2000 Minnesota Statutes

     18.141 Unorganized towns; powers of county board.  

    In any township of this state that is unorganized 
 politically, the county board of the county wherein the township 
 is situated shall have all the rights, powers and duties 
 conferred by sections 18.041 to 18.161 upon the governing bodies 
 of towns (including town boards) and in any such case the county 
 board shall act as though it were the governing body and town 
 board of said township and may authorize and undertake mosquito 
 abatement in any such township and cause taxes to be levied for 
 mosquito abatement the same as though said township were 
 organized politically and said county board were the governing 
 body and town board thereof:  Provided, that the cost of 
 mosquito abatement in any such township shall be paid solely by 
 a tax levy on the property within the township where mosquito 
 abatement is undertaken and no part of the expense of mosquito 
 abatement in said township shall be county expense or be paid by 
 any such county.  

    HIST: 1949 c 404 s 11