Minnesota Session Laws - 2003, Regular Session

                             CHAPTER 64-H.F.No. 428 
                  An act relating to cities; specifying and clarifying 
                  the authority of cities to exercise certain town 
                  powers and to impose service charges for emergency 
                  services; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 
                  415.01. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 415.01, is 
        amended to read: 
           415.01 [TOWN LAWS, APPLICATION; EXERCISE OF POWERS BY 
        CITY.] 
           Nothing contained Subdivision 1.  [GENERAL.] A town must 
        not exercise the powers conferred in chapters 365 to 368 shall 
        apply to within the territory embraced within the limits of any 
        city, but each a city shall have has and may exercise within 
        its limits all any of the powers conferred by these chapters 
        upon towns.  
           Subd. 2.  [CHARGES FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES.] A city may 
        exercise the power under sections 366.011 and 366.012 relating 
        to charges for emergency services only if the city adopts an 
        ordinance authorizing the manner and amount of charging for 
        those services. 
           Presented to the governor May 16, 2003 
           Signed by the governor May 20, 2003, 4:54 p.m.