Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 633-S.F.No. 2465 
           An act relating to state agencies; amending the 
          authority of the Minnesota amateur sports commission; 
          correcting references; authorizing the commission and 
          certain other state entities to establish nonprofit 
          corporations and charitable foundations; providing for 
          an advisory task force on martial arts instruction; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, sections 
          16A.661, subdivision 3; 240A.02, subdivision 2; 
          240A.03, subdivision 10, and by adding subdivisions; 
          and 297A.44, subdivision 1; and Laws 1987, chapter 
          400, section 13.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
16A.661, subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [ESTABLISHMENT OF DEBT SERVICE FUND; 
APPROPRIATION OF DEBT SERVICE FUND MONEY.] (a) There is 
established within the state bond fund a separate and special 
account designated as a general obligation special tax bond debt 
service account.  There must be credited to this debt service 
account in each fiscal year from the tobacco tax revenue fund 
established in section 297.13 an amount sufficient to increase 
the balance on hand in the debt service account on each December 
1 to an amount equal to the full amount of principal and 
interest to come due on all outstanding bonds whose debt service 
is payable primarily from proceeds of the tax to and including 
the second following July 1.  The money on hand in the debt 
service account must be used solely for the payment of the 
principal of, and interest on, the bonds, and is appropriated 
for this purpose.  This appropriation does not cancel as long as 
any of the bonds remain outstanding. 
    (b) There is established within the state bond fund a 
separate and special account designated as a general obligation 
special tax bond debt service account.  There must be credited 
to this debt service account in each fiscal year from the sports 
and health club sale tax revenue fund established in section 49 
297A.44 an amount sufficient to increase the balance on hand in 
the debt service account on each December 1 to an amount equal 
to the full amount of principal and interest to come due on all 
outstanding bonds whose debt service is payable primarily from 
proceeds of the tax to and including the second following July 
1.  The money on hand in the debt service account must be used 
solely for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the 
bonds, and is appropriated for this purpose.  This appropriation 
does not cancel as long as any of the bonds remain outstanding. 
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
240A.02, subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [MEETINGS.] The commission shall meet at least 
quarterly and at other times determined by the commission and 
shall adopt rules, without regard to chapter 14, governing its 
proceedings. 
    Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
240A.03, subdivision 10, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 10.  [USE AGREEMENTS.] The commission may lease, 
license, or enter into agreements and may fix, alter, charge, 
and collect rentals, fees, and charges to persons for the use, 
occupation, and availability of part or all of any premises, 
property, or facilities under its ownership, operation, or 
control.  Fees charged by the commission are not subject to 
section 16A.128.  A use agreement may provide that the other 
contracting party has exclusive use of the premises at the times 
agreed upon. 
    Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
240A.03, is amended by adding a subdivision to read:  
    Subd. 13.  [NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS.] The 
commission, and any other state office, agency, or board owning 
or operating a sport facility designated as an official training 
center by the national governing body of that sport, may 
establish nonprofit corporations and charitable foundations.  
     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
240A.03, is amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 14.  [NATIONAL SPORTS EVENTS.] The commission may pay 
costs incurred by an amateur sports facility in hosting and 
operating events that are conducted at the facility under an 
agreement with the national governing body for an amateur sport 
and sanctioned or sponsored by the commission. 
    Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
297A.44, subdivision 1, is amended to read:  
    Subdivision 1.  (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) 
and (c) all revenues, including interest and penalties, derived 
from the excise and use taxes imposed by sections 297A.01 to 
297A.44 shall be deposited by the commissioner in the state 
treasury and credited to the general fund.  
    (b) All excise and use taxes derived from sales and use of 
property and services purchased for the construction and 
operation of an agricultural resource project, from and after 
the date on which a conditional commitment for a loan guaranty 
for the project is made pursuant to section 41A.04, subdivision 
3, shall be deposited in the agricultural resource loan guaranty 
fund.  The commissioner of finance shall certify to the 
commissioner the date on which the project received the 
conditional commitment.  The amount deposited in the loan 
guaranty fund shall be reduced by any refunds and by the costs 
incurred by the department of revenue to administer and enforce 
the assessment and collection of the taxes.  
    (c) All revenues, including interest and penalties, derived 
from the excise and use taxes imposed on sales and purchases 
included in section 297A.01, subdivision 3, paragraph (i) (d), 
and paragraph (l), clauses (1) and (2), must be deposited by the 
commissioner of revenue in a separate and special fund, 
designated as the sports and health club sales tax revenue fund 
in the state treasury and credited as follows: 
    (1) first to the general obligation special tax bond debt 
service account in each fiscal year the amount required by 
section 16A.661, subdivision 3, paragraph (b); and 
    (2) after the requirements of paragraph (a) clause (1) have 
been met: 
    (i) no more than the amounts specifically appropriated to 
operate and maintain facilities financed under Laws 1987, 
chapter 400, section 8, subdivision 3; must be credited to an 
amateur athletic facilities account set up for this purpose; and 
    (ii) , the balance must be credited to the general fund. 
    Sec. 7.  Laws 1987, chapter 400, section 13, is amended to 
read:  
     Sec. 13.  MINNESOTA AMATEUR SPORTS 
COMMISSION                                         330,700 
 This appropriation is from the amateur 
athletic facilities account in the 
special revenue general fund.  $150,000 
of this is for fiscal year 1988 and 
$180,700 for fiscal year 1989 to 
implement the statutory authority of 
the commission and to operate and 
maintain the facilities financed by 
bonds whose debt service is payable 
primarily from proceeds of the fund. 
    Sec. 8.  [ADVISORY TASK FORCE TO PREPARE RULES.] 
    The chair of the Minnesota amateur sports commission shall 
appoint an advisory task force composed of those commission 
members and members of the martial arts community as the chair 
determines.  The task force shall prepare and recommend to the 
commission rules necessary for the safety of nonfull contact 
martial arts instruction.  The expiration and removal of task 
force members are governed by Minnesota Statutes, section 
15.059, subdivision 6.  The task force members shall not receive 
per diem or reimbursement for expenses.  Rules recommended by 
the task force must, if adopted by the commission, be adopted 
under the rulemaking provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
14. 
    Approved April 25, 1988