Minnesota Session Laws - 1990, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1990 

                        CHAPTER 361-H.F.No. 2188 
           An act relating to local government; permitting towns 
          to publish collections of town ordinances, 
          resolutions, rules, and laws; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1988, sections 415.021 and 599.13. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 415.021, is 
amended to read: 
    415.021 [CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES.] 
    Any city, however organized, or town, may revise and codify 
and print in book, pamphlet or newspaper form, any ordinances, 
resolutions, and rules of the city or town and may include 
therein for reference any applicable general or special laws.  
Such codification shall be a sufficient publication of any 
ordinance included in it and not previously published in a 
newspaper if a substantial quantity of the codification is 
printed for general distribution to the public.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 599.13, is 
amended to read: 
    599.13 [MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ORDINANCES.] 
    Copies of the ordinances, bylaws, resolutions, and 
regulations of any city, town, or county, certified by the mayor 
or president of the council, and the city clerk thereof, under 
its seal in the case of a city, or the chair of the town board 
and the town clerk in the case of a town, or by the county 
auditor or chair of the county board in the case of a county, 
and copies of the same printed in any newspaper, book, pamphlet, 
or other form, and which purport to be published by authority of 
the council of such city or county board, shall be prima facie 
evidence thereof and, after three years from the compilation and 
publication of any such book or pamphlet, shall be conclusive 
proof of the regularity of their adoption and publication. 
    Presented to the governor March 27, 1990 
    Signed by the governor March 27, 1990, 3:55 p.m.