2006 Minnesota Statutes

365.51 ANNUAL MEETING; NOTICE, BUSINESS, ELECTIONS.
    Subdivision 1. When; bad weather. A town's annual town meeting must be held on the
second Tuesday of March at the place named by the last annual town meeting. If no place was
named then, the meeting must be held at the place named by the town board. The place may be
outside the town if the place is within five miles of a town boundary. If there is bad weather on
the day of the meeting and election in March, the town board shall set the meeting and election
for the third Tuesday in March. If there is bad weather on the third Tuesday in March, the town
board shall set another date for the meeting and election within 30 days of the third Tuesday in
March. If the meeting and election are postponed, the notice requirements in subdivision 2 shall
apply to the postponed meeting and election.
The balloting of the town election must be concluded on the same day the election is
commenced.
    Subd. 2. Notice. The clerk shall give ten days' published notice of the time and place of
the meeting in a qualified newspaper having general circulation in the town. An alternative to
published notice is posted notice, as directed by the town board unless the electors at an earlier
annual town meeting direct otherwise. The notice must include the date on which the election
will be held if postponement due to bad weather is necessary.
    Subd. 3. Officers; ballot questions; other business. An annual town election shall be held
on the same day as the annual town meeting to elect all town officers required by law to be elected
and to consider ballot questions, except as provided in section 205.075, subdivision 2. Other town
business shall be conducted at the town meeting as provided by law.
    Subd. 4. Precincts; polling places. The town board may, with respect to an election by ballot
at the annual town meeting for the purpose of determining any matter of town business, provide
for the casting of ballots in precincts and at polling places. Precincts and polling places shall be
designated by the town board in the manner prescribed by sections 204B.14 and 204B.16.
History: 1959 c 675 art 6 s 19; 1967 c 31 s 1; 1969 c 793 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1975 c 5
s 131; 1980 c 359 s 1; 1981 c 29 art 7 s 32; 1985 c 307 s 2; 1987 c 90 s 4; 1987 c 229 art 8 s 1;
art 11 s 1; 1990 c 471 s 1; 1993 c 223 s 27; 1994 c 646 s 23,24; 2004 c 293 art 2 s 45