15.61 UNEMPLOYED AND UNDEREMPLOYED; EMPLOYMENT BY STATE AND
OTHER GOVERNMENTAL UNITS.
Subdivision 1.
Employment. The state of Minnesota, its departments, agencies, and
instrumentalities, and any county, city, town, school district or other body corporate and politic,
may employ unemployed and underemployed persons as defined in the federal Emergency
Employment Act of 1971, as amended, and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of
1973, as amended, pursuant to the terms of those acts.
Subd. 2.
Preference provisions. The provisions of Minnesota Statutes 1969, sections
197.455
to
197.48 and
43A.11 and any other law or ordinance relating to preference in employment and
promotion of persons having served in the armed services, the provisions of any law, rule, or
regulation, the provisions of any city charter or any ordinance or resolution, or the provisions of
any other law or statute in conflict with the provisions of the federal Emergency Employment Act
of 1971, as amended, and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, as amended,
shall not be applicable to the employment of the persons specified in subdivision 1.
History: Ex1971 c 25 s 1; 1974 c 511 s 15; 1975 c 2 s 1; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1981 c 210 s 54;
1Sp1981 c 4 art 1 s 16; 1983 c 312 art 7 s 17; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 4