2005 Minnesota Statutes

     379.02 Towns, change of boundaries and names. 

    The county board may alter the boundaries of towns, or 
 partition any town among other towns within the county by 
 attaching a part of one town to another, or by dividing one town 
 and attaching the parts to other towns, or by forming a new town 
 from the territory of one or more towns, or from territory not 
 before included in a town, whenever it is made to appear 
 necessary or expedient, by a petition for that purpose signed by 
 not less than 20 legal voters residing within the territory to 
 be affected.  The county board may, upon notice as provided in 
 section 379.03, alter the boundaries or change the name of any 
 town within the county by attaching thereto unorganized 
 territory abutting thereon within the county, after a petition 
 for that purpose, signed by not less than 20 legal voters 
 residing within the unorganized territory proposed to be 
 attached, is approved by the town board of the town to which the 
 territory is proposed to be attached.  No town shall be so 
 formed, having less than 36 square miles, nor have its 
 boundaries so changed as to reduce its territory below that 
 area, unless after such division it shall have at least 25 
 qualified voters therein, and real estate valued at the last 
 preceding assessment at $30,000 or more; and no town shall be 
 divided or have any part detached therefrom so as to make its 
 area less than 36 square miles, except upon the petition of at 
 least two-thirds of the legal voters residing in one or both 
 subdivisions or parts.  The county auditor must notify the state 
 demographer of any boundary or name changes.  The county shall 
 prepare an estimate of the population and the number of 
 households in the attached or detached area.  The estimate must 
 be certified by the state demographer.  The estimate must 
 estimate the population as of the effective date of the county 
 board's resolution and must be so dated. 

    HIST: (789) RL s 452; 1955 c 3 s 1; 1997 c 87 s 2