2004 Minnesota Statutes

  161.06 Contingent fund. 

    Subdivision 1.    Amount.  The commissioner of finance 
 is authorized and directed to make available to the Department 
 of Transportation out of money in the state treasury 
 appropriated for trunk highway purposes the sum of $5,000, or 
 such lesser amount as the commissioner may request, to be used 
 by said department as a contingent fund, subject to such rules 
 for its use as may be prescribed by the commissioner of 
 administration. 

    Subd. 2.    Use.  The commissioner may use the money in 
 the contingent fund for trunk highway purposes in facilitating 
 and expediting the business of the Department of Transportation, 
 particularly in the handling of garnishments, emergency labor 
 payrolls, expense accounts of employees and in departmental 
 litigation, and all acts of the commissioner heretofore 
 performed in the use of the fund are in all things recognized 
 and confirmed. 

    HIST: 1959 c 500 art 2 s 6; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1976 c 166 s 7; 
 1985 c 248 s 70; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50