2004 Minnesota Statutes

     383A.50 Administration of budget. 

    Subdivision 1.  Repealed, 1991 c 51 s 6 

    Subd. 2.    Warrant-check.  (a) On each warrant that 
 Ramsey County draws on the county treasury, the county shall 
 state the purpose for which it is issued.  The warrant may be so 
 designed that it becomes a check on the county depository and 
 may be known as a "warrant-check." 

    (b) The warrant-check need not show the fund from which 
 drawn.  

    Subd. 3.  Repealed, 1991 c 51 s 6 

    Subd. 4.    Illegal expenditure; gross misdemeanor.  A 
 county commissioner who knowingly authorizes or makes a payment 
 or incurs an obligation in violation of the provisions of this 
 section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.  

    Subd. 5.    Lapse of appropriations.  (a) Each 
 appropriation, except an appropriation for a capital 
 expenditure, lapses at the close of the fiscal year to the 
 extent that it has not been expended or encumbered.  

    (b) An appropriation for a capital expenditure continues in 
 force until the purpose for which it was made has been 
 accomplished or abandoned; the purpose of appropriation of this 
 kind is abandoned if three years pass without a disbursement 
 from or encumbrance of the appropriation.  

    Subd. 6.    Joint city-county liabilities.  The city of 
 Saint Paul and the county of Ramsey may agree to provide for a 
 mutually satisfactory method of paying for services, materials 
 or supplies for which they are jointly charged under law.  
 Either the city or the county may pay for these services made 
 from a joint fund established under the exclusive control of 
 either the city or the county.  If the agreement provides that 
 one subdivision of government shall pay a joint obligation in 
 full, it may provide that the other subdivision shall discharge 
 its part of the joint obligation by paying its share of the 
 obligation to the subdivision first paying the obligation in 
 full. 

    HIST: 1974 c 435 s 4.06; 1991 c 51 s 5