Minnesota Session Laws - 1998, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 264-S.F.No. 2379 
                  An act relating to the board of government innovation 
                  and cooperation; clarifying the distribution of 
                  cooperation and combination aid in certain 
                  circumstances when an entire township is annexed by 
                  two or more contiguous cities; amending Minnesota 
                  Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 465.87, subdivision 
                  1a. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 
        465.87, subdivision 1a, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 1a.  [ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY.] A local government 
        unit is eligible to apply for aid under this section if it has 
        combined with another unit of government in accordance with any 
        process within chapter 414 that results in the elimination of at 
        least one local government unit and a copy of the municipal 
        board's order or orders combining the units of government is 
        forwarded to the board.  If the municipal board issues an order, 
        or two or more orders within 30 days, for the annexation of the 
        area of an entire township by two or more cities contiguous to 
        the township, the cities subject to the board's order are 
        eligible to receive pro rata shares, on the basis of their 
        populations the population of the area of the township that was 
        annexed by each contiguous city, of the total amount of 
        cooperation and combination aid all participating units of 
        government would be eligible to receive under subdivision 2.  If 
        two units of government cooperate in the orderly annexation of 
        the entire area of a third unit of government which has a 
        population of at least 8,000 people, the two units of government 
        are each eligible for the amount of aid specified in subdivision 
        2.  
           Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
           Presented to the governor March 2, 1998 
           Signed by the governor March 4, 1998, 10:15 a.m.