1997 Minnesota Statutes

   123.15 Schoolhouses and sites, common school districts. 

    Subdivision 1.  When authorized by the voters at a regular 
 meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, the 
 board may acquire necessary sites for school houses, or 
 enlargements or additions to existing school house sites, by 
 lease, purchase, or condemnation under the right of eminent 
 domain; lease, erect or purchase garages for district-owned 
 school buses; and sell or exchange school houses or sites and 
 execute deeds of conveyances thereof. It may acquire by lease, 
 purchase, or condemnation under eminent domain suitable tracts 
 of land either within or without the district for the purpose of 
 instruction, experimentation, and demonstration in agriculture.  
 In any city, a school site when practicable shall contain at 
 least one block, and, if outside of any city, two acres; and 
 when any school house site shall contain less than such amount 
 the board may, without a vote of the electors, acquire other 
 land adjacent to or near such site to make, with such site, all 
 or part of such amount.  When property is taken by eminent 
 domain by authority of this subdivision, when needed by the 
 district for such purpose, the fact that the property so needed 
 has been acquired by the owner under the power of eminent 
 domain, or is already devoted to public use, shall not prevent 
 its acquisition by the district. 

    Subd. 2.  The annual meeting or election shall have power 
 to designate a site for a school house and provide for building 
 or otherwise placing a school house thereon, when proper notice 
 has been given; but a site on which a school house stands or is 
 begun shall not be changed except by vote therefor, of 
 three-fifths of the voters of the district voting on the 
 question. 

    Subd. 3.  When authorized by a two-thirds majority of all 
 the electors voting at an annual or special meeting, the board 
 may erect, purchase, or acquire a dwelling house for the use of 
 its teachers; provided that the proposition shall be submitted 
 only at a meeting or election, the notice of which stated that 
 such proposition would be considered or submitted thereat. 

    Subd. 4.  Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    Subd. 5.  Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    Subd. 6.  Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    Subd. 7.  Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    Subd. 8.  Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    Subd. 9.  Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    Subd. 10. Repealed, 1978 c 706 s 69 

    HIST: Ex1959 c 71 art 4 s 6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7