Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                         CHAPTER 53-H.F.No. 422 
           An act relating to cities; providing for distribution 
          of public notices in cities of the fourth class in the 
          metropolitan area; amending Minnesota Statutes 1990, 
          section 331A.03.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 331A.03, is 
amended to read: 
    331A.03 [WHERE NOTICE PUBLISHED.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [GENERALLY.] Except as provided in 
subdivision 2, a public notice shall be published in a qualified 
newspaper, and except as otherwise provided by law, in one that 
is likely to give notice in the affected area or to whom it is 
directed.  When a statute or other law requires publication in a 
newspaper located in a designated municipality or area and no 
qualified newspaper is located there, publication shall be made 
in a qualified newspaper likely to give notice unless the 
particular statute or law expressly provides otherwise.  If no 
qualified newspaper exists, then publication is not required.  
    Subd. 2.  [EXCEPTION; CERTAIN CITIES OF THE FOURTH 
CLASS.] A public notice required to be published by a statutory 
or home rule charter city of the fourth class located in the 
metropolitan area defined in section 473.121, subdivision 2, is 
not required to be published in a qualified newspaper if there 
is no qualified nondaily newspaper of general circulation in the 
city, provided the notice is printed in a newsletter or similar 
printed means of giving notice that is prepared by the city and 
either mailed or delivered to each household in the city. 
    Presented to the governor May 2, 1991 
    Signed by the governor May 6, 1991, 11:18 a.m.