Minnesota Session Laws - 1986, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1986 

                        CHAPTER 370-S.F.No. 1515 
           An act relating to Ramsey county; authorizing the 
          issuance of bonds for the construction of library 
          buildings and an annual levy for debt retirement; 
          providing for an appointed county abstract clerk; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 383A; repealing Minnesota Statutes 1984, 
          section 383A.38. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1. [383A.381] [ABSTRACT CLERK.] 
   In Ramsey county the office of abstract clerk shall not be 
elective but be filled by procedures adopted by the county 
personnel department and shall discharge the functions provided 
by the county.  The last abstract clerk elected shall serve in a 
position created by the county to perform the functions of the 
office until the elected term expires or, upon the expiration of 
the term, until a successor is appointed and qualified and shall 
not before age 70 be disqualified from appointment because of 
age. 
    Sec. 2.  [TAX.] 
    The Ramsey county board may levy a tax on taxable property 
within the county outside of the city of St. Paul to acquire, 
better, and construct county library buildings and equipment and 
to pay principal and interest on bonds issued for that purpose.  
The tax shall be disregarded in the calculation of levies or 
limits on levies provided by Minnesota Statutes, sections 275.50 
to 275.56, or other law.  
    Sec. 3.  [AUTHORIZATION.] 
    The Ramsey county board may issue and sell general 
obligation bonds of the county in the amount of $15,000,000 in 
the manner provided in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 475, to 
acquire, better, and construct county library buildings and 
equipment.  The county board shall prescribe the form of the 
bonds and their interest rate and sell them to the highest 
bidder after publication of the notice of the time and place for 
receiving of the bids.  The bonds may be issued without the 
submission of the question of their issuance to the voters.  The 
bonds shall not be subject to the requirements of Minnesota 
Statutes, sections 475.57 to 475.59.  When the tax levy 
authorized in section 2 is collected, it shall be appropriated 
and credited to a debt service fund for the bonds.  The tax levy 
for the debt service fund required by Minnesota Statutes, 
section 475.61, shall be reduced by the amount available or 
reasonably anticipated to be available in the fund to make 
payments otherwise payable from the levy required by section 
475.61.  
    Sec. 4.  [REPEALER.] 
    Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 383A.38, is repealed. 
    Sec. 5.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act takes effect the day after the filing of a 
certificate of local approval by the Ramsey county board in 
compliance with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 
3. 
    Approved March 19, 1986