2E Authorizing local government units (town, county, city) to submit group applications for administrative rule or state procedural law waiver or temporary exemption; providing a procedure for rules requiring local implementation and effective date determination; requiring parties to agree to costs for ballot questions and exempting office of administrative hearings from costs; authorizing use of credit or debit cards for motor vehicle registration renewal and transaction fees and allowing collection of a surcharge; increasing minimum amount for municipal construction codes and licensing cumulative fees reporting for certain years; allowing towns to require bonds for persons employing fence viewers; authorizing towns to prohibit further burials in an abandoned cemetery; modifying county office public business day requirement, authorizing the establishment of a four-day work week under certain conditions; 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, uniform municipal contracting law and construction bid guidelines and applicability; lessening frequency requirement for local body legislative reporting; updating metropolitan government comprehensive plan requirements to include Anoka and Dakota counties; prohibiting department of corrections from adopting rules requiring local expenditure unless required by federal law or rule; 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 and municipal out-of-state travel control policy requirement
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