Minnesota Session Laws - 1990, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1990 

                        CHAPTER 493-S.F.No. 2092 
           An act relating to cities; regulating financial 
          operations of municipal hospitals of statutory cities; 
          changing the method of selection of the hospital board 
          for St. Louis and Koochiching counties from election 
          at large to appointment by the county boards; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 412.221, subdivision 
          16; and Laws 1988, chapter 645, section 2. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 412.221, 
subdivision 16, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 16.  [HOSPITALS.] The council shall have power to 
provide hospitals.  The council of any city operating a 
municipal hospital may by ordinance establish a hospital board 
with such powers and duties of hospital management and operation 
as the council confers upon it; and the council may, by vote of 
all five members, abolish any board so established.  The board 
shall consist of five members, each appointed by the mayor with 
the consent of the council for a term of five years.  Terms of 
the first members shall be so arranged that the term of one 
member expires each year.  Any vacancy shall be filled for the 
unexpired portion of the term in which it occurs.  Any member 
may be removed by the mayor with the consent of the council for 
cause after a hearing.  
    The council may by ordinance authorize the hospital board 
to establish a separate fund in the city treasury into which all 
of its revenues shall be deposited.  The hospital board shall, 
in the same manner as the council under section 412.271, 
subdivision 1, and to the same extent, audit claims to be paid 
from the fund.  The secretary of the board shall draw an order 
upon the treasurer for the proper amount allowed by the board.  
Upon counter signature by the president of the board and 
presentation, orders shall be paid by the treasurer. 
    Sec. 2.  Laws 1988, chapter 645, section 2, is amended to 
read: 
    Sec. 2.  [OFFICERS.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 447.32, 
subdivision 1, the hospital district created under this act 
shall be governed by a board composed of one member elected from 
each city and town in the district, two members elected at large 
from appointed by the St. Louis county board to represent the 
aggregate of the unorganized townships in St. Louis county 
listed in section 1, subdivision 1, and one member elected at 
large from appointed by the Koochiching county board to 
represent the aggregate of the unorganized townships in 
Koochiching county listed in section 1, subdivision 2. 
    Sec. 3.  [CONTINUATION OF EFFECT.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, 
subdivision 3, Laws 1988, chapter 645, is not deemed to be 
disapproved because of a failure by one or more governmental 
units to comply with the filing requirements of Minnesota 
Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3, if those requirements 
are met by January 8, 1991.  
    Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Sections 2 and 3 are effective the day following final 
enactment. 
    Presented to the governor April 24, 1990 
    Signed by the governor April 24, 1990, 9:42 p.m.