2004 Minnesota Statutes

     382.18 Officials not to be interested in contracts. 

    No county official, or deputy or clerk or employee of such 
 official; and no commissioner for tax-forfeited lands or 
 commissioner's assistants, shall be directly or indirectly 
 interested in any contract, work, labor, or business to which 
 the county is a party or in which it is or may be interested or 
 in the furnishing of any article to, or the purchase or sale of 
 any property, real or personal, by, the county, or of which the 
 consideration, price, or expense is payable from the county 
 treasury.  Nothing in this section shall prevent a person from 
 receiving reimbursement from a county for providing licensed or 
 tribally approved family foster care.  This section does not 
 prevent a coroner, deputy coroner, coroner's investigator, or 
 medical examiner from receiving compensation for professional 
 services from a professional corporation or medical provider 
 under contract to provide coroner services to a county.  Any 
 violation of the provisions of this section shall be a gross 
 misdemeanor. 

    HIST: (990) RL s 617; 1947 c 360 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1997 c 107 s 
 18; 2000 c 360 s 1