2001 Minnesota Statutes

     471.58 Range association of municipalities and schools; 
  membership. 

    For the purpose of providing an areawide approach to 
 problems which demand coordinated and cooperative actions and 
 which are common to those areas of northeast Minnesota affected 
 by operations involved in mining iron ore and taconite and 
 producing concentrate therefrom, and for the purpose of 
 promoting the general welfare and economic development of the 
 cities, towns and school districts within the iron ranges area 
 of northeast Minnesota, any city, town or school district in 
 which the net tax capacity consists in part of iron ore, or 
 lands containing taconite or semitaconite or which is located in 
 whole or part in the tax relief area defined by section 273.134, 
 paragraph (b), may pay annual dues in the range association of 
 municipalities and schools.  The association may sue, be sued, 
 intervene and act in a civil action in which the outcome of the 
 action will have an effect upon the interest of any of its 
 members. 

    HIST: 1943 c 517 s 1; 1965 c 309 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 
 1978 c 575 s 1; 1979 c 124 s 1; 1983 c 64 s 1; 1988 c 719 art 5 
 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 13 s 20; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 6 s 37