1999 Minnesota Statutes

     469.137 Powers of city. 

    A city may, to accomplish the purposes of this chapter: 

    (1) exercise any powers granted in sections 469.048 to 
 469.068, but only if the city has authority to exercise the 
 powers granted in sections 469.001 to 469.047, 469.048 to 
 469.068, 469.090 to 469.134, and 469.152 to 469.165, in 
 conjunction with the powers granted by sections 469.135 to 
 469.141; 

    (2) provide public facilities pursuant to chapters 429, 
 430, and any charter provision or any special law; 

    (3) acquire, by lease, purchase, gift, condemnation, or 
 otherwise, land or interests in land, and convey land or 
 interests in land.  A city may acquire by condemnation any 
 property, property right or interest in property, corporate or 
 incorporeal, within its boundaries that may be needed by it for 
 a project, for access, including surface and subsurface access, 
 for ventilation, or for any other purpose which it finds by 
 resolution to be needed by it in connection with mined 
 underground space development.  The fact that the needed 
 property or interest in property has been acquired by the owner 
 under the power of eminent domain, or is already devoted to a 
 public use, or is owned by the University of Minnesota, any 
 city, county, school district, town, or other governmental 
 subdivision, railroad, or public or private utility, shall not 
 prevent its acquisition by the city by the exercise of the right 
 of eminent domain, provided the existing use is not impaired.  
 The necessity of the taking of any property or interest in 
 property by the city shall be determined by a resolution adopted 
 by the governing body of the city, which shall describe the 
 property or interest as nearly as it may be described and state 
 the use and purpose to which it is to be devoted.  Except as 
 otherwise provided in sections 469.135 to 469.141, the right of 
 eminent domain shall be exercised in accordance with chapter 
 117, provided that any exercise of the right of eminent domain 
 hereby conferred shall not be for the purpose of preventing the 
 development, mining, and use of mineral resources; 

    (4) acting alone or with others, acquire, purchase, 
 construct, lease, mortgage, maintain, operate, and convey 
 projects; 

    (5) borrow money to carry out the purposes of sections 
 469.135 to 469.141; 

    (6) enter into contracts, sue and be sued, and do or 
 accomplish all other acts and things necessary or convenient to 
 carry out the purposes and policies of sections 469.135 to 
 469.141; and 

    (7) exercise bonding authority as provided in section 
 469.138.  

    HIST: 1987 c 291 s 138