2006 Minnesota Statutes

379.02 TOWNS, CHANGE OF BOUNDARIES AND NAMES.
The county board may alter the boundaries of towns, or partition any town among other
towns within the county by attaching a part of one town to another, or by dividing one town and
attaching the parts to other towns, or by forming a new town from the territory of one or more
towns, or from territory not before included in a town, whenever it is made to appear necessary or
expedient, by a petition for that purpose signed by not less than 20 legal voters residing within
the territory to be affected. The county board may, upon notice as provided in section 379.03,
alter the boundaries or change the name of any town within the county by attaching thereto
unorganized territory abutting thereon within the county, after a petition for that purpose, signed
by not less than 20 legal voters residing within the unorganized territory proposed to be attached,
is approved by the town board of the town to which the territory is proposed to be attached. No
town shall be so formed, having less than 36 square miles, nor have its boundaries so changed as
to reduce its territory below that area, unless after such division it shall have at least 25 qualified
voters therein, and real estate valued at the last preceding assessment at $30,000 or more; and
no town shall be divided or have any part detached therefrom so as to make its area less than
36 square miles, except upon the petition of at least two-thirds of the legal voters residing
in one or both subdivisions or parts. The county auditor must notify the state demographer of
any boundary or name changes. The county shall prepare an estimate of the population and the
number of households in the attached or detached area. The estimate must be certified by the state
demographer. The estimate must estimate the population as of the effective date of the county
board's resolution and must be so dated.
History: (789) RL s 452; 1955 c 3 s 1; 1997 c 87 s 2