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2007 Minnesota Statutes
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471.69 LIMITATION OF TAX LEVIES; STATEMENT.
No school district, county, statutory city, or town shall contract any debt or issue any warrant
or order in any calendar year in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied or to be levied for
that year in excess of the average amount actually received in tax collections on the levy for the
three previous calendar years plus ten percent thereof, and an average of other income excluding
gifts received by the school district for the past three years. This section shall not apply to any
school district, county, statutory city, or town, wherein the mineral net tax capacity, exceeds 25
percent of the net tax capacity of real property in such taxing district. This section shall not apply
to any school district in a city of the first class which constitutes one single school district.
As soon as practicable after the beginning of each calendar year, the clerk or other recording
officer of any municipality described in this section shall present to the governing body of the
municipality a statement of tax collections and other income excluding gifts credited to each fund
of the municipality during each of the three previous fiscal years and the yearly average thereof.
The auditor of the county shall be required to furnish information as appears in the office records
to the clerk upon request.
History: (1938-21, 1938-22) 1931 c 159 s 1,2; 1937 c 180 s 1; 1949 c 457 s 1; 1973 c 123
art 5 s 7; 1976 c 44 s 69; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 13 s 20
No school district, county, statutory city, or town shall contract any debt or issue any warrant
or order in any calendar year in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied or to be levied for
that year in excess of the average amount actually received in tax collections on the levy for the
three previous calendar years plus ten percent thereof, and an average of other income excluding
gifts received by the school district for the past three years. This section shall not apply to any
school district, county, statutory city, or town, wherein the mineral net tax capacity, exceeds 25
percent of the net tax capacity of real property in such taxing district. This section shall not apply
to any school district in a city of the first class which constitutes one single school district.
As soon as practicable after the beginning of each calendar year, the clerk or other recording
officer of any municipality described in this section shall present to the governing body of the
municipality a statement of tax collections and other income excluding gifts credited to each fund
of the municipality during each of the three previous fiscal years and the yearly average thereof.
The auditor of the county shall be required to furnish information as appears in the office records
to the clerk upon request.
History: (1938-21, 1938-22) 1931 c 159 s 1,2; 1937 c 180 s 1; 1949 c 457 s 1; 1973 c 123
art 5 s 7; 1976 c 44 s 69; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 13 s 20
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