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471.68 Distribution of publications by any county or city.

Subdivision 1. Annual or biennial reports. When any county or city, or any department, agency, or official thereof issues for public distribution an annual or biennial report, copies thereof shall upon request be delivered immediately as follows:

One copy to each public library serving such local area of government for which said report is made; provided that in counties containing no county library, such report shall be delivered to the public library serving the most populous city in the county;

One copy to the Minnesota Historical Society;

One copy to the general library of the University of Minnesota.

Additional copies may be delivered upon request.

Subd. 2. Appearing in newspaper. The publications enumerated in subdivision 1 shall not include publications appearing in newspapers.

Subd. 3. Pictures prohibited. When a statutory or home rule charter city, county, town, school district, metropolitan or regional agency, or other political subdivision of this state, issues a report or other publication for public distribution to inform the general public of the activities of the political subdivision, the report or publication must not include pictures of elected officials nor any other pictorial or graphic device that would tend to attribute the publication to an individual or groups of individuals instead of the political subdivision. Directories of public services provided by the political subdivision are exempt from this subdivision.

HIST: 1949 c 438 s 1,2; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1992 c 592 s 11

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