SF 2963

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

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to state government; transferring duties of 
  1.3             the state treasurer to the commissioner of finance; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, sections 7.26; 
  1.5             16A.27, subdivision 5; 16A.626; 35.08; 49.24, 
  1.6             subdivisions 13, 16; 84A.11; 84A.23, subdivision 4; 
  1.7             84A.33, subdivision 4; 84A.40; 85A.05, subdivision 2; 
  1.8             94.53; 115A.58, subdivision 2; 116.16, subdivision 4; 
  1.9             116.17, subdivision 2; 126C.72, subdivision 2; 
  1.10            127A.40; 161.05, subdivision 3; 161.07; 167.50, 
  1.11            subdivision 2; 174.51, subdivision 2; 176.181, 
  1.12            subdivision 2; 176.581; 190.11; 241.08, subdivision 1; 
  1.13            241.10; 241.13, subdivision 1; 244.19, subdivision 7; 
  1.14            246.15, subdivision 1; 246.18, subdivision 1; 246.21; 
  1.15            280.29; 293.06; 352.05; 352B.03, subdivision 2; 
  1.16            354.06, subdivision 3; 354.52, subdivision 5; 385.05; 
  1.17            475A.04; 475A.06, subdivision 2; 481.01; 490.123, 
  1.18            subdivision 2; 525.161; 525.841; Minnesota Statutes 
  1.19            2001 Supplement, sections 35.09, subdivision 3; 
  1.20            122A.21; 276.11, subdivision 1; 299D.03, subdivision 
  1.21            5; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 7.21. 
  1.22  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.23     Section 1.  [TRANSFER.] 
  1.24     All powers, responsibilities, and duties of the state 
  1.25  treasurer are transferred to the commissioner of finance under 
  1.26  Minnesota Statutes, section 15.039, except as otherwise 
  1.27  prescribed in this act and Laws 1998, chapter 387, and except 
  1.28  that Minnesota Statutes, section 15.039, subdivision 7, does not 
  1.29  apply to the state treasurer or deputy state treasurer. 
  1.30     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 7.26, is amended 
  1.31  to read: 
  1.32     7.26 [DELIVERY OF DUPLICATES; BOND.] 
  1.33     Such duplicate obligation when executed shall be delivered 
  2.1   by the state treasurer commissioner of finance to the owner of 
  2.2   the original obligation, the owner's guardian, or the 
  2.3   representative of the owner's estate; provided, such owner, 
  2.4   guardian, or representative shall first file with the state 
  2.5   treasurer commissioner a bond in the full amount of such 
  2.6   obligation and unpaid interest to maturity, with sufficient 
  2.7   sureties, approved by the same authority as state depository 
  2.8   bonds, indemnifying the state against any loss thereon by reason 
  2.9   of the existence of the original obligation or any coupon 
  2.10  thereto attached, unless such bond is waived as hereinafter 
  2.11  provided; and, provided, such owner, guardian, or representative 
  2.12  shall furnish satisfactory proof to the state treasurer 
  2.13  commissioner that such original obligation and coupons have not 
  2.14  been found or presented for payment up to the time of such 
  2.15  delivery; and, if any thereof have been found or presented, 
  2.16  duplicates shall be delivered only of such as have not been 
  2.17  found or presented.  A record of the issuance and delivery of 
  2.18  each duplicate obligation and attached coupons shall be made by 
  2.19  the state treasurer and forthwith reported by the treasurer to 
  2.20  the commissioner of finance, who shall also make a record of the 
  2.21  same.  Such duplicate obligations and coupons, when issued and 
  2.22  delivered as hereinbefore provided shall have the same force and 
  2.23  effect as the originals.  
  2.24     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 16A.27, 
  2.25  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
  2.26     Subd. 5.  [CHARGES, COMPENSATING BALANCES.] The 
  2.27  commissioner may, after consulting with the state treasurer, 
  2.28  agree that the treasurer may pay a depository a reasonable 
  2.29  charge from appropriated money, maintain appropriate 
  2.30  compensating balances with the depository, or purchase 
  2.31  non-interest-bearing certificates of deposit from the depository 
  2.32  for performing depository related services. 
  2.33     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 16A.626, is 
  2.34  amended to read: 
  2.35     16A.626 [ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS.] 
  2.36     (a) For purposes of this section, the terms defined in this 
  3.1   paragraph have the meaning given them.  "Agency" means a state 
  3.2   officer, employee, board, commission, authority, department, 
  3.3   entity, or organization of the executive branch of state 
  3.4   government.  "Government services transaction" means the conduct 
  3.5   of business between an agency and an individual or business 
  3.6   entity where the individual or business entity is paying a 
  3.7   license or permit fee or tax or purchasing goods or services. 
  3.8      (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or 
  3.9   regulation to the contrary, an agency may accept credit cards, 
  3.10  charge cards, debit cards, or other method of electronic funds 
  3.11  transfer for payment in government services transactions, 
  3.12  including electronic transactions. 
  3.13     (c) The commissioner of finance, in consultation with the 
  3.14  state treasurer, shall contract with one or more entities for 
  3.15  the purpose of enabling agencies to accept and process credit 
  3.16  cards and other electronic financial transactions.  All agencies 
  3.17  shall process their credit card and other electronic financial 
  3.18  transactions through the contracts negotiated by the 
  3.19  commissioner of finance, unless the commissioner of finance 
  3.20  grants a waiver allowing an agency to negotiate its own contract 
  3.21  with an entity.  These contracts must be approved by the 
  3.22  commissioner of finance. 
  3.23     (d) Agencies that accept credit cards, charge cards, debit 
  3.24  cards, or other method of electronic funds transfer for payment 
  3.25  may impose a convenience fee to be added to each transaction, 
  3.26  except that the department of revenue shall not impose a fee 
  3.27  under this section on any payment of tax that is required by law 
  3.28  or rule to be made by electronic funds transfer.  The total 
  3.29  amount of such convenience fee must be equal to the transaction 
  3.30  fee charged by a processing contractor for such credit services 
  3.31  during the most recent collection period.  An agency imposing a 
  3.32  convenience fee must notify the person using the credit services 
  3.33  of the fee before the transaction is processed.  Fees collected 
  3.34  under this section are appropriated to the agency collecting the 
  3.35  fee for purposes of paying the processing contractor. 
  3.36     (e) A convenience fee imposed by an agency under this 
  4.1   section is in addition to any tax, fee, charge, or cost 
  4.2   otherwise imposed for a license, permit, tax, service, or good 
  4.3   provided by the agency. 
  4.4      (f) Credit card, charge card, debit card, or other method 
  4.5   of electronic funds transfer account numbers are nonpublic data 
  4.6   not on individuals as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 9, 
  4.7   or private data on individuals as defined in section 13.02, 
  4.8   subdivision 12. 
  4.9      Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 35.08, is amended 
  4.10  to read: 
  4.11     35.08 [KILLING OF DISEASED ANIMALS.] 
  4.12     If the board decides upon the killing of an animal affected 
  4.13  with tuberculosis, paratuberculosis, or brucellosis, it shall 
  4.14  notify the animal's owner or keeper of the decision.  If the 
  4.15  board, through its executive director, orders that an animal may 
  4.16  be transported for immediate slaughter to any abattoir where the 
  4.17  meat inspection division of the United States Department of 
  4.18  Agriculture maintains inspection, or where the animal and plant 
  4.19  health inspection service of the United States Department of 
  4.20  Agriculture or the board establishes field postmortem 
  4.21  inspection, the owner must receive the value of the net salvage 
  4.22  of the carcass. 
  4.23     Before the animal is removed from the premises of the 
  4.24  owner, the representative or authorized agent of the board must 
  4.25  agree with the owner in writing as to the value of the animal.  
  4.26  In the absence of an agreement, three competent, disinterested 
  4.27  persons, one appointed by the board, one by the owner, and a 
  4.28  third by the first two, shall appraise the animal at its full 
  4.29  replacement cost taking into consideration the purpose and use 
  4.30  of the animal. 
  4.31     The appraisement made under this section must be in 
  4.32  writing, signed by the appraisers, and certified by the board to 
  4.33  the commissioner of finance, who shall draw a warrant on the 
  4.34  state treasurer for the amount due the owner. 
  4.35     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 35.09, 
  4.36  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
  5.1      Subd. 3.  [EMERGENCIES.] (a) When it is determined by the 
  5.2   board that it is necessary to eradicate any dangerous, 
  5.3   infectious, communicable disease among domestic animals in the 
  5.4   state, the presence of which constitutes an emergency declared 
  5.5   by resolution of the board, order of the governor, or by the 
  5.6   United States Department of Agriculture, the board may take 
  5.7   reasonable and necessary steps to suppress and eradicate the 
  5.8   disease.  The board may cooperate with the animal and plant 
  5.9   health inspection service of the United States Department of 
  5.10  Agriculture, federally recognized Indian tribes, state or local 
  5.11  government agencies, or any other private or public entity in 
  5.12  the suppression and eradication of the disease. 
  5.13     (b) When an emergency has been declared, the board may 
  5.14  appraise and destroy animals affected with, or which have been 
  5.15  exposed to the disease, or which are highly susceptible to 
  5.16  exposure to the disease because of proximity to diseased 
  5.17  animals, appraise and destroy personal property in order to 
  5.18  remove the infection and complete the cleaning and disinfection 
  5.19  of the premises, temporarily commandeer real property under 
  5.20  paragraph (c) for the purpose of disposing of animals, and do 
  5.21  any act and incur any other expense reasonably necessary to 
  5.22  suppress the disease.  
  5.23     (c) The governor, at the request of the board, may 
  5.24  temporarily commandeer agricultural or other suitable 
  5.25  nonresidential land under the provisions of chapter 12 to be 
  5.26  used for disposal of the destroyed animals when an emergency has 
  5.27  been declared by the governor under section 35.0661 and the 
  5.28  board determines that: 
  5.29     (1) the owner of destroyed animals lacks sufficient land to 
  5.30  properly dispose of the animals; 
  5.31     (2) the animals cannot be transported to other sites; 
  5.32     (3) no landowner within the appropriate area will consent 
  5.33  to voluntarily provide land for animal disposal; 
  5.34     (4) time pressures prevent formal condemnation procedures; 
  5.35  and 
  5.36     (5) other means of animal disposal are either impractical 
  6.1   or contrary to good disease control practices. 
  6.2   After the land has been used for animal disposal, possession 
  6.3   shall return to the owner or occupant.  Damages resulting from 
  6.4   the temporary taking shall be paid in the same amount and manner 
  6.5   as if the land had been temporarily condemned for other public 
  6.6   purposes. 
  6.7      (d) The board may accept, on behalf of the state, the rules 
  6.8   adopted by the animal and plant health inspection service of the 
  6.9   United States Department of Agriculture pertaining to the 
  6.10  disease, authorized under an act of Congress, or the portion of 
  6.11  the regulations deemed necessary, suitable, or applicable, and 
  6.12  cooperate with the animal and plant health inspection service of 
  6.13  the United States Department of Agriculture, in the enforcement 
  6.14  of those rules.  Alternatively, the board may follow the 
  6.15  procedure only as to quarantine, inspection, condemnation, 
  6.16  appraisal, compensation, destruction, burial of animals, 
  6.17  disinfection, or other acts the board considers reasonably 
  6.18  necessary for the suppression of the disease, as agreed upon and 
  6.19  adopted by the board and representatives or authorized agents of 
  6.20  the animal and plant health inspection service of the United 
  6.21  States Department of Agriculture.  
  6.22     (e) For the purpose of compensation under paragraph (f), 
  6.23  appraisals of animals or personal property destroyed in order to 
  6.24  remove the infection and complete the cleaning and disinfection 
  6.25  of premises where the animals are found, must be made by an 
  6.26  appraisal board consisting of a representative of the board, a 
  6.27  representative of the animal and plant health inspection service 
  6.28  of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the owner of 
  6.29  the animals or the owner's representative.  Notwithstanding any 
  6.30  law to the contrary, when, in the judgment of the board, 
  6.31  physical appraisal of the animals to be killed or personal 
  6.32  property to be destroyed poses a disease threat, appraisals may 
  6.33  be conducted after the animals are killed based on documents, 
  6.34  testimony, or other relevant evidence.  Appraisals must be in 
  6.35  writing and signed by the appraisers, and must be made at the 
  6.36  true market value of all animals and personal property 
  7.1   appraised, unless otherwise provided by applicable federal law 
  7.2   or regulation when compensation is paid by federal funds. 
  7.3      (f) Upon destruction of animals or personal property, or 
  7.4   temporary commandeering of real property, and burial or other 
  7.5   disposition of the carcasses of the animals in accordance with 
  7.6   the law and rules of the board and the animal and plant health 
  7.7   inspection service of the United States Department of 
  7.8   Agriculture, and the completion of the cleaning and disinfection 
  7.9   of the premises, the board shall certify the appraisal or the 
  7.10  condemnation award to the commissioner of finance, who shall 
  7.11  draw a warrant on the state treasurer for the proper amount 
  7.12  payable to the owner, excluding any compensation received by the 
  7.13  owner from other sources, from appropriations made available for 
  7.14  this purpose.  
  7.15     (g) No entity of any kind may begin or proceed with any 
  7.16  proceeding to collect a debt from the owner of animals or 
  7.17  personal property destroyed under this subdivision, until the 
  7.18  owner has received compensation under paragraph (d).  For 
  7.19  purposes of this paragraph, "proceeding to collect a debt" 
  7.20  includes foreclosure, repossession, garnishment, levy, contract 
  7.21  for deed cancellation, an action to obtain a court judgment, a 
  7.22  proceeding to collect real estate taxes or special assessments, 
  7.23  eviction, and any other in-court and out-of-court proceedings to 
  7.24  collect a debt.  The term does not include sending bills or 
  7.25  other routine communications to the owner.  If an entity refuses 
  7.26  to comply with this paragraph after being informed that the 
  7.27  owner qualifies for relief under this paragraph, the owner may 
  7.28  apply to the district court in the county in which the owner 
  7.29  resides for a court order directing the entity to comply with 
  7.30  this paragraph and to reimburse the owner for reasonable 
  7.31  attorney fees incurred in obtaining the court order.  This 
  7.32  paragraph does not affect the validity of a mortgage 
  7.33  foreclosure, contract for deed cancellation or other proceeding 
  7.34  involving the title to real property, unless the owner records 
  7.35  in the office of the county recorder, or files in the office of 
  7.36  the registrar of titles, prior to completion of the proceeding 
  8.1   to collect a debt, a certified copy of a court order, which 
  8.2   includes a legal description of the property, determining that 
  8.3   the owner qualifies for relief under this paragraph.  For 
  8.4   purposes of proceedings involving title to real property, the 
  8.5   court order must provide that it expires 90 days after the court 
  8.6   order was applied for, unless the court extends the court order 
  8.7   prior to that date for good cause shown.  A certified copy of 
  8.8   any extension of the court order must be recorded or filed in 
  8.9   order to affect the validity of a proceeding affecting the title 
  8.10  to real property.  For purposes of this paragraph, "completion 
  8.11  of a proceeding to collect a debt" means, in the case of a 
  8.12  mortgage foreclosure under chapter 580 or 581 or of a 
  8.13  foreclosure of any other lien on real property, the filing or 
  8.14  recording of the sheriff's certificate of sale; and, in the case 
  8.15  of a contract for deed cancellation under section 559.21, the 
  8.16  end of the cancellation period provided in that section. 
  8.17     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 49.24, 
  8.18  subdivision 13, is amended to read: 
  8.19     Subd. 13.  [DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS.] Upon the 
  8.20  liquidation of any financial institution liquidated by the 
  8.21  commissioner as statutory liquidator, if any dividends or other 
  8.22  moneys set apart for the payment of claims remain unpaid, and 
  8.23  the places of residence of the owners thereof are unknown to the 
  8.24  commissioner, the commissioner may pay same into the state 
  8.25  treasury as hereinafter provided.  Whenever the commissioner 
  8.26  shall be satisfied that the process of liquidation should not be 
  8.27  further continued the commissioner may make and certify 
  8.28  triplicate lists of any such unclaimed dividends or other 
  8.29  moneys, specifying the name of each owner, the amount due , and 
  8.30  the last known address.  Upon one of such lists, to be retained 
  8.31  by the commissioner shall be endorsed the commissioner's order 
  8.32  that such unclaimed moneys be forthwith deposited in the state 
  8.33  treasury.  When so deposited, one of said lists shall be 
  8.34  delivered to the state treasurer and another to the commissioner 
  8.35  of finance and the commissioner shall retain in the 
  8.36  commissioner's office such records and proofs concerning said 
  9.1   claims as the commissioner may have, which shall thereafter 
  9.2   remain on file in the office.  The treasurer commissioner of 
  9.3   finance shall execute upon the list retained by the commissioner 
  9.4   a receipt for such money, which shall operate as a full 
  9.5   discharge of the commissioner on account of such claims.  At any 
  9.6   time within six years after such receipt, but not afterward, the 
  9.7   claimant may apply to the commissioner for the amount so 
  9.8   deposited for the claimant's benefit, and upon proof 
  9.9   satisfactory to the governor, the attorney general and the 
  9.10  commissioner, or to a majority of them, they shall give an order 
  9.11  to the commissioner of finance to issue a warrant upon the 
  9.12  treasurer for such amount, and such warrant shall thereupon be 
  9.13  issued.  If no such claim be presented within six years, the 
  9.14  commissioner shall so note upon the commissioner's copy of said 
  9.15  list and certify the fact to the commissioner of finance and 
  9.16  treasurer who shall make like entries upon the commissioner of 
  9.17  finance's corresponding lists in their hands; and all further 
  9.18  claims to said money shall be barred.  Provided, that the state 
  9.19  treasurer commissioner of finance shall transfer to the 
  9.20  commissioner of commerce's liquidation fund created by this 
  9.21  section not to exceed 50 percent of the amount so turned over by 
  9.22  the commissioner, to be used to partially defray expenses in 
  9.23  connection with the liquidation of closed banks and the conduct 
  9.24  of the liquidation division, in such amounts and at such times 
  9.25  as the commissioner shall request. 
  9.26     There is hereby appropriated to the persons entitled to 
  9.27  such amounts, from such moneys in the state treasury not 
  9.28  otherwise appropriated, an amount sufficient to make such 
  9.29  payment.  
  9.30     Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 49.24, 
  9.31  subdivision 16, is amended to read: 
  9.32     Subd. 16.  [TRANSFERS TO LIQUIDATION FUND.] The following 
  9.33  moneys shall be transferred to and deposited in the commissioner 
  9.34  of commerce's liquidation fund: 
  9.35     (1) All moneys paid to the state treasurer commissioner of 
  9.36  finance by the commissioner out of funds of any financial 
 10.1   institution in the commissioner's hands as reimbursement for 
 10.2   services and expenses pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 
 10.3   7.  
 10.4      (2) All moneys in the possession of the commissioner set 
 10.5   aside for the purpose of meeting unforeseen and contingent 
 10.6   expenses incident to the liquidation of closed financial 
 10.7   institutions, which funds have been or shall be hereafter 
 10.8   established by withholding portions of final liquidating 
 10.9   dividends in such cases.  
 10.10     (3) All moneys which the commissioner shall request the 
 10.11  state treasurer commissioner of finance to transfer to such fund 
 10.12  pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 13.  
 10.13     (4) All moneys in the possession of the commissioner now 
 10.14  carried on the commissioner's books in "stamp account," 
 10.15  "suspense account," and "unclaimed deposit account."  
 10.16     (5) All moneys in the possession of the commissioner which 
 10.17  the commissioner may be authorized by order of any district 
 10.18  court having jurisdiction of any liquidation proceedings to 
 10.19  transfer to such fund, or to use for any of the purposes for 
 10.20  which the fund is established.  
 10.21     (6) All moneys in the possession of the commissioner 
 10.22  carried on the commissioner's books in the "unclaimed bonds 
 10.23  account."  At any time within one year after the effective date 
 10.24  of Laws 1945, chapter 128, or within six years after any bond 
 10.25  the proceeds of the sale of which constitute a portion of the 
 10.26  moneys in this paragraph referred to came into the possession of 
 10.27  the commissioner as liquidator of any financial institution, 
 10.28  whichever is later, any claimant thereto may apply to the 
 10.29  commissioner for the proceeds of the sale of such bond, and, 
 10.30  upon proof satisfactory to the governor, the attorney general, 
 10.31  and the commissioner, or a majority of them, they shall give an 
 10.32  order to the commissioner of finance to issue a warrant upon the 
 10.33  treasurer for such amount, without interest, and such warrant 
 10.34  shall thereupon be issued and the amount thereof paid out of the 
 10.35  commissioner of commerce's liquidation fund.  If no such claim 
 10.36  be presented within such period, all further claims to the 
 11.1   proceeds of any such bond shall be barred.  
 11.2      (7) All sums which the commissioner may receive from the 
 11.3   sale of personal property of liquidated financial institutions 
 11.4   where the final dividend has been paid and no disposition of 
 11.5   said property made by any order of the court, and the proceeds 
 11.6   of sales of any personal property used by the liquidation 
 11.7   division which have been purchased with funds of financial 
 11.8   institutions in liquidation.  
 11.9      Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 84A.11, is 
 11.10  amended to read: 
 11.11     84A.11 [WHEN BONDS PAID IN PART BY COUNTIES.] 
 11.12     A county containing a portion of the preserve may 
 11.13  voluntarily assume, in the manner specified in this section, the 
 11.14  obligation to pay a portion of the principal and interest of the 
 11.15  bonds issued before April 19, 1929, and remaining unpaid at 
 11.16  maturity, of any school district or town in the county and 
 11.17  wholly or partly within the preserve.  The portion must bear the 
 11.18  same proportion to the whole of the unpaid principal and 
 11.19  interest as the 1928 assessed valuation of lands then acquired 
 11.20  by the state under sections 84A.01 to 84A.11 in that school 
 11.21  district or town bears to the total 1928 assessed valuation of 
 11.22  the school district or town. 
 11.23     This assumption must be evidenced by a resolution of the 
 11.24  county board.  A copy of the resolution must be certified to the 
 11.25  commissioner of finance within one year after the passage of 
 11.26  sections 84A.01 to 84A.11. 
 11.27     After that time, if any bonds remain unpaid at maturity, 
 11.28  the county board shall, upon demand of the governing body of the 
 11.29  school district or town or of a bondholder, provide for the 
 11.30  payment of the portion assumed.  The county board shall levy 
 11.31  general taxes on all the taxable property of the county for that 
 11.32  purpose, or shall issue its bonds to raise the sum needed 
 11.33  conforming to law respecting the issuance of county refunding 
 11.34  bonds.  The proceeds of these taxes or bonds must be paid by the 
 11.35  county treasurer to the treasurers of the respective school 
 11.36  districts or towns.  
 12.1      If a county fails to adopt and certify this resolution, the 
 12.2   commissioner of finance shall withhold from the payments to be 
 12.3   made to the county, under section 84A.04, a sum equal to that 
 12.4   portion of the principal and interest of these outstanding bonds 
 12.5   that bears the same proportion to the whole principal and 
 12.6   interest as the 1928 assessed valuation of lands acquired by the 
 12.7   state within the preserve bears to the total 1928 assessed 
 12.8   valuation of the school district or town.  The money withheld 
 12.9   must be set aside in the state treasury and not paid to the 
 12.10  county until the full principal and interest of these school 
 12.11  district and town bonds is paid.  
 12.12     If any bonds remain unpaid at maturity, upon the demand of 
 12.13  the governing body of the school district or town, or a 
 12.14  bondholder, the commissioner of finance shall issue to the 
 12.15  treasurer of the school district or town a warrant on the state 
 12.16  treasurer for that portion of the past due principal and 
 12.17  interest computed as in the case of the county liability 
 12.18  authorized to be voluntarily assumed.  Money received by a 
 12.19  school district or town under this section must be applied to 
 12.20  the payment of these past due bonds and interest.  
 12.21     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 84A.23, 
 12.22  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 12.23     Subd. 4.  [DRAINAGE DITCH BONDS; REPORTS.] (a) Immediately 
 12.24  after a project is approved and accepted and then after each 
 12.25  distribution of the tax collections on the June and November tax 
 12.26  settlements, the county auditor shall certify to the 
 12.27  commissioner of finance the following information relating to 
 12.28  bonds issued to finance or refinance public drainage ditches 
 12.29  wholly or partly within the projects, and the collection of 
 12.30  assessments levied on account of the ditches: 
 12.31     (1) the amount of principal and interest to become due on 
 12.32  the bonds before the next tax settlement and distribution; 
 12.33     (2) the amount of money collected from the drainage 
 12.34  assessments and credited to the funds of the ditches; and 
 12.35     (3) the amount of the deficit in the ditch fund of the 
 12.36  county chargeable to the ditches.  
 13.1      (b) On approving the certificate, the commissioner of 
 13.2   finance shall draw a warrant on the state treasurer, payable out 
 13.3   of the fund pertaining to the project, for the amount of the 
 13.4   deficit in favor of the county.  
 13.5      (c) As to public drainage ditches wholly within a project, 
 13.6   the amount of money paid to or for the benefit of the county 
 13.7   under paragraph (b) must never exceed the principal and interest 
 13.8   of the bonds issued to finance or refinance the ditches 
 13.9   outstanding at the time of the passage and approval of sections 
 13.10  84A.20 to 84A.30, less money on hand in the county ditch fund to 
 13.11  the credit of the ditches.  The liabilities must be reduced from 
 13.12  time to time by the amount of all payments of assessments after 
 13.13  April 25, 1931, made by the owners of lands assessed before that 
 13.14  date for benefits on account of the ditches. 
 13.15     (d) As to public drainage ditches partly within and partly 
 13.16  outside a project, the amount paid from the fund pertaining to 
 13.17  the project to or for the benefit of the county must never 
 13.18  exceed a certain percentage of bonds issued to finance and 
 13.19  refinance the ditches so outstanding, less money on hand in the 
 13.20  county ditch fund to the credit of the ditches on April 25, 
 13.21  1931.  The percentage must bear the same proportion to the whole 
 13.22  amount of these bonds as the original benefits assessed against 
 13.23  lands within the project bear to the original total benefits 
 13.24  assessed to the entire system of the ditches.  This liability 
 13.25  shall be reduced from time to time by the payments of all 
 13.26  assessments extended after April 25, 1931, made by the owners of 
 13.27  lands within the project of assessments for benefits assessed 
 13.28  before that date on account of a ditch.  
 13.29     (e) The commissioner of finance may provide and prescribe 
 13.30  forms for reports required by sections 84A.20 to 84A.30 and 
 13.31  require any additional information from county officials that 
 13.32  the commissioner of finance considers necessary for the proper 
 13.33  administration of sections 84A.20 to 84A.30.  
 13.34     Sec. 11.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 84A.33, 
 13.35  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 13.36     Subd. 4.  [DITCH BONDS; FUNDS; PAYMENTS TO COUNTIES.] (a) 
 14.1   Upon the approval and acceptance of a project and after each 
 14.2   distribution of the tax collections for the June and November 
 14.3   tax settlements, the county auditor shall certify to the 
 14.4   commissioner of finance the following information about bonds 
 14.5   issued to finance or refinance public drainage ditches wholly or 
 14.6   partly within the projects, and the collection of assessments 
 14.7   levied for the ditches: 
 14.8      (1) the amount of principal and interest to become due on 
 14.9   the bonds before the next tax settlement and distribution; 
 14.10     (2) the amount of money collected from the drainage 
 14.11  assessments and credited to the funds of the ditches, not 
 14.12  already sent to the state treasurer commissioner of finance as 
 14.13  provided in sections 84A.31 to 84A.42; and 
 14.14     (3) the amount of the deficit in the ditch fund of the 
 14.15  county chargeable to the ditches.  
 14.16     (b) On approving this certificate of the county auditor, 
 14.17  the commissioner of finance shall draw a warrant on the state 
 14.18  treasurer, payable out of the fund provided for in sections 
 14.19  84A.31 to 84A.42, and send it to the county treasurer of the 
 14.20  county.  These funds must be credited to the proper ditch of the 
 14.21  county and placed in the ditch bond fund of the county, which is 
 14.22  created, and used only to pay the ditch bonded indebtedness of 
 14.23  the county assumed by the state under sections 84A.31 to 
 14.24  84A.42.  The total amount of warrants drawn must not exceed in 
 14.25  any one year the total amount of the deficit provided for under 
 14.26  this section.  
 14.27     (c) The state is subrogated to all title, right, interest, 
 14.28  or lien of the county in or on the lands so certified within 
 14.29  these projects.  
 14.30     (d) As to public drainage ditches wholly within a project, 
 14.31  the amount paid to, or for the benefit of, the county under this 
 14.32  subdivision must never exceed the principal and interest of the 
 14.33  bonds issued to finance or refinance a ditch outstanding on 
 14.34  April 22, 1933, less money on hand in the county ditch fund to 
 14.35  the credit of a ditch.  These liabilities must be reduced from 
 14.36  time to time by the amount of any payments of assessments 
 15.1   extended after April 22, 1933, made by the owners of lands 
 15.2   assessed before that date for benefits on account of the ditches.
 15.3      As to public drainage ditches partly within and partly 
 15.4   outside a project the amount paid from the fund pertaining to 
 15.5   the project to or for the benefit of the county must never 
 15.6   exceed a certain percentage of bonds issued to finance and 
 15.7   refinance a ditch so outstanding, less money on hand in the 
 15.8   county ditch fund to the credit of a ditch on April 22, 1932.  
 15.9   The percentage must bear the same proportion to the whole amount 
 15.10  of the bonds as the original benefits assessed against these 
 15.11  lands within the project bear to the original total benefits 
 15.12  assessed to the entire system for a ditch.  This liability must 
 15.13  be reduced from time to time by the payments of all assessments 
 15.14  extended after April 22, 1933, made by the owners of lands 
 15.15  within the project of assessments for benefits assessed before 
 15.16  that date on account of a ditch.  
 15.17     Sec. 12.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 84A.40, is 
 15.18  amended to read: 
 15.19     84A.40 [COUNTY MAY ASSUME BONDS.] 
 15.20     Any county where a project or portion of it is located may 
 15.21  voluntarily assume, in the manner specified in this section, the 
 15.22  obligation to pay a portion of the principal and interest of the 
 15.23  bonds issued before the approval and acceptance of the project 
 15.24  and remaining unpaid at maturity, of any school district or town 
 15.25  in the county and wholly or partly within the project.  The 
 15.26  portion must bear the same proportion to the whole of the unpaid 
 15.27  principal and interest as the last net tax capacity, before the 
 15.28  acceptance of the project, of lands then acquired by the state 
 15.29  under sections 84A.31 to 84A.42 in the school districts or towns 
 15.30  bears to the total net tax capacity for the same year of the 
 15.31  school district or town.  This assumption must be evidenced by a 
 15.32  resolution of the county board of the county.  A copy of the 
 15.33  resolution must be certified to the commissioner of finance 
 15.34  within one year after the acceptance of the project. 
 15.35     Later, if any of the bonds remains unpaid at maturity, the 
 15.36  county board shall, upon demand of the governing body of the 
 16.1   school district or town or of a bondholder, provide for the 
 16.2   payment of the portion assumed.  The county shall levy general 
 16.3   taxes on all the taxable property of the county for that 
 16.4   purpose, or issue its bonds to raise the sum needed, conforming 
 16.5   to law respecting the issuance of county refunding bonds.  The 
 16.6   proceeds of taxes or bonds must be paid by the county treasurer 
 16.7   to the treasurer of the school district or town.  No payments 
 16.8   shall be made by the county to the school district or town until 
 16.9   the money in the treasury of the school district or town, 
 16.10  together with the money to be paid by the county, is sufficient 
 16.11  to pay in full each of the bonds as it becomes due.  
 16.12     If a county fails to adopt and certify the resolution, the 
 16.13  commissioner of finance shall withhold from the payments to be 
 16.14  made to the county under section 84A.32 a sum equal to that 
 16.15  portion of the principal and interest of the outstanding bonds 
 16.16  that bears the same proportion to the whole of the bonds as the 
 16.17  above determined net tax capacity of lands acquired by the state 
 16.18  within the project bears to the total net tax capacity for the 
 16.19  same year of the school district or town.  Money withheld from 
 16.20  the county must be set aside in the state treasury and not paid 
 16.21  to the county until the full principal and interest of the 
 16.22  school district and town bonds have been paid.  
 16.23     If any bonds remain unpaid at maturity, upon the demand of 
 16.24  the governing body of the school district or town, or a 
 16.25  bondholder, the commissioner of finance shall issue to the 
 16.26  treasurer of the school district or town a warrant on the state 
 16.27  treasurer for that portion of the past due principal and 
 16.28  interest computed as in the case of the county's liability 
 16.29  authorized in this section to be voluntarily assumed.  Money 
 16.30  received by a school district or town under this section must be 
 16.31  applied to the payment of past-due bonds and interest.  
 16.32     Sec. 13.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 85A.05, 
 16.33  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 16.34     Subd. 2.  [ISSUANCE OF BONDS.] Upon request by resolution 
 16.35  of the Minnesota zoological board and upon authorization as 
 16.36  provided in subdivision 1 the commissioner of finance shall sell 
 17.1   and issue Minnesota zoological garden bonds in the aggregate 
 17.2   amount requested, upon sealed bids and upon such notice, at such 
 17.3   price, in such form and denominations, bearing interest at such 
 17.4   rate or rates, maturing in such amounts and on such dates, 
 17.5   without option of prepayment or subject to prepayment upon such 
 17.6   notice and at such times and prices, payable at such bank or 
 17.7   banks within or outside the state, with such provisions for 
 17.8   registration, conversion, and exchange and for the issuance of 
 17.9   notes in anticipation of the sale or delivery of definitive 
 17.10  bonds, and in accordance with such further rules, as the 
 17.11  commissioner of finance shall determine, subject to the approval 
 17.12  of the attorney general, but not subject to chapter 14, 
 17.13  including section 14.386.  The bonds shall be executed by the 
 17.14  commissioner of finance and attested by the state treasurer 
 17.15  under their official seals seal.  The signatures of the officers 
 17.16  signature on the bonds and any appurtenant interest coupons and 
 17.17  their seals the seal may be printed, lithographed, engraved, or 
 17.18  stamped thereon, except that each bond shall be authenticated by 
 17.19  the manual signature on its face of one of the officers the 
 17.20  commissioner of finance or of an officer of a bank designated by 
 17.21  them as authenticating agent.  The commissioner of finance shall 
 17.22  ascertain and certify to the purchasers of the bonds the 
 17.23  performance and existence of all acts, conditions, and things 
 17.24  necessary to make them valid and binding general obligations of 
 17.25  the state of Minnesota, subject to the approval of the attorney 
 17.26  general.  
 17.27     Sec. 14.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 94.53, is 
 17.28  amended to read: 
 17.29     94.53 [WARRANT TO COUNTY TREASURERS; FEDERAL LOANS TO 
 17.30  COUNTIES.] 
 17.31     It shall be the duty of the commissioner of finance to 
 17.32  transmit warrants on the state treasury to the county treasurers 
 17.33  of the respective counties for the sum that may be due in 
 17.34  accordance with sections 94.52 to 94.54, which sum or sums are 
 17.35  hereby appropriated out of the state treasury from the amounts 
 17.36  received from the United States government pursuant to the 
 18.1   aforesaid act of Congress.  The commissioner of finance, upon 
 18.2   being notified by the federal government or any agencies thereof 
 18.3   that a loan has been made to any such county the repayment of 
 18.4   which is to be made from such fund, is authorized to transmit a 
 18.5   warrant or warrants on the state treasurer to the federal 
 18.6   government or any agency thereof sufficient to repay such loan 
 18.7   out of any money apportioned or due to such county under the 
 18.8   provisions of such act of Congress, approved May 23, 1908 
 18.9   (Statutes at Large, volume 35, page 260).  
 18.10     Sec. 15.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 115A.58, 
 18.11  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 18.12     Subd. 2.  [ISSUANCE OF BONDS.] Upon request by the director 
 18.13  and upon authorization as provided in subdivision 1, the 
 18.14  commissioner of finance shall sell Minnesota state waste 
 18.15  management bonds.  The bonds shall be in the aggregate amount 
 18.16  requested, and sold upon sealed bids upon the notice, at the 
 18.17  price in the form and denominations, bearing interest at the 
 18.18  rate or rates, maturing in the amounts and on the dates (with or 
 18.19  without option of prepayment upon notice and at specified times 
 18.20  and prices), payable at a bank or banks within or outside the 
 18.21  state (with provisions, if any, for registration, conversion, 
 18.22  and exchange and for the issuance of temporary bonds or notes in 
 18.23  anticipation of the sale or delivery of definitive bonds), and 
 18.24  in accordance with further provisions as the commissioner of 
 18.25  finance shall determine, subject to the approval of the attorney 
 18.26  general, but not subject to chapter 14, including section 
 18.27  14.386.  The bonds shall be executed by the commissioner of 
 18.28  finance and attested by the state treasurer under their official 
 18.29  seals seal.  The signatures of the officers signature on the 
 18.30  bonds and any interest coupons and their seals the seal may be 
 18.31  printed, lithographed, engraved, stamped, or otherwise 
 18.32  reproduced thereon, except that each bond shall be authenticated 
 18.33  by the manual signature on its face of one of the officers the 
 18.34  commissioner of finance or of an authorized representative of a 
 18.35  bank designated by the commissioner of finance as registrar or 
 18.36  other authenticating agent.  The commissioner of finance shall 
 19.1   ascertain and certify to the purchasers of the bonds the 
 19.2   performance and existence of all acts, conditions, and things 
 19.3   necessary to make them valid and binding general obligations of 
 19.4   the state of Minnesota, subject to the approval of the attorney 
 19.5   general. 
 19.6      Sec. 16.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 116.16, 
 19.7   subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
 19.8      Subd. 4.  [DISBURSEMENTS.] Disbursements for the water 
 19.9   pollution control program shall be made by the state treasurer 
 19.10  upon order of the commissioner of finance at the times and in 
 19.11  the amounts requested by the agency or the Minnesota public 
 19.12  facilities authority in accordance with the applicable state and 
 19.13  federal law governing such disbursements; except that no 
 19.14  appropriation or loan of state funds for any project shall be 
 19.15  disbursed to any municipality until and unless the agency has by 
 19.16  resolution determined the total estimated cost of the project, 
 19.17  and ascertained that financing of the project is assured by: 
 19.18     (1) a grant to the municipality by an agency of the federal 
 19.19  government within the amount of funds then appropriated to that 
 19.20  agency and allocated by it to projects within the state; or 
 19.21     (2) a grant of funds appropriated by state law; or 
 19.22     (3) a loan authorized by state law; or 
 19.23     (4) the appropriation of proceeds of bonds or other funds 
 19.24  of the municipality to a fund for the construction of the 
 19.25  project; or 
 19.26     (5) any or all of the means referred to in clauses (1) to 
 19.27  (4); and 
 19.28     (6) an irrevocable undertaking, by resolution of the 
 19.29  governing body of the municipality, to use all funds so made 
 19.30  available exclusively for the construction of the project, and 
 19.31  to pay any additional amount by which the cost of the project 
 19.32  exceeds the estimate, by the appropriation to the construction 
 19.33  fund of additional municipal funds or the proceeds of additional 
 19.34  bonds to be issued by the municipality; and 
 19.35     (7) conformity of the project and of the loan or grant 
 19.36  application with the state water pollution control plan as 
 20.1   certified to the federal government and with all other 
 20.2   conditions under applicable state and federal law for a grant of 
 20.3   state or federal funds of the nature and in the amount involved. 
 20.4      Sec. 17.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 116.17, 
 20.5   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 20.6      Subd. 2.  [ISSUANCE OF BONDS.] Upon request by resolution 
 20.7   of the agency and upon authorization as provided in subdivision 
 20.8   1 the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue Minnesota 
 20.9   state water pollution control bonds in the aggregate amount 
 20.10  requested, upon sealed bids and upon such notice, at such price, 
 20.11  in such form and denominations, bearing interest at a rate or 
 20.12  rates, maturing in amounts and on dates, with or without option 
 20.13  of prepayment upon notice and at specified times and prices, 
 20.14  payable at a bank or banks within or outside the state, with 
 20.15  provisions, if any, for registration, conversion, and exchange 
 20.16  and for the issuance of temporary bonds or notes in anticipation 
 20.17  of the sale or delivery of definitive bonds, and in accordance 
 20.18  with further provisions, as the commissioner of finance shall 
 20.19  determine, subject to the approval of the attorney general, but 
 20.20  not subject to chapter 14, including section 14.386.  The bonds 
 20.21  shall be executed by the commissioner of finance and attested by 
 20.22  the state treasurer under their official seals seal.  The 
 20.23  signatures signature of the officers commissioner on the bonds 
 20.24  and any appurtenant interest coupons and their seals the seal 
 20.25  may be printed, lithographed, engraved, stamped, or otherwise 
 20.26  reproduced thereon, except that each bond shall be authenticated 
 20.27  by the manual signature on its face of one of the officers the 
 20.28  commissioner or of an authorized representative of a bank 
 20.29  designated by the commissioner as registrar or other 
 20.30  authenticating agent.  The commissioner of finance shall 
 20.31  ascertain and certify to the purchasers of the bonds the 
 20.32  performance and existence of all acts, conditions, and things 
 20.33  necessary to make them valid and binding general obligations of 
 20.34  the state of Minnesota, subject to the approval of the attorney 
 20.35  general. 
 20.36     Sec. 18.  Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 
 21.1   122A.21, is amended to read: 
 21.2      122A.21 [TEACHERS' AND ADMINISTRATORS' LICENSES; FEES.] 
 21.3      Each application for the issuance, renewal, or extension of 
 21.4   a license to teach must be accompanied by a processing fee in an 
 21.5   amount set by the board of teaching by rule.  Each application 
 21.6   for issuing, renewing, or extending the license of a school 
 21.7   administrator or supervisor must be accompanied by a processing 
 21.8   fee in the amount set by the board of teaching.  The processing 
 21.9   fee for a teacher's license and for the licenses of supervisory 
 21.10  personnel must be paid to the executive secretary of the 
 21.11  appropriate board.  The executive secretary of the board shall 
 21.12  deposit the fees with the state treasurer, as provided by law, 
 21.13  and report each month to the commissioner of finance the amount 
 21.14  of fees collected.  The fees as set by the board are 
 21.15  nonrefundable for applicants not qualifying for a license.  
 21.16  However, a fee must be refunded by the state treasurer 
 21.17  commissioner of finance in any case in which the applicant 
 21.18  already holds a valid unexpired license.  The board may waive or 
 21.19  reduce fees for applicants who apply at the same time for more 
 21.20  than one license. 
 21.21     Sec. 19.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 126C.72, 
 21.22  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 21.23     Subd. 2.  [ISSUANCE AND SALE OF BONDS; COMMISSIONER OF 
 21.24  FINANCE.] Upon receipt of each such certification, subject to 
 21.25  authorization as provided in subdivision 4, the commissioner of 
 21.26  finance shall from time to time as needed issue and sell state 
 21.27  of Minnesota school loan bonds in the aggregate principal amount 
 21.28  stated in the commissioner's certificate, for the prompt and 
 21.29  full payment of which, with the interest thereon, the full 
 21.30  faith, credit, and taxing powers of the state are hereby 
 21.31  irrevocably pledged.  The commissioner of finance shall credit 
 21.32  the net proceeds of the sale of the bonds to the purposes for 
 21.33  which they are appropriated by section 126C.66, subdivision 1.  
 21.34  The bonds shall be issued and sold at such price, in such 
 21.35  manner, in such number of series, at such times, and in such 
 21.36  form and denominations, shall bear such dates of issue and of 
 22.1   maturity, either without option of prior redemption or subject 
 22.2   to prepayment upon such notice and at such times and prices, 
 22.3   shall bear interest at such rate or rates and payable at such 
 22.4   intervals, shall be payable at such bank or banks within or 
 22.5   without the state, with such provisions for registration, 
 22.6   conversion, and exchange, and for the issuance of notes in 
 22.7   anticipation of the sale and delivery of definitive bonds, and 
 22.8   in accordance with such further provisions as the commissioner 
 22.9   of finance shall determine subject to the limitations stated in 
 22.10  this subdivision (but not subject to chapter 14, including 
 22.11  section 14.386).  The maturity date must not be more than 20 
 22.12  years after the date of issue of any bond and the principal 
 22.13  amounts.  The due dates must conform as near as may be with the 
 22.14  commissioner's estimates of dates and amounts of payments to be 
 22.15  received on debt service and capital loans.  The bonds and any 
 22.16  interest coupons attached to them must be executed by the 
 22.17  commissioner of finance and attested by the state treasurer 
 22.18  under their official seals seal.  The signatures signature of 
 22.19  these officers the commissioner and their seals the seal may be 
 22.20  printed, lithographed, stamped, engraved, or otherwise 
 22.21  reproduced thereon.  Each bond must be authenticated by the 
 22.22  manual signature on its face of one of the officers commissioner 
 22.23  or a person authorized to sign on behalf of a bank or trust 
 22.24  company designated by the commissioner to act as registrar or 
 22.25  other authenticating agent.  The commissioner of finance is 
 22.26  authorized and directed to ascertain and certify to purchasers 
 22.27  of the bonds the performance and existence of all acts, 
 22.28  conditions, and things necessary to make them valid and binding 
 22.29  general obligations of the state of Minnesota in accordance with 
 22.30  their terms.  
 22.31     Sec. 20.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 127A.40, is 
 22.32  amended to read: 
 22.33     127A.40 [MANNER OF PAYMENT OF STATE AIDS.] 
 22.34     It shall be the duty of the commissioner to deliver to the 
 22.35  commissioner of finance a certificate for each district entitled 
 22.36  to receive state aid under the provisions of this chapter.  Upon 
 23.1   the receipt of such certificate, it shall be the duty of the 
 23.2   commissioner of finance to draw a warrant upon the state 
 23.3   treasurer in favor of the district for the amount shown by each 
 23.4   certificate to be due to the district.  The commissioner of 
 23.5   finance shall transmit such warrants to the district together 
 23.6   with a copy of the certificate prepared by the commissioner. 
 23.7      Sec. 21.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 161.05, 
 23.8   subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 23.9      Subd. 3.  [CERTIFICATE.] Before the state treasurer 
 23.10  commissioner of finance shall make any such loan, the 
 23.11  commissioner shall file with the commissioner of finance and the 
 23.12  state treasurer a certificate showing the amount of 
 23.13  disbursements from the trunk highway fund which are to be repaid 
 23.14  to the state by the federal government.  
 23.15     Sec. 22.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 161.07, is 
 23.16  amended to read: 
 23.17     161.07 [MANNER OF PAYMENTS.] 
 23.18     Subdivision 1.  [ABSTRACT FOR PAYMENT.] In all cases of 
 23.19  payments to be made as herein authorized by the commissioner out 
 23.20  of the trunk highway fund, the same shall be made in the 
 23.21  following manner.  The commissioner shall furnish verified 
 23.22  abstracts of the same, prepared in triplicate duplicate, one of 
 23.23  which shall be delivered to the commissioner of finance, one to 
 23.24  the state treasurer, and one to be retained by the commissioner 
 23.25  of transportation.  The abstract shall contain the name, 
 23.26  residence, and the amount due each claimant and designate the 
 23.27  contract or purpose for which the payment is made. 
 23.28     Subd. 2.  [PAYMENT.] The copy of the abstracts delivered to 
 23.29  the commissioner of finance shall be accompanied by the original 
 23.30  voucher or vouchers, together with the proof of claim for each 
 23.31  item included in such abstracts.  If there be sufficient money 
 23.32  in the proper fund, the commissioner of finance shall issue a 
 23.33  warrant upon the state treasurer for the gross amount shown by 
 23.34  such abstract.  The state treasurer commissioner of finance 
 23.35  shall deliver checks to the several persons entitled thereto as 
 23.36  shown by such abstracts, and shall preserve in the treasurer's 
 24.1   commissioner's office a record of each check and remittance 
 24.2   showing the date of each issue, the name of the payee, and any 
 24.3   other facts tending to evidence its payment. 
 24.4      Sec. 23.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 167.50, 
 24.5   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 24.6      Subd. 2.  [ISSUANCE AND SALE.] The bonds shall be issued 
 24.7   and sold upon competitive bids after published notice.  The 
 24.8   bonds shall be issued and sold at the times and prices (not less 
 24.9   than par and accrued interest), in the form and denominations, 
 24.10  bearing interest at the rate or rates, maturing on dates, with 
 24.11  or without option of prior redemption upon notice and at 
 24.12  specified times and prices, payable at a bank or banks, within 
 24.13  or without the state, with provisions for registration, 
 24.14  conversion, and exchange and for the issuance of temporary bonds 
 24.15  or notes in anticipation of the sale and delivery of definitive 
 24.16  bonds, and in accordance with such further provisions, as the 
 24.17  commissioner of finance may determine, subject to the approval 
 24.18  of the attorney general (but not subject to the provisions of 
 24.19  chapter 14, including 14.386).  Each bond shall mature within 20 
 24.20  years from its date of issue and shall be executed by the 
 24.21  commissioner of finance and attested by the state treasurer 
 24.22  under their official seals seal.  The signatures signature of 
 24.23  these officers the commissioner on the face of and any interest 
 24.24  coupons appurtenant to any bond, and their seals the seal may be 
 24.25  printed, lithographed, stamped, engraved, or otherwise 
 24.26  reproduced thereon, provided that the signature of one of the 
 24.27  officers, or of an authorized representative of a corporate 
 24.28  registrar or other agent designated by the commissioner of 
 24.29  finance to authenticate the bonds, shall be manually subscribed 
 24.30  on the face of each bond.  
 24.31     Sec. 24.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 174.51, 
 24.32  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 24.33     Subd. 2.  [SALE; GENERAL OBLIGATIONS.] The bonds shall be 
 24.34  sold upon sealed bids and upon notice, at a price, in form and 
 24.35  denominations, bearing interest at a rate or rates, maturing in 
 24.36  amounts and on dates, without option of prior redemption or 
 25.1   subject to prepayment upon notice and at times and prices, 
 25.2   payable at a bank or banks within or outside the state, with or 
 25.3   without provisions for registration, conversion, exchange, and 
 25.4   issuance of temporary bonds or notes in anticipation of the sale 
 25.5   or delivery of definitive bonds, and in accordance with further 
 25.6   provisions, as the commissioner of finance shall determine 
 25.7   subject to the approval of the attorney general, but not subject 
 25.8   to the provisions of chapter 14, including section 14.386.  Each 
 25.9   bond shall mature within 20 years from its date of issue and 
 25.10  shall be executed by the commissioner of finance and attested by 
 25.11  the state treasurer under their official seals seal.  The 
 25.12  signatures signature on the bonds and on any interest coupons 
 25.13  and the seals seal may be printed or otherwise reproduced, 
 25.14  except that each bond shall be authenticated by the manual 
 25.15  signature on its face of one of the officers the commissioner of 
 25.16  finance or of a person authorized to sign on behalf of a bank 
 25.17  designated by the commissioner of finance as registrar or other 
 25.18  authenticating agent.  The commissioner of finance shall 
 25.19  ascertain and certify to the purchasers of the bonds the 
 25.20  performance and existence of all acts, conditions, and things 
 25.21  necessary to make them valid and binding general obligations of 
 25.22  the state of Minnesota, subject to the approval of the attorney 
 25.23  general. 
 25.24     Sec. 25.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 176.181, 
 25.25  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 25.26     Subd. 2.  [COMPULSORY INSURANCE; SELF-INSURERS.] (1) Every 
 25.27  employer, except the state and its municipal subdivisions, 
 25.28  liable under this chapter to pay compensation shall insure 
 25.29  payment of compensation with some insurance carrier authorized 
 25.30  to insure workers' compensation liability in this state, or 
 25.31  obtain a written order from the commissioner of commerce 
 25.32  exempting the employer from insuring liability for compensation 
 25.33  and permitting self-insurance of the liability.  The terms, 
 25.34  conditions and requirements governing self-insurance shall be 
 25.35  established by the commissioner pursuant to chapter 14.  The 
 25.36  commissioner of commerce shall also adopt, pursuant to clause 
 26.1   (2)(c), rules permitting two or more employers, whether or not 
 26.2   they are in the same industry, to enter into agreements to pool 
 26.3   their liabilities under this chapter for the purpose of 
 26.4   qualifying as group self-insurers.  With the approval of the 
 26.5   commissioner of commerce, any employer may exclude medical, 
 26.6   chiropractic and hospital benefits as required by this chapter.  
 26.7   An employer conducting distinct operations at different 
 26.8   locations may either insure or self-insure the other portion of 
 26.9   operations as a distinct and separate risk.  An employer 
 26.10  desiring to be exempted from insuring liability for compensation 
 26.11  shall make application to the commissioner of commerce, showing 
 26.12  financial ability to pay the compensation, whereupon by written 
 26.13  order the commissioner of commerce, on deeming it proper, may 
 26.14  make an exemption.  An employer may establish financial ability 
 26.15  to pay compensation by providing financial statements of the 
 26.16  employer to the commissioner of commerce.  Upon ten days' 
 26.17  written notice the commissioner of commerce may revoke the order 
 26.18  granting an exemption, in which event the employer shall 
 26.19  immediately insure the liability.  As a condition for the 
 26.20  granting of an exemption the commissioner of commerce may 
 26.21  require the employer to furnish security the commissioner of 
 26.22  commerce considers sufficient to insure payment of all claims 
 26.23  under this chapter, consistent with subdivision 2b.  If the 
 26.24  required security is in the form of currency or negotiable 
 26.25  bonds, the commissioner of commerce shall deposit it with the 
 26.26  state treasurer commissioner of finance.  In the event of any 
 26.27  default upon the part of a self-insurer to abide by any final 
 26.28  order or decision of the commissioner of labor and industry 
 26.29  directing and awarding payment of compensation and benefits to 
 26.30  any employee or the dependents of any deceased employee, then 
 26.31  upon at least ten days' notice to the self-insurer, the 
 26.32  commissioner of commerce may by written order to the state 
 26.33  treasurer commissioner of finance require the 
 26.34  treasurer commissioner of finance to sell the pledged and 
 26.35  assigned securities or a part thereof necessary to pay the full 
 26.36  amount of any such claim or award with interest thereon.  This 
 27.1   authority to sell may be exercised from time to time to satisfy 
 27.2   any order or award of the commissioner of labor and industry or 
 27.3   any judgment obtained thereon.  When securities are sold the 
 27.4   money obtained shall be deposited in the state treasury to the 
 27.5   credit of the commissioner of commerce and awards made against 
 27.6   any such self-insurer by the commissioner of commerce shall be 
 27.7   paid to the persons entitled thereto by the state treasurer 
 27.8   commissioner of finance upon warrants prepared by the 
 27.9   commissioner of commerce and approved by the commissioner of 
 27.10  finance out of the proceeds of the sale of securities.  Where 
 27.11  the security is in the form of a surety bond or personal 
 27.12  guaranty the commissioner of commerce, at any time, upon at 
 27.13  least ten days' notice and opportunity to be heard, may require 
 27.14  the surety to pay the amount of the award, the payments to be 
 27.15  enforced in like manner as the award may be enforced. 
 27.16     (2)(a) No association, corporation, partnership, sole 
 27.17  proprietorship, trust or other business entity shall provide 
 27.18  services in the design, establishment or administration of a 
 27.19  group self-insurance plan under rules adopted pursuant to this 
 27.20  subdivision unless it is licensed, or exempt from licensure, 
 27.21  pursuant to section 60A.23, subdivision 8, to do so by the 
 27.22  commissioner of commerce.  An applicant for a license shall 
 27.23  state in writing the type of activities it seeks authorization 
 27.24  to engage in and the type of services it seeks authorization to 
 27.25  provide.  The license shall be granted only when the 
 27.26  commissioner of commerce is satisfied that the entity possesses 
 27.27  the necessary organization, background, expertise, and financial 
 27.28  integrity to supply the services sought to be offered.  The 
 27.29  commissioner of commerce may issue a license subject to 
 27.30  restrictions or limitations, including restrictions or 
 27.31  limitations on the type of services which may be supplied or the 
 27.32  activities which may be engaged in.  The license is for a 
 27.33  two-year period. 
 27.34     (b) To assure that group self-insurance plans are 
 27.35  financially solvent, administered in a fair and capable fashion, 
 27.36  and able to process claims and pay benefits in a prompt, fair 
 28.1   and equitable manner, entities licensed to engage in such 
 28.2   business are subject to supervision and examination by the 
 28.3   commissioner of commerce. 
 28.4      (c) To carry out the purposes of this subdivision, the 
 28.5   commissioner of commerce may promulgate administrative rules 
 28.6   pursuant to sections 14.001 to 14.69. These rules may: 
 28.7      (i) establish reporting requirements for administrators of 
 28.8   group self-insurance plans; 
 28.9      (ii) establish standards and guidelines consistent with 
 28.10  subdivision 2b to assure the adequacy of the financing and 
 28.11  administration of group self-insurance plans; 
 28.12     (iii) establish bonding requirements or other provisions 
 28.13  assuring the financial integrity of entities administering group 
 28.14  self-insurance plans; 
 28.15     (iv) establish standards, including but not limited to 
 28.16  minimum terms of membership in self-insurance plans, as 
 28.17  necessary to provide stability for those plans; 
 28.18     (v) establish standards or guidelines governing the 
 28.19  formation, operation, administration, and dissolution of 
 28.20  self-insurance plans; and 
 28.21     (vi) establish other reasonable requirements to further the 
 28.22  purposes of this subdivision.  
 28.23     Sec. 26.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 176.581, is 
 28.24  amended to read: 
 28.25     176.581 [PAYMENT TO STATE EMPLOYEES.] 
 28.26     Upon a warrant prepared by the commissioner of the 
 28.27  department of employee relations and approved by the 
 28.28  commissioner of finance, and in accordance with the terms of the 
 28.29  order awarding compensation, the state treasurer commissioner of 
 28.30  finance shall pay compensation to the employee or the employee's 
 28.31  dependent.  These payments shall be made from money appropriated 
 28.32  for this purpose. 
 28.33     Sec. 27.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 190.11, is 
 28.34  amended to read: 
 28.35     190.11 [CAMP GROUNDS AND MILITARY RESERVATIONS.] 
 28.36     The adjutant general shall have charge of the camp grounds 
 29.1   and military reservations of the state and shall be responsible 
 29.2   for the protection and safety thereof, and promulgate rules for 
 29.3   the maintenance of order thereon, for the enforcement of traffic 
 29.4   rules and for all other lawful rules as may be ordered for the 
 29.5   operation, care and preservation of existing facilities and 
 29.6   installations on all state military reservations.  
 29.7      The adjutant general shall keep in repair all state 
 29.8   buildings, and other improvements thereon, including water pipes 
 29.9   laid by the state on highways leading thereto and of all 
 29.10  military property connected with the grounds and may make such 
 29.11  further improvements thereon as the good of the service requires.
 29.12     Private property may be acquired by condemnation, upon the 
 29.13  application of the adjutant general, for camp ground, rifle 
 29.14  range, and other military purposes.  All damages, cost, and 
 29.15  expense incurred in condemning such property shall be paid by 
 29.16  the state treasurer commissioner of finance, upon certificate of 
 29.17  the adjutant general and warrant of the commissioner of finance, 
 29.18  from any unexpended balance of the military fund after meeting 
 29.19  the demands of the national guard.  
 29.20     Sec. 28.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 241.08, 
 29.21  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 29.22     Subdivision 1.  The chief executive officer of each 
 29.23  institution under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of 
 29.24  corrections shall have the care and custody of all money 
 29.25  belonging to inmates thereof which may come into the chief 
 29.26  executive officer's hands, keep accurate accounts thereof, and 
 29.27  pay them out under rules prescribed by law under section 243.23, 
 29.28  subdivision 3, or by the commissioner of corrections, taking 
 29.29  vouchers therefor.  All such money received by any officer or 
 29.30  employee shall be paid to the chief executive officer 
 29.31  forthwith.  Every such executive officer, at the close of each 
 29.32  month, or oftener if required by the commissioner, shall forward 
 29.33  to the commissioner a statement of the amount of all money so 
 29.34  received and the names of the inmates from whom received, 
 29.35  accompanied by a check for the amount, payable to the state 
 29.36  treasurer commissioner of finance.  On receipt of such 
 30.1   statement, the commissioner shall transmit the same to the 
 30.2   commissioner of finance, together with such check, who shall 
 30.3   deliver the same to the state treasurer.  Upon the payment of 
 30.4   such check, the amount shall be credited to a fund to be known 
 30.5   as "Correctional Inmates Fund," for the institution from which 
 30.6   the same was received.  All such funds shall be paid out by 
 30.7   the state treasurer commissioner of finance upon vouchers duly 
 30.8   approved by the commissioner of corrections as in other cases.  
 30.9   The commissioner may permit a contingent fund to remain in the 
 30.10  hands of the executive officer of any such institution from 
 30.11  which necessary expenditure may from time to time be made.  
 30.12     Sec. 29.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 241.10, is 
 30.13  amended to read: 
 30.14     241.10 [DISPOSAL OF FUNDS; CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.] 
 30.15     Every officer and employee of the several institutions 
 30.16  under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of corrections shall 
 30.17  pay to the accounting officer thereof any funds in the officer's 
 30.18  or employee's hands belonging to the institution.  Every 
 30.19  accounting officer, at the close of each month or oftener, shall 
 30.20  forward to the commissioner of corrections a statement of the 
 30.21  amount and sources of all money received.  On receipt of such 
 30.22  statement, the commissioner shall transmit the same to the 
 30.23  commissioner of finance, who shall deliver to the state 
 30.24  treasurer a draft upon the accounting officer for the same, 
 30.25  specifying the funds to which it is to be credited.  Upon 
 30.26  payment of such draft, the amount shall be so credited. 
 30.27     Sec. 30.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 241.13, 
 30.28  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 30.29     Subdivision 1.  [CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.] The commissioner of 
 30.30  corrections may permit a contingent account to remain in the 
 30.31  hands of the accounting officer of any such institution from 
 30.32  which expenditures may be made in case of actual emergency 
 30.33  requiring immediate payment to prevent loss or danger to the 
 30.34  institution or its inmates and for the purpose of paying 
 30.35  freight, purchasing produce, livestock and other commodities 
 30.36  requiring a cash settlement, and for the purpose of discounting 
 31.1   bills incurred, but in all cases subject to revision by the 
 31.2   commissioner of corrections.  An itemized statement of every 
 31.3   expenditure made during the month from such account shall be 
 31.4   submitted to the commissioner under rules established by the 
 31.5   commissioner.  If necessary, the commissioner shall make proper 
 31.6   requisition upon the commissioner of finance for a warrant upon 
 31.7   the state treasurer to secure the contingent account for each 
 31.8   institution. 
 31.9      Sec. 31.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 244.19, 
 31.10  subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
 31.11     Subd. 7.  [CERTIFICATE OF COUNTIES ENTITLED TO STATE AID.] 
 31.12  On or before January 1 of each year, until 1970 and on or before 
 31.13  April 1 thereafter, the commissioner of corrections shall 
 31.14  deliver to the commissioner of finance a certificate in 
 31.15  duplicate for each county of the state entitled to receive state 
 31.16  aid under the provisions of this section.  Upon the receipt of 
 31.17  such certificate, the commissioner of finance shall draw a 
 31.18  warrant upon the state treasurer in favor of the county 
 31.19  treasurer for the amount shown by each certificate to be due to 
 31.20  the county specified.  The commissioner of finance shall 
 31.21  transmit such warrant to the county treasurer together with a 
 31.22  copy of the certificate prepared by the commissioner of 
 31.23  corrections. 
 31.24     Sec. 32.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 246.15, 
 31.25  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 31.26     Subdivision 1.  The chief executive officer of each 
 31.27  institution under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of human 
 31.28  services shall have the care and custody of all money belonging 
 31.29  to inmates thereof which may come into the chief executive 
 31.30  officer's hands, keep accurate accounts thereof, and pay them 
 31.31  out under rules prescribed by law or by the commissioner of 
 31.32  human services, taking vouchers therefor.  All such money 
 31.33  received by any officer or employee shall be paid to the chief 
 31.34  executive officer forthwith.  Every such executive officer, at 
 31.35  the close of each month, or oftener if required by the 
 31.36  commissioner, shall forward to the commissioner a statement of 
 32.1   the amount of all money so received and the names of the inmates 
 32.2   from whom received, accompanied by a check for the amount, 
 32.3   payable to the state treasurer commissioner of finance.  On 
 32.4   receipt of such statement, the commissioner shall transmit the 
 32.5   same to the commissioner of finance, together with such check, 
 32.6   who shall deliver the same to the state treasurer.  Upon the 
 32.7   payment of such check, the amount shall be credited to a fund to 
 32.8   be known as "Inmates Fund," for the institution from which the 
 32.9   same was received.  All such funds shall be paid out by 
 32.10  the state treasurer commissioner of finance upon vouchers duly 
 32.11  approved by the commissioner of human services as in other 
 32.12  cases.  The commissioner may permit a contingent fund to remain 
 32.13  in the hands of the executive officer of any such institution 
 32.14  from which necessary expenditure may from time to time be made.  
 32.15     Sec. 33.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 246.18, 
 32.16  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 32.17     Subdivision 1.  [GENERALLY.] Except as provided in 
 32.18  subdivisions 2 and 4, every officer and employee of the several 
 32.19  institutions under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of human 
 32.20  services who has money belonging to an institution shall pay the 
 32.21  money to the accounting officer thereof.  Every accounting 
 32.22  officer, at the close of each month or oftener, shall forward to 
 32.23  the commissioner of human services a statement of the amount and 
 32.24  sources of all money received.  On receipt of such statement, 
 32.25  the commissioner shall transmit the same to the commissioner of 
 32.26  finance, who shall deliver to the state treasurer a draft upon 
 32.27  the accounting officer for the same specifying the funds to 
 32.28  which it is to be credited.  Upon payment of such draft, the 
 32.29  amount shall be so credited.  
 32.30     Sec. 34.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 246.21, is 
 32.31  amended to read: 
 32.32     246.21 [CONTINGENT FUND.] 
 32.33     The commissioner of human services may permit a contingent 
 32.34  fund to remain in the hands of the accounting officer of any 
 32.35  such institution from which expenditures may be made in case of 
 32.36  actual emergency requiring immediate payment to prevent loss or 
 33.1   danger to the institution or its inmates and for the purpose of 
 33.2   paying freight, purchasing produce, livestock and other 
 33.3   commodities requiring a cash settlement, and for the purpose of 
 33.4   discounting bills incurred, but in all cases subject to revision 
 33.5   by the commissioner of human services.  An itemized statement of 
 33.6   every expenditure made during the month from such fund shall be 
 33.7   submitted to the commissioner under rules established by the 
 33.8   commissioner.  If necessary, the commissioner shall make proper 
 33.9   requisition upon the commissioner of finance for a warrant upon 
 33.10  the state treasurer to secure the contingent fund for each 
 33.11  institution.  
 33.12     Sec. 35.  Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 
 33.13  276.11, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 33.14     Subdivision 1.  [GENERALLY.] As soon as practical after the 
 33.15  settlement day determined in section 276.09, the county 
 33.16  treasurer shall pay to the state treasurer commissioner of 
 33.17  finance or the treasurer of a town, city, school district, or 
 33.18  special district, on the warrant of the county auditor, all 
 33.19  receipts of taxes levied by the taxing district and deliver up 
 33.20  all orders and other evidences of indebtedness of the taxing 
 33.21  district, taking triplicate receipts for them.  The treasurer or 
 33.22  commissioner of finance shall file one of the receipts with the 
 33.23  county auditor, and shall return one by mail on the day of its 
 33.24  receipt to the clerk of the town, city, school district, or 
 33.25  special district to which payment was made.  The clerk shall 
 33.26  keep the receipt in the clerk's office.  Upon written request of 
 33.27  the taxing district, to the extent practicable, the county 
 33.28  treasurer shall make partial payments of amounts collected 
 33.29  periodically in advance of the next settlement and 
 33.30  distribution.  A statement prepared by the county treasurer must 
 33.31  accompany each payment.  It must state the years for which taxes 
 33.32  included in the payment were collected and, for each year, the 
 33.33  amount of the taxes and any penalties on the tax.  Upon written 
 33.34  request of a taxing district, except school districts, the 
 33.35  county treasurer shall pay at least 70 percent of the estimated 
 33.36  collection within 30 days after the settlement date determined 
 34.1   in section 276.09.  Within seven business days after the due 
 34.2   date, or 28 calendar days after the postmark date on the 
 34.3   envelopes containing real or personal property tax statements, 
 34.4   whichever is latest, the county treasurer shall pay to the 
 34.5   treasurer of the school districts 50 percent of the estimated 
 34.6   collections arising from taxes levied by and belonging to the 
 34.7   school district, unless the school district elects to receive 50 
 34.8   percent of the estimated collections arising from taxes levied 
 34.9   by and belonging to the school district after making a 
 34.10  proportionate reduction to reflect any loss in collections as 
 34.11  the result of any delay in mailing tax statements.  In that 
 34.12  case, 50 percent of those adjusted, estimated collections shall 
 34.13  be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the school 
 34.14  district within seven business days of the due date.  The 
 34.15  remaining 50 percent of the estimated collections must be paid 
 34.16  to the treasurer of the school district within the next seven 
 34.17  business days of the later of the dates in the preceding 
 34.18  sentence, unless the school district elects to receive the 
 34.19  remainder of its estimated collections after a proportionate 
 34.20  reduction has been made to reflect any loss in collections as 
 34.21  the result of any delay in mailing tax statements.  In that 
 34.22  case, the remaining 50 percent of those adjusted, estimated 
 34.23  collections shall be paid by the county treasurer to the 
 34.24  treasurer of the school district within 14 days of the due 
 34.25  date.  The treasurer shall pay the balance of the amounts 
 34.26  collected to the state before June 30, or to a municipal 
 34.27  corporation or other body within 60 days after the settlement 
 34.28  date determined in section 276.09.  After 45 days interest at an 
 34.29  annual rate of eight percent accrues and must be paid to the 
 34.30  taxing district.  Interest must be paid upon appropriation from 
 34.31  the general revenue fund of the county.  If not paid, it may be 
 34.32  recovered by the taxing district, in a civil action. 
 34.33     Sec. 36.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 280.29, is 
 34.34  amended to read: 
 34.35     280.29 [PROCEEDS OF SALE, HOW DISTRIBUTED.] 
 34.36     The proceeds of any parcel of land so sold, to the amount 
 35.1   of taxes, penalties, interest, and costs charged thereon, shall 
 35.2   be distributed as provided by law for the distribution of the 
 35.3   like sums upon sales for delinquent taxes.  The portion thereof 
 35.4   due to the state shall be paid to the state treasurer upon the 
 35.5   draft of the commissioner of finance, and the excess, if any, 
 35.6   above the taxes, penalties, interest, and costs charged upon the 
 35.7   land, shall be included in such draft and be paid in like manner 
 35.8   for the benefit of the state.  If any parcel be sold for less 
 35.9   than the amount charged thereon, the state taxes shall first be 
 35.10  paid and the remainder, if any, distributed pro rata to the 
 35.11  several funds for which the taxes were levied.  
 35.12     Sec. 37.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 293.06, is 
 35.13  amended to read: 
 35.14     293.06 [CONSIDERATION AND DETERMINATION OF REPORT.] 
 35.15     Upon the receipt of the report provided for in section 
 35.16  293.03, the commissioner shall determine, from information 
 35.17  possessed or obtained, whether the same is correct or otherwise. 
 35.18  If found correct, the commissioner shall determine therefrom the 
 35.19  amount of tax due from such income or annuity recipient, and 
 35.20  shall record the amount thereof and shall make a certificate of 
 35.21  taxes due thereon from such person; and, on or before the first 
 35.22  day of May, of each year, file the same with the commissioner of 
 35.23  finance and a duplicate thereof with the state treasurer; and 
 35.24  the commissioner of revenue shall have power, in case the report 
 35.25  is deemed incorrect, to make findings as to the amount of such 
 35.26  taxes due after hearing upon notice to the person interested, 
 35.27  and the findings shall have the same effect as the determination 
 35.28  of the amount of such taxes upon a report made as hereinbefore 
 35.29  provided. 
 35.30     Sec. 38.  Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 
 35.31  299D.03, subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
 35.32     Subd. 5.  [FINES AND FORFEITED BAIL MONEY.] (a) All fines 
 35.33  and forfeited bail money, from traffic and motor vehicle law 
 35.34  violations, collected from persons apprehended or arrested by 
 35.35  officers of the state patrol, shall be paid by the person or 
 35.36  officer collecting the fines, forfeited bail money or 
 36.1   installments thereof, on or before the tenth day after the last 
 36.2   day of the month in which these moneys were collected, to the 
 36.3   county treasurer of the county where the violation occurred.  
 36.4   Three-eighths of these receipts shall be credited to the general 
 36.5   revenue fund of the county, except that in a county in a 
 36.6   judicial district under section 480.181, subdivision 1, 
 36.7   paragraph (b), this three-eighths share must be transmitted to 
 36.8   the state treasurer commissioner of finance for deposit in the 
 36.9   state treasury and credited to the general fund.  The other 
 36.10  five-eighths of these receipts shall be transmitted by that 
 36.11  officer to the state treasurer commissioner of finance and must 
 36.12  be credited to the trunk highway fund.  If, however, the 
 36.13  violation occurs within a municipality and the city attorney 
 36.14  prosecutes the offense, and a plea of not guilty is entered, 
 36.15  one-third of the receipts shall be credited to the general 
 36.16  revenue fund of the county, one-third of the receipts shall be 
 36.17  paid to the municipality prosecuting the offense, and one-third 
 36.18  shall be transmitted to the state treasurer commissioner of 
 36.19  finance as provided in this subdivision.  All costs of 
 36.20  participation in a nationwide police communication system 
 36.21  chargeable to the state of Minnesota shall be paid from 
 36.22  appropriations for that purpose. 
 36.23     (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, all fines 
 36.24  and forfeited bail money from violations of statutes governing 
 36.25  the maximum weight of motor vehicles, collected from persons 
 36.26  apprehended or arrested by employees of the state of Minnesota, 
 36.27  by means of stationary or portable scales operated by these 
 36.28  employees, shall be paid by the person or officer collecting the 
 36.29  fines or forfeited bail money, on or before the tenth day after 
 36.30  the last day of the month in which the collections were made, to 
 36.31  the county treasurer of the county where the violation 
 36.32  occurred.  Five-eighths of these receipts shall be transmitted 
 36.33  by that officer to the state treasurer commissioner of finance 
 36.34  and shall be credited to the highway user tax distribution 
 36.35  fund.  Three-eighths of these receipts shall be credited to the 
 36.36  general revenue fund of the county, except that in a county in a 
 37.1   judicial district under section 480.181, subdivision 1, 
 37.2   paragraph (b), this three-eighths share must be transmitted to 
 37.3   the state treasurer commissioner of finance for deposit in the 
 37.4   state treasury and credited to the general fund. 
 37.5      Sec. 39.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 352.05, is 
 37.6   amended to read: 
 37.7      352.05 [STATE TREASURER COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE TO BE 
 37.8   TREASURER OF SYSTEM.] 
 37.9      The state treasurer commissioner of finance is ex officio 
 37.10  treasurer of the retirement funds of the system.  The general 
 37.11  bond to the state shall cover all liability for actions as 
 37.12  treasurer of these funds.  Funds of the system received by 
 37.13  the treasurer commissioner of finance must be set aside in the 
 37.14  state treasury to the credit of the proper fund.  The treasurer 
 37.15  commissioner of finance shall deliver to the director copies of 
 37.16  all payroll abstracts of the state together with the 
 37.17  commissioner of finance's warrants covering the deductions made 
 37.18  on these payroll abstracts for the retirement fund.  The 
 37.19  director shall have a list made of the commissioner of finance's 
 37.20  warrants.  These warrants must then be deposited with the state 
 37.21  treasurer to be credited to the retirement fund.  The treasurer 
 37.22  commissioner of finance shall pay out of this fund only on 
 37.23  warrants issued by the commissioner of finance, upon abstracts 
 37.24  signed by the director, or by the finance officer designated by 
 37.25  the director during the disability or the absence of the 
 37.26  director from the city of St. Paul, Minnesota.  Abstracts for 
 37.27  investments may be signed by the executive director of the state 
 37.28  board of investment.  
 37.29     Sec. 40.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 352B.03, 
 37.30  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 37.31     Subd. 2.  [DUTIES OF TREASURER COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE.] 
 37.32  The state treasurer commissioner of finance is ex officio 
 37.33  treasurer of the state patrol retirement fund.  The treasurer's 
 37.34  commissioner of finance's general bond to the state covers all 
 37.35  liability for actions as treasurer of the fund. 
 37.36     All money of the fund received by the treasurer 
 38.1   commissioner of finance under this chapter must be set aside in 
 38.2   the state treasury and credited to the state patrol retirement 
 38.3   fund.  The treasurer commissioner of finance shall transmit, 
 38.4   monthly, to the director, a detailed statement showing all 
 38.5   credits to and disbursements from the fund.  The treasurer 
 38.6   commissioner of finance shall disburse money from the fund 
 38.7   only on warrants issued by the commissioner of finance upon 
 38.8   vouchers signed by the director.  
 38.9      Sec. 41.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 354.06, 
 38.10  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
 38.11     Subd. 3.  [TREASURER COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE.] The state 
 38.12  treasurer commissioner of finance shall be ex officio treasurer 
 38.13  of the association and the treasurer's commissioner's general 
 38.14  bond to the state shall cover any liabilities for acts as 
 38.15  treasurer of the association.  The state treasurer commissioner 
 38.16  shall receive all moneys payable to the association and pay out 
 38.17  the same only on warrants issued by the commissioner of finance 
 38.18  upon forms signed by the executive director. 
 38.19     Sec. 42.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 354.52, 
 38.20  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
 38.21     Subd. 5.  The state treasurer commissioner of finance, the 
 38.22  several county treasurers, and the treasurers of the various 
 38.23  school districts and institutions to which the provisions of 
 38.24  this chapter apply shall be officially liable for the receipt, 
 38.25  handling, and disbursement of all moneys coming into their hands 
 38.26  belonging to the fund and the sureties on the official bonds of 
 38.27  each of these treasurers and the commissioner of finance shall 
 38.28  be liable for such moneys the same as for all other moneys 
 38.29  belonging to the school funds of this state.  
 38.30     Sec. 43.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 385.05, is 
 38.31  amended to read: 
 38.32     385.05 [RECEIPT AND PAYMENT OF MONEY.] 
 38.33     The county treasurer shall receive all moneys directed by 
 38.34  law to be paid to the treasurer and pay them out only on the 
 38.35  order of the proper authority.  All moneys belonging to the 
 38.36  county shall be paid out upon the order of the county board, 
 39.1   signed by the chair thereof, and attested by the county auditor, 
 39.2   or upon the warrant of the county auditor upon the presentation 
 39.3   to the auditor of the proper certificate of the person or 
 39.4   tribunal allowing the same, and not otherwise.  All moneys due 
 39.5   the state, arising from the collection of taxes or from other 
 39.6   sources, shall be paid upon the draft of the commissioner of 
 39.7   finance, drawn in favor of the state treasurer, and a duplicate 
 39.8   copy of the receipt for payment of such draft shall be forwarded 
 39.9   by the state treasurer commissioner of finance to the county 
 39.10  auditor, who shall preserve the same, and credit the county 
 39.11  treasurer with the amount thereof.  The county auditor shall 
 39.12  issue a warrant in favor of the state for the amount of such 
 39.13  draft and the county treasurer shall pay the warrant forthwith 
 39.14  without endorsement thereof by the state treasurer commissioner 
 39.15  of finance or other state official, and without expense to the 
 39.16  state for collection charges.  
 39.17     Sec. 44.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 475A.04, is 
 39.18  amended to read: 
 39.19     475A.04 [DEBT SERVICE DEFICIENCY LOANS.] 
 39.20     Subdivision 1.  [PROCEDURE.] In the event that funds 
 39.21  sufficient to pay all of the principal and interest due on any 
 39.22  guaranteed bond are not in the hands of the municipal treasurer 
 39.23  or the paying agent at least 15 days before the due date, the 
 39.24  treasurer or agent shall report the amount of the deficiency to 
 39.25  the paying agent and the auditor who shall grant a loan to the 
 39.26  issuer in this amount and shall certify to the issuer, the 
 39.27  paying agent, and the auditor and treasurer of each county in 
 39.28  which property subject to taxation by the issuer is situated, 
 39.29  the amount of the loan and interest to accrue thereon to the due 
 39.30  date of the loan, and the commissioner of finance shall issue a 
 39.31  warrant for the principal amount and the state treasurer shall 
 39.32  remit it to the paying agent on or before the due date.  If the 
 39.33  municipal treasurer fails to deposit funds with the paying agent 
 39.34  sufficient to pay all principal and interest due on any 
 39.35  guaranteed bond on any date, without having previously given the 
 39.36  notice herein required, the paying agent may report the amount 
 40.1   of the deficiency to the commissioner of finance, who shall 
 40.2   forthwith grant a loan to the issuer for this amount plus 
 40.3   interest to accrue thereon for one month at the rate represented 
 40.4   by the coupons then due, and the loan shall be certified and 
 40.5   remitted as provided above.  The paying agent may advance its 
 40.6   own funds for the payment of any guaranteed bonds and interest 
 40.7   due for which it has not received sufficient funds from the 
 40.8   municipality, and may contract with the municipality to make 
 40.9   such advances, and shall be entitled to reimbursement therefor 
 40.10  from the proceeds of the loan, with interest at the rate 
 40.11  represented by the coupons due.  The issuing municipality shall 
 40.12  give a receipt to the commissioner of finance for the amount of 
 40.13  the loan and interest.  
 40.14     Subd. 2.  [DUE DATE; INTEREST; PREPAYMENT.] Each loan shall 
 40.15  become due on December 31 in the year following the year when a 
 40.16  tax is levied for its payment as provided in subdivision 3, and 
 40.17  shall bear interest from the date of its disbursement until 
 40.18  paid, at a rate determined by the commissioner of finance, not 
 40.19  less than the average annual rate payable on state municipal aid 
 40.20  bonds most recently issued before such disbursement, and in no 
 40.21  event less than 3-1/2 percent per annum.  Any loan may be 
 40.22  prepaid at any time with interest to the date of prepayment, by 
 40.23  remittance to the commissioner of finance, who shall deposit the 
 40.24  prepayment with the state treasurer to the credit of the 
 40.25  municipal bond guarantee fund and shall issue a receipt to the 
 40.26  municipality with a copy to the treasurer of each county in 
 40.27  which taxable property within the municipality is situated.  
 40.28  Interest on loans not prepaid shall be due at the same time as 
 40.29  principal.  
 40.30     Subd. 3.  [LEVY.] Before October 1 in each year the state 
 40.31  auditor shall certify to the county auditor and treasurer of 
 40.32  each county containing taxable property situated within any 
 40.33  municipality having an outstanding loan, and to the 
 40.34  municipality, the amount, if any, necessary to be levied to 
 40.35  produce the total amount of principal and interest to become due 
 40.36  in the next ensuing year on such loan plus the amount of any 
 41.1   guaranty fee unpaid.  After receipt of the certification each 
 41.2   county auditor, upon ascertaining the current year's net tax 
 41.3   capacity of all taxable property within the municipality which 
 41.4   is situated within that county, and upon ascertaining from the 
 41.5   county auditors of other counties the net tax capacity of any 
 41.6   such property situated within their counties, shall extend upon 
 41.7   the tax rolls an ad valorem tax upon all such property within 
 41.8   that county, in an amount equal to that proportion of the total 
 41.9   amount certified by the secretary which the net tax capacity of 
 41.10  such property bears to the net tax capacity of all taxable 
 41.11  property within the municipality.  
 41.12     Subd. 4.  [FIRST LIEN.] Each loan shall be a first lien and 
 41.13  charge on all collections of taxes levied on property by the 
 41.14  municipality to which the loan is granted, which are due and 
 41.15  payable on and after October 31 in the year in which the loan is 
 41.16  due.  Unless a receipt for the prepayment thereof has 
 41.17  theretofore been filed with the treasurer of each county in 
 41.18  which property taxable by the municipality to which the loan was 
 41.19  granted is situated, each such treasurer shall deduct from the 
 41.20  first such taxes to be distributed to the municipality the full 
 41.21  amount of the tax extended pursuant to subdivision 3, and shall 
 41.22  remit the same to the commissioner of finance, who shall deposit 
 41.23  the remittance with the state treasurer to the credit of the 
 41.24  municipal bond guaranty fund and shall issue a receipt to the 
 41.25  municipality with a copy to the county treasurer. 
 41.26     Sec. 45.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 475A.06, 
 41.27  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 41.28     Subd. 2.  [FORMALITIES.] The bonds shall be issued and sold 
 41.29  upon sealed bids and upon such notice, at such price, at such 
 41.30  times, in such form and denominations, bearing interest at such 
 41.31  rate or rates, maturing in such amounts and on such dates, 
 41.32  either without option of prepayment or subject to prepayment 
 41.33  upon such notice and at such times and prices, payable at such 
 41.34  bank or banks within or outside the state, with such provisions 
 41.35  for registration, conversion, and exchange and for the issuance 
 41.36  of notes in anticipation of the sale or delivery of definitive 
 42.1   bonds, and in accordance with such further rules, as the 
 42.2   commissioner of finance shall determine, subject to the approval 
 42.3   of the attorney general, but not subject to chapter 14, 
 42.4   including section 14.386.  The bonds shall be executed by the 
 42.5   commissioner of finance and attested by the state treasurer 
 42.6   under their official seals seal.  The signatures signature of 
 42.7   the officers commissioner on the bonds and any appurtenant 
 42.8   interest coupons and their seals the seal may be printed, 
 42.9   lithographed, engraved, or stamped thereon, except that each 
 42.10  bond shall be authenticated by the manual signature on its face 
 42.11  of one of the officers the commissioner or of an officer of a 
 42.12  bank designated by them as authenticating agent.  The 
 42.13  commissioner of finance shall ascertain and certify to the 
 42.14  purchasers of the bonds the performance and existence of all 
 42.15  acts, conditions, and things necessary to make them valid and 
 42.16  binding general obligations of the state of Minnesota, subject 
 42.17  to the approval of the attorney general.  
 42.18     Sec. 46.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 481.01, is 
 42.19  amended to read: 
 42.20     481.01 [BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS; EXAMINATIONS; ALTERNATIVE 
 42.21  DISPUTE FEES.] 
 42.22     The supreme court shall, by rule from time to time, 
 42.23  prescribe the qualifications of all applicants for admission to 
 42.24  practice law in this state, and shall appoint a board of law 
 42.25  examiners, which shall be charged with the administration of the 
 42.26  rules and with the examination of all applicants for admission 
 42.27  to practice law.  The board shall consist of not less than 
 42.28  three, nor more than seven, attorneys at law, who shall be 
 42.29  appointed each for the term of three years and until a successor 
 42.30  qualifies.  The supreme court may fill any vacancy in the board 
 42.31  for the unexpired term and in its discretion may remove any 
 42.32  member of it.  The board shall have a seal and shall keep a 
 42.33  record of its proceedings, of all applications for admission to 
 42.34  practice, and of persons admitted to practice upon its 
 42.35  recommendation.  At least two times a year the board shall hold 
 42.36  examinations and report the result of them, with its 
 43.1   recommendations, to the supreme court.  Upon consideration of 
 43.2   the report, the supreme court shall enter an order in the case 
 43.3   of each person examined, directing the board to reject or to 
 43.4   issue to the person a certificate of admission to practice.  The 
 43.5   board shall have such officers as may, from time to time, be 
 43.6   prescribed and designated by the supreme court.  The fee for 
 43.7   examination shall be fixed, from time to time, by the supreme 
 43.8   court.  This fee, and any other fees which may be received 
 43.9   pursuant to any rules the supreme court adopts governing the 
 43.10  practice of law and court-related alternative dispute resolution 
 43.11  practices shall be paid to the state treasurer commissioner of 
 43.12  finance and shall constitute a special fund in the state 
 43.13  treasury which shall be exempt from section 16A.127.  The money 
 43.14  in this fund is appropriated annually to the supreme court for 
 43.15  the payment of compensation and expenses of the members of the 
 43.16  board of law examiners and for otherwise regulating the practice 
 43.17  of law.  The money in the fund shall never cancel.  Payments 
 43.18  from it shall be made by the state treasurer, upon warrants of 
 43.19  the commissioner of finance issued commissioner of finance upon 
 43.20  vouchers signed by one of the justices of the supreme court.  
 43.21  The members of the board shall have compensation and allowances 
 43.22  for expenses as may, from time to time, be fixed by the supreme 
 43.23  court. 
 43.24     Sec. 47.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 490.123, 
 43.25  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
 43.26     Subd. 2.  [TREASURER COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE.] The state 
 43.27  treasurer commissioner of finance shall be ex officio treasurer 
 43.28  of the judges' retirement fund and the treasurer's 
 43.29  commissioner's general bond to the state shall be so conditioned 
 43.30  as to cover all liability for acting as treasurer of this fund.  
 43.31  All moneys received by the treasurer commissioner pursuant to 
 43.32  this section shall be set aside in the state treasury to the 
 43.33  credit of the judges' retirement fund.  The treasurer 
 43.34  commissioner shall transmit monthly to the executive director 
 43.35  described in section 352.03, subdivision 5, a detailed statement 
 43.36  of all amounts so received and credited to the fund.  
 44.1   The treasurer commissioner shall pay out the fund only on 
 44.2   warrants issued by the commissioner of finance, upon vouchers 
 44.3   signed by said executive director; provided that vouchers for 
 44.4   investment may be signed by the secretary of the state board of 
 44.5   investment. 
 44.6      Sec. 48.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 525.161, is 
 44.7   amended to read: 
 44.8      525.161 [NO SURVIVING SPOUSE OR KINDRED, NOTICES TO 
 44.9   ATTORNEY GENERAL.] 
 44.10     When it appears from the petition or application for 
 44.11  administration of the estate, or otherwise, in a proceeding in 
 44.12  the court that the intestate left surviving no spouse or 
 44.13  kindred, the court shall give notice of such fact and notice of 
 44.14  all subsequent proceedings in such estate to the attorney 
 44.15  general forthwith; and the attorney general shall protect the 
 44.16  interests of the state during the course of administration.  The 
 44.17  residue which escheats to the state shall be transmitted to the 
 44.18  attorney general.  All moneys, stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages 
 44.19  and other securities, and all other personal property so 
 44.20  escheated shall then be given into the custody of the state 
 44.21  treasurer, who shall notify the commissioner of finance thereof 
 44.22  and who shall immediately credit the moneys received to the 
 44.23  general fund.  The treasurer commissioner of finance shall hold 
 44.24  such stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages and other securities, and 
 44.25  all other personal property, subject to such investment, sale or 
 44.26  other disposition as the state board of investment may direct 
 44.27  pursuant to section 11A.04, clause (9).  The attorney general 
 44.28  shall immediately report to the state executive council all real 
 44.29  property received in the individual escheat, and any sale or 
 44.30  disposition of such real estate shall be made in accordance with 
 44.31  sections 94.09 to 94.16.  
 44.32     Sec. 49.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 525.841, is 
 44.33  amended to read: 
 44.34     525.841 [ESCHEAT RETURNED.] 
 44.35     In all such cases the commissioner of finance shall be 
 44.36  furnished with a certified copy of the court's order assigning 
 45.1   the escheated property to the persons entitled thereto, and upon 
 45.2   notification of payment of the estate tax, the commissioner of 
 45.3   finance shall draw a warrant on the state treasurer, or execute 
 45.4   a proper conveyance to the persons designated in such order.  In 
 45.5   the event any escheated property has been sold pursuant to 
 45.6   sections 11A.04, clause (9), and 11A.10, subdivision 2, or 94.09 
 45.7   to 94.16, then the warrant shall be for the appraised value as 
 45.8   established during the administration of the decedent's estate.  
 45.9   There is hereby annually appropriated from any moneys in the 
 45.10  state treasury not otherwise appropriated an amount sufficient 
 45.11  to make payment to all such designated persons.  No interest 
 45.12  shall be allowed on any amount paid to such persons.  
 45.13     Sec. 50.  [INSTRUCTION TO REVISOR.] 
 45.14     (a) The revisor shall delete "treasurer," "state 
 45.15  treasurer," and "treasurer-elect," as appropriate, and make 
 45.16  necessary grammatical changes in the following sections of 
 45.17  Minnesota Statutes:  3C.12, subdivision 2; 4.06; 8.02, 
 45.18  subdivision 2; 8.05; 10.01; 15.16, subdivision 3; 16A.125, 
 45.19  subdivision 5; 16B.05, subdivision 2; 43A.08, subdivisions 1 and 
 45.20  1a; 43A.18, subdivision 4; 89.43; 116.16, subdivision 3; 116.17, 
 45.21  subdivision 5; 117.135, subdivision 2; 126C.55, subdivision 3; 
 45.22  161.06, subdivision 1; 167.51, subdivision 2; 174.51, 
 45.23  subdivision 5; 204B.11, subdivision 1; 204D.10, subdivision 2; 
 45.24  209.01, subdivision 2; 241.27, subdivision 4; 270.74; 272.68, 
 45.25  subdivision 1; 352.01, subdivision 3; 352B.01, subdivision 4; 
 45.26  352C.021, subdivision 2; 352D.02, subdivision 1; 355.621, 
 45.27  subdivision 4; and 475A.06, subdivision 5. 
 45.28     (b) The revisor shall delete "state treasurer," "state 
 45.29  treasurer's," "treasurer," and "treasurer's" where it refers to 
 45.30  the state treasurer, and substitute "commissioner of finance" 
 45.31  and "commissioner of finance's" respectively in the following 
 45.32  sections of Minnesota Statutes:  6.60; 7.06; 7.09; 7.10; 7.12, 
 45.33  subdivision 1; 7.19; 7.193; 7.20; 7.22; 7.24; 7.25; 7.27; 9.031; 
 45.34  11A.04; 11A.07, subdivision 4; 11A.10, subdivisions 1 and 4; 
 45.35  11A.15, subdivisions 3 and 5; 12.24, subdivision 2; 15.73, 
 45.36  subdivision 3; 16A.011, subdivision 15; 16A.126, subdivision 3; 
 46.1   16A.127, subdivision 7; 16A.13, subdivisions 1 and 2a; 16A.131, 
 46.2   subdivision 1; 16A.27, subdivisions 1 and 2; 16A.45, subdivision 
 46.3   1; 16A.672, subdivision 11; 31.15; 41B.17, subdivision 3; 
 46.4   46.041, subdivision 1; 46.34; 48A.03, subdivisions 2, 4, and 5; 
 46.5   49.24, subdivision 7; 51A.51, subdivisions 1, 2, and 3a; 52.06, 
 46.6   subdivision 1; 52.20, subdivision 5; 53.03, subdivisions 1 and 
 46.7   6; 56.02; 60B.47; 60K.03, subdivisions 1, 5, and 6; 60K.13, 
 46.8   subdivision 3; 79.34, subdivision 1; 79A.04, subdivisions 5, 6, 
 46.9   7, and 10; 79A.071; 79A.15; 79A.24, subdivision 4; 79A.25, 
 46.10  subdivision 3; 82.24, subdivision 8; 82.34, subdivisions 1 and 
 46.11  5; 84.153; 84.415, subdivision 5; 84A.04, subdivisions 3 and 4; 
 46.12  84A.23, subdivision 3; 84A.33, subdivision 4; 85A.05, 
 46.13  subdivision 4; 90.173; 92.21, subdivision 1; 92.23; 92.24; 
 46.14  93.17; 93.20, subdivisions 7, 19, and 31; 94.346, subdivision 2; 
 46.15  97A.055, subdivision 2; 97A.065, subdivision 2; 103I.521; 
 46.16  115.77, subdivision 2; 115A.54, subdivision 3; 115A.58, 
 46.17  subdivision 4; 116.16, subdivision 8; 116.17, subdivision 4; 
 46.18  116J.64, subdivisions 6, 7, and 10; 116R.11, subdivision 2; 
 46.19  126C.68, subdivision 3; 126C.69, subdivision 14; 127A.09, 
 46.20  subdivision 3; 141.25, subdivision 5; 141.26, subdivision 3; 
 46.21  144.09; 144.10; 144.226, subdivision 4; 144.7022, subdivision 4; 
 46.22  149A.06, subdivision 4; 149A.20, subdivision 8; 149A.30, 
 46.23  subdivision 2; 149A.40, subdivision 8; 149A.50, subdivision 6; 
 46.24  149A.51, subdivision 7; 149A.97, subdivision 7; 161.04, 
 46.25  subdivision 2; 161.05, subdivisions 1, 2, 4, and 5; 161.081, 
 46.26  subdivision 2; 161.36, subdivision 5; 161.41, subdivision 3; 
 46.27  162.16; 163.051, subdivision 2; 168.33, subdivision 2; 168.67; 
 46.28  168C.11, subdivision 1; 169.781, subdivision 7; 174.50, 
 46.29  subdivision 3; 174.51, subdivision 4; 176.129, subdivisions 1, 
 46.30  7, and 8; 176.181, subdivision 5; 176.421, subdivision 4; 
 46.31  176.591, subdivisions 2 and 3; 193.23, subdivision 1; 214.13, 
 46.32  subdivision 1; 222.025; 223.17, subdivision 4; 231.17; 237.11; 
 46.33  240.10; 240.15, subdivision 6; 240.22; 241.09; 243.48, 
 46.34  subdivision 1; 245.4932, subdivision 4; 246.16; 246.18, 
 46.35  subdivision 2a; 246.41, subdivision 2; 246.51, subdivision 1; 
 46.36  248.07, subdivisions 8 and 12; 256.89; 256.90; 256.92; 256B.041, 
 47.1   subdivision 5; 256B.0625, subdivision 20; 256B.0945, subdivision 
 47.2   3; 256F.10, subdivision 10; 257.69, subdivision 2; 260B.331, 
 47.3   subdivision 6; 260C.331, subdivision 6; 270.45; 271.12; 273.02, 
 47.4   subdivision 6; 282.19; 282.226; 282.33, subdivision 1; 284.28, 
 47.5   subdivisions 8 and 9; 290.431; 290.432; 293.08; 293.09; 293.11; 
 47.6   296A.03, subdivision 5; 297E.02, subdivision 3; 298.39; 298.396; 
 47.7   299F.17, subdivision 1; 299F.60, subdivision 4; 300.19; 
 47.8   302A.771; 303.07, subdivision 1; 303.16, subdivision 2; 303.19, 
 47.9   subdivision 2; 303.25, subdivision 3; 317A.771; 322B.86; 
 47.10  325A.06, subdivision 3; 325G.415; 332.15, subdivision 4; 332.30; 
 47.11  332.55; 340A.409, subdivision 1; 340A.904, subdivision 2; 
 47.12  341.10; 352.04, subdivision 4; 352B.02, subdivisions 1b and 1d; 
 47.13  353.05; 353B.06, subdivision 1; 354.07, subdivision 4; 357.021, 
 47.14  subdivisions 1a, 2, 6, and 7; 357.022; 357.08; 360.017, 
 47.15  subdivision 2; 385.20; 446A.085, subdivision 3; 446A.16, 
 47.16  subdivisions 1 and 2; 458A.03, subdivision 3; 462A.17, 
 47.17  subdivision 3; 462A.18; 469.177, subdivision 11; 475A.06, 
 47.18  subdivision 4; 480.058, subdivision 2; 480.175, subdivision 2; 
 47.19  485.018, subdivision 5; 487.31, subdivision 1; 487.32, 
 47.20  subdivision 3; 487.33, subdivision 5; 490.102, subdivision 6; 
 47.21  508.75; 508.77; 508.82, subdivision 1; 508A.22, subdivision 3; 
 47.22  508A.77; 508A.82, subdivision 1; 517.08, subdivision 1c; 
 47.23  518.165, subdivision 3; 525.033; 563.01, subdivisions 9 and 10; 
 47.24  574.261, subdivisions 1, 2, and 3; 574.264, subdivision 1; 
 47.25  609.101, subdivisions 3 and 4; 611.20, subdivisions 2 and 3; and 
 47.26  626.85, subdivisions 2 and 3.  
 47.27     (c) The revisor shall recodify Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
 47.28  7, in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A. 
 47.29     (d) The revisor shall delete "state treasurer" where it 
 47.30  means the state treasurer of Minnesota and substitute 
 47.31  "commissioner of finance" in Minnesota Rules. 
 47.32     Sec. 51.  [REPEALER.] 
 47.33     Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 7.21, is repealed. 
 47.34     Sec. 52.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
 47.35     This act is effective January 6, 2003.