HF 1039

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to local government; allowing abolition of a 
  1.3             city public utilities commission or utility transfer 
  1.4             to city council by ordinance; amending Minnesota 
  1.5             Statutes 2000, section 412.391, subdivisions 1 and 4; 
  1.6             repealing Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 412.391, 
  1.7             subdivisions 2 and 3. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 412.391, 
  1.10  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subdivision 1.  [TO COUNCIL; PROCEDURE.] The A statutory 
  1.12  city may abolish by ordinance its public utilities commission of 
  1.13  any statutory city may be abolished or its may transfer to the 
  1.14  council by ordinance the public utilities commission's 
  1.15  jurisdiction over any particular utility transferred to the 
  1.16  council by following the procedure prescribed in this section.  
  1.17     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 412.391, 
  1.18  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
  1.19     Subd. 4.  [TIME OF EFFECT.] If a majority of the votes cast 
  1.20  on a proposition submitted to the voters under subdivision 2 or 
  1.21  3 is in the affirmative, The provisions of sections 412.331 to 
  1.22  412.381 shall cease to apply to the city, in the case of an 
  1.23  election under subdivision 2 ordinance abolishing the public 
  1.24  utilities commission, or to the particular utility mentioned in 
  1.25  the proposition submitted to the voters ordinance, in the case 
  1.26  of an election under subdivision 3 ordinance transferring 
  2.1   jurisdiction to the council.  Such change shall take place 30 
  2.2   days after the election effective date of the ordinance.  
  2.3      Sec. 3.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.4      Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 412.391, subdivisions 2 
  2.5   and 3, are repealed.