Minnesota Session Laws - 2004, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 193-S.F.No. 2065 
                  An act relating to municipal tort liability; providing 
                  immunity from tort liability for a limited partnership 
                  in which a community action agency is a general 
                  partner; amending Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, 
                  section 466.01, subdivision 1. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
        466.01, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [MUNICIPALITY.] For the purposes of 
        sections 466.01 to 466.15, "municipality" means any city, 
        whether organized under home rule charter or otherwise, any 
        county, town, public authority, public corporation, nonprofit 
        firefighting corporation that has associated with it a relief 
        association as defined in section 424A.001, subdivision 4, 
        special district, school district, however organized, county 
        agricultural society organized pursuant to chapter 38, joint 
        powers board or organization created under section 471.59 or 
        other statute, public library, regional public library system, 
        multicounty multitype library system, the following local 
        collaboratives whose plans have been approved by the Children's 
        Cabinet:  family services collaboratives established under 
        section 124D.23, children's mental health collaboratives 
        established under sections 245.491 to 245.495, or a 
        collaborative established by the merger of a children's mental 
        health collaborative and a family services collaborative, other 
        political subdivision, or community action agency, or a limited 
        partnership in which a community action agency is the sole 
        general partner. 
           Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment 
        and applies to actions arising from incidents occurring on or 
        after that date. 
           Presented to the governor May 10, 2004 
           Signed by the governor May 13, 2004, 12:05 p.m.