HF 474

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to tax collection; authorizing municipal
utilities to collect unpaid debts from state tax
refunds; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section
270A.03, subdivision 2.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 270A.03,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Claimant agency.

"Claimant agency" means any
state agency, as defined by section 14.02, subdivision 2, the
regents of the University of Minnesota, any district court of
the state, any county, any statutory or home rule charter city
presenting a claim for a municipal hospital or a public library
or a municipal ambulance service, a hospital district, a private
nonprofit hospital that leases its building from the county in
which it is located, new text begin a municipal utility that distributes
electric energy or gas, new text end any public agency responsible for child
support enforcement, any public agency responsible for the
collection of court-ordered restitution, and any public agency
established by general or special law that is responsible for
the administration of a low-income housing program, and the
Minnesota collection enterprise as defined in section 16D.02,
subdivision 8, for the purpose of collecting the costs imposed
under section 16D.11. A county may act as a claimant agency on
behalf of an ambulance service licensed under chapter 144E if
the ambulance service's primary service area is located at least
in part within the county, but more than one county may not act
as a claimant agency for a licensed ambulance service with
respect to the same debt.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day
following final enactment.
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