2004 Minnesota Statutes

     487.10 Clerks, deputies, records. 

    Subdivision 1.    Duties.  The clerk of the district 
 court of each county within the county court district shall have 
 and perform the duties heretofore provided by law for the clerks 
 of the probate, county and municipal courts and other duties as 
 prescribed by law or rule of court.  In the performance of those 
 duties the clerk of the district court shall also be known as 
 the clerk of county court. 

    Subd. 2.    Clerks and deputy clerks.  The clerks and 
 deputy clerks of the present probate courts and the clerical 
 employees thereof shall become deputy clerks and clerical 
 employees respectively of the clerks of court of the respective 
 counties in which they served. 

    Subd. 3.  Repealed, 1973 c 679 s 38 

    Subd. 4.    County board personnel authority.  Except in 
 a county in a judicial district under section 480.181, 
 subdivision 1, paragraph (b), the county board shall determine 
 the number of permanent full time deputies, clerks and other 
 employees in the office of the clerk of county court and shall 
 fix the compensation for each position.  The county board shall 
 also budget for temporary deputies and other employees and shall 
 fix their rates of compensation.  The clerk shall appoint in 
 writing the deputies and other employees for whose acts the 
 clerk shall be responsible, and whom the clerk may remove at 
 pleasure.  Before entering upon official duties, the appointment 
 and oath of each such employee shall be filed with the county 
 recorder. 

    Subd. 5.    Records.  The clerk shall keep records and 
 indices of all proceedings; enter all orders, judgments and 
 sentences; issue commitments, execution and all other process as 
 now is permitted by law or rule of court; have custody and care 
 of all records of the court; and tax all costs and disbursements.

    Subd. 6.  Repealed, 1977 c 432 s 49 

    Subd. 7.    Judicial employee transfers.  
 Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, 
 excepting the clerk, the chief deputy clerks of each division 
 and those classifications specifically exempted by Laws 1941, 
 chapter 423, section 6, as amended, every permanent employee of 
 those courts being abolished under Laws 1973, chapter 679 shall, 
 with the approval of the St. Louis County Civil Service 
 Commission, be transferred as of August 1, 1973 to a position of 
 comparable classification in the classified service of St. Louis 
 County with the equivalent status that the permanent employee 
 had in the office of the permanent employee's employment 
 immediately prior thereto, and every such employee shall be 
 subject to, and have the benefit of, the classified service as 
 though the permanent employee had served thereunder from the 
 date of entry into the service of the permanent employee's 
 office of employment. 

    HIST: 1971 c 951 s 10; 1973 c 679 s 7-10; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 
 c 444; 1999 c 216 art 7 s 34