, Applicants; Political Activity.
Section 383B.38 — Removals, Suspensions, And Demotions.
Section 383B.389 — Disaster Volunteer Leave.
Section 383B.39 — Veterans To Be Given Preferential Rating.
Section 383B.41 — Discrimination.
Section 383B.42 — Appropriation Of Funds.
Section 383B.45 — County Board To Fix Time, Manner To Pay Salaries.
Section 383B.453 — Bond Of County Recorder Deputy.
Section 383B.455 — Legal Officers' Salaries.
Section 383B.457 — Officers' Salaries.
Section 383B.46 — Supplemental Retirement Account.
Section 383B.47 — Investment Of Retirement Money.
Section 383B.48 — Buying State Supplemental Investment Fund Shares.
Section 383B.49 — Supplemental Retirement Benefits; Redemption Of Shares.
Section 383B.491 — Minnesota State Retirement System Billing Authority.
Section 383B.493 — Withdrawal From Participation.
Section 383B.51 — No Assignment Or Garnishment.
Section 383B.52 — Administration Costs.
Section 383B.56 — Board May Regulate Public, Private Ambulances.
Section 383B.562 — Government Center; Liquor.
Section 383B.565 — Plats And Surveys; Approval.
Section 383B.60 — Special Permits; Seasonal Contractor's Permit; Fees.
Section 383B.603 — Board May File County Highway Maps For Record.
Section 383B.606 — Seasonal Load Limits.
Section 383B.608 — Local Road Aid.
Section 383B.61 — Transfer Of Drainage Systems.
Section 383B.611 — Probation And Investigation Department, Creation.
Section 383B.612 — Director Of Court Services; Other Employees.
Section 383B.613 — Duties Of Department.
Section 383B.614 — Space, Supplies, Expenses, Officer's Powers, Bond; Records.
Section 383B.63 — Public Defender For Crimes, Misdemeanors, Ordinances.
Section 383B.65 — Contracts, Leases With Bloomington For Court Space.
Section 383B.68 — Board Of Park District Commissioners.
Section 383B.70 — Compensation Of Commissioners.
Section 383B.702 — Depositories.
Section 383B.703 — District Renaming.
Section 383B.71 — Trail System.
Section 383B.72 — Land Acquisition; Town Consent.
Section 383B.73 — Park District Tax Levy.
Section 383B.75 — Municipal Building Commission.
Section 383B.751 — Care And Control Of Building.
Section 383B.752 — Expenses; Warrants.
Section 383B.753 — Exclusive Control.
Section 383B.754 — Budget Date.
Section 383B.77 — Hennepin County Housing And Redevelopment Authority.
Section 383B.78 — Bathing Beaches.
Section 383B.79 — Multijurisdictional Program.
Section 383B.80 — Hennepin County Deed And Mortgage Tax.
Section 383B.81 — Environmental Response Fund.
Section 383B.82 — Wind And Solar Business Entity Participation.
Section 383B.901 — Creation Of A County Subsidiary Corporation.
Section 383B.902 — Definitions.
Section 383B.907 — Corporate Powers.
Section 383B.908 — Limitations Upon Corporate Powers; Reserved Powers.
Section 383B.909 — Corporate Seal.
Section 383B.910 — Board Meetings.
Section 383B.911 — Public Depository.
Section 383B.912 — Transfer Of Rights.
Section 383B.913 — Lease Or Transfer Of Assets.
Section 383B.914 — Status Of Present Employees; Bargaining Units; Retirement Coverage.
Section 383B.915 — Bonding Authority Of Corporation.
Section 383B.916 — Financing Through County.
Section 383B.917 — Open Meeting Law; Government Data Practices Act.
Section 383B.918 — Health Services Plan.
Section 383B.919 — Tort Liability.
Section 383B.920 — Revenue Recapture Act.
Section 383B.921 — Purchasing.
Section 383B.922 — Legal Counsel.
Section 383B.923 — Self-insurance.
Section 383B.924 — Hospital Authorities.
Section 383B.925 — Tax-exempt Status.
Section 383B.927 — Intergovernmental Transfers.