Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                        CHAPTER 186--H.F.No. 462
           An act relating to St. Louis county; limiting 
          compensation of elected county officers; providing 
          that the county board set the fees for tax search 
          certificates; providing for reimbursement of certain 
          expenses of county commissioners; allowing the county 
          board to designate a clerk other than the auditor; 
          amending Laws 1951, chapter 391, section 2; Laws 1955, 
          chapter 633, section 1, subdivision 2, as amended; and 
          Laws 1959, chapter 301, section 1, as amended. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [ST. LOUIS COUNTY; ELECTED OFFICIALS; 
COMPENSATION.] 
    An elected officer of St. Louis county shall not be 
entitled to payment for accumulated vacation or sick leave days 
upon leaving office.  This section supersedes any contrary 
provision of other law or ordinance.  
    Sec. 2.  Laws 1955, chapter 633, section 1, subdivision 2, 
as amended by Laws 1978, chapter 468, section 1, is amended to 
read: 
    Subd. 2.  [FEES.] For such certificate the county shall 
receive a compensation of $2 not to exceed the fee established 
by Minnesota Statutes, section 272.46, for each lot or parcel of 
land described in the certificate, which.  The fee shall be 
prescribed by the county board and collected by the county 
auditor.  Any number of continguous tracts of land not exceeding 
one section, assessed as broad acres, or adjoining lots in the 
same block, in the city or village, shall be considered as one 
parcel of land or lot within the meaning of this section.  All 
moneys received by the county auditor under this section shall 
immediately be paid by him to the county treasurer as 
hereinafter provided.  
    Sec. 3.  Laws 1951, chapter 391, section 2, is amended to 
read:  
    Sec. 2.  Each of the county commisioners shall be allowed 
and paid in addition to said salary, his actual and necessary 
traveling expenses incurred and paid by him in the discharge of 
his official duties, not exceeding in any one calendar year the 
sum of $900 for each commissioner.  Such traveling expenses 
shall be allowed by the county board upon duly verified and 
itemized bills in the same manner as other claims against the 
county.  
    Sec. 4.  Laws 1959, chapter 301, section 1, as amended by 
Laws 1977, chapter 60, section 1, is amended to read:  
    Section 1.  [ST. LOUIS COUNTY; AUTOMOBILE EXPENSE OF 
COMMISSIONERS.] County commissioners of St. Louis County are 
hereby authorized to pay themselves when they submit a certified 
claim to the board, for the use of their privately owned cars 
used in county business at the rate permitted by law, from the 
road and bridge fund of their respective districts, and said 
payments shall be over and above their general expenses for 
county business authorized by Laws 1951, Chapter 391, Section 2, 
but not to exceed in any one calendar year the sum of $1,800 for 
each commissioner.  
     Sec. 5.  [CLERK OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY BOARD.] 
     Notwithstanding the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, 
section 384.09, or any other law to the contrary, the St. Louis 
county board may designate a person other than the county 
auditor to be clerk of the county board.  
    Sec. 6.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 645.023, 
subdivision 1, section 1 is effective the day after final 
enactment.  Sections 2 to 5 are effective the day after 
compliance with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 
3, by the St. Louis county board. 
    Approved May 19, 1983