2003 Minnesota Statutes

     268.26 Job service offices. 

    Subdivision 1.    Establishment.  The commissioner shall 
 establish and maintain free public job service offices, in that 
 number and in those places as may be necessary for the purpose 
 of providing reemployment assistance services to unemployment 
 benefit applicants, as well as performing the functions under 
 the Wagner-Peyser Act, United States Code, title 29, section 49. 

    Subd. 2.    Financing.  All money received by this state 
 under the Wagner-Peyser Act shall be paid into the 
 administration account and expended solely for the maintenance 
 of state public job service offices.  For the purpose of 
 establishing and maintaining free public job service offices and 
 promoting the use of their facilities, the commissioner is 
 authorized to enter into agreements with any public agency whose 
 purposes are reasonably related to the purposes of the job 
 service. 

    Subd. 3.    Veterans representatives.  There shall be 
 assigned to the staff of the job service one or more employees 
 of the department who shall perform the duties of a veterans 
 employment representative.  The position of veterans employment 
 representative shall be filled by veterans as defined in section 
 197.447. 

    HIST: Ex1936 c 2 s 12; 1937 c 306 s 9; 1939 c 443 s 11; 1941 c 
 554 s 11; 1945 c 376 s 11; 1949 c 605 s 11; 1969 c 567 s 3; 1973 
 c 254 s 3; 1977 c 151 s 1; 1977 c 430 s 25 subd 1; 1980 c 350 s 
 1; 1983 c 216 art 1 s 87; 1Sp1985 c 14 art 9 s 75; 1989 c 209 
 art 2 s 1; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1996 c 417 s 31; 1997 c 66 s 65,79; 
 1998 c 265 s 44; 1999 c 107 s 62,66; 2001 c 175 s 52; 1Sp2003 c 
 3 art 2 s 20