Minnesota Session Laws - 2003, Regular Session

                             CHAPTER 23-H.F.No. 268 
                  An act relating to peace officers; authorizing the 
                  state fair police department to employ more part-time 
                  peace officers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, 
                  section 626.8468, subdivision 1. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 626.8468, 
        subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [CAP ON NUMBER OF PART-TIME PEACE OFFICERS 
        PER AGENCY.] (a) A law enforcement agency that employed a 
        licensed part-time peace officer or that was in the process of 
        training an individual to become a licensed part-time peace 
        officer on or before February 1, 1999, may continue to do so.  
        No agency may employ more part-time peace officers than it 
        employed in calendar year 1996, 1997, or 1998, except the state 
        fair police department may employ up to 15 licensed part-time 
        peace officers. 
           (b) After January 1, 2000, the board may issue additional 
        part-time peace officer licenses to a law enforcement agency 
        that employs a part-time peace officer and that demonstrates to 
        the board an extraordinary and temporary need for the additional 
        license. 
           (c) If a local unit of government dissolves a law 
        enforcement agency that employs a part-time peace officer 
        authorized under this subdivision and contracts with another law 
        enforcement agency to provide law enforcement services, the law 
        enforcement agency contracted with may add that number of 
        part-time positions to the agency's maximum under this 
        subdivision if the agency hires or offers employment to all 
        full-time peace officers employed by the dissolved agency at the 
        time of dissolution.  The employment offered must be of 
        comparable responsibility and salary. 
           Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
           Presented to the governor April 25, 2003 
           Signed by the governor April 28, 2003, 12:55 p.m.