Minnesota Session Laws - 1997, Regular Session

                             CHAPTER 23-S.F.No. 700 
                  An act relating to statutory cities; providing that 
                  the offices of mayor of a statutory city and fire 
                  chief of an independent nonprofit firefighting 
                  corporation are not incompatible under certain 
                  circumstances; proposing coding for new law in 
                  Minnesota Statutes, chapter 412. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [412.152] [MAYOR; FIRE CHIEF; OFFICES NOT 
        INCOMPATIBLE.] 
           The offices of mayor of a statutory city and the fire chief 
        of an independent nonprofit firefighting corporation serving the 
        city are not incompatible offices and a person may concurrently 
        hold both offices if all of the following conditions exist:  
           (1) the mayor does not appoint the fire chief; 
           (2) the mayor does not set the salary or benefits of the 
        fire chief; 
           (3) neither officer performs functions that are 
        inconsistent with the other's; 
           (4) neither officer in the officer's official capacity 
        contracts with the other; and 
           (5) the mayor does not approve the fidelity bond of the 
        fire chief. 
           Presented to the governor April 4, 1997 
           Signed by the governor April 8, 1997, 10:25 a.m.