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275.74 State regulation of levies.

(a) The commissioner of revenue shall make all necessary calculations for determining levy limits for local governmental units and notify the affected governmental units of their levy limits directly by August 1 of each levy year. The local governmental unit shall report by September 15, in a manner prescribed by the commissioner, the maximum amount of taxes it plans to levy for each of the purposes listed under special levies and any additional levy authorized under section 275.73, along with any necessary documentation. The commissioner shall review the proposed special levies and make any adjustments needed. The commissioner's decision is final. The final allowed special levy amounts and any levy limit adjustments shall be certified back to the local governments by December 10. In addition, the commissioner of revenue shall notify all county auditors on or before five working days after December 20 of the sum of the levy limit plus the total of allowed special levies for each local governmental unit located within their boundaries so that they may fix the levies as required in section 275.16. The local governmental units shall provide the commissioner of revenue with all information that the commissioner deems necessary to make the calculations provided for in sections 275.70 to 275.73.

(b) A local governmental unit may request authorization to levy under section 275.70, subdivision 5, clause (5), if (i) the governmental unit is located in an area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency pursuant to a major disaster declaration issued for Minnesota by President Clinton after April 1, 1997, and before April 21, 1997, and (ii) the amount of direct unreimbursed costs incurred by the governmental unit related to the flooding and its clean up, including emergency disaster assistance to residents, exceeds five percent of its levy in 1997. A local governmental unit may request authorization to levy for unreimbursed costs for other natural disasters, except the 1997 floods, under section 275.70, subdivision 5, clause (9). The local governmental unit must submit a request to levy under section 275.70, subdivision 5, clause (5) or (9), to the commissioner of revenue by September 15 of the levy year and the request must include information documenting the estimated unreimbursed costs. The commissioner of revenue may grant levy authority, up to the amount requested based on the documentation submitted. All decisions of the commissioner are final. The commissioner shall send a report to the chairs of the house and senate tax committees on the levies authorized and levied under this provision by February 28 of the year following the levy year.

HIST: 1997 c 231 art 3 s 7

* NOTE: This section, as added by Laws 1997, chapter 231, *article 3, section 7, is effective for taxes levied in 1997 and *1998, payable in 1998 and 1999. Laws 1997, chapter 231, article *3, section 9.

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