2007 Minnesota Statutes

388.09 OTHER ATTORNEY EMPLOYED.
    Subdivision 1. General provisions. When there is no county attorney, the county board may
employ any competent attorney to perform legal services for the county. The board may employ
an attorney to assist the county attorney, to appear for the county or any county officer in any
action in which the county or officer in an official capacity is a party, to advise the board or its
members in relation to the action, or in relation to any other matter affecting the interests of the
county. The county may pay the attorney out of the funds of the county.
    Subd. 2. Misdemeanors; other prosecutions. Except in the counties of Ramsey and
Hennepin, the county board with concurrence of the county attorney may enter into agreements
with attorneys or firms of attorneys for the prosecution of gross misdemeanors, misdemeanors or
petty misdemeanors, without making these attorneys or members of the firms assistant county
attorneys or employees of the county where the county attorney has responsibility for the
prosecution of these charges. If there is a contract between the county and any city within it which
provides that the county attorney shall also prosecute municipal ordinance, municipal rule or
regulation, and charter provision violations for that city, an attorney or firm engaged pursuant to
this subdivision may also prosecute these violations.
History: (930) RL s 569; 1983 c 177 s 6; 1986 c 444