Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 500-S.F.No. 2264 
           An act relating to local government; allowing the city 
          of Falcon Heights to consolidate election precincts; 
          placing restrictions on Ramsey county officials and 
          employees; providing penalties; proposing coding for 
          new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 383A. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [FALCON HEIGHTS; ELECTION PRECINCTS.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 204B.14, 
subdivision 3, the city of Falcon Heights may establish new 
election precincts in 1988 by consolidating its four existing 
election precincts into two new election precincts.  The 
precinct boundaries must be reestablished by May 10, 1988. 
    Sec. 2.  [383A.201] [OFFICIALS NOT TO BE INTERESTED IN 
CONTRACTS.] 
    No Ramsey county official or the official's deputy, clerk, 
or employee and no commissioner for tax-forfeited lands or the 
commissioner's assistants, may have a personal financial 
interest (1) in a contract, work, labor, or business to which 
the county is a party or in which it is or may be interested, 
(2) or in the furnishing of an article to, or the purchase or 
sale of any real or personal property by the county, or of which 
the consideration, price, or expense is payable from the county 
treasury.  A violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor.  
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day after the governing body of 
the city of Falcon Heights complies with Minnesota Statutes, 
section 645.021, subdivision 3. 
    Approved April 12, 1988