Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                        CHAPTER 209-H.F.No. 752 
           An act relating to education; providing for school 
          consolidation in certain circumstances. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [HALLOCK AND HUMBOLDT-ST. VINCENT SCHOOL 
DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 122.23, 
subdivision 13, and Laws 1991, chapter 5, if: 
    (1) a majority of the votes cast on the question at a 1991 
election called under Minnesota Statutes, section 122.23, 
subdivision 9 or 10, approve a school district consolidation 
between independent school district No. 351, Hallock, and 
independent school district No. 352, Humboldt-St. Vincent; and 
    (2) the necessary approving resolutions of boards entitled 
to act on the plat have been adopted, 
the school board shall, within ten days of the election, notify 
the county auditor who shall, within ten days of the notice or 
of the expiration of the period during which an election can be 
called, issue an order setting the effective date of the 
consolidation as July 1, 1991.  The order setting the effective 
date must be issued at least 55 days before July 1, 1991.  The 
auditor shall mail or deliver a copy of the order to each 
auditor holding a copy of the plat and to the clerk of each 
district affected by the order and to the commissioner of 
education.  The school board shall notify the county auditor if 
the election fails.  The proceedings are then terminated and the 
county auditor shall notify the commissioner and the auditors 
and the clerk of each school district affected. 
    Notwithstanding Laws 1991, chapter 5, the election of 
school board members in the new independent district must be in 
accordance with Minnesota Statutes, section 122.23, subdivision 
18 and chapter 205A except that election judges must be paid in 
accordance with section 204B.31, and persons desiring to be 
candidates in that election shall file their applications with 
the county auditor no later than May 31, 1991, and the election 
shall be held on Tuesday, June 18, 1991. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 23, 1991 
    Signed by the governor May 27, 1991, 11:02 p.m.