Relating to stadiums

ARTICLE 1 - MINNESOTA STADIUM AUTHORITY

Establishing the Minnesota stadium authority and prescribing responsibilities, membership, compensation, chair, bylaws, audit, employees, website, quorum, powers, and duties; exempting building materials for football stadium from the sales tax; authorizing an on-sale intoxicating liquor license to the stadium; including authority employees in the definition of state employees; providing a purpose and defining terms; requiring stadium construction at the stadium site in Arden Hills; specifying stadium design and construction; requiring commemorative bricks; providing for employment, stadium operations, capital improvements, operating expenses, criteria and conditions, and county activities; authorizing a stadium property tax exemption and subjecting property to special assessments; providing for liquor licenses; requiring the metropolitan sports facilities commission to pay authority operating expenses and transfer assets by a certain date; abolishing the metropolitan sports facility commission and transferring employees to the authority

ARTICLE 2 - STATE STADIUM FUNDING

Authorizing the issuance of appropriation bonds by Minnesota management and budget (MMB)

ARTICLE 3 - CONFORMING CHANGES

Making statutory conforming changes; repealing certain statutory provisions relating to sports facilities

ARTICLE 4 - SITE REVENUES

Requiring the city of Arden Hills to impose additional liquor, lodging and restaurant sales taxes; proving for parking revenues; imposing a state commercial-industrial tax levy; providing for an admissions surcharge; providing for the net proceeds from the demolition and sale of the Metrodome; providing for state sales tax growth; providing for use of revenues; severability clause

ARTICLE 5 - LAWFUL GAMBLING

Allowing extended hours for linked electronic device bingo games, expanding the electronic bingo device definition; defining electronic pull-tab device, electronic pull-tab game, and electronic pull-tab game system and expanding the gambling equipment definition; allowing electronic paddle wheels; prohibiting slot machines; allowing the gambling control board to adopt rules for electronic games; prohibiting distributors or distributor salesperson from also being linked bingo game providers; requiring distributor board notification of electronic pull-tab games sale and transfer methods; requiring software manufacturer submissions; specifying linked bingo game services requirements; providing linked bingo game requirements; modifying the conduct of pull-tabs; requiring licensed organization electronic format reporting; modifying linked
bingo prize limits; appropriating money to the gambling control board

ARTICLE 6 - MISCELLANEOUS

Exempting building materials and supplies used or consumed in and equipment incorporated into construction or improvement are exempt from the sales tax; requiring amateur use of the stadium
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