Providing a procedure for rules requiring local implementation and effective date determination, exceptions; authorizing use of credit or debit cards for motor vehicle registration renewal and transaction fees and allowing collection of a surcharge; authorizing counties to prohibit further burials in an abandoned cemetery; increasing minimum amount threshold for municipal construction codes and licensing cumulative fees reporting; reducing the number of copies required to be printed in order to be considered a qualified newspaper; allowing towns to require bonds for persons employing fence viewers; authorizing towns to prohibit further burials in an abandoned cemetery; authorizing a resolution adopted by a county board to decrease the salary or per diem of a county commissioner to take place at any time; increasing county boards small claims minimum amounts for publication requirement; removing appeal to district court for county officers; modifying county auditor, treasurer, recorder and sheriff salary guidelines, providing for temporary reductions; modifying dollar limits for letting contract bids; modifying out-of state travel provisions for local governments; updating metropolitan government comprehensive plan requirements to include Anoka and Dakota counties; modifying the fee for booking a person for confinement at a county or regional jail; requiring records retention task force of Minnesota clerks and finance officers association in conjunction with Minnesota historical society to conduct a study to review permanent retention schedules applicable to local body records repealing regional counties facilities groups, county auditor minimum salary requirements, county treasurer salary schedule, county recorder and abstracter and sheriff maximum and minimum salaries
(Ch. 152, 2009)