2006 Minnesota Statutes

641.264 FINANCING.
    Subdivision 1. Capital improvements; bond issues and leases. The construction or
acquisition, the equipping, and subsequent improvement of a county regional jail may be financed
in whole or in part by the issuance of general obligation bonds of the cooperating counties in the
manner provided in section 641.23 or by the issuance of revenue bonds of a city situated in one
of the counties or with the approval of the board of county commissioners of each cooperating
county a county housing and redevelopment authority established pursuant to chapter 462 or
special law, secured by a lease agreement in the manner provided in chapter 474 and in sections
641.24 and 641.263, subdivision 2. Proceedings for the issuance of general obligation bonds shall
be instituted by the board of county commissioners of each cooperating county. The regional
jail board, with the approval of the county board of each cooperating county, shall fix the total
amount necessary to be raised for the construction or acquisition, the equipping, and subsequent
improvement of a regional jail, and shall apportion to each county in the manner provided in
subdivision 2 the share of this amount, or of annual debt service or lease rentals required to pay
this amount with interest, which is to be raised by the county.
    Subd. 2. Tax levies; apportionment of costs. The county board of each cooperating county
shall annually levy a tax in an amount necessary to defray its proportion of the net costs of
maintenance and operation of the regional jail after deduction of payments for the care of inmates,
and in addition shall levy a tax to repay the cost of construction or acquisition, equipping, and
any subsequent improvement of the regional jail and for the retirement of any bonds issued for
these purposes. The county board may levy these taxes without limitation as to the rate or amount,
and the levy of these taxes shall not cause the amount of other taxes levied or to be levied by the
county, which are subject to any such limitation, to be reduced in any amount whatsoever. The
regional jail board shall apportion the costs of maintenance and operation, and of construction
or acquisition, equipping, and improvement of the jail to each county (1) on the basis of the
proportion that the population in that county bears to the total population in all of the cooperating
counties, the population figures to be determined by the last previous federal census; or (2)
according to a formula mutually agreed upon by all the cooperating counties.
    Subd. 3. Regional jail fund. The initial expense funds, the proceeds from the sale of bonds,
and the proceeds of taxes for costs of maintenance and operation shall be paid by the county by
which they are appropriated or collected into a county regional jail fund, which shall be kept in
the treasury of the county in which the jail is located. The county treasurer of the county in which
the regional jail is located shall make payments out of the county regional jail fund on properly
authenticated vouchers of the county regional jail board.
    Subd. 4. Expenditures. The regional jail board shall approve by majority vote all
expenditure vouchers and the chair of the board shall transmit them to the county auditor of the
county in which the regional jail is located for payment by the county treasurer, accompanied
by the chair's certification that the expenditure vouchers have been approved by a majority of
the regional jail board.
    Subd. 5. Charges for care of inmates. The regional jail board shall fix the rates to be
charged for the care of inmates and shall submit a statement of charges to the governmental
unit from which an inmate is committed. The charge for care of an inmate shall be paid by the
governmental unit to the county treasurer of the county in which the regional jail is located, and
shall be deposited in the regional jail fund.
    Subd. 6. Gifts, acceptance by board. The regional jail board may accept gifts or donations
from any source, which gifts or donations shall be deposited in the regional jail fund and disbursed
by the regional jail board in the manner in which other expenditures are made.
History: 1963 c 452 s 4; 1980 c 487 s 20; 1980 c 597 s 10; 1984 c 633 s 13; 1986 c 444;
1987 c 252 s 10