Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 560-S.F.No. 2097 
           An act relating to the board of the arts; regulating 
          distribution of funds to regional arts councils; 
          regulating conflict of interest; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1986, section 139.10. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 139.10, is 
amended to read:  
    139.10 [DUTIES.] 
    Subdivision 1.  The board shall through the following 
activities stimulate and encourage the creation, performance and 
appreciation of the arts in the state: 
    (a) receive and consider any requests for grants, loans or 
other forms of assistance; 
    (b) advise and serve as a technical resource at the request 
of sponsoring organizations and political subdivisions in the 
state on programs relating to the arts; 
    (c) advise and recommend on existing or proposed activities 
of the departments of the state relating to the arts; 
    (d) accept gifts and grants to the board and distribute the 
same in accordance with the instructions of the donor insofar as 
the instructions are consistent with law; 
    (e) promulgate by rule procedures to be followed by the 
board in receiving and reviewing requests for grants, loans or 
other forms of assistance; 
    (f) promulgate by rule standards consistent with this 
chapter to be followed by the board in the distribution of 
grants, loans and other forms of assistance; 
    (g) distribute according to the above procedures and 
standards grants, loans and other forms of assistance for 
artistic activities to departments and agencies of the state, 
political subdivisions, sponsoring organizations and, in 
appropriate cases, to individuals engaged in the creation or 
performance of the arts; provided that a member of the board 
shall not participate in deliberations or voting on assistance 
to groups or persons in which that member has an interest as 
officer, director, employee or recipient; 
    (h) appoint advisory committees which the board determines 
are essential to the performance of its powers and duties under 
this section; provided that no member of an advisory committee 
shall within two years prior to appointment have personally 
received or applied serve on a committee to which the member has 
an application pending for a grant, loan or other form of 
assistance from the board or its predecessor; 
    (i) serve as a fiscal agent to disburse appropriations for 
regional arts councils throughout the state. 
    Subd. 2.  In performing the duties under subdivision 1, the 
board shall insofar as reasonably possible: 
    (a) avoid any actions which infringe on the freedom of 
artistic expression or which interfere with programs in the 
state which relate to the arts but which do not involve board 
assistance; 
    (b) distribute board assistance equitably according to 
population throughout the geographical regions of the state; 
    (c) give special consideration to requests for assistance 
for the creation or performance of types or variations of the 
arts which have yet to receive the level of general support and 
assistance given to the more established types or variations of 
the arts; 
     (d) distribute appropriations to regional arts councils 
upon receipt of the biennial plan or, in even-numbered years, 
the annual plan update.  These plans are not subject to 
modification by the board.  The annual report from the previous 
year must be on file at the board before distribution of 
appropriations to a regional arts council. 
    Subd. 3.  The board shall be responsible for the 
administration of the professional touring program. 
    Subd. 4.  The board shall develop and implement a 
comprehensive statewide information and publicity system. In its 
report required under section 139.08, subdivision 5, the board 
shall summarize its activities pursuant to this subdivision. 
    Approved April 18, 1988